Stone The Crows

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Lydia Johansen is teetering between a collapsing marriage and self-destruction when a new man arrives on her doorstep. This stranger is her husband's long distant brother and a self proclaimed professional drifter. He claims to be passing through on his way to Alaska. Charmed by his self-deprecating humor and easy-going existence, Lydia attempts to seduce him. Within a twenty four hour period, the bonds of marriage, family and friendship are challenged to the breaking point while secrets better left buried are revealed.

Three sisters. Two strangers. One secret. A tense and twisting new heartstopper from the No.1 bestselling author of When He's Not Here.

For college student Emily Sheppard, the thought of spending a summer alone in New York is much more preferable than spending it in France with her parents. Just completing her freshman year at Callister University, Emily faces a quiet summer in the city slums, supporting herself by working at the campus library. During one of her jogs through the nearby cemetery while visiting her brother Bills grave, Emily witnesses a brutal killingand then she blacks out. When Emily regains consciousness, she realizes shes been kidnapped by a young crime boss and his gang. She is hurled into a secret underworld, wondering why she is still alive and for how long. Held captive in rural Vermont, she tries to make sense of her situation and what it means. While uncovering secrets about her brother and his untimely death, Emily falls in love with her very rich and very dangerous captor, twenty-six-year-old Cameron. She understands its a forbidden love and one that wont allow her to return to her previous life. But love may not be enough to save Emily when no one even knows she is missing.

Uncle Ugstein isn't an average caveman, and Doreen Pegg isn't an average student. Put them together for a crazy adventure back in time! Uncle Ugstein is a very unusual caveman, but even so it was very odd that he should have the idea for a vacuum-cleaner when, at that precise moment six hundred and twenty thousand years in the future, young Doreen Pegg was building her time travel machine. Jets is a series of simple stories with lots of lively pictures, ideal for children who are just beginning to enjoy reading.

First print run includes exclusive gold foil casing! Eragon meets And I Darken in this thrilling new fantasy debut that follows a fallen princess as she ignites a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people. In the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire, magical, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life...until the Illucian empire invades, destroying everything. That terrible night has thrown Princess Anthia into a deep depression. Her sister Caliza is busy running the kingdom after their mother's death, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost. But when Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia, Thia is finally spurred into action. And after stumbling upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery, she and her sister devise a dangerous plan to hatch the egg in secret and get back what was taken from them.

The feathers fly...A journey into... well, everything. I saw the birth of a star, the death of one too.The journey changed me in some fundamental way that I'm not quite sure of yet. Something I'm sure I'll find out soon enough. That leaves Vale... there are many words I could use to describe him, accurately. Most of them are curse words. However, when I step back out of psychedelic wonderland, he's there. Waiting. Standing there staring at him, while my heart beats a million miles an hour, I have a grand epiphany. The Unsylum and everything in it is mine. **This is not standalone and should be read in order with the first two books in the series. This is the final book**

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. A FEAST FOR CROWS It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.

Offers insight into crows' ability to make tools and respond to environmental challenges, explaining how they engage in human-like behaviors, from giving gifts and seeking revenge to playing and experiencing dreams.