Author: Xu Xiaobin
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: novel, serpent, feathered
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1416583807
ISBN-13: 9781416583806
In this epic family history, Xiaobin portrays women across five generations with Yu (feather) as the central character whose life story is weaved through the lives of her grandmother, mother, sisters and niece. After committing two unforgivable sins, Yu is sent away from her parents to live with a woman named Jinwu but is soon abandoned by her as well. Yu hopes to redeem herself from her "original sins" and gain forgiveness from her mother. Her life is a quest for love, fragile but resilient, lonely but determined. One of the foremost works of Chinese fiction literature of the 20th century, F
Author: Frithjof Schuon
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: sun, feathered
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1990-03-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0941532100
ISBN-13: 9780941532105
Plains Indian spirituality has been a subject of enduring fascination the world over and never more than today. Schuon gives us a truly insightful vision of Native American spirituality with the stunning combination of his writings and paintings. The essentially spiritual and symbolist outlook of Indian civilization is brought to light as Schuon focuses on the fundamental elements of Plains religion and the culture to which it gave rise. Here is a message of Truth, Holiness and human grandeur, harboring within itself something mysterious and sacred which it expresses with profound originality.
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Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Keywords: china, dinosaurs, feathered
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-02
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1570915628
ISBN-13: 9781570915628
Discusses the feathered dinosaurs of prehistoric China and their relationship to modern birds.
Author: Laura Kasischke
Publisher: HarperTeen
Keywords: feathered
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060813172
ISBN-13: 9780060813178
Afterward, Terri will tell everyone that, from the beginning, she knew something terrible was going to happen on spring break. Something bad was going to happen. She knew. It was supposed to be the perfect vacation: hot guys, impeccable tans, and no parents. But for two high school seniors, an innocent car ride will drive them into the heart of their worst nightmare. Feathered is a provocative and eerie tale that flies readers from safe, predictable suburbia to the sun-kissed beaches of Cancún, Mexico, and into mysterious Mayan ruins, where ancient myths flirt dangerously with presen
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: serpent, feathered
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0755114914
ISBN-13: 9780755114917
Reporter Peter Derwin suspects the card mysteriously left in the handbag of actress Ella Creed is a publicity stunt. But Joe Farmer, the boxing promoter, has received one too. Then, after leaving the house of millionaire philanthropist and African explorer Gregory Beale, Daphne Olroyd is followed: she is at her employers’ offices when Leicester Crewe opens the front door. A dead man falls into the hall. In his hand is the card of The Feathered Serpent.
Author: SAND-DEE R. WAYBILL
Publisher: Winterbear Publications
Keywords: friends, feathered, australian
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0980302145
ISBN-13: 9780980302141
Not just your everyday ornithology manual, but a combination of scientific facts, personal encounters with individual characters, and bird photography, covering the Illawarra district of NSW.
Author: Junius Podrug
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: serpent, feathered
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-03-16
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0765308355
ISBN-13: 9780765308351
December 21, 2012: The fabled Feathered Serpent begins his relentless ascent out of the bowels of the earth, escaping thousands of years of torturous confinement. Controversial astrobiologist and archaeologist Caden Montez—who believes Teotihuacan is the best site on earth to find alien life forms, such as the Serpent—is on his trail. While exploring this so-called “City of the Gods”—a place so eerie it terrified even the most ferocious Aztecs—she discovers that the Serpent has broken free.Ancient Mayan priests prophesied that when the God-King returned, he would open the gat
