The Cormorant

The Cormorant
Author: Stephen Gregory
Publisher: Parthian Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912681706

A young family receives a welcome surprise when old Uncle Ian dies and leaves them a cottage in north Wales. For Ian's nephew and his wife Ann, it seems a stroke of incredible good fortune, enabling them to leave their unfulfilling lives in the city for a newfound freedom in the remote seaside cottage. There's just one catch. Uncle Ian's will has a strange condition: the couple must care for his pet cormorant or forfeit the bequest. They think nothing of it at first: Uncle Ian was eccentric, and the bird is amusing in a way. But when the cormorant begins to show a violent and malevolent side, they soon find that Uncle Ian's gift may not be a blessing, but a curse.

The Voyage of the Cormorant

The Voyage of the Cormorant
Author: Christian Beamish
Publisher: Patagonia
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-10-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1938340116

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality – and how the two came to shape each other – places Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.

The Cormorant

The Cormorant
Author: Chuck Wendig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481448706

In the third installment of the suspenseful Miriam Black series, Miriam is on the road again, having transitioned from “thief” to “killer.” Hired by a wealthy businessman, Miriam heads down to Florida to practice the one thing she’s good at: knowing when people are going to die. In her vision she sees the businessman murdered by another’s hand and on the wall written in blood is a message just for her: She’s expected…

The Devil's Cormorant

The Devil's Cormorant
Author: Richard J. King
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2013-09-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1611684749

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The DevilÕs Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the worldÕs most misunderstood waterfowl.

The Monster Baru Cormorant

The Monster Baru Cormorant
Author: Seth Dickinson
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466875135

A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. For the power to shatter the Masquerade, She betrayed everyone she loved. The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist—a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy. Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Author: Seth Dickinson
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2020-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466875143

Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with the “literally breathtaking” (NPR) The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain. Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself? Baru's enemies close in from all sides. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path—a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize. If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Double-Crested Cormorant

The Double-Crested Cormorant
Author: Linda R. Wires
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300187114

Explores the roots of the human-cormorant conflict and assesses the federal policies that have been developed to manage the bird's population in the twenty-first century.

The Cormorant Club

The Cormorant Club
Author: Anji Nolan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440552312

Since meeting her in a MASH unit in Vietnam, Scott has loved Holly. The only problem? She’s married. When they reunite by chance years later, their attraction towards each other is still undeniable. But soon things become even more complicated. While at lunch with Scott, Holly spots a Cormorant wall plaque with a logo similar to one she saw at the scene of her husband’s alleged suicide. Then Scott learns that his best friend from Vietnam, whom he thought dead, is alive and working in Military Intelligence. Moreover, it appears that an unbreakable code that Scott and his friend developed has left the government’s control and is being used for purposes having nothing to do with protecting the United States. As Scott and Holly’s friendship rekindles into love, they uncover The Cormorant Club, a murder-for-hire group, and must expose the club and its leader before anyone else dies. Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors

The Cormorant and The Killing Ground

The Cormorant and The Killing Ground
Author: Bernace Charles
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456858246

The Cormorant and The Killing Ground is a novel about the pressures of teaching and about two people who believe they have found true love. Eight male high school faculty members spend many of their summer holidays playing at paintball. The game turns deadly when one member Randolph Blake learns that another member much like a brother to himself Michael Fenell has sexually blackmailed the woman Josey Valchos into bed with himself. Josie is also a member of the high school faculty where Randolph and Michael teach. But what has Michael learned about Josey that is so alarming that she actually takes him to bed to keep him from telling Randolph? The book ends with Michael and Randolph coming to one last violent game played out on the island called “The Killing Ground” where they play paintball. Only Josey and Michael know the reason for the island’s name, the story travels back and forth in time showing the history of Michael and Josey's tie to each other. It shows why Josey has changed her name, has had plastic surgery, has changed her hair color and why she hates Michael as deeply as she does. Amid her scheming she never expects to fall in love with Randolph.

Cormorant Lake

Cormorant Lake
Author: Faith Merino
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198264009X

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize On a cold November night, Evelyn Van Pelt steals her roommate’s two underfed and neglected little girls from their beds and drives to the northwestern hometown she fled fourteen years earlier—Cormorant Lake. There, hidden in the mountains and woods, dense with fog and the cold of winter, Evelyn grapples with the guilt of what she’s done, and as she attempts to reconcile her wild independence with the responsibilities of parenthood, she reconnects with the two women who raised her—her foster mother, Nan, and her biological mother, Jubilee. But by coming home, she has set in motion a series of events that will revive the decades-old tragedy that haunts Cormorant Lake—and lead her to confront the high cost of protecting her secret. At once fantastical and deeply rooted in the natural world, Faith Merino’s deeply affecting and spirited debut novel explores the shape of family, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the imperfections of motherhood—messy and beautiful, instinctive and learned, temporal but permanently life-altering.