Watching for the Kingfisher

Watching for the Kingfisher
Author: Ann Lewin
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848254334

Ann draws many insights into the nature of prayer from her love of birdwatching, and images from the natural world and from scripture permeate her writing. Wit, warmth and economy of expression characterise her style.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141397853

'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Hopkins' Poems and Prose is available in Penguin Classics.

Asked What Has Changed

Asked What Has Changed
Author: Ed Roberson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0819580120

A Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window, “ever alert to affinities between the small and the vast, the fleeting and the cosmic” (James Gibbons, Hyperallergic). Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older tradition, drawing into poetry’s orbit what the physical and human sciences reveal about the state of a changing world. These poems test how far the lyric can go as an answer to our crisis, even calling into question poetic form itself. Reflections on the natural world and moments of personal interiority are interwoven with images of urbanscapes, environmental crises, and political instabilities. These poems speak life and truth to modernity in all its complexity. Throughout, Roberson takes up the ancient spiritual concern—the ephemerality of life—and gives us a new language to process the feeling of living in a century on the brink.

Keeping Watch for Kingfishers

Keeping Watch for Kingfishers
Author: Jenny Wilson
Publisher: Sacristy Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789590752

A collection of sermons that explore how we can learn to hear the voice of God in prayer, in the life of Jesus and in the human voice.

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
Author: Sophie Hannah
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062792393

Named a New York Times Best Book to Give The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot—legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile—returns to solve a delectably twisty mystery in this “masterful and multi-layered puzzle...adding a new dimension to a much-loved series” (NPR). “Yet again, the diminutive man with the little gray cells delivers the goods.” —Wall Street Journal Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach is forced to stop when a distressed woman demands to get off, insisting that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. Although the rest of the journey passes without anyone being harmed, Poirot’s curiosity is aroused, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered with a macabre note attached . . . Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And if Helen is innocent, can Poirot find the true culprit in time to save her from the gallows?

Seasons of Grace

Seasons of Grace
Author: Ann Lewin
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1848250908

A feast of material for the entire Christian year from popular retreat leader and spiritual writer Ann Lewin, including seasonal liturgies, prayers, worship ideas, retreat programmes and themed reflections.

Kingfisher

Kingfisher
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Publisher: Ace
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425271765

"A young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic."--Provided by publisher.

The Lost Words 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: The Kingfisher

The Lost Words 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: The Kingfisher
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: Galileo Publishers
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-06
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781912916337

Those already familiar with The Lost Words - A Spell Book will know it as a work full of wildness, beauty and power. The artist, Jackie Morris, did some extraordinary paintings in the book, and one of these, The Kingfisher, has been transformed into a 1000 Piece jigsaw.

What Moves the Dead

What Moves the Dead
Author: T. Kingfisher
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250830788

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher *A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Also by T. Kingfisher What Feasts at Night A House with Good Bones Nettle & Bone Thornhedge A Sorceress Comes to Call At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

On Watching Birds

On Watching Birds
Author: Lawrence Kilham
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780890967638

Lawrence Kilham begins this remarkable book with a simple premise: surely there are many people who aren't scientists who nevertheless take great satisfaction from observing nature and the creatures that inhabit it. Eschewing species lists and the charts-and-graphs approach of professional ornithologists and competitive birders, Kilham's On Watching Birds elegantly balances the aesthetic and humanistic with the scientific. The author offers a philosophy of embracing nature through discovery rather than a methodology for categorizing it. "Watch everything," Kilham advises the novice, for one may be surprised by what one sees, even when observing the most common of birds. His observations become part beautifully told story and part life-lesson, as the habits and rituals of cranes, crows, owls--even otters--reveal a rich counterlife of often unnoticed behavioral variation and personality in living nature. "Behavior watching," Kilham concludes, "not only strengthens my bonds with the beauty of nature, but also my empathy with living things." First published in 1988, this autobiographical account of a renowned naturalist's love affair with birds has already become a classic. Illustrated with Joan Waltermire's delicately rendered line drawings, On Watching Birds is now once again available to readers who wish to discover the simple pleasures of connecting with the natural world.