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Queen of Sky Island Queen of Sky Island is a middle grade fantasy and coming of age story. It tells of Tara, a 13 year-old girl, who, in search of her father, becomes trapped on an actual island in the sky where she leads one other worldly army against another in her pursuit of finding her way home. This story is a contemporary adaptation of a little known work by L. Frank Baum. Buy for Kindle at Amazon Buy for all e-readers at Smashwords Tara is a young girl who longs for her absent military father. Every day, she sits on the cliff above the sea waiting for him to return home from service. One day, a young boy, Bobo, descends from the sky on a flying umbrella. Because of this, Tara and Bobo order the umbrella to fly them to a distant island on the horizon, which she calls Sky Island and where she imagines her father is serving. But instead, the umbrella carries them, and a wounded veteran, Sgt. Rik, who looks after Tara and her mother, to an actual island in the sky where a strange, other worldly people known as the Blues take their umbrella and hold them captive. Because of this, Tara, with Bobo and Sgt. Rik, leads another strange group, the Pinkies, into war against the Blues to regain the umbrella. |
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Pentagon Papers If your are someone who came of age after the Carter Administration (1977-81), it is unlikely that you know about the Pentagon Papers. This recently abridged edition of that major historical document has been conceived and published specifically for you. You can now experience the broad scope of the entire original work in one or two sittings with additional online resources included. Buy for Kindle at Amazon Buy for all e-readers at Smashwords The Pentagon Papers is one of the greatest works of American letters. It is great because of its sheer size and the manner in which it was created. When it was completed, the Papers totaled about 7,000 pages. Three-dozen analysts worked on the text, each of them writing their separate volumes in the same conference room in the Pentagon. It was completed in less than one year.
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![La Reina de la Isla del Cielo (Spanish Edition) by [Powers, John]](image697.jpg)
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La Reina de la Isla del Cielo En 1912, uno de los mejores cuentistas del mundo publicó un nuevo cuento con la intención de iniciar una serie exitosa. Dos años antes, él y su esposa Maud se mudaron de Chicago a las plantaciones de naranja de un Hollywood antiguo. El futuro parecía brillante. Ciertamente, el cuento tuvo éxito, pero no el que esperaba el autor. Con ciertas reservas, volvió al mundo imaginario y a los personajes que había creado una década antes. L. Frank Baum consideró que Isla del Cielo había sido su mejor cuento, pero sus lectores jóvenes querían experimentar más de Ciudad Esmeralda. Durante cien años, “Isla del Cielo” ha sido el cuento menos conocido y leído del maestro estadounidense de la fantasía imaginativa. Buy for Kindle at Amazon Buy for all e-readers at Smashwords
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