Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept has awakened. And Patience must journey to the heartsoul of the planet to confront her destiny--and the world's.
Children learn about weather conditions and recreation during the four seasons and the names and significance of holidays in this journey through a year in Bear Country.
Added by: Liliana5732 | Karma: 212.02 | Fiction literature | 11 February 2011
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Bear Daughter
Bear Daughter by Judith Berman
When a twelve-year-old wakes up as a human girl-instead of a bear-one cloudy morning, she embarks on a thrilling journey through both mortal and immortal worlds to mend her past, face her fears, and save all of the realms in which she treads.
Secreted in a filthy, cramped cabin on the Italian steamer Sestri Levante, an Englishman begins his terrified flight across wartime Europe. For Graham, an engineer working for an arms company, the inconvenience which began in a hotel room in old Istanbul has become a nightmare from which he fears he may never wake. His pursuers have already wounded him - surely the next time they will not miss. But who are they? And where on the long sea passage to Genoa will they make their move? In his classic tale of the hunted man, thriller master Eric Ambler redefined the boundaries of the spy story and spoke for a generation now bowed by world war.
Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.
