The Flight of the Starling

The flight of the starling: a fairy tale

✍ Arrow, Ella 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Elizabeth Aronoff 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB 👁 2 views

Princess Lily thought of fairies the way some girls think of "bad boys." If a fairy had shown up at Castle Starling wearing a motorcycle jacket and a disrespect for authority, Princess Lily would have been head over heels before he spoke a word with his pouty, mutinous mouth.So when two fairies ask

Flight of a Starling

✍ Heathfield, Lisa 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Lerner Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 176 KB 👁 1 views

Best friends and sisters Lo and Rita have spent their lives flying through the air on the trapeze under the lights in the big top. The nomadic circus community is a close-knit family, but those bonds are threatened as secrets and lies surface and Lo finds forbidden love with a boy from outside the c

The Secret Starling

✍ Judith Eagle 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB 👁 1 views

Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle's strict regime . . . Until now! Her uncle's house has been losing staffs and furniture as his fortunes fail, and finally he disappears himself, leaving Clara all alone in the giant manor with nothing but a wedge of 'guilt mon

The Secret Starling

✍ Eagle, Judith;Geyer, Kim 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle's strict regime . . . Until now! Her uncle's house has been losing staffs and furniture as his fortunes fail, and finally he disappears himself, leaving Clara all alone in the giant manor with nothing but a wedge of 'guilt mon

The Flight of the Heron

✍ D. K. Broster 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Pickle Partners Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 255 KB

Set during the 1745 Jacobite uprising under Bonnie Prince Charlie, D. K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron is the first of the Jacobite Trilogy. At the centre of the story are the intersecting fortunes of two men, who at first glance seem almost complete opposites: Ewen Cameron, a young Highland l

The Flight of the Maidens

✍ Jane Gardam 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Europa 🌐 en-US ⚖ 178 KB 👁 2 views

Jane Gardam, author of the *Old Filth* Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in *The Flight of the Maidens*. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. With keen perception the novel charts the course of this trio as they boldly f