A Wild And Heavenly Place

Author : Robin Oliveira
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593543870

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A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira Pdf

How far would you go? How much would you risk? Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes’s loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. Yet, when Samuel saves Hailey’s brother from a runaway carriage, their connection is undeniable. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, their improbable love grows. But then the City of Glasgow Bank fails, and Hailey’s bankrupt father impulsively moves their family across the globe to Seattle, a city rumored to have coal in its hills and easy money for anyone willing to work for it. Samuel is haunted by Hailey’s parting words: Remember, Washington Territory. Armed only with his wits, he determines to follow her, leaving behind everything he has ever known in search of Hailey and the chance of a better life for his sister. But the fledgling town barely cut out of the wilderness holds its own secrets and will test them all in ways unimaginable. Poignant and lyrical, A Wild and Heavenly Place is an ode to the Pacific Northwest, to those courageous enough to chase the American Dream, and to a love so powerful it endures beyond distance, beyond hope.

Author : Robin Oliveira
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101604885

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I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira Pdf

A story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas, from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter Robin Oliveira’s latest novel, Winter Sisters, will be available in February from Viking The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her sister Lydia is falling mysteriously ill, and worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever. Years later she will learn that he had begged for the introduction, but in that moment their meeting seems a miracle. So begins the defining period of her life and the most tempestuous of relationships. In I Always Loved You, Robin Oliveira brilliantly re-creates the irresistible world of Belle Époque Paris, writing with grace and uncommon insight into the passion and foibles of the human heart. For readers of The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan.

Author : Robin Oliveira
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399564277

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Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira Pdf

“Stunning. . . Oliveira writes with feeling.” —The New York Times Book Review “[An] engrossing story. . . that feels utterly timely.” —People, “The Best New Books” New York, 1879: An epic blizzard descends on Albany, devastating the city. When the snow finally settles, two newly orphaned girls are missing. Determined not to give up hope, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former Civil War surgeon, searches for the two sisters. When what happened to them is finally revealed, Dr. Sutter must fight the most powerful of Albany's citizens, risking personal and public danger as she seeks to protect the fragile, putting at risk loves and lives in her quest to right unimaginable wrongs. As contemporary as it is historic, Winter Sisters is part gripping thriller, part family saga, and ultimately a story of trauma and resilience that explores the tremendous good and unspeakable evil of which humans are capable.

Author : Robin Oliveira
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241950005

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My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira Pdf

On the eve of the American Civil War, Mary Sutter, a brilliant, headstrong midwife from New York, is dreaming of becoming a surgeon. Eager to escape the pains of a broken heart and a life in the shadow of her more beautiful twin sister, she travels to Washington to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded.

Author : Donald Ray Pollock
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385541305

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The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock Pdf

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.

Author : Carolyn Ferrell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250793621

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Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell Pdf

A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another. Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the block gawking and claiming ignorance. Among them is lifetime resident Miss Metropolitan, advice columnist for the local weekly, but how could anyone who fancies herself a “newspaperwoman” have missed a horror story unfolding right across the street? And why is it that only two of the three girls—now women—were found? The mystery haunts the two remaining “victim girls” who are subjected to the further trauma of becoming symbols as they continuously adapt to their present and their unrelenting past. Like Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, Ferrell’s Dear Miss Metropolitan gives voice to characters surviving unimaginable tragedy. The story is inventively revealed before, during, and after the ordeal in this singular and urgent novel.

Author : Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101217566

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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Pdf

Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again. Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book.

Author : Anonymous,Duchess Goldblatt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780358216773

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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous,Duchess Goldblatt Pdf

Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter personality reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living.

Author : Gregory Armstrong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781543428681

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Heavenly Bound by Gregory Armstrong Pdf

This book was written by my mother more than thirty years ago when she was inspired to tell her story about how important life is here on earth and about the beauty of life after death. The book explains how she experienced life as a Christian and prepared her life before going to heaven. My mother was very spiritual and believed in the Lord, and she wanted to share her experiences about preparing yourself before you pass away and meet the Lord. This book will be instrumental to those who know they are about to pass away and want to get right with the Lord and themselves before they die. This book has helped different people ease themselves, knowing there is a place after life that is greater than what is here on earth. My mission in life is to please both the Lord and my mother by getting her message out.

Author : Shea Ernshaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982164812

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A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw Pdf

"Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James-a well-known author of dark, macabre children's books-he's led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts, the commune shouldn't exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it...he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis's abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out, not when there's a risk of bringing a disease-rot-into Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn't as safe as they believed-and that darkness takes many forms"--

Author : Robin Oliveira
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 0670785792

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I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira Pdf

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy. But when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's determination wavers. Her father begs her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it's too late. Her sister is falling mysteriously ill. Worse, Mary is beginning to doubt herself. Then one evening a friend introduces her to Edgar Degas and her life changes forever.

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998

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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Author : Jayne Pupek
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565126657

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Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek Pdf

For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother's emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that he runs, Ellie sees her security slowly slipping away. Now she must be witness and warden to her mother's gradual slide into madness. Told from Ellie's point of view, Tomato Girl takes the reader into the soul of a terrified young girl clinging desperately to childhood while being forced into adulthood years before she is ready. To save herself, she creates a secret world, a place in which her mother gets well, her father returns to being the man he was, and the Tomato Girl is banished forever. Tomato Girl marks the debut of a gifted and promising new author who has written a timeless Southern novel.

Author : Susanna Lane
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633738713

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Imperfect Promise by Susanna Lane Pdf

In the rugged and unforgiving land of the American frontier, where honor and loyalty can be as dangerous as a loaded gun, Cortland Enders finds himself entangled in a web of obligation and deceit. When he crosses the path of a powerful man, he becomes a fugitive from the law. Desperate to avoid prison, Cort is forced to accept an agreement with Sienna, the influential widow of his late friend and employer and current owner of the Circle H Ranch. In exchange for his freedom, he must play the role of her new husband. The catch? She’s dying, and Cort will inherit the ranch. For anyone else, it would seem like the deal of a lifetime, but for a free spirit like Cort, it’s almost worse than prison. Now free, Cort is instructed to find a young lady to help tend to Sienna in her waning days. That’s when he meets Lark Garrin, the woman who will turn his world upside down. A scarred beauty of uncommon strength and courage, she immediately captures Cort's heart. Sparks fly, and he is torn between his loyalty to Sienna and his growing feelings for Lark. But danger lurks in the shadows. The demons from Lark's past are hunting her, and Cort must resurrect his gunfighting skills to protect both the woman he loves and the legacy of the ranch he's sworn to safeguard. In this gripping tale of love, honor, and sacrifice, Cort and Lark must trust one another and face their deepest fears head-on to defeat the forces threatening everything they hold dear.

Author : John Ballou Newbrough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Automatism
ISBN : OSU:32435017760133

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Oahspe by John Ballou Newbrough Pdf