At The Edge Of Night

Author : Catherine Banner
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385686297

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The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner Pdf

A sweeping, propulsive family saga set on a romantic and beautiful Italian island, for fans of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Beautiful Ruins. On the tiny, idyllic island of Castellamare, off the coast of Sicily, lies The House at the Edge of Night, an ancient bar run by the Esposito family. There, over the course of three generations--from the eve of World War One to the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis--the Esposito women will fight to hold their family together against the threats that break across their shores. As lush and magical as the island at its centre, The House at the Edge of Night is a story of love and secrets, endurance, loss and, ultimately, triumph.

Author : Friedo Lampe
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843919971

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At the Edge of the Night by Friedo Lampe Pdf

This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character, but evokes the sensations and impressions of a sultry September evening on the waterfront of Bremen, with its charm and tenderness, squalor and lust. It contains a stream of images with many characters: children, old and young people, men and women, townsfolk, performers, students and seamen. Things happen as they happen, horrible things, touching things. Its depiction of raw reality was unacceptable to the Nazis: the book was seized by them in December 1933 and withdrawn from sale.

Author : Michael Bray
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326635282

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At the Edge of Night by Michael Bray Pdf

AT THE EDGE OF DARKNESS brings together for the first time the complete collated short stories of Michael Bray. At almost 800 pages in length, this collection compiles every title from previous collections Funhouse & Forgotten Fears alongside several other stories which were independently published in various forms between the years of 2013 - 2016. Contains the following stories: Candyland With These Hands Scarecrows Shoebox The Eye The Light That Brought the Dark The Man in the Alley Watchers One Night in October Long Tall Coffin The Langton Effect Apartment 11 Sick Day The Boy Who Saw Spiders Scratchers H-NG-N The Trial of Edwyn Greer The Visit Jasper Seat 6A Cabin Fever 99.9am Mr Ghoul's Ghost Train The Beginners Guide to Death Firecracker 50/50 The Birthday Tilly

Author : Christopher S. Thompson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780595124947

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City at the Edge of Night by Christopher S. Thompson Pdf

These poems are written in the classical tradition of rhymed, metrical verse, but their subject matter is very modern. The poet explores a strange, internal world of powerful imagery drawn from everyday life, myth, and the subconscious. The poems have images reminiscent of the paintings of Beksinski, H.R. Giger and Hieronymous Bosch, and are in the literary tradition of William Blake. Futuristic, horrific and dream-like visions are subtly controlled by formal technique.

Author : Nicholas Christopher
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307799883

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A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher Pdf

“A large, lavishly inventive novel . . . an American descendant of The Arabian Nights . . . erudite and artful entertainment.”—The New York Times Book Review At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old Enzo is whisked away from his young adoptive aunt, Mala. His abductor turns out to be a blood relative: his great-uncle Junius Samax, a wealthy former gambler who lives in a converted Las Vegas hotel surrounded by a priceless art collection and a host of fascinating, idiosyncratic guests. In Samax’s magical world, Enzo receives a unique education and pieces together the mystery of his mother’s life and the complicated history of his adoption. Back in New York, Mala only knows that Enzo has disappeared. After a yearlong search proves fruitless, she enlists in the Navy Nursing Corps and on a hospital ship off Vietnam falls in love with a wounded B-52 navigator, who disappears on his next mission. Devastated again, Mala embarks on a restless, adventurous journey around the world, hoping to overcome the losses that have transformed her life. Fusing imagination, scholarship, and suspense with remarkable narrative skill, Nicholas Christopher builds a story of tremendous scope, an epic tale of love and destiny, as he traces the intricate latticework of Mala’s and Enzo’s lives. Each remains separate from each other but tied in ways they cannot imagine—until the final miraculous chapter of this extraordinary novel. “A writer of remarkable gifts.”—The Washington Post Book World “This labyrinthine novel . . . is animated by an encompassing lust for beauty.”—The New Yorker “[Nicholas] Christopher is North America’s García Márquez; Borges with emotional weight. . . . This is one of those rare books that, by connecting the stars, catches you in its web.”—The Globe and Mail Includes an excerpt of Nicholas Christopher’s Tiger Rag

Author : Holly Black
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250812209

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Book of Night by Holly Black Pdf

"A delicious, dark, adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con." - New York Times bestselling author, Alix E. Harrow #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall. Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie's shadowless, and possibly soulless, boyfriend has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world—all trying to steal a secret that will give them vast and terrible power. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : French fiction
ISBN : 0714541397

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Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Pdf

When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.

Author : Ann Gimpel
Publisher : Ann Gimpel Books, LLC
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Edge of Night by Ann Gimpel Pdf

Here’s a roadmap to Edge of Night. Welcome to an eclectic collection of nine short stories. You’ve done time at the edge of night. Nail-biting, stomach-churning time filled with hissing snarls, menacing growls, the whoosh of unnatural wings, and the flash of hellfire. Time that lasts forever, but is over within seconds because time becomes unpredictable in places like that. You don’t want to stay, but it’s too fascinating—in a grisly, macabre, toe-curling kind of way—to turn your back on. You recognize it, though. The place just at the threshold of darkness where it’s not quite safe anymore. Evil broke its bounds at the edge of night, or maybe it always ran free and we’ve been deluding ourselves all along. Join me for nine supernatural tales. Monsters, demons, gods—fallen and otherwise—ghosts, aliens. A touch of science fiction. More than a splash of romance. From magical lands to a chilling glance into the past, Edge of Night has something to tempt everyone. Everyone who craves danger, that is. It takes guts to read the stuff woven into nightmares. It’s a tough job, but you’re up to it. Welcome to my world. A world where magic holds court and the dude next door just might be a demon. Or a shifter. Or an alien.

Author : Corinne Duyvis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781613129012

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On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis Pdf

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature’s boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll never reach the shelter in time. A last-minute meeting leads them to something better than a temporary shelter—a generation ship, scheduled to leave Earth behind to colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But everyone on the ship has been chosen because of their usefulness. Denise is autistic and fears that she’ll never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister? When the future of the human race is at stake, whose lives matter most?

Author : C. S. Thompson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1462090168

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City at the Edge of Night by C. S. Thompson Pdf

Author : Molly E. Lee
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781649370440

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Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee Pdf

“What to read after A Court of Thorns and Roses! Full of twists you’ll never see coming!” –UppercaseYA I’ve never been a stranger to the darkness. But when darkness comes knocking and looks that good, who wouldn’t invite him in? Draven is mysterious, evasive, and hot as sin. The only thing more infuriating than his silence is how obnoxious he is every time he does open his mouth. But when a group of strangers attacks me and he fights back—causing them to vanish into a cloud of black dust—I know Draven is more than he seems. Now I know the truth. There’s a veil separating the world I know from a world of demons living all around us. Turns out, good and evil are just words. Some of the demons don’t fall into either category. And I’m realizing just how easily I fit in among the ancient warlocks, the divine soldiers, and the twisted supernaturals... There’s so much more to me and my past that I don’t know—let alone what I am truly capable of. So when all signs point to me having the ability to unleash Hell on earth? I’ll have to decide if I want to do the world a solid and save it...or give it one hell of a makeover. The Ember of Night series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Ember of Night Book #2 Shadow of Light Book #3 Spark of Ash

Author : Sara Gruen
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385684897

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At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen Pdf

In her stunning new novel, Gruen returns to the kind of storytelling she excelled at in Water for Elephants: a historical timeframe in an unusual setting with a creature who may or may not be the hero of the story. After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to color-blindness. Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and, when he finds it, he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces (and pocketbook). Joined by their friend Hank, a wealthy socialite, the three make their way to Scotland in the midst of war. Each day, the two men go off to hunt the monster, while another monster, Hitler, is devastating Europe. Meanwhile, Maddie undergoes a social awakening: to the harsh realities of life, to the beauties of nature, to a connection with forces larger than herself, to female friendship, and, finally, to love.

Author : François Jacqmin,Anise Koltz
Publisher : ARC Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124195111

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Livre de la Neige by François Jacqmin,Anise Koltz Pdf

"An intriguing set of short, deceptively simple poems, The Book of the Snow meditates on our relation to the austere beauty and elemental power of the midwinter scene. It is also a subtle, witty, occasionally savage critique of our philosophical and artistic complacency. While pretending to literary defeatism, Francois Jacqmin captivates us with the deft touch of an accomplished poet." --Book Jacket.

Author : J. T. Geissinger
Publisher : Night Prowler Novel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612184197

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Edge of Oblivion by J. T. Geissinger Pdf

"Morgan Montgomery, the Ikati shape-shifter is waiting to die. She has been branded a traitor by her tribe. But Jenna, the newly crowned queen and Morgan's former ally offers Morgan one last chance for redemption. Morgan must infultrate the Rome headquarters of the Expurgari, the Kkati's ancient enemy and destroy them within a fortnight. Xander Luni, a trained assassin travels with Morgan and soon finds his world threatened by the love he feels for her."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Antonio Tabucchi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811224529

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The Edge of the Horizon by Antonio Tabucchi Pdf

New Directions is proud to be the publisher of the the distinguished Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi, whose works include The Edge of the Horizon, a story of an “unimportant death,” now available for the first time in a paperback edition. Late on night, the body of a young man is delivered to the morgue of an Italian town. The next day's newspapers report that he was killed in a police raid, and that went by the obviously false name "Carlo Nobodi." Spino, the morgue attendant on duty at the time, becomes obsessed with tracing the identity of the corpse. "Why do you want to know about him?" asks a local priest. "Because he is dead and I'm alive," replies Spino. In this spare yet densely packed cautionary tale, Tabucchi reminds us that it is impossible to reach the edge of the horizon since it always recedes before us, but suggests that some people "carry the horizon with them in their eyes."