Bridge Of Sighs

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267900

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Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes "a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429981164

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The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer Pdf

From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist... It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" the nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia. The first victim is a state songwriter, but the facts point to a political motive. Emil would like to investigate further, but his colleagues in Homicide are suspicious or silent: He is on his own in this new, dangerous world. The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century. The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307424600

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Across the Bridge of Sighs by Jane Turner Rylands Pdf

From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the architect restoring the ancient palazzo of her husband’s family. An ambitious gallery owner sells a young artist’s work faster than he can paint it. A salesman finds a way to trip up a narcissistic race car driver who seems to be able to get away with anything. As her characters negotiate the conflict between tradition and a rapidly changing city, Jane Turner Rylands draws us deep into a society all but unknown to outsiders.

Author : Robin Trower
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458477248

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Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs (Songbook) by Robin Trower Pdf

(Guitar Recorded Versions). All 8 songs from the 1974 recording by this bluesy psychedelic British guitarist. Includes: About to Begin * Bridge of Sighs * Day of the Eagle * The Fool and Me * In This Place * Lady Love * Little Bit of Sympathy * Too Rolling Stoned. The first Robin Trower songbook ever!

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429902

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Venetian Stories by Jane Turner Rylands Pdf

In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians– a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord – as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy.

Author : Kate Banks
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466845213

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City Cat by Kate Banks Pdf

A plucky stray cat takes a Grand Tour in Kate Banks' story of a family on a European vacation. As the family travels from one city to the next, the cat finds its own means--by bus, boat, train, truck, and bike--to tag along on the trip, visiting historic landmarks like Buckingham Palace and the Cathedral of Notre Dame along the way. Readers will pore over the spreads to find where City Cat is hiding in each city, and detailed backmatter explains the history behind the sites in each locale.

Author : Andrea Canepari,Judith Goode
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439916476

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The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia by Andrea Canepari,Judith Goode Pdf

"The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia examines the impact and influence of Italian arts, culture, people, and ideas on the city of Philadelphia from the founding to the present"--

Author : Dan Muise
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634029568

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Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower by Dan Muise Pdf

"Rory Gallagher, Steve Marriott, Rick Derringer and Robin Trower are legends. The glue behind legendary barn-burning, hard-touring outfits like Taste, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, Johnny Winter, The Edgar Winter Group and Procol Harem, and later realizing their full potentials as solo artists, this is the first biography of four players whose dedication to music and virtuosity has been inspirational to a generation of fans and admirers." -- Back cover.

Author : Sofka Zinovieff
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062847591

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Putney by Sofka Zinovieff Pdf

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an artistic and prosperous district in southwest London, the musical wunderkind is introduced to Edmund’s activist wife Ellie, his aloof son Theo, and his nine-year old daughter Daphne, who quickly becomes Ralph’s muse. Ralph showers Daphne with tokens of his affection—clandestine gifts and secret notes. In a home that is exciting but often lonely, Daphne finds Ralph to be a dazzling companion, and while he worships her, he doesn't touch her. Their bond remains strong even after Ralph becomes a husband and father. But in the summer of 1976, when Ralph accompanies thirteen-year-old Daphne alone to meet her parents in Greece, their relationship intensifies irrevocably. One person knows of their passionate trysts: Daphne’s best friend Jane, whose awe of the intoxicating Greenslay family ensures her silence. Forty years later Daphne is back in London. After years lost to decadence and drug abuse, she is struggling to create a normal, stable life for herself and her adolescent daughter. When circumstances bring her back in touch with her long-lost friend, Jane, their reunion inevitably turns to Ralph, now a world-famous musician also living in the city. Daphne’s recollections of her childhood and her growing anxiety over her own daughter eventually lead to an explosive realization that propels her to confront Ralph and their years together. Told from three diverse viewpoints—victim, perpetrator, and witness—Putney is a subtle and powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.

Author : Parkstone Press
Publisher : Parkstone Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bridges
ISBN : NWU:35556040919011

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Bridges by Parkstone Press Pdf

A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying state-of-the-art technology. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modern-day sculptures.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780871408037

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Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation by Jan Morris Pdf

Jan Morris returns to Venice in this loving tribute to one of the great Renaissance masters. In the course of writing Venice, her 1961 classic, Jan Morris became fascinated by the historical presence of a sometimes-overlooked Venetian painter. Nowadays the name of Vittore Carpaccio (1460–1520) suggests raw beef, but to Morris it conveyed far more profound meanings. Thus began a lifelong infatuation, reaching across the centuries, between a renowned Welsh writer and a great and delightfully entertaining artist of the early Renaissance. Handsomely designed with more than seventy photographs throughout, Ciao,Carpaccio! is a happy caprice of affection. In illuminating the life of the artist and his paintings, Morris throws in digressions about Venetian animals, courtesans, babies, ships, architecture, and history, and caps it all with thoughtful analyses of Carpaccio’s spiritual convictions. Part biography, part art interpretation, part personal odyssey, and all lots of fun, Ciao, Carpaccio! will no doubt help to rescue the name of a noble artist from its popular interpretation as an item of cuisine.

Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015011586479

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Bridge of Ashes by Roger Zelazny Pdf

Author : Tess Callahan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407089447

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April & Oliver by Tess Callahan Pdf

April and Oliver are soul mates, the attraction between them has always been palpable. But as the years have passed this once inseparable couple have become strangers. Only after the sudden death of April's brother do their wildly different lives collide once again. Oliver, the responsible, newly engaged law student, finds himself drawn ever closer to the reckless, mystifying April - and cracks begin to appear in his carefully constructed life. Even as Oliver attempts to rescue his childhood friend from her grief, her menacing boyfriend, and herself, it is obvious that Oliver has some secrets of his own - secrets he has never shared with anyone. April alone knows, and her reappearance derails him. But is it April's life that is unravelling, or his own? And will their magnetic attraction for one another ever lead to happiness? Or are they better apart?

Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Defectors
ISBN : 9780007333929

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The Vienna Assignment by Olen Steinhauer Pdf

Krimi. A member of the homicide department of the people's militia, State Security Officer Brano Sev is sent to the village of his birth to interrogate a potential defector, but his mission is complicated by a murder in which he becomes the prime suspect

Author : Roman Belyaev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Bridge
ISBN : 1911509896

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How Do Bridges Work? by Roman Belyaev Pdf

Why were bridges invented? What did the first bridges look like? How do they stay up, and why are there so many different designs? From architecture to engineering (and other STEM subjects!), scale new heights on an enchanting journey with the school children in this book to discover answers to these questions along with other fascinating facts about bridges and how they work. Written and illustrated by Kate Greenaway Medal nominee and STEAM Children's Book prize winner, Roman Belyaev.