House Of Windows

Author : John Langan
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682308110

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House of Windows by John Langan Pdf

The haunting debut novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author—“think Henry James and Joyce Carol Oates with just a few paragraphs of Joe Lansdale” (Tor.com). For the last few years, Veronica Croydon has been at the center of scandal, first as the younger woman for whom her famous professor left his wife, and then as his apparent widow. When a writer staying at the same vacation home as Veronica has the chance to hear her story, he jumps at it. What follows takes him to the dark heart of a father's troubled relationship with his only son, in a story that stretches from the Hudson Valley to Afghanistan; and from post-9/11 America to Victorian England. House of Windows is a haunting exploration of a marriage under strain from forces both psychological and paranormal. With its combination of literary complexity and chilling supernatural violence, it is widely considered a masterpiece of contemporary horror fiction. New introduction by Adam Nevill Reading Group Guide included “John Langan is a writer of superb literary horror. Both House of Windows and The Fisherman are dark and unsettling contemporary masterpieces.” —Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author

Author : Alexia Casale
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571321544

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House of Windows by Alexia Casale Pdf

'The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.' Robert Louis Stevenson Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not that his strategy is working. When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose...

Author : Adina Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385347761

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House of Windows by Adina Hoffman Pdf

A brilliant and moving evocation of the rhythms of life (and the darker shadows below it) in a working-class quarter of the world’s most fascinating and divided city. In the tradition of the literature of place perfected by such expatriate writers as M. F. K. Fisher and Isak Dinesen, Adina Hoffman’s House of Windows compellingly evokes Jerusalem through the prism of the neighborhood where she has lived for eight years since moving from the United States. In a series of interlocking sketches and intimate portraits of the inhabitants of Musrara, a neighborhood on the border of the western (Jewish) and eastern (Arab) sides of the city–a Sephardic grocer, an aging civil servant, a Palestinian gardener, a nosy mother of ten–Hoffman constructs an intimate view of Jerusalem life that will be a revelation to American readers bombarded with politics and headlines. By focusing on the day-to-day pace of existence in this close-knit community, she provides a rich, precise, and refreshingly honest portrait of a city often reduced to cliche–and takes in the larger question of identity and exile that haunts Jews and Palestinians alike.

Author : Barbara Newhall Follett
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241986080

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The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett Pdf

Escape into the wild from the comfort of your own home this winter, with a dazzling lost classic of nature writing... Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away - first to the Meadow, then to the Sea, and finally to the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow their daughter, trying to bring her home safe, but Eepersip has other ideas... Republished by Penguin with a new introduction and hand-inked illustrations by beloved artist Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows is a timeless fable about wildness, freedom and the redemptive power of the natural world. 'I can safely promise joy to any reader of The House Without Windows. Perfection' Eleanor Farjeon, winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian Andersen Award 'Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times' Nick Drake 'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the author' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China

Author : Nadia Hashimi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062449665

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A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi Pdf

A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low. For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal’s family is sure she did, and demands justice. Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for her lover’s family to ask for her hand in marriage. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, as they have been, for breaking some social rule? For these women, the prison is both a haven and a punishment. Removed from the harsh and unforgiving world outside, they form a lively and indelible sisterhood. Into this closed world comes Yusuf, Zeba’s Afghan-born, American-raised lawyer, whose commitment to human rights and desire to help his motherland have brought him back. With the fate of this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands, Yusuf discovers that, like Afghanistan itself, his client may not be at all what he imagines. A moving look at the lives of modern Afghan women, A House Without Windows is astonishing, frightening, and triumphant.

Author : Robert Pobi
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250293954

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City of Windows by Robert Pobi Pdf

"City of Windows is moving, breathtaking—a great entertainment." —The Wall Street Journal “A tough, wise, knowing narrative voice, a great plot, a great setting, and even better characters — I loved this.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author In the tradition of Jeffery Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme and David Baldacci’s Amos Decker, Robert Pobi's City of Windows introduces Lucas Page, a brilliant, reluctant investigator, matching wits with a skilled, invisible killer During the worst blizzard in memory, an FBI agent in a moving SUV in New York City is killed by a nearly impossible sniper shot. Unable to pinpoint where the shot came from, as the storm rapidly wipes out evidence, the agent-in-charge Brett Kehoe turns to the one man who might be able to help them—former FBI agent Lucas Page. Page, a university professor and bestselling author, left the FBI years ago after a tragic event robbed him of a leg, an arm, an eye, and the willingness to continue. But he has an amazing ability to read a crime scene, figure out angles and trajectories in his head, and he might be the only one to be able to find the sniper’s nest. With a new wife and family, Lucas Page has no interest in helping the FBI—except for the fact that the victim was his former partner. Agreeing to help for his partner’s sake, Page finds himself hunting a killer with an unknown agenda and amazing sniper skills in the worst of conditions. And his partner’s murder is only the first in a series of meticulously planned murders carried out with all-but-impossible sniper shots. The only thing connecting the deaths is that the victims are all with law enforcement—that is until Page’s own family becomes a target. To identify and hunt down this ruthless, seemingly unstoppable killer, Page must discover what hidden past connects the victims before he himself loses all that is dear to him.

Author : Preston Gralla
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596528355

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Big Book of Windows Hacks by Preston Gralla Pdf

This useful book gives Windows power users everything they need to get the most out of their operating system, its related applications, and its hardware.

Author : Richard Snodgrass
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887486800

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The House with Round Windows by Richard Snodgrass Pdf

A personal, poetic counterpoint to the work of W.D. Snodgrass. The poems of W. D. Snodgrass, based on events from his troubled family life--particularly the death of a beloved sister--directly influenced Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and changed mid-twentieth century American poetry. Now his younger brother, Richard Snodgrass, who experienced those family events as well, masterfully weaves a counterpoint of personal stories, family history, and his own photographs into his work that reminds the reader that there are many sides to any story, that every unhappy family is unhappy in its way, and--perhaps most terrible of all--that everyone has their reasons.

Author : Eleanor Cameron
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971-03-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015004059963

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A Room Made of Windows by Eleanor Cameron Pdf

A young girl with ambitions to be a writer observes the people around her.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307366535

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Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein Pdf

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate brings together two years of Naomi Klein’s writings and tracks the globalization conflict from Seattle to September 11th and beyond. Since the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein has continued tirelessly as a brilliant and informed contributor to contemporary debate. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, intended as a companion to No Logo, includes her most notable essays, speeches and articles on issues from NAFTA to Genetically Modified Organisms to the violence in Genoa. It offers introduction and explanation, looking at where the movement has come from and where it is going. More than any other single voice, Naomi Klein articulates the concerns and complaints of a generation: about economic fundamentalism, the criminalization of dissent and the effects of Free Trade. But this book also reflects on the nature of resistance: the street protests that shocked and energized millions, carnival-style subversion and the apparent disorganization that is anti-globalization’s great strength. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is provocative, intelligent and passionate, a document, in its own right, of a unique time in our history.

Author : Aart-Jan Venema
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1908714565

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Night Windows by Aart-Jan Venema Pdf

A beautifully presented rhyming tale of adjusting to life in the city, with detailed illustrations adding a search-and-find element. Full color.

Author : Sally Clark
Publisher : Hearst Communications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Blinds
ISBN : 068814473X

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House Beautiful Windows by Sally Clark Pdf

Windows & window treatments can influence & enhance every decor: opening a room to a glorious view or securing privacy; letting in light or keeping it out; accenting, complementing, or unifying a decorating scheme; taming a large room or expanding a small one. In House Beautiful Windows, all facets of window treatment are explored, including such considerations as scale, proportion, color, & harmony. Window treatments appropriate to every decorating style are offered, from ultra modern to historic homes. The "mechanics" of window treatment - how & where to use them - is presented, along with a look at the traditional & offbeat materials & accessories. House Beautiful Windows, with its more than 125 full-color photos, concludes with profiles of six homeowners throughout the country who have devised their own approaches to windows & window treatments.

Author : Vinod Kumar Shukla
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789353574826

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THE WINDOWS IN OUR HOUSE ARE LITTLE DOORS by Vinod Kumar Shukla Pdf

Yasi, Rasa and Ta are three restless children who live modest lower-middle-class lives at the edge of town, but their imaginations gleam with threads of many colours. Bored bicycles move away from their owners in the hope of being stolen ... A light bulb in a sari shop mischievously switches itself on and off ... Chalk doodles squirm and squiggle when adults are in the room ... Sandals lying by the door plead to be worn ... The adults who play their games must enter many worlds -- the one that prevails and the ones that are possible. They mumble and ask questions, but time and again they realize that a single glance won't take in the whole sky. In The Windows in Our House Are Little Doors, Vinod Kumar Shukla unrolls dreamy wisdom and brocade-like moments that catch the light and dazzle. This 'novel in twenty-six stories' is a thing of sublime joy and pure delight.

Author : A. J Finn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008288577

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The Woman in the Window by A. J Finn Pdf

Author : Jon Roemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1945814942

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Five Windows by Jon Roemer Pdf

With shades of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, a homebound man becomes increasingly consumed by what he thinks he sees at a four-stop intersection in his San Francisco neighborhood.