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Author : José Maria Eça de Queirós
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813235042
"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
Author : Mary Rose Maccoll
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143190288
In Falling Snow opens as Iris Crane, an elderly Australian widow struggling to keep up with daily life, receives a surprise invitation in the mail to a reunion at the ancient abbey of Royaumont, the site of a field hospital north of Paris. In the First World War, Iris served there as a nurse in a hospital run entirely by women, and the invitation opens a flood of memories—about how she came to Europe in 1914 in search of her brother, her work alongside the female doctors and administrators as the wounded soldiers flooded into the hospital, and of the dear friends she made at Royaumont who would change her family’s life forever. A moving and uplifting novel about the small unsung acts of heroism of which love makes us capable.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Graffeg
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912654989
This is a new, compact A5 edition of Jackie Morris's collection of short stories, The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow. A collection of twelve illustrated folk tales, or lullabies for grown-ups, set in a distant world of music, snow and magic. The stories are based around a series of musically-themed illustrations first created by Jackie for Help Musicians UK.
Author : Jane Gloriana Villanueva
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781507206638
It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life—from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami—a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. Then, a figure from her past reemerges to change her life forever: the hotel’s dapper owner, railroad tycoon Rake Solvino. The captivating robber baron sets her heart aflame once more, leading to a champagne-fueled night together. But when their indiscretion results in an unexpected complication, Josephine struggles to decide whether her heart truly belongs with heroic Martin or dashing Rake. Meanwhile, in an effort to capture an elusive crime lord terrorizing the city, Detective Cadden scours the back alleys of the Magic City, tracking the nefarious villain to the Regal Sol and discovering a surprising connection to the Solvino family. However, just when it looks like Josephine’s true heart’s desire is clear, danger strikes. Will her dreams for the future dissolve like so much falling snow or might Josephine finally get the happy ever after she’s been dreaming of for so long?
Author : Eça de Queirós
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813235057
"Short stories (fiction) by the great nineteenth-century Portuguese author Jose Maria Eca de Queiros; a variety of themes characterize the stories: love, greed, obsession, country life; patriotism"--
Author : Shamim Sarif
Publisher : Enlightenment Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0957075278
Now a Major Motion Picture After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Moscow, Alexander Ivanov has lived in America for forty years and has managed to bury the tragic memories surrounding his charismatic late life, Katya - or so he believes. For into his life come two women - one who will start to open up the heart he has protected for so long; another who is determined to uncover the truth about what really happened to Katya all those years ago. The novel's journey back to the snowbound streets of post-Stalinist Moscow reveals a precarious, dangerous world of secrets and treachery. "Despite the Falling Snow contains all the ingredients of a good thriller: intrigue, suspense, and romance." The Boston Globe 'Quite literally, breathtaking' The Good Book Guide "Novel of the year" Stevie Davies, The Independent "Sarif's thrilling new novel makes me think of the 'The English Patient' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. Her novel is immensely powerful - and deeply moving." Steve Yarbrough, author of The Oxygen Man
Author : Wendy Austin,E. Sharon Brintnell,Erika Goble,Leon Kagan,Linda Kreitzer,Denise Larsen,Brendan Leier
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554588909
First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is increasingly understood as a threat to the well-being of those who offer it. Through the lens of hermeneutic phenomenology, the authors present an insider’s perspective on compassion fatigue, its effects on the body, on the experience of time and space, and on personal and professional relationships. Accounts of health professionals, alongside examinations of poetry, images, movies, and literature, are used to explore the notions of compassion, hope, and hopelessness as they inform the meaning of caring work. The authors frame their exposé of compassion fatigue with the very Canadian metaphor of “lying down in the snow.” If suffering is imagined as ever-falling snow, then the need for training and resources for safe journeying in “winter country” becomes apparent. Recognizing the phenomenon of compassion fatigue reveals the role that health services education and the moral habitability of our healthcare environments play in supporting professionals’ ability to act compassionately and to endure.
Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307273277
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone. He is separated from his wife of twenty years, kept at arm’s length by his teenage son, estranged from his father, and accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, he has a desperate feeling that his work—even in fact his life—is no longer relevant. Deeply moving in its portrayal of the vagaries of family love and bold in its scrutiny of the personal politics of race, this is Caryl Phillips’s most powerful novel yet.
Author : Cath Moore
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781925923513
A road trip with unlikely companions, a girl with a unique way of seeing the world, a great loss and a struggle of identity; Metal Fish, Falling Snow is an Own Voices YA debut that packs a punch.
Author : David Guterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0151001006
A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.
Author : Caldwell Davis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483605692
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Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547545073
Cynthia Rylant’s lyrical descriptions of the sights and feelings evoked by falling snow blend gorgeously with the rich and beautiful world created by Lauren Stringer’s illustrations, in which a young girl, her friend, and her grandmother enjoy the many things a snowy day has to offer.
Author : Annabel Stehli
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0380717395
Details a child's journey from autistic and functionally retarded to gifted, resulting in validation of auditory training.
Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664633538
The Invaders, and Other Stories by Graf Leo Tolstoy is a collection of six fantastical and magical short tales from the beloved writer who helped bring Russian literature to audiences around the world. The volume contains the short stories: The Invaders, The Wood-cutting Expedition, An Old Acquaintance, Lost on the Steppe; or, the Snowstorm, Polikushka, and Kholstomír in one easy-to-read text.
Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631490767
In a “lively, sparkling, and sharp-edged” (Arthur Goldhammer) new translation, Guy de Maupassant’s most beloved works are reintroduced to twenty-first-century readers. A Parisian civil servant turned protégé of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a pioneer of psychological realism and modernism who helped define the form. Credited with influencing the likes of Chekhov, Maugham, Babel, and O. Henry, Maupassant had, at the time of his death at the age of forty-two, written six novels and some three hundred short stories. Yet in English, Maupassant has, curiously, remained unappreciated by modern readers due to outdated translations that render his prose in an archaic, literal style. In this bold new translation, Sandra Smith—the celebrated translator of Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise—brings us twenty-eight of Maupassant's essential stories and two novellas in lyrical yet accessible language that brings Maupassant into vibrant English. In addition to her sparkling translation, Smith also imposes a structure that captures the full range of Maupassant's work. Dividing the collection into three sections that reflect his predominant themes—nineteenth-century French society, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and the supernatural—Smith creates "an arrangement suggesting a culture of relation, of structure, of completion" (Richard Howard). In "Tales of French Life," we see Maupassant explore the broad swath of French society, not just examining the lives of the affluent as was customary for writers in his day. In the title story of the collection, "The Necklace," Maupassant crafts a devastating portrait of misplaced ambition and ruin in the emerging middle class. The stories in "Tales of War" emerge from Maupassant’s own experiences in the devastating Franco-Prussian War and create a portrait of that disastrous conflict that few modern readers have ever encountered. This section features Maupassant's most famous novella, "Boule de Suif." The last section, "Tales of the Supernatural," delves into the occult and the bizarre. While certain critics may attribute some of these stories and morbid fascination as the product of the author's fevered mind and possible hallucinations induced by late-stage syphilis, they echo the gothic horror of Poe as well as anticipate the eerie fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. The result takes readers from marriage, family, and the quotidian details of life to the disasters of war and nationalism, then to the gothic and beyond, allowing us to appreciate Maupassant in an idiom that matches our own times. The Necklace and Other Stories enables us to appreciate Maupassant as the progenitor of the modern short story and as a writer vastly ahead of his time.