The Winterlings

Author : Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632061102

Get Book

The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade Pdf

A reckoning with violent history, the occult, and death set against the broodingly romantic backdrop of the Spanish Civil War’s fallout and Hollywood’s Golden Age, by “one of the most powerful female voices Spanish literature has produced” (La Razón). After a childhood in exile, two odd sisters, known mysteriously as “The Winterlings,” return to their murdered grandfather’s cottage in the Galician countryside and settle into the unchanged routines of rural living. When the sisters learn of nearby filming for Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and the call for Ava Gardner lookalikes, the chance to stand in for the most beautiful woman in the world divides their once-unified passion for Hollywood cinema and acting, threatening to sunder their close relationship. Meanwhile, the insular villagers gradually reveal themselves as grotesque (albeit charming) characters: a widow in perpetual mourning, a woman who never dies and the priest who climbs a steep hill daily to give her last rites, and a dentist who plants the teeth of the deceased in his patients’ mouths. But most unsettling of all is the revelation of the perverse business arrangement the townspeople have made with the girls’ departed grandfather. Enchanting as a spell, award-winning Galician author Cristina Sánchez-Andrade’s novel draws equally from Spanish oral tradition and the American gothic fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Shirley Jackson, puncturing the idyllic surface of provincial life and historical codes of silence to expose the darkness lurking underneath.

Author : Sarah Prineas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062102171

Get Book

Winterling by Sarah Prineas Pdf

“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.” With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land. Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mór rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter. Sarah Prineas captivates in this fantasy-adventure about a girl who must find within herself the power to set right a terrible evil.

Author : Thomas Hughes Corry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101051387767

Get Book

Dual Songs by Thomas Hughes Corry Pdf

Author : Margaret Millar
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681990262

Get Book

The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat by Margaret Millar Pdf

Santa Barbara in the 1960s was home to two of the 20th century’s most important mystery writers, Margaret Millar and her husband, Ken (Ross Macdonald). It was also home to nearly 400 species of bird. This is the charming story of Ken and Maggie’s quest to see them all. The addiction that is birdwatching comes to vivid life in Margaret Millar’s delightful memoir of her early days as a naturalist. Part autobiography and part birdwatcher’s journal, it is a moving elegy to a bygone place and time. Millar brings her meticulous plotting and no small amount of suspense to these charming stories of a belligerent brown towhee named Houdunit, a larcenous raven called Melanie, and a rat who carefully ferments his grapes before eating them, to name only a few. Ornithology was a passion for both Ken and Maggie and they devoted their lives to it with the same keen sense of detail and, in the case of Margaret, storytelling vigor as they brought to their writing. In this book, the only memoir she wrote, Millar takes us on her journey from curious amateur to obsessive completionist. It is a phenomenon nearly any birding enthusiast will recognize. Ken and Margaret Millar were founding members of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society.

Author : John H. Foertschbeck, Sr.
Publisher : John H. Foertschbeck, Sr.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780982934425

Get Book

German Catholic Parishes of Maryland and Pennsylvania by John H. Foertschbeck, Sr. Pdf

A brief history of early Catholics and German Catholics and the Jesuit and Redemptorist missionaries in the Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Author : Enys Tregarthen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732634378

Get Book

The Life Story of an Otter by Enys Tregarthen Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Life Story of an Otter by Enys Tregarthen

Author : J. C. Tregarthen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547381105

Get Book

The Life Story of an Otter by J. C. Tregarthen Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Life Story of an Otter" by J. C. Tregarthen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Hernan Ronsino
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612195681

Get Book

Glaxo by Hernan Ronsino Pdf

Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time. In a derelict town in Argentina's pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't commit; another, a policeman with ties to the military regime, discovers his wife's infidelity; a third lays dying. And an American missionary has been killed. But what happened among these men? Spinning through a series of voices and timelines, Glaxo reveals a chilling story of four boys who grow up breaking horses and idolizing John Wayne, only to become adults embroiled in illicit romances, government death squads, and, ultimately, murder. Around them, the city falls apart. Both an austere drama and a suspenseful whodunit, Glaxo crackles with tension and mystery. And it marks the stunning English-language debut of a major Latin American writer.

Author : Sarah Prineas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062208545

Get Book

Summerkin by Sarah Prineas Pdf

Summerkin, the second book in award-winning author Sarah Prineas’s fantasy-adventure series that begins with Winterling, follows Fer, a young healer and warrior who’s fought to become the Lady of the Summerlands and now faces the task of ruling over a magical people in an enchanted realm. Although Fer defeated the Mor, the evil, false Lady who terrorized the Summerlands, there are still those who do not trust her. To prove herself, Fer, aided by her deep connection to the natural world and her healing arts, enters a challenging contest. If Fer fails, she will lose her land and the realm will be closed to her forever. Sarah Prineas combines a brave and resourceful young heroine with a richly detailed fantasy world and beloved folklore into a story that will delight middle-grade fans of Diana Wynne Jones, Ingrid Law, and Rick Riordan.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504086356

Get Book

Glory Season by David Brin Pdf

A woman faces danger on the high seas of another planet—and a mystery that will change her world—in this adventure by the bestselling author of Startide Rising. On Planet Stratos, clans of genetically identical females dominate society. Natural conceptions are permitted, but only in summertime. Girls born this way—known for their despised uniqueness as ‘vars’—must leave their clan homes to pursue their own distinct and hazardous fortunes in this world owned by clones. That time has come for Maia and her sister, Leie, but as variants, they have limited prospects. Worse, when the sisters do find work on trading vessels, Leie is lost at sea. And hence, Maia’s arduous journey commences, accompanied by rumors that something . . . someone . . . has arrived from across the stars, perhaps ending the isolation of Stratos from the rest of humanity. Who would predict that a lonely var might stumble into a powerful secret? One that will challenge everything Maia knows about her society—and threatens the scientifically-engineered balance that holds it all together. “One of the most important SF novels of the year.” —The Washington Post Book World “A rousing adventure story . . . brimming with surprises both wonderful and harrowing.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “Glory Season offers thrills, chills, political intrigue, and other good scientifictional fun, along with yet another round in the battle of the sexes.” —Locus “Brin’s prose echoes the influence of Asimov, Frank Herbert, and Aldous Huxley. . . . His world is so painstakingly drawn and is splashed with such radiant and varied hues.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307951076

Get Book

A Heart So White by Javier Marías Pdf

​​WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.

Author : George Winterling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1978258844

Get Book

Chasing the Wind by George Winterling Pdf

The life and times of George Winterling who was instrumental in developing the techniques of weather forecasting and television broadcasting that were unheard of prior to his pioneering efforts in the field of meteorology at WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida.

Author : Юрий Нагибин
Publisher : Ann Arbor : Ardis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UOM:39015047656296

Get Book

The Peak of Success and Other Stories by Юрий Нагибин Pdf

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453216866

Get Book

Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly Pdf

DIVDIVAn idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdom/divDIV /divDIVAs a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, the ruler of a mud-village who admits that he killed the dragon not with a lance, but with ignoble poison. Still, he’ll have to do./divDIV /divDIVGareth and Aversin set off in company with Jenny Waynest, a witch with great ambitions but disappointingly puny powers—a ragtag crew destined to become legendary, or die in the attempt./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div /div

Author : John Walpole-Bond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Birds
ISBN : UCAL:B3319950

Get Book

A History of Sussex Birds: Raven to eastern great reed-warbler by John Walpole-Bond Pdf