Voices Of The Dead

Author : Peter Leonard
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571271580

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Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard Pdf

Detroit, 1971. Harry Levin, scrap metal dealer and holocaust survivor, learns that his daughter has been killed in a car accident. Travelling to Washington DC, he's told by Detective Taggart that the German diplomat, who was drunk, has been released and afforded immunity; he will never face charges. So Harry is left with only one option - to discover the identity of this man, follow him back to Munich and hunt him down. The first of a two-hander, Peter Leonard's new novel is a classic cat-and-mouse thriller. Told with swagger, brutal humour and not a little violence, it follows a good man who is forced to return to the horrors of his past.

Author : Autran Dourado
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015065488945

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The Voices of the Dead by Autran Dourado Pdf

Author : Katherine Arden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525515074

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Dead Voices by Katherine Arden Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in the critically acclaimed Small Spaces Quartet. Now in paperback. Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined to make the best of being snowed in, but odd things keep happening. Coco is convinced she has seen a ghost, and Ollie is having nightmares about frostbitten girls pleading for help. Then Mr. Voland, a mysterious ghost hunter, arrives in the midst of the storm to investigate the hauntings at Hemlock Lodge. Ollie, Coco, and Brian want to trust him, but Ollie's watch, which once saved them from the smiling man, has a new cautionary message: BEWARE. With Mr. Voland's help, Ollie, Coco, and Brian reach out to the dead voices at Mount Hemlock. Maybe the ghosts need their help--or maybe not all ghosts can or should be trusted. Dead Voices is a terrifying follow-up to Small Spaces with thrills and chills galore and the captive foreboding of a classic ghost story.

Author : Hiroaki Kuromiya
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300123892

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The Voices of the Dead by Hiroaki Kuromiya Pdf

Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937-1938, nearly a million people died. Most were ordinary citizens who left no records and as a result have been completely forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their stories and reconstruct their lives, drawing upon recently declassified archives of the former Soviet Secret Police in Kiev. Hiroaki Kuromiya uncovers in the archives the hushed voices of the condemned, and he chronicles the lives of dozens of individuals who shared the same dehumanizing fate: all were falsely arrested, executed, and dumped in mass graves. Kuromiya investigates the truth behind the fabricated records, filling in at least some of the details of the lives and deaths of ballerinas, priests, beggars, teachers, peasants, workers, soldiers, pensioners, homemakers, fugitives, peddlers, ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Koreans, Jews, and others. In recounting the extraordinary stories gleaned from the secret files, Kuromiya not only commemorates the dead and forgotten but also proposes a new interpretation of Soviet society that provides useful insights into the enigma of Stalinist terror.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316077149

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Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches Pdf

A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.

Author : Patrick Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226899284

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Gypsy World by Patrick Williams Pdf

For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manuš, not only do not speak of their dead, they burn or discard the deceased's belongings, refrain from eating the dead person's favorite foods, and avoid camping in the place where they died. In Gypsy World, Patrick Williams argues that these customs are at the center of how Manuš see the world and their place in it. The Manuš inhabit a world created by the "Gadzos" (non-Gypsies), who frequently limit or even prohibit Manuš movements within it. To claim this world for themselves, the Manuš employ a principle of cosmological subtraction: just as the dead seem to be absent from Manuš society, argues Williams, so too do the Manuš absent themselves from Gadzo society—and in so doing they assert and preserve their own separate culture and identity. Anyone interested in Gypsies, death rituals, or the formation of culture will enjoy this fascinating and sensitive ethnography.

Author : Declan Hughes
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061887314

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All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes Pdf

“With All the Dead Voices, Declan Hughes once again demonstrates that the private detective novel can be vital, modern and relevant in the right hands.” —Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Life Sentences Author Declan Hughes has already won a Shamus Award—and has been nominated for a CWA New Blood Dagger, a Macavity, and an Edgar® Award—for his internationally bestselling series featuring Irish private investigator Ed Loy. Hughes’s remarkable thriller All the Dead Voices should dispel any doubts (if there were any) that he truly belongs in upper ranks of crime fiction writers—alongside John Connolly, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Michael Connelly, Walter Mosley, and Dennis Lehane. Set in modern-day Dublin, Ireland, and rich in suspense and atmosphere, All the Dead Voices sends a message loud and clear that Declan Hughes is a literary force to be reckoned with!

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806125799

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Dead Voices by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities-the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for liberation from forces that would deny the full realization of human possibilities. In this modern world his characters insist upon survival through an imaginative affirmation of the self. In Dead Voices Vizenor, using tales drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminates the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans, or "wordies." Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world, and in a cycle of tales she describes this world from the perspective of animals-fleas, squirrels, mantis, crows, beavers, and finally Trickster, Vizenor’s central and unifying figure. The stories reveal unpleasant aspects of the dominate culture and American Indian culture such as the fur trade, the educational system, tribal gambling, reservation life, and in each the animals, who represent crossbloods, connect with their tribal traditions, often in comic fashion. As in his other fiction, Vizenor upsets our ideas of what fiction should be. His plot is fantastic; his story line is a roller-coaster ride requiring that we accept the idea of transformation, a key element in all his work. Unlike other Indian novelists, who use the novel as a means of cultural recovery, Vizenor finds the crossblood a cause for celebration.

Author : Philip Antoine De Teissier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026366259

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Voices of the dead. (Sermons). by Philip Antoine De Teissier Pdf

Author : John Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Bible
ISBN : NLS:V000564374

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Voices of the Dead by John Cumming Pdf

Author : Victoria Raschke
Publisher : 1000 Volt Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Voices of the Dead Omnibus by Victoria Raschke Pdf

Jo Wiley runs a punk rock teahouse in the heart of the Slovenian capital, tries not to pry too much into her adult son’s life, and keeps her string of friends with benefits on a tight schedule. When one of those friends is found murdered at an ancient Roman ruin, the death pulls Jo into a whole reality of weirdness she never knew existed. She discovers she can talk to the dead and she isn’t too happy with what they come to tell her. Can she save the world from demons, vengeful magic workers, and the occasional rogue deity and keep her business alive? Brew up a cup of your favorite tea and find out. This Omnibus edition includes: Who by Water - Voices of the Dead: Book One Our Lady of the Various Sorrows - Voices of the Dead: Book Two A Wand needs a Witch - A Voices of the Dead Story Like a Pale Moon - Voices of the Dead: Book Three Strange As Angels - Voices of the Dead: Book Four

Author : Abigail McDaniels
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0821746952

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Dead Voices by Abigail McDaniels Pdf

Don't talk to the stranger standing on the shore. Don't look at the old man beckoning from the lake. Don'tstop for the lost woman wandering the streets. Don't listen to the scratching at your window at night. Anddon't answer the phone.

Author : Katherine Arden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525515036

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Small Spaces by Katherine Arden Pdf

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn't have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you." Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie's previously broken digital wristwatch, a keepsake reminder of better times, begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed the bus driver's warning. As the trio head out into the woods—bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them—the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: "Avoid large places. Keep to small." And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619024823

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Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea Pdf

From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307816436

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Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton Pdf

From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an epic tale of unspeakable horror. It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day’s length does not equal the night’s, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.