A Guest For The Night

Author : Fiona McFarlane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710643
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night Guest written by Fiona McFarlane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writer Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in. Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry with her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself? The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn't be. Here is a new writer who comes to us fully formed, working wonders with language, renewing our faith in the power of fiction to describe the mysterious workings of our minds. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299206444
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guest for the Night written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of Agnon’s most significant works, A Guest for the Night depicts Jewish life in Eastern Europe after World War I. A man journeys from Israel to his hometown in Europe, saddened to find so many friends taken by war, pogrom, or disease. In this vanishing world of traditional values, he confronts the loss of faith and trust of a younger generation. This 1939 novel reveals Agnon’s vision of his people’s past, tragic present, and hope for the future. Cited by National Yiddish Book Center as one of "The Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature" The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, or the traditional British Commonwealth (excluding Canada.)

Author : Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0525618511
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wedding Guest written by Jonathan Kellerman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis unravel a shocking crime at a raucous wedding reception in this gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling master of suspense. “Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust . . . and suddenly faced with the specter of death. Summoned to a run-down former strip joint, Delaware and Sturgis find themselves crashing a wild Saints and Sinners–themed wedding reception. But they’re not the only uninvited guests. A horrified bridesmaid has discovered the body of a young woman, dressed to impress in pricey haute couture and accessorized with a grisly red slash around her neck. What’s missing is any means of identification, or a single partygoer who recognizes the victim. The baffled bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day—and the groom is sure it’s all a dreadful mistake. But Delaware and Sturgis have a hundred guests to question, and a sneaking suspicion that the motive for murder is personal. Now they must separate the sinners from the saints, the true from the false, and the secrets from those keeping them. The party’s over—and the hunt for whoever killed it is on. “As usual, [Delaware and Sturgis] form a formidable team. Also as usual, the characters here are varied and described with gritty clarity, and the puzzle facing the duo involves a delightful mix of L.A. culture, this time from its dive bars to its much more serious side.”—Booklist

Author : Lucy Underwood-Healy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952464843
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guest of Night written by Lucy Underwood-Healy and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel about religious intolerance and persecution in England.

Author : Heather Gudenkauf
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369715993
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Overnight Guest written by Heather Gudenkauf and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fully realized, wholly absorbing and almost painfully suspenseful...The journey is mesmerizing.” —New York Times A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf. True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, Wylie finds herself trapped inside the house, haunted by the secrets contained within its walls—haunted by secrets of her own. Then she discovers a small child in the snow just outside. After bringing the child inside for warmth and safety, she begins to search for answers. But soon it becomes clear that the farmhouse isn’t as isolated as she thought, and someone is willing to do anything to find them. Don’t miss Heather’s upcoming twisty locked-room thriller, EVERYONE IS WATCHING! And don't miss these other great stories by Heather! The Weight of Silence These Things Hidden Little Mercies MIssing Pieces Not a Sound Before She Was Found This is How I Lied

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442973676
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And The Rat Laughed (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridal Canopy written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1967 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the travels of a devout Jew in Galicia, in the early years of the 19th century, spiced with stories and stories within stories.

Author : Rodrigo Blanco Calderon
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 164421041X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night written by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism's failure to resist US influence. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Blanco Calderón said about the potential of language, "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words" (Caracas, 2010).

Author : Elizabeth Guest
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425214824
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Life written by Elizabeth Guest and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a revered pharaoh betrayed by his people, Adrian King, a vampire and owner of a Las Vegas casino, is drawn to Egyptologist Christine Day, but a great evil from his past has awakened, determined to take her away from him forever.

Author : Ellen Brazer
Publisher : Tcj Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780615671833
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And So It Was Written written by Ellen Brazer and published by Tcj Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously researched and controversial in scope and imagination, "And So It Was Written" travels to a time when a Third Temple is built and the Ark of the Covenant holding the Ten Commandments is found. As the Romans prepare to reclaim Israel, two sets of brothersNone Roman and one JewishNfind their friendships, hatreds, and lives intertwined.