A Sea Of Troubles

Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802199003
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sea of Troubles written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Italian police detective looks into the deaths of two fishermen in an isolated island community: “Leon’s Venetian mysteries never disappoint.” —The New York Times Book Review On a beautiful spring morning on the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, a small boat moored at the docks suddenly explodes, killing two local clam fishermen. When it becomes clear that the fire was deliberately set, Brunetti decides to investigate. But when he tries to dig up information about the murder, the island’s tight-knit, closemouthed community closes ranks—forcing Brunetti to accept Signorina Elettra’s offer to visit her relatives there to search for clues. On the island, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders and his concerns for the Signorina’s safety. And though he is loyal to his beloved wife, Brunetti’s concern for his boss’s spirited secretary may be driven by more than platonic feeling . . . “The arrival of a new Donna Leon book fills me with pleasurable anticipation. She tells a good story, including the best of all current police detectives, Commissario Brunetti, and locates it in a superbly described Venice. The plot is beautifully constructed. The climax is exciting and disturbing . . . Brunetti is as irresistible as ever.” —The Scotsman “The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.” —TheWall Street Journal

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300255810
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles written by Harold Bloom and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.” So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry. "Passionate. . . . Perhaps Bloom’s most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America’s leading twentieth-century literary minds."—Publishers Weekly “An extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom's] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitable”—Seamus Perry, Literary Review "Reading, this stirring collection testifies, ‘helps in staying alive.’“—Kirkus Reviews, starred review This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate death—completed weeks before Harold Bloom died—shows how literature renews life amid what Milton called “a universe of death.” Bloom reads as a way of taking arms against the sea of life’s troubles, taking readers on a grand tour of the poetic voices that have haunted him through a lifetime of reading. “High literature,” he writes, “is a saving lie against time, loss of individuality, premature death.” In passages of breathtaking intimacy, we see him awake late at night, reciting lines from Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Blake, Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Jay Wright, and many others. He feels himself “edged by nothingness,” uncomprehending, but still sustained by reading. Generous and clear‑eyed, this is among Harold Bloom’s most ambitious and most moving books.

Author : Janet L. Smith
Publisher : Northwest Corner Books
ISBN 13 : 1941890091
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea of Troubles written by Janet L. Smith and published by Northwest Corner Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who may be abducted and a man who's definitely dead are just the beginning for Seattle attorney Annie MacPherson, whose search for answers leads her to a past faded but not forgotten. A trip to the elegant Windsor Resort on Orcas Island seems like a vacation, but Annie holds the power of attorney for the owner and is there to negotiate a real estate deal. Feeling pressured by the hotel's manager and the prospective buyer, Annie's uneasiness is soon justified when the buyer's beautiful companion suddenly disappears and a murder rocks the resort's peaceful beauty. Her working vacation--and budding romance with the resort's charming kayak instructor--in turmoil, Annie digs deeper, uncovering enough clues to learn the hotel's guest list is a complicated nest of greed, deceit, and revenge... and maybe uncovering enough to make her a target. The first book in the Annie MacPherson Mystery Series.

Author : Frantz Coulanges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478711179
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against a Sea of Troubles written by Frantz Coulanges and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take the kid." Adrenaline took over his body. Dominic bolted towards the back door. He could hardly see, hardly think. Where's the door?! Where's the door?! The store erupted in shouts, falling shelves and merchandise. Dominic screamed as someone behind him lunged forward and dragged him to the ground. His hands hit the floor with a jarring pain that traveled all the way up his arms. Dominic fought to get out of the man's hold, but then another pair of hands was on him. Then another. There were too many. Dominic twisted and screamed and screamed until someone punched him hard in the gut. He could only cough and sputter as his body curled in. Someone else slapped his face so hard, his vision blurred. They all dropped him to the floor where Dominic could only squirm in pain. Dominic, a young Haitian man living an average life, is thrown into a sea of troubles when he is mercilessly kidnapped from his home for ransom. This sets off a chain of events that spans three countries and launches him on an adventure of struggle and perseverance.

Author : Elizabeth James
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1475857527
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sea of Troubles written by Elizabeth James and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By embracing the Common Core’s emphasis on the inclusion of more nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other, and, by extension, enhance student’s abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.

Author : Armin Shimerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949184648
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sea of Troubles written by Armin Shimerman and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555849008
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dressed for Death written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling series and its Italian detective explore the seedy underworld of Venice: “Procedural writing at its best” (The Washington Post). Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before the night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death. “[One of] the real charms of this series [is] the endearing character of Brunetti and his compassionate insights into the heart of Venice and the soul of its people. . . . Truly, a refreshing hero.” —The New York Times Book Review “Despite the gruesome way in which this murder, and subsequent ones, take place, it’s really a cheery, breezy mystery, filled with good humor and adventure. The ending can only leave the reader waiting avidly for the next time we meet Brunetti and his lively friends and cohorts.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Leon delivers her plot in an unassuming, graceful and beautifully paced prose that hides its measured elegance.” —The Washington Post “One of the most appealing of recent detectives, Brunetti stars in a case that brings out his canniness and his compassion—and shows his creator spreading her wings more powerfully than ever.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly evocative. . . . Venice takes on a deep noir tint in Leon’s latest well-crafted work.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616002190
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Nolan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596434708
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea of Dreams written by Dennis Nolan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wordless picture book featuring a sandcastle that takes on a life of its own.

Author : Donna Leon
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555849016
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Remedies written by Donna Leon and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian police detective’s latest case hits close to home, in this novel in the New York Times–bestselling series. For Commissario Brunetti, it began with an early morning phone call. In the chill of the Venetian dawn, a sudden act of vandalism shatters the quiet of the deserted city. But Brunetti is shocked to find that the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene is someone from his own family. Meanwhile, Brunetti is under pressure from his superiors to solve a daring robbery with a link to a suspicious accidental death. Does it all lead back to the Mafia? And how are his family’s actions connected to these crimes? The truth must be uncovered in this novel in the Silver Dagger Award–winning series by “one of the best of the international crime writers” (Rocky Mountain News). “Leon’s devoted readers love her books for their juicy mystery plots, and also for the rich and varied cast of recurring characters, among which is the city of Venice itself.” —Publishers Weekly