Across The Bridge Of Sighs

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030742460X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Across the Bridge of Sighs written by Jane Turner Rylands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Venetian Stories, a captivating new collection about Venice from the perspective of its residents. A professor writes lectures on Venetian literature for American millionaires. A baroness falls in love with the architect restoring the ancient palazzo of her husband’s family. An ambitious gallery owner sells a young artist’s work faster than he can paint it. A salesman finds a way to trip up a narcissistic race car driver who seems to be able to get away with anything. As her characters negotiate the conflict between tradition and a rapidly changing city, Jane Turner Rylands draws us deep into a society all but unknown to outsiders.

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307267903
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge of Sighs written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes "a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429981163
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of Sighs written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist... It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" the nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia. The first victim is a state songwriter, but the facts point to a political motive. Emil would like to investigate further, but his colleagues in Homicide are suspicious or silent: He is on his own in this new, dangerous world. The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century. The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel.

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429903
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venetian Stories written by Jane Turner Rylands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed – not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate delicacy, Jane Turner Rylands, an American expatriate who has lived in Venice for thirty years, portrays a dozen Venetians– a construction foreman, a countess, a gondolier, a postman, an architect, a Baronessa, an English lord – as they pursue their respective interests. And in turn, through the perspective of those who live and work in this most alluring of cities, Venetian Stories illuminates canals and palazzos, churches and gondolas, large concerns and small rituals, with an uncommon intimacy.

Author : Robin Trower
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 145847724X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs (Songbook) written by Robin Trower and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). All 8 songs from the 1974 recording by this bluesy psychedelic British guitarist. Includes: About to Begin * Bridge of Sighs * Day of the Eagle * The Fool and Me * In This Place * Lady Love * Little Bit of Sympathy * Too Rolling Stoned. The first Robin Trower songbook ever!

Author : Maria Welch Harris
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385506239
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Girls Across the Atlantic written by Maria Welch Harris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Kate Banks
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374313210
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Cat written by Kate Banks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-read book about a globe-trotting cat that crosses paths with a vacationing family in the great cities of Europe. Includes facts about the cities.

Author : Edwin M. Woods
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 146204445X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Latitudes written by Edwin M. Woods and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue with a personal touch relating day to day experiences of the author in essay form. The author tells of adventures in Mongolia and Siberia with smugglers on the train, visits nomads in the Gobi, Lake Baikal in Siberia, the Great Wall of China, and Forbidden City. He visits the Irish and backpacks in Tuscany; cruises across the Atlantic to visit England; explores the regions of France; and satisfies his curiosity about the Lapland provinces of Finland, Norway, and Sweden. In the developing countries of southeastern Europe, he sees Gypies, horse-drawn carts alongside automobiles, and Vlad's Castle in Transylvania; takes in the beautiful scenery of the Dalmatian Coast; visits Bosnia, with its bullet holes in buildings. "Between latitudes" from the top of Europe and the Arctic Circle to the bottom of South America, he visits the Chilean fjords and sails around Cape Horn and hikes along Iguazu Falls.

Author : George Edward Raum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour Around the World written by George Edward Raum and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Clay Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Path Across an Old Field written by Henry Clay Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: