The Dead Lake

Author : Hamid Ismailov
Publisher : Peirene Press
ISBN 13 : 1908670193
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Lake written by Hamid Ismailov and published by Peirene Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remote part of Soviet Kazakhstan where atomic weapons are tested. As a young boy he falls in love with the neighbour's daughter and one evening, to impress her, he dives into a forbidden lake. The radioactive water changes Yerzhan. He will never grow into a man. While the girl he loves becomes a beautiful woman. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'Like a Grimm's fairy tale, this story transforms an innermost fear into an outward reality. We witness a prepubescent boy's secret terror of not growing up into a man. We also wander in a beautiful, fierce landscape unlike any other we find in Western literature. And by the end of Yerzhan's tale we are awe-struck by our human resilience in the face of catastrophic, man-made, follies.' Meike Ziervogel 'A haunting and resonant fable.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'A tantalising mixture of magical and grim realism . . . a powerful study of alienation and environmental catastrophe.' David Mills, Sunday Times 'A poetic masterpiece, a novella of shocking legacies, alien beauty and blistering emotional intensity'. Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post 'A writer of immense poetic power.' Kapka Kassabova, Guardian Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail 'This superb novella . . . reads like a modern fairy-tale, full of a surreal yet mundane horror.' Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday 'Central Asian storytelling at its best.' Marion James, Today's Zaman LONGLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2015 INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 GUARDIAN READERS' BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

Author : Carol Goodman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345490916
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lake of Dead Languages written by Carol Goodman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gothic and elegant page-turner.”—The Boston Globe Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden in the depths of Heart Lake for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned to the school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories. And young, troubled girls are beginning to die again–as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface. . . .

Author : André Bjerke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954321120
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lake of the Dead (Valancourt International) written by André Bjerke and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1942 classic that has been voted Norway's all-time best thriller, a brilliant mix of mystery and the supernatural Deep in the darkest part of the Norwegian woods stands Dead Man's Cabin, where 110 years ago a madman slew his sister and her lover, throwing their decapitated corpses in a nearby lake before drowning himself to join them in death. Ever since, the cabin has been cursed, and anyone who spends the night there is possessed by the killer's spirit and infected with his madness. Bjørn Werner, a young scholar from Oslo, ignored the old superstitions and bought the cabin as a place to read and work in quiet. Now he has disappeared, and the evidence suggests he threw himself in the lake in a fit of insanity. The police write it off as a suicide, but those who knew him are not so sure. Could the curse actually be real? Bjørn's sister and five of his friends travel to the cabin to look into his death, but not all of them will return alive from their stay at the Lake of the Dead ... André Bjerke's The Lake of the Dead (1942) was voted the all-time best Norwegian thriller, and its atmospheric 1958 film adaptation is regarded as one of Norway's best films. This new translation is the first-ever American publication of Bjerke's classic, which features an unusual mixture of murder mystery and supernatural horror that will keep readers guessing until the thrilling conclusion.

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 184513852X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bluebird and the Dead Lake written by John Pearson and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, in Australia's remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history. Things went wrong from the start: unseasonal rains, a sodden lake bed in which every high-speed run slewed dangerously, money running short...even an Aboriginal curse. WIth death shimmering on the horizon before him, the lonely Campbell tried to hold his nerve until he broke the record. Campbell would lose his life eventually on Coniston Water, with over thirty years passing before his body was recovered in 2001, but this strangest - and greatest - of all his world record attempts was witnessed by a young reporter. John Pearson's classic book about Donald Campbell is an extraordinarily compelling and moving portrait of a modern tragic hero, fighting a battle with inhospitable elements and the outer limits of technology - and, above all, with himself.

Author : Alan DeNiro
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1931520178
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead written by Alan DeNiro and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising and funny debut collection from a multi-talented Midwest author.

Author : Victoria Houston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440531552
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Boogie written by Victoria Houston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doc Osborne knows there are plenty of fish in the sea, but only police chief Lew Ferris qualifies as his catch of the day. Just as the summer is heating up, the town gets turned upside down by the bizarre triple homicide discovered on a backcountry road... Peg Garmin was not Loon Lake's most beloved citizen. Considering her "calling" in life, no one was completely surprised when she was found murdered in the company of two exotic dancers...no one, that is, except for Ray Pradt, Peg's dearest friend. As the team digs into the mystery of her past, they discover some startling connections to one of the wealthiest families in Chicago and to the buried secret that could destroy them. Now Lew, Osborne, and Ray must root the skeletons out of the Garmin family closet before Peg's killer becomes the one who got away...

Author : Victoria Houston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440533563
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Insider written by Victoria Houston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a catastrophic August rainstorm, a grisly discovery shatters the serenity of a summer evening in northern Wisconsin. Moving quickly to prevent a panic among tourists, Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris enlists the forensic and interrogation skills of her close friend and fellow fly fisherman, the retired dentist "Doc" Osborne. Within hours of launching their investigation, they find themselves faced with a national media circus as Loon Lake becomes the focus of a murderous scenario that links the murder to the race for the U.S. Senate by a woman who is heir to a Northwoods fortune and other, less savory, family traditions. In the meantime, Doc Osborne's eldest daughter, Mallory, enters into a relationship that may put her life at risk--unless her father and Chief Ferris can find the killer stalking the residents of Loon Lake.

Author : Stu Duval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869706500
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lake of the Dead written by Stu Duval and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Six classmates are on a hiking trip to study the geological features of the vast and wild Bellevue Forest when the mighty Mount Darius erupts. The group are swept into a violent landslide of soil and rock. Josh and Greer find themselves alone in a dramatically changed landscape. Lost they stumble upon an eerie, abandoned town and its long-forgotten secrets. And they discover why the lake that surrounds the town was once given the name "Lago da Morte", Lake of the Dead"--Back cover. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.

Author : Aaron Dries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684187560
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Dead Go to Die written by Aaron Dries and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. Euthanize to survive Post-infection Chicago. Christmas. Inside The Hospice, Emily and her fellow nurses do their rounds. Here, men and women live out their final days in comfort, segregated from society, and are then humanely terminated before fate turns them into marrow-craving monsters known as 'Smilers.' Outside these imposing walls, rabid protesters swarm with signs, caught up in the heat of their hatred. Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. But in a world where mortality means nothing, where guns are drawn in fear and nobody seems safe anymore - at what cost will this pursuit come? And through it all, the soon to be dead remain silent, ever smiling. Such is their curse. This emotional, political novel comes from two of horror's freshest voices, and puts a new spin on an eternal topic: the undead. In the spirit of George A Romero meets Jack Ketchum, Where the Dead Go to Die it is an unforgettable epilogue to the zombie genre, one that will leave you shaken and questioning right from wrong...even when it's the only right left. It won't be long before that snow-speckled ground will be salted by blood.

Author : Javan Bonds
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542309202
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zombie Lake written by Javan Bonds and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Collins had been sailing around America's rivers in a replica pirate ship, but now he's the reluctant Hero of a growing cast of survivors in a zombie apocalypse. There's The Expert, The Tech, The Oracle, The Sacrifice and the list keeps growing and growing. Reality mimics fiction as Mo and his crazy band of followers play their roles, gather more characters, and begin to carve out an island sanctuary in this plague ridden world. Only here the monsters are blue, naked, yellow-eyed and roam the night, seeking untainted flesh not to mention leaving a disgusting mess in their wake...it's like a horror show! Welcome aboard, friend to Zombie Lake where the fish bite, the Zombies bite...sometimes life bites.