The Winterlings

Author : Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632061104
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winterlings written by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reckoning with violent history, the occult, and death set against the broodingly romantic backdrop of the Spanish Civil War’s fallout and Hollywood’s Golden Age, by “one of the most powerful female voices Spanish literature has produced” (La Razón). After a childhood in exile, two odd sisters, known mysteriously as “The Winterlings,” return to their murdered grandfather’s cottage in the Galician countryside and settle into the unchanged routines of rural living. When the sisters learn of nearby filming for Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and the call for Ava Gardner lookalikes, the chance to stand in for the most beautiful woman in the world divides their once-unified passion for Hollywood cinema and acting, threatening to sunder their close relationship. Meanwhile, the insular villagers gradually reveal themselves as grotesque (albeit charming) characters: a widow in perpetual mourning, a woman who never dies and the priest who climbs a steep hill daily to give her last rites, and a dentist who plants the teeth of the deceased in his patients’ mouths. But most unsettling of all is the revelation of the perverse business arrangement the townspeople have made with the girls’ departed grandfather. Enchanting as a spell, award-winning Galician author Cristina Sánchez-Andrade’s novel draws equally from Spanish oral tradition and the American gothic fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Shirley Jackson, puncturing the idyllic surface of provincial life and historical codes of silence to expose the darkness lurking underneath.

Author : Sarah Prineas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062102176
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winterling written by Sarah Prineas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.” With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land. Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mór rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter. Sarah Prineas captivates in this fantasy-adventure about a girl who must find within herself the power to set right a terrible evil.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150408635X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory Season written by David Brin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman faces danger on the high seas of another planet—and a mystery that will change her world—in this adventure by the bestselling author of Startide Rising. On Planet Stratos, clans of genetically identical females dominate society. Natural conceptions are permitted, but only in summertime. Girls born this way—known for their despised uniqueness as ‘vars’—must leave their clan homes to pursue their own distinct and hazardous fortunes in this world owned by clones. That time has come for Maia and her sister, Leie, but as variants, they have limited prospects. Worse, when the sisters do find work on trading vessels, Leie is lost at sea. And hence, Maia’s arduous journey commences, accompanied by rumors that something . . . someone . . . has arrived from across the stars, perhaps ending the isolation of Stratos from the rest of humanity. Who would predict that a lonely var might stumble into a powerful secret? One that will challenge everything Maia knows about her society—and threatens the scientifically-engineered balance that holds it all together. “One of the most important SF novels of the year.” —The Washington Post Book World “A rousing adventure story . . . brimming with surprises both wonderful and harrowing.” —The San Diego Union-Tribune “Glory Season offers thrills, chills, political intrigue, and other good scientifictional fun, along with yet another round in the battle of the sexes.” —Locus “Brin’s prose echoes the influence of Asimov, Frank Herbert, and Aldous Huxley. . . . His world is so painstakingly drawn and is splashed with such radiant and varied hues.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Author : Margaret Millar
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1681990261
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds and the Beasts Were There: The Joys of Birdwatching and Wildlife Observation in California's Richest Habitat written by Margaret Millar and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Barbara in the 1960s was home to two of the 20th century’s most important mystery writers, Margaret Millar and her husband, Ken (Ross Macdonald). It was also home to nearly 400 species of bird. This is the charming story of Ken and Maggie’s quest to see them all. The addiction that is birdwatching comes to vivid life in Margaret Millar’s delightful memoir of her early days as a naturalist. Part autobiography and part birdwatcher’s journal, it is a moving elegy to a bygone place and time. Millar brings her meticulous plotting and no small amount of suspense to these charming stories of a belligerent brown towhee named Houdunit, a larcenous raven called Melanie, and a rat who carefully ferments his grapes before eating them, to name only a few. Ornithology was a passion for both Ken and Maggie and they devoted their lives to it with the same keen sense of detail and, in the case of Margaret, storytelling vigor as they brought to their writing. In this book, the only memoir she wrote, Millar takes us on her journey from curious amateur to obsessive completionist. It is a phenomenon nearly any birding enthusiast will recognize. Ken and Margaret Millar were founding members of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society.

Author : George Winterling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978258846
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Wind written by George Winterling and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of George Winterling who was instrumental in developing the techniques of weather forecasting and television broadcasting that were unheard of prior to his pioneering efforts in the field of meteorology at WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida.

Author : Hernan Ronsino
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195687
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glaxo written by Hernan Ronsino and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time. In a derelict town in Argentina's pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't commit; another, a policeman with ties to the military regime, discovers his wife's infidelity; a third lays dying. And an American missionary has been killed. But what happened among these men? Spinning through a series of voices and timelines, Glaxo reveals a chilling story of four boys who grow up breaking horses and idolizing John Wayne, only to become adults embroiled in illicit romances, government death squads, and, ultimately, murder. Around them, the city falls apart. Both an austere drama and a suspenseful whodunit, Glaxo crackles with tension and mystery. And it marks the stunning English-language debut of a major Latin American writer.

Author : Thomas Hughes Corry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dual Songs written by Thomas Hughes Corry and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John H. Foertschbeck, Sr.
Publisher : John H. Foertschbeck, Sr.
ISBN 13 : 0982934424
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Catholic Parishes of Maryland and Pennsylvania written by John H. Foertschbeck, Sr. and published by John H. Foertschbeck, Sr.. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of early Catholics and German Catholics and the Jesuit and Redemptorist missionaries in the Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Author : Sarah Prineas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062208543
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summerkin written by Sarah Prineas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summerkin, the second book in award-winning author Sarah Prineas’s fantasy-adventure series that begins with Winterling, follows Fer, a young healer and warrior who’s fought to become the Lady of the Summerlands and now faces the task of ruling over a magical people in an enchanted realm. Although Fer defeated the Mor, the evil, false Lady who terrorized the Summerlands, there are still those who do not trust her. To prove herself, Fer, aided by her deep connection to the natural world and her healing arts, enters a challenging contest. If Fer fails, she will lose her land and the realm will be closed to her forever. Sarah Prineas combines a brave and resourceful young heroine with a richly detailed fantasy world and beloved folklore into a story that will delight middle-grade fans of Diana Wynne Jones, Ingrid Law, and Rick Riordan.

Author : John Coulson Tregarthen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life Story of an Otter written by John Coulson Tregarthen and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: