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Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544279573 |
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This collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
Author | : Patricia Highsmith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Manners and customs |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gary Pak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeanette Winter |
Publisher | : Anne Schwartz Books |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0375867740 |
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Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and Winter's many fans will welcome this fascinating and moving portrait of an extraordinary person and the animals to whom she has dedicated her life. The Watcher was named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and the Bank Street College of Education.
Author | : Jeanne C. Stein |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780441015467 |
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Anna, a Watcher who keeps supernatural criminals in check, finds herself unable to control her rage as her lover, a DEA agent, disappears, a serial killer terrorizes San Francisco, and a Wiccan sorceress plans to raise up a demon.
Author | : Tatiana de Rosnay |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466843535 |
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A New York Times best seller! From the New York Times and international best-selling author Tatiana de Rosnay comes The Other Story, "[a] brilliant pager-turner"(BookPage), layered and beautifully written, that is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future. Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest... Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family-a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicolas embarked on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg-but the answers wouldn't come easily. In the process of digging into his past, something else happened. Nicolas began writing a novel that was met with phenomenal success, skyrocketing him to literary fame whether he was ready for it or not - and convincing him that he had put his family's history firmly behind him. But now, years later, Nicolas must reexamine everything he thought he knew, as he learns that, however deeply buried, the secrets of the past always find a way out. "The tension of Nicholas's unsustainable half-truths and the gradual parceling out of his father's secrets will keep readers in de Rosnay's thrall, hoping redemption will come. Readers in real life should anticipate de Rosnay's latest with all the fervor Nicholas's fans show in awaiting his."-Shelf Awareness "de Rosnay's fans...will not be disappointed."-Library Journal
Author | : James Howe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439115788 |
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A mysterious girl, dubbed The Watcher, spins tales of rescue from her lonely perch above the beach. She closely observes the actions of two people she has never met: a fourteen-year-old boy whose family seems perfect and a handsome eighteen-year-old lifeguard. Their lives become intertwined -- and their troubling truths are revealed.
Author | : Florence Engel Randall |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9780689305115 |
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When their family moves into a house at the edge of a forest, two sisters sense an invisible presence as strange occurrences take place.
Author | : Dean Koontz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2008-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425221808 |
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A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...
Author | : Jennifer Pashley |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1643854429 |
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Hailed for her “excellent prose” and “beautifully drawn” queer characters, the award-winning author of The Scamp introduces a new series with an unforgettable female detective (Lambda Literary). A searing literary noir set in upstate New York about what it means to live on the margins of society—and what happens when no one is watching? Pearl Jenkins is a nobody. She was a woman who lived as a hermit in the woods. One day, she’s nowhere to be found, and all that's left behind is a pool of blood and a child no one knew existed, raised completely off the grid and in the grip of Pearl’s manic paranoia. Kateri Fisher is used to being an outsider. Now, she’s the only female detective in the tiny upstate New York town of Spring Falls, where everyone knows everyone, but no one will talk. It’s fitting that she takes the case that no one else wants. But as Kateri struggles to navigate the harsh rules of a new town while trying to learn the truth about the Jenkins family, only one thing becomes clear: neither she nor Pearl are as invisible as she first thought. Someone's always watching.