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Bridge of Sighs and Other Stories

Author : Edward May
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595176186
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Bridge of Sighs and Other Stories written by Edward May and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-01-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Investigators are shocked when they finally discover the source of a devastating plague. **A horror writer's devotee is surprised to find a more dedicated follower, and is then reduced to abject terror when his true identity is revealed. **A classified military project on an isolated island goes terribly wrong when the test subjects take control. **A magazine editor learns the secret behind an artist's realistic paintings, and wishes she hadn't. **An object found inside an ice core spawns an amazing tale, recounted from an insane asylum. **An alien, tasked with determining which humans are worthy to be saved from impending doom, comes to a surprising conclusion. **A detective uncovers the appalling truth behind a mass suicide. Bridge of Sighs and Other Stories is a melange of science fiction, mystery and horror genres. Marinated in irony and liberally seasoned with unexpected denouements, these literary confections will provoke the reader to a veritable page flipping frenzy.

Bridge of Sighs

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307267903
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 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.

Across the Bridge of Sighs

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030742460X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 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 284 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.

The Bridge of Sighs

Author : Olen Steinhauer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312302450
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of Sighs written by Olen Steinhauer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this auspicious debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post-World War II eastern European city.

Venetian Stories

Author : Jane Turner Rylands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429903
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 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 236 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.

The Taker, and Other Stories

Author : Rubem Fonseca
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 193482402X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Taker, and Other Stories written by Rubem Fonseca and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.

The Boy on the Bridge

Author : M. R. Carey
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316300314
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Boy on the Bridge written by M. R. Carey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. "Strange and surprising and humane" (Lauren Beukes), The Boy on the Bridge is a gripping, powerful story that will make you question what it means to be human.

Bay of Sighs

Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698190742
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Bay of Sighs written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The second novel in the Guardians Trilogy from the bestselling author of Stars of Fortune. Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now, through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But Sawyer knows that if he allows her into his heart, no compass could ever guide him back to solid ground... And in the darkness, their enemy broods. She lost one star to the guardians, but there is still time for blood to be spilled—the mermaid’s in the water and the traveler’s on the land. For she has forged a dangerous new weapon. Something deadly and unpredictable. Something human. Don't miss the other books in the Guardians Trilogy Stars of Fortune Island of Glass

Bridge of Time

Author : Lewis Buzbee
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1466804351
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Bridge of Time written by Lewis Buzbee and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is an afternoon nap in a lighthouse, walking up to find the Golden Gate Bridge gone--gone!--and meeting a young man named Sam Clemens, who is on the run from a mysterious stranger. Lee and Joan wonder: Where are they? What year is it? Why don't their cell phones work? How will they get back? Do they even want to? Will life ever be the same?

Spicklehurst, and other stories

Author : William Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Spicklehurst, and other stories written by William Martin and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Swan Green

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836528X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Black Swan Green written by David Mitchell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time

Drowned Worlds

Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Solaris
ISBN 13 : 1849979308
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Drowned Worlds written by Charlie Jane Anders and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden; stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live. Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.

Ninth Ward

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Ninth Ward written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

The member for Arcis, The seamy side of history, and other stories

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The member for Arcis, The seamy side of history, and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Family Party in the Piazza of St. Peter, and Other Stories

Author : Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385559421
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book A Family Party in the Piazza of St. Peter, and Other Stories written by Thomas Adolphus Trollope and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants

Author : Mathias Énard
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227057
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants written by Mathias Énard and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo’s adventure in Constantinople, from the “mesmerizing” (New Yorker) and “masterful” (Washington Post) author of Compass In 1506, Michelangelo—a young but already renowned sculptor—is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, along with an enormous payment, the promise of immortality, since Leonardo da Vinci’s design was rejected: “You will surpass him in glory if you accept, for you will succeed where he has failed, and you will give the world a monument without equal.” Michelangelo, after some hesitation, flees Rome and an irritated Pope Julius II—whose commission he leaves unfinished—and arrives in Constantinople for this truly epic project. Once there, he explores the beauty and wonder of the Ottoman Empire, sketching and describing his impressions along the way, as he struggles to create what could be his greatest architectural masterwork. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants—constructed from real historical fragments—is a thrilling page-turner about why stories are told, why bridges are built, and how seemingly unmatched fragments, seen from the opposite sides of civilization, can mirror one another.

Straight Man

Author : Richard Russo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809943
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Straight Man written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. • Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character—he is a born anarchist—and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo—side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.