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The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

Author : Hannah Lillith Assadi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593084462
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Stars Are Not Yet Bells written by Hannah Lillith Assadi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND NPR Through the scrim of fading memory, an elderly woman confronts a lifetime of secrets and betrayal, under the mysterious skies of her island home Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier leaves New York City to forge a new life together on the island with her new husband, Simon. There they will live for decades, raising a family while waging a quixotic campaign to find the source of the mysterious blue offshore light—and the elusive minerals rumored to lurk beneath the surface. Fifty years later, Elle looks back at her life on the mysterious island—and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. As her memory recedes into the mists of Alzheimer’s disease, her life seems a tangle of questions: How did her husband’s business, now shuttered, survive so long without ever finding the legendary Lyra stones? How did her own life crumble under treatment for depression? And what became of Gabriel—the handsome, raffish other man who came to the island with them and risked everything to follow the lights? Darkly romantic and deeply haunting, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells pulls us into a story of the tantalizing, faithless relationship between ourselves and the lives and souls we leave behind.

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

Author : Hannah Lillith Assadi
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529370663
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book The Stars Are Not Yet Bells written by Hannah Lillith Assadi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An unusual, intense, experimental novel' Daily Mail In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for Lyra, a remote, wooded island off the south-eastern coast of America. There, amid rumours of strange jewels hidden beneath the water, Elle harbours a secret: her guest, Gabriel, is not a cousin but her lover. Their time together is brief, but throughout her long marriage to Simon, Elle never forgets Gabriel. Half a century later, as the mists of dementia creep in, she is still haunted by his fate. Poignant and poetic, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells is a mesmerising exploration of the limits of memory, and the people we can never forget. 'Poignant . . . a testament to love and loss' Washington Post

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

Author : Hannah Lillith Assadi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593084470
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Stars Are Not Yet Bells written by Hannah Lillith Assadi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND NPR Through the scrim of fading memory, an elderly woman confronts a lifetime of secrets and betrayal, under the mysterious skies of her island home Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier leaves New York City to forge a new life together on the island with her new husband, Simon. There they will live for decades, raising a family while waging a quixotic campaign to find the source of the mysterious blue offshore light—and the elusive minerals rumored to lurk beneath the surface. Fifty years later, Elle looks back at her life on the mysterious island—and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. As her memory recedes into the mists of Alzheimer’s disease, her life seems a tangle of questions: How did her husband’s business, now shuttered, survive so long without ever finding the legendary Lyra stones? How did her own life crumble under treatment for depression? And what became of Gabriel—the handsome, raffish other man who came to the island with them and risked everything to follow the lights? Darkly romantic and deeply haunting, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells pulls us into a story of the tantalizing, faithless relationship between ourselves and the lives and souls we leave behind.

Sonora

Author : Hannah Lillith Assadi
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616957921
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Sonora written by Hannah Lillith Assadi and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION'S 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE A fevered, lyrical debut about two young women drawn into an ever-intensifying friendship set against the stark, haunted landscape of the Sonoran desert and the ecstatic frenzy of New York City. Ahlam, the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and his Israeli wife, grows up in the arid lands of desert suburbia outside of Phoenix. In a stark landscape where coyotes prowl and mysterious lights occasionally pass through the nighttime sky, Ahlam’s imagination reigns. She battles chronic fever dreams and isolation. When she meets her tempestuous counterpart Laura, the two fall into infatuated partnership, experimenting with drugs and sex and boys, and watching helplessly as a series of mysterious deaths claim high school classmates. The girls flee their pasts for New York City, but as their emotional bond heightens, the intensity of their lives becomes unbearable. In search of love, ecstasy, oblivion, and belonging, Ahlam and Laura’s drive to outrun the ghosts of home threatens to undo them altogether.

The Bells

Author : Richard Harvell
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307358259
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Bells written by Richard Harvell and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in eighteenth-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends — and a forbidden lover — whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he could never have sired?

The Stars Will Still Shine

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060546395
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Stars Will Still Shine written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comforting affirmations of the goodness life offers. Written in response to troubled times by one of the most celebrated children's book authors of all time, this comforting book is one that children and parents will want to return to when outside conflicts seem overwhelming. Rejoicing in the goodness of daily life with unforced spirituality, Cynthia Rylant's gentle verse becomes more powerful with each reading. Matching the pure reverence of the voice, Tiphanie Beeke's luminous watercolors bring a peaceful and uplifted feeling. Like a prayer, this is soothing at bedtime and is a meaningful gift for anyone facing a crisis or starting anew.

Cry Baby Mystic

Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1643172034
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Cry Baby Mystic written by Daniel Tiffany and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobbing alongside Margery Kempe—an illiterate medieval mystic who dictated the first autobiography in English—the ragged voice of Cry Baby Mystic finds itself drawn into strange predicaments that are not its own and ferried into abandoned spaces by the gearing of stardom and shame. The revolving sentences overheard by the reader--a muffled chorus of Brechtian aftershocks--survive only as traces of sorrow now craved by all who have known it: sound gossiping the unsound, the excess of the pilgrim. A person climbs out and never comes home.

The Uninnocent

Author : Katharine Blake
Publisher : FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374720657
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Uninnocent written by Katharine Blake and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Buzzfeed's 25 New And Upcoming Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down and one of LitHub's Best New Nonfiction to Read This November "The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter . . . a story of radical empathy, a triumph of care and forgiveness." --Stephanie Danler, author of Stray and Sweetbitter A harrowing intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice and heartbreak through the lens of a murder On a Thursday morning in June 2010, Katharine Blake's sixteen-year-old cousin walked to a nearby bike path with a boxcutter, and killed a young boy he didn’t know. It was a psychological break that tore through his brain, and into the hearts of those who loved both boys—one brutally killed, the other sentenced to die at Angola, one of the country’s most notorious prisons. In The Uninnocent, Blake, a law student at Stanford at the time of the crime, wrestles with the implications of her cousin’s break, as well as the broken machinations of America’s justice system. As her cousin languished in a cell on death row, where he was assigned for his own protection, Blake struggled to keep her faith in the system she was training to join. Consumed with understanding her family’s new reality, Blake became obsessed with heartbreak, seeing it everywhere: in her cousin’s isolation, in the loss at the center of the crime, in the students she taught at various prisons, in the way our justice system breaks rather than mends, in the history of her parents and their violent childhoods. As she delves into a history of heartbreak—through science, medicine, and literature—and chronicles the uneasy yet ultimately tender bond she forms with her cousin, Blake asks probing questions about justice, faith, inheritance, family, and, most of all, mercy. Sensitive, singular, and powerful, effortlessly bridging memoir, essay, and legalese, The Uninnocent is a reckoning with the unimaginable, unforgettable, and seemly irredeemable. With curiosity and vulnerability, Blake unravels a distressed tapestry, finding solace in both its tearing and its mending.

Slay Bells

Author : Jo Gibson
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786012497
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Slay Bells written by Jo Gibson and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana and her friends are shopping for Christmas gifts at the newly opened Crossroads Mall when a sudden snowstorm traps them inside. They're having so much fun, they don't mind. That is, until Diana's friends are killed off--one by one. Hiding in the mall is a twisted killer with a Christmas list of his own.

The Swank Hotel

Author : Lucy Corin
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451581
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Swank Hotel written by Lucy Corin and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly ambitious, prescient novel about madness, generational trauma, and cultural breakdown At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible, salary-backed, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable, something impossible, happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed, through Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic, into shimmering sites of the uncanny. The story that swirls around Em moves through several perspectives and voices. There is Frank, the tart-tongued, failing manager at her office; Jack, the man with whom Frank has had a love affair for decades; Em and Ad’s eccentric parents, who live in a house that is perpetually being built; and Tasio, the young man from Chiapas who works for them and falls in love with Ad. Through them Corin portrays porousness and breakdown in individuals and families, in economies and political systems, in architecture, technology, and even in language itself. The Swank Hotel is an acrobatic, unforgettable, surreal, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first-century America.

Jingle Bells

Author : James Pierpont
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 153240817X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Jingle Bells written by James Pierpont and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a Ride in a One Horse Open Sleigh The classic Christmas carol comes to life in this beautifully illustrated edition of Jingle Bells. Originally written in 1857 for the Thanksgiving season, Jingle Bells has become a beloved Christmas song sung by young and old alike. In this edition, delicate watercolor images are paired with the text to bring the delight of the holiday season to young readers.

The Prince of Morning Bells

Author : Nancy Kress
Publisher : Foxacre Press
ISBN 13 : 9780967178325
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book The Prince of Morning Bells written by Nancy Kress and published by Foxacre Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone who has ever doubted the psychological link between fantasy and life will be quickly corrected by this insightful and highly recommended novel."--Roger C. Schlobin, "Fantasy Newsletter."

Jingle Bells

Author :
Publisher : Charlesbridge
ISBN 13 : 1607341972
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Jingle Bells written by and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the words of the familiar Christmas song, plus extra verses and brief descriptions of the Christmas traditions of Mexico, Sweden, the Philippines, Poland, Italy, and Kenya.

The Bells of San Juan

Author : Jackson Gregory
Publisher : G.J. McLeod
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bells of San Juan written by Jackson Gregory and published by G.J. McLeod. This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Strega

Author : Johanne Lykke Holm
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593539680
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Strega written by Johanne Lykke Holm and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Strega left me breathless, angry, and then thrilled by the dare it leaves in the reader's lap.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of Water Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a remote Alpine hotel and what happens when one of them goes missing With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother’s instruction, a nineteen-year-old girl leaves her parents’ home and the seaside town she grew up in. Out the train window, Rafa sees the lit-up mountains and perfect trees—and the Olympic Hotel waiting for her perched above the small village of Strega. There, she and eight other girls receive the stiff black uniforms of seasonal workers and move into their shared dorm. But while they toil constantly to perform their role and prepare the hotel for guests, none arrive. Instead, they contort themselves daily to the expectations of their strict, matronly bosses without clear purpose and, in their spare moments, escape to the herb garden, confide in each other, and quickly find solace together. Finally, the hotel is filled with people for a wild and raucous party, only for one of the girls to disappear. What follows are deeper revelations about the myths we teach young women, what we raise them to expect from the world, and whether a gentler, more beautiful life is possible. In stimulating and uninhibited imagery, Johanne Lykke Holm builds a world laced with the supernatural, filled with the secrecy and potential energy of girls on the cusp of womanhood. An allegory for the societal rites, expectations of women, and violence we too easily allow, Strega builds like a spell that keeps exerting its powers long after reading.

The Sound of Sleigh Bells

Author : Cindy Woodsmall
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0307446530
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Sleigh Bells written by Cindy Woodsmall and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Hertzler works alongside her beloved Aunt Lizzy in their dry goods store, and serving as contact of sorts between Amish craftsmen and Englischers who want to sell the Plain people’s wares. But remorse and loneliness still echo in her heart everyday as she still wears the dark garb, indicating mourning of her fiancé. When she discovers a large, intricately carved scene of Amish children playing in the snow, something deep inside Beth’s soul responds and she wants to help the unknown artist find homes for his work–including Lizzy’s dry goods store. But she doesn’t know if her bishop will approve of the gorgeous carving or deem it idolatry. Lizzy sees the changes in her niece when Beth shows her the woodworking, and after Lizzy hunts down Jonah, the artist, she is all the more determined that Beth meets this man with the hands that create healing art. But it’s not that simple–will Lizzy’s elaborate plan to reintroduce her niece to love work? Will Jonah be able to offer Beth the sleigh ride she’s always dreamed of and a second chance at real love–or just more heartbreak?

Set the Stars Alight

Author : Amanda Dykes
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493425129
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Set the Stars Alight written by Amanda Dykes and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories of the high seas led her to become a marine archaeologist. But when tragedy strikes, it's Dashel, an American forensic astronomer, and his knowledge of the stars that may help her unearth the truth behind the puzzle she's discovered in her family home. Two hundred years earlier, the seeds of love are sown between a boy and a girl who spend their days playing in a secret sea cave, while the privileged young son of the estate looks on, wishing to join. As the children grow and war leads to unthinkable heartbreak, a story of love, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption unfolds, held secret by the passage of time. As Lucy and Dash journey to a mysterious old estate on the East Sussex coast, their search leads them to a community of souls and a long-hidden tale that may hold the answers--and the healing--they so desperately seek.