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| Author | : Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2011-10-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307700445 |
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
| Author | : Lisa Unger |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2019-09-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1488050988 |
Named a BEST BOOK by People Magazine, Boston Globe, BookBub, PopSugar, CrimeReads and more. “Brilliant…. A well-crafted psychological thriller.” —The New York Times Book Review When former journalist Rain Winter was twelve years old, she narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend’s house. The abductor was eventually found and sent to prison, but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice--and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life, spending her days as a stay-at-home mom. But when another criminal who escaped justice is found dead, Rain is unexpectedly drawn into the case, forced to revisit memories she’s worked hard to leave behind. Is there a vigilante at work? Who is the next target? Why can’t Rain just let it go? Introducing one of the most compelling and original killers in crime fiction today, Lisa Unger takes readers deep inside the minds of both perpetrator and victim, blurring the lines between right and wrong, crime and justice, and showing that sometimes even good people are drawn to do evil things. Don't miss The New Couple in 5B, Lisa Unger's newest psychological thriller about a couple that inherits an apartment with a truly chilling past. Looking for more spine-tingling thrillers? Check out these other titles by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger: Under My Skin Confessions on the 7:45 Last Girl Ghosted Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six The New Couple in 5B (coming March 2024!)
| Author | : Rachel Abbott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-04-17 |
| Genre | : Death |
| ISBN | : 9780957652248 |
One Dark Secret. One act of revenge. When Emma Joseph met her husband David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her car veered off the road. Just as tragically, their six-year-old daughter mysteriously vanished from the scene of the accident. Now, six years later, Emma believes the painful years are behind them. She and David have built a new life together and have a beautiful baby son, Ollie. Then a stranger walks into their lives, and their world tilts on its axis. Emma's life no longer feels secure. Does she know what really happened all those years ago? And why does she feel so frightened for herself and for her baby? When a desperate Emma reaches out to her old friend DCI Tom Douglas for help, she puts all their lives in jeopardy. Before long, a web of deceit is revealed that shocks both Emma and Tom to the core. They say you should never trust a stranger. Maybe they're right.
| Author | : E. T. A. Hoffmann |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2012-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781447465621 |
This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1817. Born in Konigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for Leo Delibes's ballet Coppelia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions."
| Author | : Michael Frayn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-08-03 |
| Genre | : Accident victims |
| ISBN | : 9780571315901 |
For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window, there have been rumours. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly, from the archives in the registry, Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchild's last months. It emerges that, at a time when America had just put men on the moon, the British were involved in an even bolder project, and that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight, but as powerful and dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared.
| Author | : Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann |
| Publisher | : Iesypenko Andrii |
| Total Pages | : 41 |
| Release | : 2018-11-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The story of two children’s encounter with an unworldly being in a dream-like world. The wonder-child eventually gives them the strength to overcome many troubles and the personal tragedy. This book is a condensed and simplified version of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s work The Stranger Child (ger. «Das fremde Kind»). The text of the fairy tale is adapted for easier perception by young children and is intended to become an early acquaintance with classics of world literature.
| Author | : Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Families |
| ISBN | : 0307272761 |
Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I.
| Author | : Chris Van Allsburg |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780395423318 |
The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost? "The author-illustrator has woven a thread of fantasy in and around his realistic illustrations to give the reader, once again, a story that stays in the imagination." -- Horn Book
| Author | : Alan Hollinghurst |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 651 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Aristocracy (Social class) |
| ISBN | : 9781445872513 |
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will have a lasting impact on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 1850* |
| Genre | : Children's poetry, English |
| ISBN | : |
