The Watcher & Other Stories
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156949521 |
The Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future.
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Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156949521 |
The Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future.
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544279573 |
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 |
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Author | : Jeanne C. Stein |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780441015467 |
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 | : Jeanette Winter |
Publisher | : Anne Schwartz Books |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2011-04-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0375867740 |
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 | : Tatiana de Rosnay |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466843535 |
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 | : Florence Engel Randall |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9780689305115 |
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 | : Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316203017 |
A chilling, compelling mystery from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind. When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark plot is about to unfold involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past. As strange lights shine through the fog surrounding a small, barren island, Irene's younger brother dreams of a dark creature hidden deep in the forest. And when a young girl is found murdered, her body at the end of a path torn through the woods by a monstrous, inhuman force, Irene and Ishmael wonder--has a demonic presence been unleashed on the inhabitants of Cape House? Together, they'll have to survive the most terrifying summer of their lives.
Author | : Owen Laukkanen |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399174540 |
A heart-pounding new Stevens and Windermere thriller from the award-winning author of The Stolen Ones and The Professionals. Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens’s daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmate’s suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbing—an online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on. Soon, it becomes apparent that the classmate wasn’t the first victim—and won’t be the last, either, unless they can hunt down this psychopath once and for all.