Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer
Author : Gigi Fenster
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1922459461
Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize, A Good Winter is a simmering literary thriller by a highly accomplished NZ writer
Author : Mark Beaumont
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0857128647
In the winter of 2006, Justin Vernon – aka Bon Iver – picked up a guitar, a laptop and some basic recording equipment and retreated to a remote cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to lick his wounds. The story of how he recorded alt-folk classic For Emma, Forever Ago has become the stuff of musical myth. He made it from the woods to international fame in just a few years but, behind the ‘overnight’ success of Justin Vernon, lies an inspirational personal story. Bon Iver: Good WinterBon Iver: Good Winter is the first in-depth account of the struggles, heartaches and hardships that led Vernon to become Bon Iver and includes contributions from all of his major collaborators and associates in the Eau Claire community as well accounts of various side projects and his eventual vindications, triumphs and artistic achievements.
Author : Marissa Meyer
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250068754
The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series! Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend--the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long. Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
Author : Emma Mitchell
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781454710561
Explores the Danish concept of Hygge, which which focuses on everyday comfort, peace, and contentedness, providing decoration, craft, and recipe ideas designed to encourage joy during the winter months.
Author : Marissa Meyer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1250007208
Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her 'glamour' to gain power. but long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told ... until now.
Author : Robert Neubecker
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368045438
Winter is for snowball fights,for sledding down the hills.Winter is for skating rinksand speedy, chilly thrills. In a rambunctious ode to everything winter, two siblings explore a snowy wonderland . . . and end up in the cozy warmth of family. Delve into Robert Neubecker's expressive and rejuvenating illustrations that celebrate snow and the coziness of friends and family at home. Only Robert Neubecker's magic touch could make kids love winter this much! Now available as a board book.
Author : Emma Mitchell
Publisher : LOM Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781910552650
Making Winter will encourage you to banish winter blues and embrace the frosty months by cosying up with Emma Mitchell's nature-inspired collection of crafts.
Author : Yvette van Boven
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1613124848
Warm up your winter with recipes for apple cider, cardamom and orange scones, Irish potato soup, and much more. Dutch chef Yvette van Boven’s Home Made series of cookbooks feature delicious recipes, beautiful photos, step-by-step instruction, and her own hand-drawn artwork. Now she presents Home Made Winter, a heartfelt, humorous, and passionate collection of dishes inspired by her childhood in Ireland and her frequent sojourns in France. This is a cookbook that will warm your heart, with chapters on Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch; Pies and Sweet Things for Tea Time; Beverages; To Start; Main Courses; and Dessert, focusing on simple recipes for classic dishes such as apple cider, BBQ pulled pork, ricotta cheesecake, and more. Step-by-step, she explains how to make butter, beef sausage, and baileys—and also features her favorite winter holiday recipes.
Author : Tove Jansson
Publisher : Sort of Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908745185
'Beautifully crafted and deceptively simple-seeming, these stories are like pieces of scattered light.' Ali Smith Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and is introduced by Ali Smith. A Winter Book features 13 stories from Tove Jansson's first book for adults, The Sculptor's Daughter (1968) plus seven of her most cherished later stories (from 1971 to 1996), translated into English and published here for the first time.
Author : Mike Mullin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1933718846
It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex's parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.