Book Description
Story of the life of a peasant woman in Sweden during the late years of the 19th century.
Author : Lillian Budd
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780380454013
Story of the life of a peasant woman in Sweden during the late years of the 19th century.
Author : Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2013-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466824980
In Snow in April, Caroline travels to Scotland, hoping to make contact with a brother she hasn't seen for years, and return in time for her wedding to the man her strong-willed stepmother thought so suitable. Then a sudden snow strands her in an isolated house with a young man recovering from tragedy. Both are on the brink of terrible mistakes, but perhaps they can save each other. When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us...
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481459163
"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nicole Baart
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1414329210
2009 Christy Award finalist! Julia DeSmit is finally learning to accept her new life. Optimistic and anxious to begin again after dropping out of college, she is taking fumbling steps down a challenging yet hope-filled road. But the careful existence Julia has begun to build falls hopelessly to pieces when her estranged mother, Janice, appears on the front porch one icy March night. Mother and daughter have not seen or talked in ten years, and a decade of anger, resentment, and bitterness follows in Janice's wake, along with a surprise Julia could never have anticipated. Julia is convinced that which is broken cannot be mended. Yet when she faces the very decision her mother did years before, she begins to realize what it means to truly accept grace. Will it be her undoing, or the impetus for a change she'd never dared hope for?
Author : Marla Cone
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555847692
“A slender but punch-packing overview of the environmental destruction of the Far North” from the award-winning environmental reporter (Kirkus Reviews). Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most severe contamination on the planet. Awarded a major grant by the Pew Charitable Trusts to study the Arctic’s deteriorating environment, Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Far North, from Greenland to the Aleutian Islands, to find out why the Arctic has become so toxic. Silent Snow is not only a scientific journey, but a personal one with experiences that range from tracking endangered polar bears in Norway to hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans struggling to protect their livelihood. Through it all, Cone reports with heartbreaking immediacy on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis from getting worse.
Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147110835X
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Author : Megan Merchant
Publisher : Stillhouse Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780996981651
In her fourth collection, celebrated poet and author Megan Merchant uses the natural world as her canvas, mapping the abstract shape of the American social consciousness onto a wintry landscape of marriage, motherhood, and grief.Suffused with autumnal decay and the silent promise of snow, Merchant's collection serves as a powerful distillation of the ageless themes of memory and loss.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030783431X
"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.
Author : Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher : Wings
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Love stories, English
ISBN : 9780517182376
Contains three complete books, featuring two novels and sixteen short stories, by Rosamunde Pilcher, including "Snow in April," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories."
Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : San Francisco : Sierra Club/Pantheon Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Examines over a dozen different types of snow and snowy conditions through the vocabulary of the Inuit people of Alaska. Discusses the physical properties and formation of the snow and how it affects the plants, animals, and people of the Arctic.