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The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl

Author : Sam Feuerbach

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Page : 377 pages

File Size : 44,85 MB

Release : 2020-06-06

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This is one secret he's keeping to himself. And anyway - who would believe him? Finally available in English: Sam Feuerbach's best-selling saga, winner of the well-respected Fantasy Prize 2018 and Kindle Storyteller Finalist garnered 15.000 enthusiastic reviews (Amazon/Audible). Farin, the gravedigger's son, lives in the medieval village of Heap. The eighteen-year-old is an outsider, bullied and ostracised by the villagers. His father has succumbed to a life of drinking, and so the young man has no option but to take over the job of gravedigger. Farin's life takes a dramatic twist when the village witch dies and he prepares her for burial. He finds an amulet hanging around the deceased preparer of poisons neck. And he can't resist trying the trinket on...



The Gravedigger's Daughter

Author : Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 816 pages

File Size : 20,72 MB

Release : 2009-10-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0061744727

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Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking upon an extraordinary odyssey of erotic risk and ingenious self-invention, she seeks renewal, redemption, and peace—on the road to a bittersweet and distinctly “American” triumph.



Kepler

Author : Max Caspar

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 47,97 MB

Release : 2012-10-10

Category : Science

ISBN : 0486151751

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Definitive biography covers Kepler's scientific accomplishments — laws of planetary motion, work with calculus, optics, more — plus public and personal life, more. Introduction and Notes by Owen Gingerich.



The Gravedigger's Guild

Author : Susan E. Farris

Publisher : Susan E. Farris

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 16,96 MB

Release : 2021-03-25

Category : Fiction

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Alice Matins is dead. With the passing of this Mississippi matriarch, estranged sisters Maggy and Quinn collide over the course of Alice's wake and funeral amidst a motley band of gossiping church ladies and feuding gravediggers. As storm clouds gather, the two women unbury secrets from their past involving Quinn's husband that could resurrect their once-strong sisterly bond. But he has secrets of his own. The Gravedigger's Guild examines the indelible ties of sisterhood and the complicated legacy we leave behind. With a style similar to Andrea Bobotis (The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt), this novel will appeal to readers who enjoy stories of strong sibling relationships like Tara Conklin's The Last Romantics and fans of picturesque Southern tales like Sweet Magnolias.



The Forest of the Hanged

Author : Phoebe Cho

Publisher : Histria Books

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 47,70 MB

Release : 2022-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1592112897

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This classic Romanian novel lends valuable psychological insight into the tragic situation confronting minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I. It is the story of Apostol Bologa, a middle-class Romanian officer serving in the Austro-Hungarian army who undergoes a transformation as his sense of national consciousness awakens, leading him to make a critical choice that many faced during this era.The novel is based on the life of the author' s brother, Emil Rebreanu, a Romanian officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, to whom he dedicated The Forest of the Hanged. The inner struggles confronted by Bologa as he grapples with the savagery and injustice of war are emotionally portrayed by the author.The Forest of the Hanged is rightfully considered one of the greatest novels in Romanian literature. Liviu Rebeanu (1885-1944) was one of Romania' s most distinguished literary figures. This edition of Rebreanu' s famous novel, illustrated by talented young artist Phoebe Cho, includes an introduction by A.K. Brackob.



Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms

Author : Beatrice Gruendler

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 648 pages

File Size : 41,92 MB

Release : 2008-06-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 904742381X

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The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.



The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl

Author : Sam Feuerbach

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Page : 410 pages

File Size : 31,1 MB

Release : 2021-01-27

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The adventure of Farin and Stinker continues.Can the squire save his master?At the end of his tether, the gravedigger's son desperately tries to help his lord, Knight Emicho. An urgent mission, over the treacherous Western Mountains and into the mysterious Swamplands, is his only option. Yet the greatest dangers he faces are betrayal, distrust and despair.In new and strange surroundings, and relying on her wits, Aross must protect her secret. She learns of her murky past and is confronted by the realisation that her future will be far from easy.



The Graveyard Book

Author : Neil Gaiman

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 39,18 MB

Release : 2010-09-28

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0060530944

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It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.



Lear

Author : Edward Bond

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 38,17 MB

Release : 2013-11-12

Category : Drama

ISBN : 1472536525

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Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is so easy to subordinate justice to power, but when this happens power takes on the dynamics and dialectics of aggression, and then nothing is really changed'.



The Grave Digger

Author : Rebecca Bischoff

Publisher : Amberjack Publishing

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 30,9 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1948705532

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In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor—and a reluctant graverobber—enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's medical expenses. When one of the dead returns to life at his touch, Cap unearths a world of dark secrets that someone at the local medical school wants to keep buried. On the brink of discovery, he'll have to use every ounce of cunning he has to protect those he loves most and save his own skin. The Grave Digger is an eerie mystery set in the aftermath of the Civil War, filled with action, friendship, and a hint of the paranormal, perfect for those who enjoy reading late into the night and long after the lights go out.