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Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393323579 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393323579 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393240002 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
A twelve-year-old boy discovers the wonders of science and the natural world from motorized bicycles, to airplanes, to x-ray technology, and genetics in this collection of five stories.
Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393061086 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
The National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever" delivers her eagerly anticipated new novel, set in 1916, in an isolated town in the Adirondacks, far from the war raging in Europe.
Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393347214 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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"A luminous work of historical fiction that explores the far reaches of the Arctic and of men's souls." —Denver Post Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration—the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic—Andrea Barrett's compelling novel tells the story of a fateful expedition. Through the eyes of the ship's scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells, we encounter the Narwhal's crew, its commander, and the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we meet the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery, finally discovering what they had not sought, the secrets of their own hearts.
Author: Félix J. Palma Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 143916746X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 626
Book Description
This instant New York Times bestselling page-turner features a cast of real and imagined literary characters, cunning intertwined plots, and stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator in Victorian London. Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens if we change history? Félix J. Palma explores this provocative question, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports readers from a haunting setting in Victorian London to a magical reality where centuries collide and a writer’s mind seems to pull at all the strings.
Author: Robert Roberts Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780765601148 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book "The House Servants Directory", the identity and character of the author, and its significance in American history.
Author: Andrea Barrett Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671731378 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple.
Author: Raymond E. Feist Publisher: Spectra ISBN: 0525480242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 701
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"A sweeping drama unveiling a tale of love, hate and sacrifice against the panorama of an alien yet familiar society."--Publishers Weekly. "Uncommonly satisfying."--Locus
Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982110341 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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A powerful, moving, and revelatory novel set in nineteenth-century Africa--the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried the body of explorer and missionary David Livingstone from Zambia to Zanzibar so that his remains could be returned home to England. Dawn, 1 May 1873, on the outskirts of Chitambo's village, near Lake Bangweulu in modern-day Zambia. The Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone has died. He had been heading south in the African interior on an increasingly maniacal mission to penetrate the greatest secret of Victorian exploration. He wanted to find the source of the world's longest river, the Nile. Instead, on an isolated and swampy floodplain, Dr. Livingstone found his death. How Livingstone is to be buried will be decided by his African companions, a group of sixty-nine men, women, and children. They decide that come what may, Livingstone, his papers and maps, must all be carried to England. They bury his heart and other organs under a tree and dry his flesh like jerky in the sun. Over nine months, battling severe illness and hunger, hostile chiefs and unknown terrain, all while taking a tortuous route of more than 1,000 miles to the coast to avoid marauding slave traders, they march with Livingstone's body and the evidence of his explorations. Their journey has been called "the most extraordinary story in African exploration." In this novel, their story is retold anew in the distinct, indelible voices of Livingstone's sharp-tongued female cook, Halima; a repressed, formerly enslaved African missionary named Jacob Wainwright; and the collective voice of the retainers. The result is a profound and tragic journey--an epic like no other--that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love. In Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Petina Gappah has created an ambitious and artful masterpiece.
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Félix J. Palma
Author: Robert Roberts
Author: Andrea Barrett
Author: Raymond E. Feist
Author: Petina Gappah