A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Title | A Place Where the Sea Remembers PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Benitez |
Publisher | Coffee House Press |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1566892848 |
Winner, Discover Great New Writers Award. Winner, Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. "Profound.... a quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart."--The Washington Post BookWorld "Merits placement beside some of the mesmerizing new literature with its roots in Latin America."--The New York Times Book Review
Bitter Grounds
Title | Bitter Grounds PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Benitez |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1998-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312195410 |
Presents the saga of three generations of Salvadoran women whose lives are changed in unexpected ways by a letter that has lain unopened for twenty-six years.
The Sea
Title | The Sea PDF eBook |
Author | John Banville |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 030742930X |
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.
All the Light We Cannot See
Title | All the Light We Cannot See PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Doerr |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476746605 |
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Stolen by the Sea
Title | Stolen by the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Myers |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2006-08-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0802789765 |
In Galveston, Texas, a rich twelve-year-old girl and an orphaned fourteen-year-old boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible hurricane of 1900.
Sunrise by the Sea
Title | Sunrise by the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Colgan |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-06-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062911333 |
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rossi can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth—the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by. Unfortunately—or fortunately?—the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world?
The Sea of Tranquility
Title | The Sea of Tranquility PDF eBook |
Author | Katja Millay |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476730946 |
Nastya is a former piano prodigy carrying a brutal secret, while Josh is completely alone, an emancipated minor who has lost everyone he loves. Stumbling upon each other the first day of school, the two discover the miracle of second chances and the beauty of unexpected friendships