The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl
Title | The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Feuerbach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 377 |
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 Son and the Waif Girl
Title | The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Feuerbach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
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 Gravedigger's Son
Title | The Gravedigger's Son PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Moody |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2017-09-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1510710744 |
“A Digger must not refuse a request from the Dead." —Rule Five of the Gravedigger’s Code Ian Fossor is last in a long line of Gravediggers. It’s his family’s job to bury the dead and then, when Called by the dearly departed, to help settle the worries that linger beyond the grave so spirits can find peace in the Beyond. But Ian doesn’t want to help the dead—he wants to be a Healer and help the living. Such a wish is, of course, selfish and impossible. Fossors are Gravediggers. So he reluctantly continues his training under the careful watch of his undead mentor, hoping every day that he’s never Called and carefully avoiding the path that leads into the forbidden woods bordering the cemetery. Just as Ian’s friend, Fiona, convinces him to talk to his father, they’re lured into the woods by a risen corpse that doesn’t want to play by the rules. There, the two are captured by a coven of Weavers, dark magic witches who want only two thing—to escape the murky woods where they’ve been banished, and to raise the dead and shift the balance of power back to themselves. Only Ian can stop them. With a little help from his friends. And his long-dead ancestors. Equal parts spooky and melancholy, funny and heartfelt, The Gravedigger’s Son is a gorgeous debut that will long sit beside Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener.
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Title | The Gravedigger's Daughter PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 816 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061744727 |
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.
Anthropological Report on the Edo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria
Title | Anthropological Report on the Edo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Northcote Whitridge Thomas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Bini (African people) |
ISBN |
The Gravediggers' Bread
Title | The Gravediggers' Bread PDF eBook |
Author | Frédéric Dard |
Publisher | Pushkin Vertigo |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1782272011 |
A claustrophobic thriller about love gone wrong, from the French master of noir Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him in the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise. After a chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office, Blaise is hooked. He realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial . . .
The Woman with the Stone Knife
Title | The Woman with the Stone Knife PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Neal |
Publisher | Histria Books |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2024-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 159211475X |
THE WOMAN WITH THE STONE KNIFE imagines the life of a Cherokee woman exiled for 20 years in Georgian England, torn between two worlds and two choices. Remain in London to avenge her husband' s death or reunite with the son she left behind in the Cherokee mountains.Helena Ostenaco Timberlake steps into history in 1786 when she petitions the British crown to return to newly independent America. Was she really the wife of a white soldier, Lt. Henry Timberlake, who had visited the Cherokee in 1762 and the daughter of the Cherokee war chief Ostenaco who had visited King George III?Widely researched and deeply imagined, The Woman with the Stone Knife follows the life of this mysterious woman. She was born Skitty in the Overhills towns of the Cherokee. Following Timberlake, Skitty leaves behind her infant son and makes the arduous Atlantic crossing, only to find herself abandoned in England after Timberlake' s death in debtor' s prison in 1765.She is rescued by a Quaker accountant, Squire Wolfe and his black manservant Frank, who save her from a sideshow in a London tavern. Baptized as Helena Ostenaco Timberlake, she brushes elbows with luminaries such as Samuel Johnson and James Boswell and has her portrait painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. She earns money importing sassafras and porcelain clay from her native Cherokee mountains, but the Revolutionary War intervenes, upsetting her fortunes.Tribal tradition demands that she seek blood revenge for her husband' s death, but if she kills the responsible officer, she will likely never see her son again. Skitty/Helena faces a terrible choice between murder and memory, guilt and forgiveness.