We Will All Go Down Together
Title | We Will All Go Down Together PDF eBook |
Author | Gemma Files |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504063694 |
“A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories” from the award-winning author of Kissing Carrion (Entertainment Weekly). One of Canada’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talents—though few can really afford their price . . . “What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isn’t its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. It’s the author’s voice. Colorful, powerful, and charismatic, her characters are rendered in bold strokes and poignant nuances. . . . Her book is a short-story collection, true, but it also works as a dark, fractured mosaic of a novel. Across continents and centuries, the ghost-magic of Dourvale still cuts and pastes the fabric of reality. With her ghostly, magical storytelling, Files does the same.” —NPR.org Praise for Gemma Files “Gemma Files’s stories are always so smart and humane, and overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror. She is, simply put, one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today.” —Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts “One of the genre’s most original and innovative voices.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Go Down Together
Title | Go Down Together PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Guinn |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 2012-12-25 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 147110575X |
From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print, on screen and in legend. The reality of their brief and catastrophic lives is very different -- and far more fascinating. Combining exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material, author Jeff Guinn tells the real story of two youngsters from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who provided Guinn with access to never-before-published family documents and photographs, this book reveals the truth behind the myth, told with cinematic sweep and unprecedented insight by a master storyteller.
The Moon Comes Down to Play and Adventures in the Sky
Title | The Moon Comes Down to Play and Adventures in the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Bre Bre |
Publisher | Partridge Publishing Singapore |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2017-05-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1482880490 |
Theyre excited! They cant believe what they see! Is it really their friends from the sky? The children meet Starry, Brighty and the Moon in their very own park. Then Adelle goes on an adventure to the great blue sky and Sean meets his guardian angel. Go on their adventures with them.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2017-11-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0143109626 |
One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted." -- The Wall Street Journal The final volume in the definitive biography of America's greatest first lady. “Monumental and inspirational…Cook skillfully narrates the epic history of the war years… [a] grand biography.” -- The New York Times Book Review Historians, politicians, critics, and readers everywhere have praised Blanche Wiesen Cook’s biography of Eleanor Roosevelt as the essential portrait of a woman who towers over the twentieth century. The third and final volume takes us through World War II, FDR’s death, the founding of the UN, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962. It follows the arc of war and the evolution of a marriage, as the first lady realized the cost of maintaining her principles even as the country and her husband were not prepared to adopt them. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to struggle for her core issues—economic security, New Deal reforms, racial equality, and rescue—when they were sidelined by FDR while he marshaled the country through war. The chasm between Eleanor and Franklin grew, and the strains on their relationship were as political as they were personal. She also had to negotiate the fractures in the close circle of influential women around her at Val-Kill, but through it she gained confidence in her own vision, even when forced to amend her agenda when her beliefs clashed with government policies on such issues as neutrality, refugees, and eventually the threat of communism. These years—the war years—made Eleanor Roosevelt the woman she became: leader, visionary, guiding light. FDR’s death in 1945 changed her world, but she was far from finished, returning to the spotlight as a crucial player in the founding of the United Nations. This is a sympathetic but unblinking portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all people. Modest and self-deprecating, a moral force in a turbulent world, Eleanor Roosevelt was unique.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Title | Eleanor Roosevelt PDF eBook |
Author | Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0670023957 |
Provides a compelling evaluation of one of the most inspiring women in American political history, Eleanor Roosevelt niece of one president and wife to another.
The New Yorker
Title | The New Yorker PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Wallace Ross |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Electronic journals |
ISBN |
Riders on the Storm
Title | Riders on the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | John Densmore |
Publisher | Delta |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009-11-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307429024 |
“This book is the real story.”—Robby Krieger “[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer who both comprehends the Doors' unearthly power and is on familiar terms with their antecdedents in literature, theater, and myth.”—Rolling Stone “Well-written and touching . . . tells it all and tells it honestly.”—The New York Times Book Review “John Densmore's Riders of the Storm is as good an account of the history of the Doors as has been printed to date.”—USA Today “Riders on the Storm is very enjoyable, especially its homespun and self-experienced insights. John Densmore is a survivor and a seeker.”—Oliver Stone