Where Tigers are at Home

Where Tigers are at Home
Title Where Tigers are at Home PDF eBook
Author Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès
Publisher Dedalus Press
Pages 741
Release 2011
Genre Brazil
ISBN 9781907650161

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Winner of the Prix Medicis, the Prix du Jury Jean Giono and the Prix du roman Fnac. Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and the European Book Award. Where Tigers are at Home is a large-scale (approx 265,000 words in translation) multi-strand novel set in Brazil. The strands are interwoven through the central figure Eleazard von Wogau, a French foreign correspondent living in Alcantara, a town in the north-east of Brazil; they also vary widely in style and content.Each of these strands has its own interest, though they do gradually merge towards the end in the action around the governor, his wife and Nelson s revenge. The other unifying factor in the book is the figure of the early 17th century scholar, Athanasius Kircher. As a student, von Wogau had a special interest in Kircher; now he has been sent a biography to edit and each of the 32 chapters of Where Tigers are at Home starts with a section from it."

Where Tigers are at Home

Where Tigers are at Home
Title Where Tigers are at Home PDF eBook
Author Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Publisher Other Press, LLC
Pages 831
Release 2014-02-18
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1590516761

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Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil. When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter abandons school to travel with her young professor and her lesbian lover to an indigenous beach town, where the trio use drugs and form interdependent sexual relationships; and Eleazard himself starts losing his sanity, escalated by loneliness, and his work on the biography. Patterns begin to emerge from these interwoven narratives, which develop toward a mesmerizing climax. Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and the European Book Award, and already translated into 14 languages, Where Tigers Are At Home is large-scale epic, at once literary and entertaining, that belongs in the company of Umberto Eco and Haruki Murakami.

Tigers in Red Weather

Tigers in Red Weather
Title Tigers in Red Weather PDF eBook
Author Liza Klaussmann
Publisher Bond Street Books
Pages 331
Release 2012-07-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0385677499

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Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel. Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.

The Tiger in the House

The Tiger in the House
Title The Tiger in the House PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline Sheehan
Publisher Kensington Books
Pages 349
Release 2017-02-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1617738999

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The case of a lost little girl forces a child services worker to confront her own past in the New York Times bestselling author’s “compelling page-turner” (Publishers Weekly). Though she loves her job at Portland, Maine’s child services agency, Delia Lamont is feeling burned out. In fact, it’s gotten bad enough that she’s ready to leave the job and start a seaside bakery with her sister. But then a call comes in: a five-year-old girl has been found at the side of the road. The girl reveals that her first name is Hayley, but little more. The only clues to her family lead to a shadowy web of danger that reaches unsettlingly close to Delia’s own life. As she seeks to discover where Hayley belongs, Delia is forced to reexamine her own painful history. With no guide but her own flawed instincts, Delia must decide how deeply she can afford to venture into Hayley’s case as it threatens to lead her into dark corners of her own soul. “The Tiger in the House is teeming with excitement and heart-stirring emotion. A natural storyteller, Sheehan will draw you in with her finely crafted characters and hold you tight until the very end.” —Heather Gudenkauf

A New Home for Tiger

A New Home for Tiger
Title A New Home for Tiger PDF eBook
Author Joan Stimson
Publisher
Pages 32
Release 1999-01-15
Genre Children's stories
ISBN 9780439011723

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Intended as a class teaching resource, this large format book tells the story of Tiger who is moving house. He doesn't like his new home so he takes himself back to his old home. Here, all alone, he comes to understand that home means many different things.

Amazing Tigers!

Amazing Tigers!
Title Amazing Tigers! PDF eBook
Author Sarah L. Thomson
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 36
Release 2005-10-04
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 006054452X

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Amazing Tigers! is the first paperback edition in our exciting series of nonfiction I Can Read Books filled with amazing photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the world's oldest and most respected wildlife conservation organizations.

Read to Tiger

Read to Tiger
Title Read to Tiger PDF eBook
Author S. J. Fore
Publisher Penguin
Pages 36
Release 2010-08-05
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1101643676

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In this delightful role-reversal story, all the serious little boy wants is to settle down quietly and read his book. But that’s not so easy when there’s an imaginative tiger with an excess of energy behind the couch, wanting attention and someone to play with. Repetitive refrains and sound effects make this a perfect read-aloud, and the sweet and cozy ending will delight the heart of any book-lover.