The Shrouded Woman
Title | The Shrouded Woman PDF eBook |
Author | María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1948 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories, Chilean |
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Principal character lies awaiting her own funeral.
What Happens at Night
Title | What Happens at Night PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cameron |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2021-10-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1646220781 |
A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness). An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. On arrival, the couple checks into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the lobby populated with an enigmatic cast of characters ranging from an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse to a debauched businessman to an enigmatic faith healer. Nothing is as it seems in this baffling, frozen world, and the more the couple struggles to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Iris Murdoch, What Happens at Night is a "masterpiece" (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer" (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).
House of Mist
Title | House of Mist PDF eBook |
Author | María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2008-09-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374531366 |
House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner—and the mysteries surrounding their life together—in a house deep in the lush Chilean woods, Penelope Mesic wrote in the Chicago Tribune that Bombal showed "bold disregard for simple realism in favor of a heightened reality in which the external world reflects the internal truth of the characters' feeling . . . mingling . . . fantasy, memory and event." "One of the most outstanding representations of the avant-garde in Latin America." -Women Writers of Spanish America
Shrouded Kingdom
Title | Shrouded Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Medhurst |
Publisher | Rachel Medhurst |
Pages | 184 |
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Genre | Fiction |
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Once a human, now a fae princess, destined to be queen. Layanna Fairling has never belonged to her village, and yet, when it’s threatened by a tyrant who wants her dead, she knows she has to protect it. Three mysterious strangers who claim Layanna is a changeling and future ruler of the Seelie Court arrive to aid her. They also claim that the only way of saving her village is by overthrowing the Unseelie tyrant who inherited the throne from his evil father when he slew her real parents, the Fae King and Queen of Althea. The tyrant's greed and violence threaten to tear apart the kingdom she never knew existed, leaving Layanna with a simple choice. Overthrow the handsome and powerful tyrant, or lose everyone and everything she loves. Keywords: Dragons, epic fantasy, fae, sword and sorcery, historical fantasy, romantic fantasy, enemies to lovers, fantasy, witches and wizards.
Among the Shrouded
Title | Among the Shrouded PDF eBook |
Author | Amalie Jahn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | 9780991071302 |
Mia Rosetti is used to being different especially since she can tell if people are good or evil just by looking at their auras. But when a mysterious and handsome stranger walks into her life without one, she starts questioning her power and begins a search to find the true purpose of her gift. What she doesn't know is that the aura-less Thomas harbors secrets of his own.
Beautiful Bad
Title | Beautiful Bad PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Ward |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1488099596 |
A perfect marriage reveals its dark secrets in this psychological thriller of a devoted wife, her veteran husband, and a shocking murder. Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was serving in the British Army and she was a travel writer visiting her best friend, Jo. Now almost two decades later, married with a beautiful son, Charlie, they are living the perfect suburban life in Middle America. But when a camping accident leaves Maddie badly scarred, she begins attending writing therapy, where she gradually reveals her fears about Ian’s PTSD; her concerns for the safety of their young son; and the couple’s tangled and tumultuous past with Jo. From the Balkans to England, Iraq to Manhattan, and finally to an ordinary family home in Kansas, sixteen years of love and fear, adventure and suspicion culminate in The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 call summons the police to the scene of a shocking crime.
House of Mist
Title | House of Mist PDF eBook |
Author | María Luisa Bombal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Landowners |
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