The Waters of Kronos
Title | The Waters of Kronos PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 119 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN |
The Light in the Forest
Title | The Light in the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004-09-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1400077885 |
An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS
Title | A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2013-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804150184 |
A "chronicle of a white girl captive of the Indians returned against her will to her white home . . . Her reception here, her rejection and that of her Indian son by her Caucasian father and sister . . . the conflicts of her Indian upbringing with the white way are related."
The Waters of Kronos
Title | The Waters of Kronos PDF eBook |
Author | Conrad Richter |
Publisher | Rosetta Books |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 2013-12-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0795334699 |
“May it never go out of print again”: An old man returns to his now-submerged Pennsylvania hometown in this National Book Award–winning classic (The Philadelphia Inquirer). The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Light in the Forest and The Awakening Land plumbs his own past to deliver a powerful novel of memory, family, forgiveness, and redemption. Nearing the end of his life, world-renowned novelist John Donner makes a final pilgrimage back to a childhood home that no longer exists. The coal mining community of Unionville, PA, now sits at the bottom of a lake created by a new hydroelectric dam on the Kronos River. The realization that his family’s history has been completely washed away in the name of progress leaves Donner profoundly shaken. But following an odd encounter on a familiar road, John finds himself inexplicably transported back to Unionville on the eve of his grandfather’s funeral. Suddenly he’s surrounded by the people he loved, feared, and ultimately fled, including his elusive mother, his troubled father—and his younger self. A stranger to them all, John will have to once more find his place among them before his long journey can finally come to an end. Inspired by the author’s personal history, The Waters of Kronos is considered by many to be Conrad Richter’s masterpiece. Lyrical, poignant, dreamlike, and beautifully wrought, it is a classic work of twentieth-century American literature. “An enchanted book. It reminds us anew of the magic which the printed page may hold, what we thought in a more innocent time as the spell and transport which the craftsmen of words may create.” —New York Herald Tribune “Writers as various as Marcel Proust, Thomas Wolfe, and James Thurber separately discovered that ‘you can’t go home again.’ In The Waters of Kronos, novelist Conrad Richter adds an extra dimension to this truism.” —Time
Kronos Rising
Title | Kronos Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Max Hawthorne |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018-05-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781732378506 |
Hardcover edition of Kronos Rising, book one in the KR paleo-fiction/marine terror series and Prehistoric Times Magazine's 2014 Book of the Year.
The Moviegoer
Title | The Moviegoer PDF eBook |
Author | Walker Percy |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2011-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1453216251 |
In this National Book Award–winning novel from a “brilliantly breathtaking writer,” a young Southerner searches for meaning in the midst of Mardi Gras (The New York Times Book Review). On the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is a lost soul. A stockbroker and member of an established New Orleans family, Binx’s one escape is the movie theater that transports him from the falseness of his life. With Mardi Gras in full swing, Binx, along with his cousin Kate, sets out to find his true purpose amid the excesses of the carnival that surrounds him. Buoyant yet powerful, The Moviegoer is a poignant indictment of modern values, and an unforgettable story of a week that will change two lives forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Walker Percy including rare photos from the author’s estate.
The Sky Throne
Title | The Sky Throne PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Ledbetter |
Publisher | Month9Books, LLC. |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 194510791X |
When the family of young Zeus is attacked by Hyperion, Zeus's mother is knocked unconscious and his best friend is left for dead. Stacking epic insult upon fatal injury, Zeus discovers the woman who raised him is not his biological mother. But to ensure her safety while she recovers, a heavyhearted Zeus leaves her behind to seek answers at Mount Olympus Preparatory Academia. Zeus embarks on a quest to discover who ordered the attack on his home, avenge the death of his friend, and find his birth mother. When some of his new schoolmates vanish, Zeus's quest is turned upside down, and the only way to make things right is to access the power of the Sky Throne, confront a most dangerous enemy, and take his life back. On his way to becoming king of the Greek gods, Zeus will learn to seize power, neutralize his enemies, and fall in love.