Download or read book A Place Where the Sea Remembers written by Sandra Benitez and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Discover Great New Writers Award. Winner, Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. "Profound.... a quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart."--The Washington Post BookWorld "Merits placement beside some of the mesmerizing new literature with its roots in Latin America."--The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Bitter Grounds written by Sandra Benitez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the saga of three generations of Salvadoran women whose lives are changed in unexpected ways by a letter that has lain unopened for twenty-six years.

Download or read book The Sea written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.

Download or read book The Weight of All Things written by Sandra Benitez and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2002-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback -- "Bentez's third novel seamlessly blends fact with imagination, evoking the trauma of war more vividly than any newspaper account . . . beautifully illuminating." (Publishers Weekly starred review) Sandra Bentez received international acclaim for her first two novels: A Place Where the Sea Remembers ("A quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart" --Washington Post Book World) and Bitter Grounds ("The kind of book that fills your dreams for weeks" --Isabel Allende). Now she returns with an unforgettable tale of life in war-torn El Salvador.

Download or read book Safe from the Sea written by Peter Geye and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against the dramatic Northern Minnesota lakeshore, a son and his father reconnect thirty-five years after the father has survived the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat."--Back cover.

Download or read book Sunrise by the Sea written by Jenny Colgan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rossi can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth—the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by. Unfortunately—or fortunately?—the solitude she craves proves elusive. Between her noisy Russian piano-teaching neighbor, the bustle and community spirit of the tiny village struggling back to life after the quarantine, and the pressing need to help save the local bakery, can Marisa find her joy again at the end of the world?

Download or read book Stolen by the Sea written by Anna Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Galveston, Texas, a rich twelve-year-old girl and an orphaned fourteen-year-old boy work together to save themselves and others from the terrible hurricane of 1900.

Download or read book Night of the Radishes written by Sandra Benitez and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Rush has it all. A loving husband, adoring sons, an interesting job. But tragedy haunts her. Her identical twin sister died in a horrifying farm accident when the girls were nine years old, and in the wake of the grief and guilt that followed, her older brother left home for good. The death of her mother prompts Annie to seek her brother and revisit her long-lost past. Her search takes her to Oaxaca, where her brother was last seen, during the vibrant Christmas celebrations and the colorful Night of the Radishes festival; and ultimately, deep within herself.

Download or read book The Sea of Tranquility written by Katja Millay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nastya is a former piano prodigy carrying a brutal secret, while Josh is completely alone, an emancipated minor who has lost everyone he loves. Stumbling upon each other the first day of school, the two discover the miracle of second chances and the beauty of unexpected friendships

Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book When the Sea Turned to Silver written by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A National Book Award FinalistAn IndieBound Bestseller This breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a mysterious boy who seems to have his own secrets to hide. Together, the two must face obstacles usually found only in legends to find the Luminous Stone and save Pinmei's grandmother--before it's too late. A fast-paced adventure that is extraordinarily written and beautifully illustrated, When the Sea Turned to Silver is a masterpiece companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky.

Download or read book The Killing Sea written by Richard Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2030-12-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aceh, Indonesia. December 2004. Two teens find each other surrounded by the destruction left in the wake of the most devastating tsunami the world has ever seen: Ruslan, a native of Aceh, in search of his missing father, whom he hopes has not been added to the fallen; and Sarah, an American girl, who has already lost her mother and is now struggling to find medical treatment for her sick brother. Only together can they find what they're searching for.

Download or read book Where the Stars Still Shine written by Trish Doller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily-ever-after is never quite what you expect in this hot and gritty romance.

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D. Smith and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

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Download or read book The Beach Book written by Melcher Media and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these and seven other stories, The Beach Book gathers a seminal selection of fiction set on beaches around this big glue globe. Internationally acclaimed authors and emerging voices have all written eloquently about the sea's siren song. This book is completely waterproof. Put it right in your beach tote along with your sunscreen and beach ball!