Author: V. Nghiem
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710867665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Dance of Time & Power. Life is a Story - Story.one
Author: V. Nghiem
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710867665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710867665
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
In the dance of time. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Karla Valdivieso Bermeo
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711552315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the life of Lucy, a woman whose quest for love and meaning spans decades and continents. From a war-torn past to groundbreaking achievements, Lucy's path is marked by passion, heartache, and resilience. As she faces her greatest challenge in her later years, her story intertwines with Satoshi, a man whose love for Lucys across lifetimes reveals the timeless power of connection. This novel is a poignant exploration of loves enduring magic and the echoes it leaves through time.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711552315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the life of Lucy, a woman whose quest for love and meaning spans decades and continents. From a war-torn past to groundbreaking achievements, Lucy's path is marked by passion, heartache, and resilience. As she faces her greatest challenge in her later years, her story intertwines with Satoshi, a man whose love for Lucys across lifetimes reveals the timeless power of connection. This novel is a poignant exploration of loves enduring magic and the echoes it leaves through time.
The Couch Potato
Author: Jory John
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006302604X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald, will get you and your kids moving! The Couch Potato has everything within reach and doesn't have to move from the sunken couch cushion. But when the electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced to peel away from the comforts of the living room and venture outside. Could fresh air and sunshine possibly be better than the views on screen? Readers of all ages will laugh along as their new best spuddy learns that balancing screen time and playtime is the root to true happiness. Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald’s funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh: The Bad Seed The Good Egg The Cool Bean The Couch Potato The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky! The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets That’s What Dinosaurs Do
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006302604X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald, will get you and your kids moving! The Couch Potato has everything within reach and doesn't have to move from the sunken couch cushion. But when the electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced to peel away from the comforts of the living room and venture outside. Could fresh air and sunshine possibly be better than the views on screen? Readers of all ages will laugh along as their new best spuddy learns that balancing screen time and playtime is the root to true happiness. Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald’s funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh: The Bad Seed The Good Egg The Cool Bean The Couch Potato The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky! The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets That’s What Dinosaurs Do
To the times life felt strange. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Monty Best
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710844185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This book is dedicated to the strange times in life. Sometimes you just need to let the world know of the stories and ideas that haunt your thoughts until you write them down. I'm not shy to write about my own experiences or to tell stories without a happy ending. Some stories have to have bad endings to highlight the moral of a story.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710844185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This book is dedicated to the strange times in life. Sometimes you just need to let the world know of the stories and ideas that haunt your thoughts until you write them down. I'm not shy to write about my own experiences or to tell stories without a happy ending. Some stories have to have bad endings to highlight the moral of a story.
Sanguine Fate. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Oliver-C Huber
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711545106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In a castle where charm masks danger, a young woman discovers that the life of her dreams comes at an impossible price. Evangeline, the daughter of a drunkard merchant, is sold to a mysterious vampiric Count to settle her familys debts. At first, she is captivated by the palace's grandeur and the Counts unsettling yet alluring charm. But when a desperate letter from her sister arrives, Evangeline attempts to leave, only to find herself trapped by an ancient magic that binds her to the castle. The more she struggles to break free, the more the Palace dark grasp takes ahold of her. Evangeline realizes that the Count has no intention to ever let her leave again. Determined to save her sister and escape the Count's grip, Evangeline must find a way to escape.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711545106
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In a castle where charm masks danger, a young woman discovers that the life of her dreams comes at an impossible price. Evangeline, the daughter of a drunkard merchant, is sold to a mysterious vampiric Count to settle her familys debts. At first, she is captivated by the palace's grandeur and the Counts unsettling yet alluring charm. But when a desperate letter from her sister arrives, Evangeline attempts to leave, only to find herself trapped by an ancient magic that binds her to the castle. The more she struggles to break free, the more the Palace dark grasp takes ahold of her. Evangeline realizes that the Count has no intention to ever let her leave again. Determined to save her sister and escape the Count's grip, Evangeline must find a way to escape.
The Clockwork Circus. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: McKay H. Finney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710842131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Clockwork Circus is visiting the steaming city of Duesfer, bringing many strange and wonderous things, and a spectacular show full of steam, fire and daring acts. But not is all as it seems, and the performers are hiding a secret, one that would ruin them if it came out. So when they receive a strange letter, they're left with only one choice: disappear into the night, never to perform again, or do exactly as they're told.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710842131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Clockwork Circus is visiting the steaming city of Duesfer, bringing many strange and wonderous things, and a spectacular show full of steam, fire and daring acts. But not is all as it seems, and the performers are hiding a secret, one that would ruin them if it came out. So when they receive a strange letter, they're left with only one choice: disappear into the night, never to perform again, or do exactly as they're told.
The Overstory: A Novel
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Dance Among the Flames
Author: Tori Eldridge
Publisher: Running Wild, LLC
ISBN: 1955062013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Passion. Horror. Betrayal. From the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong thriller series comes a "stunningly original" (F. Paul Wilson) dark journey into Brazilian mysticism about a desperate mother who rises from the slums to embrace Quimbanda magic amid her quest for the ultimate revenge. Across forty years, three continents, and a past incident in 1560 France, Serafina Olegario tests the boundaries of love, power, and corruption as she fights to escape her life of poverty and abuse. Serafina's quest begins in Brazil when she's possessed by the warrior goddess Yansa, who emboldens her to fight yet threatens to consume her spirit. Fueled by power and enticed by Exu, an immortal trickster and intermediary to the gods, Serafina turns to the seductive magic of Quimbanda. It's dangerous to dance in the fire. But when you come from nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Publisher: Running Wild, LLC
ISBN: 1955062013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Passion. Horror. Betrayal. From the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong thriller series comes a "stunningly original" (F. Paul Wilson) dark journey into Brazilian mysticism about a desperate mother who rises from the slums to embrace Quimbanda magic amid her quest for the ultimate revenge. Across forty years, three continents, and a past incident in 1560 France, Serafina Olegario tests the boundaries of love, power, and corruption as she fights to escape her life of poverty and abuse. Serafina's quest begins in Brazil when she's possessed by the warrior goddess Yansa, who emboldens her to fight yet threatens to consume her spirit. Fueled by power and enticed by Exu, an immortal trickster and intermediary to the gods, Serafina turns to the seductive magic of Quimbanda. It's dangerous to dance in the fire. But when you come from nothing, you have nothing to lose.
A Question of Upbringing
Author: Anthony Powell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409037827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409037827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.