Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780241969588
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780241969588
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780241969588
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
The Beating of His Wings
Author: Paul Hoffman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698168984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Following the bestselling novels The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman’s stark, epic trilogy. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth…. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose—to destroy God’s greatest mistake, mankind itself—Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco. Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those who created him, he has already used his breathtaking talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilization in the world. But Thomas Cale’s soul is dying. As his body is racked with convulsions, he knows that the final judgment will not wait. As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale’s sense of vengeance leads him back to the heart of darkness—the Sanctuary—and to confront the person he hates most in the world….
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698168984
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Following the bestselling novels The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things comes the final installment of Paul Hoffman’s stark, epic trilogy. Thomas Cale has been running from the truth…. Since discovering that his brutal military training has been for one purpose—to destroy God’s greatest mistake, mankind itself—Cale has been hunted by the very man who made him into the Angel of Death: Pope Redeemer Bosco. Cale is a paradox: arrogant and innocent, generous and pitiless. Feared and revered by those who created him, he has already used his breathtaking talent for violence and destruction to bring down the most powerful civilization in the world. But Thomas Cale’s soul is dying. As his body is racked with convulsions, he knows that the final judgment will not wait. As the day of reckoning draws close, Cale’s sense of vengeance leads him back to the heart of darkness—the Sanctuary—and to confront the person he hates most in the world….
The Shadow of His Wings
Author: Gereon Goldmann
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681495554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
We had to do it. We had to reprint this book. Rarely has a book had such an impact on so many of us here at Ignatius Press. It is one of the most powerful and moving books we have come across. If you can only buy one book this season, this must be the one. Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you. Father Goldmann tells of his own incredible experiences of the trials of war, his many escapes from almost certain death, and the diabolical persecution that he and his fellow Catholic soldiers encountered on account of their faith. What emerges is an extraordinary witness to the workings of Divine Providence and the undying power of love, prayer, faith, and sacrifice. Illustrated
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681495554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
We had to do it. We had to reprint this book. Rarely has a book had such an impact on so many of us here at Ignatius Press. It is one of the most powerful and moving books we have come across. If you can only buy one book this season, this must be the one. Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you. Father Goldmann tells of his own incredible experiences of the trials of war, his many escapes from almost certain death, and the diabolical persecution that he and his fellow Catholic soldiers encountered on account of their faith. What emerges is an extraordinary witness to the workings of Divine Providence and the undying power of love, prayer, faith, and sacrifice. Illustrated
The Man and His Wings
Author: William Wellman Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313043140
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed to finish the big-budget war saga by inventing many of the techniques still used to film aerial battle scenes. The film, starring Clara Bow, broke box office records and earned its studio the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Considered by many to be the last great film of the silent era, Wings has been cited as a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford. Its director, who went on to direct the likes of John Wayne, James Cagney, and Gary Cooper, later earned an Oscar for writing one of Hollywood's most loved (and often remade) films, A Star is Born. In this biography, the director's son, William Wellman Jr., reveals the war hero, family man, occasional prankster, and underestimated visionary who changed Hollywood forever. Augmented with personal correspondence from Wellman's own World War I tour of duty as a fighter pilot, on-set photographs from Wings and other classic Hollywood films, and anecdotes from the back lots of the early studio system, this unique work traces the way in which the first Best Picture's director used his own war experience to bring a war epic to the screen. The versatile director also excelled at comedies such as Nothing Sacred (1937), and had a lasting influence on the gangster genre with The Public Enemy (1931), starring James Cagney. With the recent release of Wellman's later aviation classics, Island in the Sky (1953) and The High and the Mighty (1954), both starring John Wayne, Wellman is gaining renewed attention and appreciation from a new generation of film enthusiasts. The book ends with a detailed Filmography of more than 75 classic films directed by Wellman.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313043140
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
William Wild Bill Wellman was not Paramount Pictures' first choice to direct the World War I epic Wings (1927), but as a former aviator and war hero, he was the right choice. Despite months waging epic battles of his own with studio executives, Wild Bill managed to finish the big-budget war saga by inventing many of the techniques still used to film aerial battle scenes. The film, starring Clara Bow, broke box office records and earned its studio the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Considered by many to be the last great film of the silent era, Wings has been cited as a major influence on such directors as Martin Scorsese and Robert Redford. Its director, who went on to direct the likes of John Wayne, James Cagney, and Gary Cooper, later earned an Oscar for writing one of Hollywood's most loved (and often remade) films, A Star is Born. In this biography, the director's son, William Wellman Jr., reveals the war hero, family man, occasional prankster, and underestimated visionary who changed Hollywood forever. Augmented with personal correspondence from Wellman's own World War I tour of duty as a fighter pilot, on-set photographs from Wings and other classic Hollywood films, and anecdotes from the back lots of the early studio system, this unique work traces the way in which the first Best Picture's director used his own war experience to bring a war epic to the screen. The versatile director also excelled at comedies such as Nothing Sacred (1937), and had a lasting influence on the gangster genre with The Public Enemy (1931), starring James Cagney. With the recent release of Wellman's later aviation classics, Island in the Sky (1953) and The High and the Mighty (1954), both starring John Wayne, Wellman is gaining renewed attention and appreciation from a new generation of film enthusiasts. The book ends with a detailed Filmography of more than 75 classic films directed by Wellman.
A Rush of Wings
Author: Adrian Phoenix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416584765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own. HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS. What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416584765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own. HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS. What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....
If I Had Two Wings: Stories
Author: Randall Kenan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324005475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324005475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.
Under His Wings
Author: Rosemary J. Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Benjamin Cooper Smith dreams of attending seminary, becoming a preacher and finding a godly woman to partner with him in ministry. Life takes a turn when he has to quit college and return home to run the family farm because of his dad's terminal illness. He finds himself involved with two women with questionable pasts: one struggling with guilt and insecurities and one with evil intentions. Despite Coop's high aspirations, things took an unexpected turn towards darkness and seduction. Only the sheltering protection of God's compassionate wings could keep him safe. "Under His Wings" is a Christian fiction love triangle of intriguing characters, each trying to find their place in the world. The writing started out as a creative outlet during the COVID-19 quarantine. Rosemary had no intentions of publishing, but friends who read the manuscript encouraged her to take that next step. Rosemary hopes the Scriptures and songs within her novel will bring you peace and comfort during difficult times. Reading, Scripture, gardening and music have brought much joy to Rosemary throughout her life. Growing up in a small town in Iowa, she considers herself a country girl. It's only natural that her first novel would be about family life on the farm. Rosemary is a retired teacher, having dedicated over forty-five years to the education of young children as a teacher, family home childcare provider, and director of a childcare center. She has taught children from infancy through second grade, in addition to raising two sons and two stepdaughters. She particularly loved her years working with infants and toddlers in her home family daycare in Maryland, and her time with Early Head Start as a Child and Family Development Advocate in Missouri. Rosemary and her husband John live in Columbia, Missouri. With their four children and eight grandchildren scattered throughout the United States, they have devoted their retirement years to training and loving their two beautiful collies Regina Rose and Brynn.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Benjamin Cooper Smith dreams of attending seminary, becoming a preacher and finding a godly woman to partner with him in ministry. Life takes a turn when he has to quit college and return home to run the family farm because of his dad's terminal illness. He finds himself involved with two women with questionable pasts: one struggling with guilt and insecurities and one with evil intentions. Despite Coop's high aspirations, things took an unexpected turn towards darkness and seduction. Only the sheltering protection of God's compassionate wings could keep him safe. "Under His Wings" is a Christian fiction love triangle of intriguing characters, each trying to find their place in the world. The writing started out as a creative outlet during the COVID-19 quarantine. Rosemary had no intentions of publishing, but friends who read the manuscript encouraged her to take that next step. Rosemary hopes the Scriptures and songs within her novel will bring you peace and comfort during difficult times. Reading, Scripture, gardening and music have brought much joy to Rosemary throughout her life. Growing up in a small town in Iowa, she considers herself a country girl. It's only natural that her first novel would be about family life on the farm. Rosemary is a retired teacher, having dedicated over forty-five years to the education of young children as a teacher, family home childcare provider, and director of a childcare center. She has taught children from infancy through second grade, in addition to raising two sons and two stepdaughters. She particularly loved her years working with infants and toddlers in her home family daycare in Maryland, and her time with Early Head Start as a Child and Family Development Advocate in Missouri. Rosemary and her husband John live in Columbia, Missouri. With their four children and eight grandchildren scattered throughout the United States, they have devoted their retirement years to training and loving their two beautiful collies Regina Rose and Brynn.
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619635208
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619635208
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!
Leaf Storm
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060906995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060906995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.
In the Shadow of His Wings
Author: Nina Smit
Publisher: Christian Art Gifts
ISBN: 9781869201210
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Christian Art Gifts
ISBN: 9781869201210
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description