Author: Leda CesarettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 104
Book Description
Il libro delle mie leggende
Author: Leda CesarettiIl libro delle leggende
Author: Aristide ManasseroIl libro delle leggende
Author: Laura MezzofantiItalian Books and Periodicals
Author: Il libro dei miti e delle leggende
Author: Marisa BelmontePublisher:
ISBN: 9788834420744
Category : Religion
Languages : it
Pages : 320
Book Description
Il libro delle favole e delle leggende
Author: Girolamo Ragusa MoletiPublisher:
ISBN: 9788877965356
Category : Fiction
Languages : it
Pages : 192
Book Description
Il grande libro delle leggende
Author: Il libro degli eroi
Author: Georges DumézilThe Scorpio Races
Author: Maggie StiefvaterPublisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407130137
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The ebook of the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of SHIVER, LINGER AND FOREVER. Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water... Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand. The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses. There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible. Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses. Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl. When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn't think she belongs. He doesn't realize his fate will become entwined in hers. They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they'll have to survive.
Maybe Esther
Author: Katja PetrowskajaPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062337580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The International Bestseller Maybe Esther is the inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years later—and settled back into the family as if he’d never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can’t know, how do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost, and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family.