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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After the tragic loss of his wife, Helen, Luke Hansard is desperate to keep her memory alive. In an effort to stay close to her, he reaches out to an online friend Helen often mentioned - a reclusive photographer with a curious interest in beautiful but broken objects. But first he must find her - and she doesn't want to be found. Orla Kendrick lives alone in the ruins of a remote Suffolk castle, hiding from the haunting past that has left her physically...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A principios del siglo XX en Colombia, las autoridades crearon un pueblo cercado para recluir a los enfermos de lepra llamado Agua de Dios. Esta situación de apartheid llevó a muchas familias a la separación: padres e hijos que no se verían nunca más, novios cuyo amor no sería más que una promesa, enfermos solitarios que fueron expulsados de la sociedad por estar contagiados de una enfermedad de la que poco se sabía, pero que procuró soliviantar...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. When Anna's sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn't return the call. She knows it's about their mother. Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna's childhood was sparse but comfortable-filled with homemade pasta sauce and a close-knit neighborhood. Anna and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on a popular TV program. But when she makes a scripted negative comment about a public figure who later commits suicide, she finds herself ostracized by friends, fired from her job, and her marriage begins to unravel. These details come to the reader gradually, in meditative prose, through bits and pieces of letters that Haesoo writes and finally abandons as she walks alone through her city. One...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola's abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Skalde writes her thoughts on pieces of paper, making new discoveries and revelations, and finding scraps with which to understand her limited world. Her mother Edith tells her little, preferring the solitude of her room. Their house is full of silence, and secrets. Skalde has only ever known life in the territory, a terrain of farms and forest cut off from the rest of the world. They are isolated further, as decades since Edith's arrival in the...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived with his wife and two daughters, research at the Center for Basque Studies in Reno, Nevada, is anything but straightforward. The neon lights and harsh, windswept desert appear full of ominous signs: A raccoon that watches the house at night, eyes glowing. A series of sexual assaults on campus by an unknown assailant. A spider scuttling endlessly...
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