Leaf Storm
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780060906993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968.
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A Leaf in the Storm
Author: Yutang Lin
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeaf Storm
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2022-10-11
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born. A man dies and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the members of the family recall the tragedy that involves them all. Grim, ironic, powerful, Leaf Storm creates a mysterious and ominous atmosphere that lingers on in the reader’s mind.
Eye of the Storm
Author: Rick Thomas
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781404818453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at hurricanes, how they form, the effects they can have, and how to stay safe.
Collected Novellas
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1999-09-22
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 006093266X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must fulfill a promise made years earlier. No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella of life in a decaying tropical town in Colombia with an unforgettable central character. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a dark and profound story of three people joined together in a fatal act of violence.
Can You Survive Storm Chasing?
Author: Elizabeth Raum
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 1429665874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou're a meteorology student fascinated by storms. But Mother Nature can be unpredictable. Situations can quickly turn deadly when extreme weather is involved. What do you do when, You're in a van full of people and a tornado suddenly appears to be headed right for you? A hurricane gains strength along the Florida coast but you're unable to convince people to leave their homes? A flash flood suddenly strikes, putting you and your friends and family in mortal danger? Experience the life or death dilemmas that face storm chasers. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety or to doom.
In Evil Hour
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2022-10-11
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Evil Hour is the thrilling story about the smears, defamations, infidelities, and torrential rains that afflict a small Colombian town, and the sacrifice of a boy that brings torment and chaos to an end, from the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. One morning, slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is everywhere. Neighbors suspect each other, yet no one knows who is responsible. Finally, a boy is made the scapegoat and tragedy ensues. In Evil Hour contains vivid characters who reflect the humor and pathos of everyday life. This brooding novel clearly points the way to the flowering of García Márquez’s genius in his later One Hundred Years of Solitude.
We Are Unprepared
Author: Meg Little Reilly
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1460395883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human
The Storm of Heaven
Author: Thomas Harlan
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-07-14
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 9780812590111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe great three-sided war continues: Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. But there is hope for the West. Prince Maxian, horrified at being the cause of so many deaths, has come to realize that the Oath need not be broken; it can be changed by a skilled sorcerer. (July)
Dance Like a Leaf
Author: AJ Irving
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Published: 2020-08-21
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1646860152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs her grandmother’s health declines, a young girl begins to lovingly take the lead in their cozy shared autumn traditions. Poetic prose paired with evocative illustrations by Mexican illustrator Claudia Navarro make for a beautiful celebration of life and a gentle introduction to the death of a loved one.
