The Watcher & Other Stories
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780156949521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future.
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Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780156949521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Italian writer is concerned with grotesque or farcical events of the future.
Author: Italo Calvino
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013-08-12
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0544279573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of three long stories by the author of Cosmicomics “demonstrates clearly his talent for transforming the mundane into the marvelous” (The New York Times). Italo Calvino is widely recognized as one of postwar Italy’s greatest fiction writers and one of the twentieth century’s greatest fabulists. This collection of three stories showcases his range and virtuosity. In the title story, an Italian Communist poll watcher is stationed at a hospital in Turin, where nuns guide the hands of invalids to their preferred candidate in a special election. In “Smog,” a city’s cooperative laundry facility reveals a harbinger of social purification. And in “The Argentine Ant,” the citizens of a provincial seaside town struggle against a government-controlled infestation. “Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us.” —John Updike, New Yorker
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Pak
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tatiana de Rosnay
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1466843535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times best seller! From the New York Times and international best-selling author Tatiana de Rosnay comes The Other Story, "[a] brilliant pager-turner"(BookPage), layered and beautifully written, that is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future. Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest... Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family-a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicolas embarked on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg-but the answers wouldn't come easily. In the process of digging into his past, something else happened. Nicolas began writing a novel that was met with phenomenal success, skyrocketing him to literary fame whether he was ready for it or not - and convincing him that he had put his family's history firmly behind him. But now, years later, Nicolas must reexamine everything he thought he knew, as he learns that, however deeply buried, the secrets of the past always find a way out. "The tension of Nicholas's unsustainable half-truths and the gradual parceling out of his father's secrets will keep readers in de Rosnay's thrall, hoping redemption will come. Readers in real life should anticipate de Rosnay's latest with all the fervor Nicholas's fans show in awaiting his."-Shelf Awareness "de Rosnay's fans...will not be disappointed."-Library Journal
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0375867740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and Winter's many fans will welcome this fascinating and moving portrait of an extraordinary person and the animals to whom she has dedicated her life. The Watcher was named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and the Bank Street College of Education.
Author: Jeanne C. Stein
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780441015467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnna, a Watcher who keeps supernatural criminals in check, finds herself unable to control her rage as her lover, a DEA agent, disappears, a serial killer terrorizes San Francisco, and a Wiccan sorceress plans to raise up a demon.
Author: Ross Armstrong
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1488022925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe's watching you, but who's watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband, Aiden, in a brand-new apartment opposite a building that has been marked for demolition. A keen bird-watcher, she can't help spying on her neighbors. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars, and soon her elderly neighbor Jean is found dead. Lily, intrigued by the social divide in her local area as it becomes increasingly gentrified, knows that she has to act. But her interference is not going unnoticed, and as she starts to get close to the truth, her own life comes under threat. But can Lily really trust everything she sees?
Author: Roh Morgon
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780615540436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPredator. Killer. Monster. The words echo in Sunny Martin's head each time she looks in the mirror. Since the night she was torn from her car and drained of her blood, only one fear rivals that of the hungry beast within her - the fear of exposure. Her lonely struggle to survive on the edge of the human world leads Sunny to the mountain peaks of Colorado where she meets Nicolas, the enigmatic leader of a hidden society. Their passion, tainted by betrayal, violence, and murder, reveals a shocking truth behind Sunny's savage nature, and drives her toward an agonizing Choice between her heart and the last remnant of her human soul.
Author: James Howe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-24
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1439115788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mysterious girl, dubbed The Watcher, spins tales of rescue from her lonely perch above the beach. She closely observes the actions of two people she has never met: a fourteen-year-old boy whose family seems perfect and a handsome eighteen-year-old lifeguard. Their lives become intertwined -- and their troubling truths are revealed.