An Unquiet Place

2018-09-01 Fiction

Author : Clare Houston
Release : 2018-09-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book An Unquiet Place written by Clare Houston. This book was released on 2018-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Harrison escapes her stalled life in Cape Town for a small-town bookshop in the Free State. A concentration-camp journal from the South African War, found in a dusty box of old stock, reveals the life of Rachel Badenhorst, a young girl separated from her family and enduring the crushing hardship of war. Hannah becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Rachel. Coveting the young girl’s courage and endurance, she is compelled to uncover Rachel’s story, never thinking it will lead her to pick open the wounds of a local farmer and dig up old tragedies, unearthing grief that even the land has held on to for over a century.

Library: An Unquiet History

2011-02-07 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Matthew Battles
Release : 2011-02-07
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Library: An Unquiet History written by Matthew Battles. This book was released on 2011-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited foray from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age. He explores how libraries are built and how they are destroyed, from the decay of the great Alexandrian library to scroll burnings in ancient China to the destruction of Aztec books by the Spanish—and in our own time, the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia. Encyclopedic in its breadth and novelistic in its telling, this volume will occupy a treasured place on the bookshelf next to Baker's Double Fold, Basbanes's A Gentle Madness, Manguel's A History of Reading, and Winchester's The Professor and the Madman.

Unquiet

2021 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Linn Ullmann
Release : 2021
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 625/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unquiet written by Linn Ullmann. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. Years later, when she is grown with children of her own and he's in his eighties, they plan to write a book together. It will be about age and time, language and memory. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the man is gone, only memories - both remembered and recorded - remain. Heart-breaking and spellbinding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.

The Unquiet Grave

2019-12-17 Fiction

Author : Sharyn McCrumb
Release : 2019-12-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 413/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Grave written by Sharyn McCrumb. This book was released on 2019-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers the Devil Answers and The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a “fascinating historical fiction novel you won’t be able to put down” (Bustle) based on one of the strangest murder trials in American history—the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930: Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride—a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost. Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897: Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains. Despite her mother’s misgivings, Zona marries the handsome Erasmus Trout Shue, Greenbrier’s newest resident and blacksmith. Her mother learns of her daughter’s death weeks later. A month after the funeral, Zona’s mother makes a chilling claim to the county prosecutor: her daughter was murdered, and she was told this by none other than Zona’s ghost... With her unique and “real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots” (Booklist), Sharyn McCrumb effortlessly demonstrates her place among the finest Southern writers at work today.

The Unquiet

2012-07-17 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Jeannine Garsee
Release : 2012-07-17
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Unquiet written by Jeannine Garsee. This book was released on 2012-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychological thriller starring a teen who sees ghosts--both real and imagined

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