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No Great Mischief

2014-10-23 Fiction
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Release : 2014-10-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis No Great Mischief by : Alistair MacLeod

Download or read book No Great Mischief written by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history. It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'.

No Great Mischief

2001 Fiction
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Release : 2001
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 921/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Great Mischief by : Alistair MacLeod

Download or read book No Great Mischief written by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander MacDonald tells the story of his family from the vantage point of the 1980s. In 1779, driven from his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands for Canada. Reaching the land of trees, he settles his extensive family until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan.

As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories

2010-12-10 Fiction
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Release : 2010-12-10
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 45X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by : Alistair MacLeod

Download or read book As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories written by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2010-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change. His second collection, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories confirms MacLeod’s international reputation as a storyteller of rare talent and inspiration.

Island: The Complete Stories

2011-11-28 Fiction
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Release : 2011-11-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 825/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Island: The Complete Stories by : Alistair MacLeod

Download or read book Island: The Complete Stories written by Alistair MacLeod. This book was released on 2011-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless.”—Colm Tóibín The sixteen exquisitely crafted stories in Island prove Alistair MacLeod to be a master. Quietly, precisely, he has created a body of work that is among the greatest to appear in English in the last fifty years. A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl who grows up on a nearly deserted island turns into an ever-wistful woman when her one true love is felled by a logging accident. A dying young man listens to his grandmother play the old Gaelic songs on her ancient violin as they both fend off the inevitable. The events that propel MacLeod's stories convince us of the importance of tradition, the beauty of the landscape, and the necessity of memory.

Working God's Mischief

2014-03-11 Fiction
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Release : 2014-03-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Working God's Mischief by : Glen Cook

Download or read book Working God's Mischief written by Glen Cook. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The Night goes on, in dread. The world goes on, in dread. The ice builds and slides southward. New kings come. A new empress will rule. Another rump polishes the Patriarchal Throne. But there is something new under the sun. The oldest and fiercest of the Instrumentalities has been destroyed--by a mortal. There is no new Windwalker, nor will there ever be. The world, battered by savage change, limps toward its destiny. And the ice is coming. Working God's Mischief is the savage, astounding new novel of The Instrumentalities of Night, by Glen Cook, a modern master of military fantasy.

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