Dressed for a Dance in the Snow
Title | Dressed for a Dance in the Snow PDF eBook |
Author | Monika Zgustova |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2020-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1590511840 |
Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across the Soviet Union, prisoners are said to have composed and memorized thousands of verses. Galya Sanova, born in a Siberian gulag, remembers reading from a hand-stitched copy of Little Red Riding Hood. Irina Emelyanova passed poems to the male prisoner she had grown to love. In this way, the arts lent an air of humanity to the women’s brutal realities. These stories, collected in the vein of Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning oral histories, turn one of the darkest periods of the Soviet era into a song of human perseverance, in a way that reads as an intimate family history.
Snow
Title | Snow PDF eBook |
Author | John Banville |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1488077193 |
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel—the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. Don't miss John Banville's next novel, The Lock-up! Other riveting mysteries from John Banville: April in Spain
Snow in May
Title | Snow in May PDF eBook |
Author | Kseniya Melnik |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1627790071 |
Residents of a thriving port town in Russia's Far East are shaped by regional history and lore throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, from a local woman who considers an Italian footballer's proposition to a former Soviet boss' memories about a thorny friendship.
Snow Dance
Title | Snow Dance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781455612000 |
Eager for a day off from school, Ruthie invents a song and dance in hopes of bringing about a big snowfall, and soon the entire school is dancing with her.
It was Lord Wolf
Title | It was Lord Wolf PDF eBook |
Author | Yu Chun Hua |
Publisher | Publicationsbooks |
Total Pages | 671 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 130448727X |
If you are a reader of Wolf King, please actively participate in the interaction after reading this book (collect comments and reward, etc.), even if you spit, you are welcome!
Froggy Gets Dressed
Title | Froggy Gets Dressed PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan London |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 1994-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1101651628 |
Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
Snow Clothes
Title | Snow Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Margo Gates |
Publisher | Lerner Publications (Tm) |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 2019-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1541573420 |
"Get dressed up for playing in the snow along with the family"--