The Poison Throne, Kiernan, C

Автор: Kiernan, Caitlin R.
Название: Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird
ISBN: 1616557966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616557966
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A year after her death in a burning barn, Dancy's Flammarion's now finds herself in a Hell of her own creation. A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ghost towns of the American South - murderous twins who command a legion of ghouls. Once again, Dancy must face down demons, those who walk the world unchallenged and those in her own shattered mind.

Collects Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1-5

Praise for the work of Caitl n R. Kiernan:
"Caitl n R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost." -Neil Gaiman
"One of our essential writers of dark fiction . . . a cartographer of lost worlds." -The New York Times

"Kiernan's richly evocative prose vividly portrays her twisted characters as well as it illustrates their eerie, kudzu-infested, Deep South surroundings." -Booklist

"Kiernan imbues the tales with disquieting gothic imagery and envelops them in rich, evocative prose that conveys cohesiveness beyond their fragmentary plots." -Publisher's Weekly

Автор: Kiernan Caitlin R., Tierney Kathleen
Название: Blood Oranges
ISBN: 0451465016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451465016
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14780 T
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Автор: Kiernan, Denise
Название: The Last Castle
ISBN: 1476794049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476794044
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 33880 T
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Описание: New York Times Bestseller

"A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Girls of Atomic City.

The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore--the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.

The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.

Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York's best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House.

Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness. He summoned the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to tame the grounds, collaborated with celebrated architect Richard Morris Hunt to build a 175,000-square-foot chateau, filled it with priceless art and antiques, and erected a charming village beyond the gates. Newlywed Edith was now mistress of an estate nearly three times the size of Washington, DC and benefactress of the village and surrounding rural area. When fortunes shifted and changing times threatened her family, her home, and her community, it was up to Edith to save Biltmore--and secure the future of the region and her husband's legacy.

The Last Castle is the unique American story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.

Автор: Kiernan, Caitlin R.
Название: Low Red Moon
ISBN: 0451459482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451459480
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 21250 T
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Автор: Kiernan Stephen P.
Название: The Taste of Hope
ISBN: 006236958X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062369581
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 26130 T
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A tale beautifully, wisely, and masterfully told." -- Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun

From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II--a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.

On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on the Normandy coast of France, Emmanuelle is making the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country.

Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen, the village baker since before she was born. Apprenticed to Ezra at thirteen, Emma watched with shame and anger as her kind mentor was forced to wear the six-pointed yellow star on his clothing. She was likewise powerless to help when they pulled Ezra from his shop at gunpoint, the first of many villagers stolen away and never seen again.

In the years that her sleepy coastal village has suffered under the enemy, Emma has silently, stealthily fought back. Each day, she receives an extra ration of flour to bake a dozen baguettes for the occupying troops. And each day, she mixes that precious flour with ground straw to create enough dough for two extra loaves--contraband bread she shares with the hungry villagers. Under the cold, watchful eyes of armed soldiers, she builds a clandestine network of barter and trade that she and the villagers use to thwart their occupiers.

But her gift to the village is more than these few crusty loaves. Emma gives the people a taste of hope--the faith that one day the Allies will arrive to save them.

Автор: Kiernan Caitlin R.
Название: Agents of Dreamland
ISBN: 0765394324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765394323
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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Цена: 12570 T
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A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible -- the Children of the Next Level -- and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from 'other' sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.

Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitl n R. Kiernan.

Автор: Kiernan Patrick
Название: Wake Up, City
ISBN: 0374303460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374303464
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 16450 T
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Автор: Kiernan Victor
Название: Duel in European History
ISBN: 1783608382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783608386
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A fascinating history of the cultural and political impact of duelling.

Автор: Kiernan Stephen P.
Название: The Hummingbird
ISBN: 0062369555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062369550
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Synopsis coming soon.......

Автор: Kiernan Victor
Название: Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
ISBN: 1783606886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783606887
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 24930 T
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Описание: Victor Kiernan provides a rich and insightful analysis of eight of Shakespeare`s greatest tragedies, revealing how they were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.

Автор: Kiernan Victor
Название: Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen
ISBN: 1783606711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783606719
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: A vivid and absorbing portrait of the great dramatist, which reveals how his writings were shaped by the social and political upheavals of his age.

Автор: Kiernan Stephen P.
Название: The Hummingbird
ISBN: 0062369547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062369543
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 25160 T
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From the author of the acclaimed The Curiosity comes a compelling and moving story of compassion, courage, and redemption.

Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had.

At the same time, Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Alone in the world, the embittered professor is dying. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons.

Told with piercing empathy and heartbreaking realism, The Hummingbird is a masterful story of loving commitment, service to country, and absolution through wisdom and forgiveness.