Starve Acre

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529387272
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starve Acre written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror.

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328489884
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devil's Day written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--

Author : Russell H. Conwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acres of Diamonds written by Russell H. Conwell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell H. Conwell Founder Of Temple University Philadelphia.

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593511891
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starve Acre written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England, soon to be a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, Juliette seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house, where he patiently digs the barren dirt in search of a legendary oak tree. But as they delve further into their grief, both uncover more than they set out to. Starve Acre is a devastating new novel by the author of the prize-winning bestseller The Loney. It is a novel about the way in which grief splits the world in two and how, in searching for hope, we can so easily unearth horror.

Author : Roger Thurow
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1610393422
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Hunger Season written by Roger Thurow and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, "from misery to Canaan," the land of milk and honey. Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers -- rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields -- is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don't have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala -- the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine -- abides. But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them -- Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi -- to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger. The daily dramas of the farmers' lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.

Author : George. A Romero
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506719031
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untold Horror written by George. A Romero and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful interviews of horror legends George Romero, John Landis, Joe Dante, Brian Yuzna, and more, by former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue, Dave Alexander, about the scariest horror movies never made! Take a behind-the-scenes look into development hell to find the most frightening horror movies that never were, from unmade Re-Animator sequels to alternate takes on legendary franchises like Frankenstein and Dracula! Features art, scripts, and other production material from unmade films that still might make you scream--with insights from dozens of directors, screenwriters, and producers with decades of experience. Featured Interviews With: George A. Romero John Landis Joe Dante Vincenzo Natali Brian Yuzna William Lustig William Malone Buddy Giovinazzo Tim Sullivan Richard Raaphorst Ruggero Deodato Jim Shooter Bob Layton David J. Skal

Author : Howard G Buffett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451687869
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 Chances written by Howard G Buffett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.

Author : Michael R. Zomber
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608449866
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Son of Kentucky written by Michael R. Zomber and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Son of Kentucky chronicles the life of Josiah Johnson, a starve-acre, tobacco farmer living outside a small town in western Kentucky, on the banks of a tributary of the Tennessee River, in the ante-be1lum South. Johnson's relative poverty is primarily due to his rather public unwillingness to use slave labor, a moral position viewed with suspicion and derision, by his neighbors. Both Johnson and his wife, Sara, are passionate abolitionists, their mutual detestation of the institution being responsible for their becoming acquainted in the first place. Shortly after General Beauregard fires on Fort Sumter, Josiah feels compelled to answer President Lincoln's call, and travels North to Ohio to enlist as a private in the Union Army, leaving behind Sara, his infant daughter Elizabeth and, Cecile their black woman servant. For nearly two years, Josiah fights on battlefields from Maryes Heights, to Chancellorsville, finally to Gettysburg where he is wounded in action while saving his Colonel's life. As Josiah fights for what he and Sara believe is right, back home in Kentucky Sara battles for her family's survival, barely subsisting with the aid of a wealthy woman whose husband is also away fighting, and the coots they are able to shoot on the river. While lying in the putrid filth and stench of a Union Army hospital, Josiah receives the Medal of Honor. The war is over for him in one sense, but he must fight another war with himself. He is tortured by doubts and uncertainties, tortured by his injured leg, which stubbornly refuses to heal. After an endless trip by troop train, he finally reaches his farm riding on a borrowed mule. The farm is plainly in shambles. Ashamed of his wound he hesitates to make his return known to his family. He seeks solace by visiting his father's grave. There he breaks down entirely, weeping inconsolably not so much for himself, as for all the death and senseless carnage he has witnessed, the countless men and boys wearing blue and grey uniforms who will never come home, in life or in death. Michael R. Zomber was born in Washington D.C. and educated at Oberlin College, Villanova University, the University of Illinois, and UCLA. He received his M.A. in English Literature from UCLA. At the age of nine, while attending a Boy Scout Jamboree in Eastern Pennsylvania he was fascinated by an 1873 trapdoor Springfield rifle standing in the corner of a recreation of an old country store. That antique gun was the beginning of an interest in early American history and a study of early American firearms and swords that has lasted for more than fifty years. From the finest Winchesters to magnificently engraved percussion Colt revolvers, Zomber has examined thousands of arms in museums, private collections, and world famous auction houses all over Europe and the Americas. In the 1990's he assisted producer Yann DeBonne during production of the groundbreaking A&E television show, The Story of the Gun, which became the long running History Channel series, Tales of the Gun. He appears in nearly a dozen episodes as a featured historian including Million Dollar Guns, Guns of the Famous, and Dueling Pistols.

Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147361984X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loney written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD. THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016. A brilliantly unsettling and atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror - 'The Loney is not just good, it's great. It's an amazing piece of fiction' Stephen King Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a cure. In the long hours of waiting, the boys are left alone. And they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide, the old house they glimpse at its end . . . Many years on, Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care. But then the child's body is found. And the Loney always gives up its secrets, in the end. 'This is a novel of the unsaid, the implied, the barely grasped or understood, crammed with dark holes and blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' Observer 'A masterful excursion into terror' The Sunday Times

Author : Sally Hinchcliffe
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529061652
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hare House written by Sally Hinchcliffe and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Deliciously chilly' - Guardian 'Humming with suppressed hysteria and madness' - The Times 'Wonderfully evocative' - Heat Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable . . . In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare House, she begins to explore her new home. But among the tiny roads, wild moorland, and scattered houses, something more sinister lurks: local tales of witchcraft, clay figures and young men sent mad. Striking up a friendship with her landlord, Grant, and his younger sister, Cass, she begins to suspect that all might not be quite as it seems at Hare House. And as autumn turns to winter, and a heavy snowfall traps the inhabitants of the estate within its walls, tensions rise to fever pitch. Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney. 'A beautiful, slow burn of a novel, eerie and shimmering in equal measure' - Mary Paulson-Ellis