The Return

Author : Rachel Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593641671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Rachel Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s right. Two years to the day that Julie went missing, she reappears with no memory of where she’s been or what happened to her. Along with Molly and Mae, their two close friends from college, the women decide to reunite at a remote inn. But the second Elise sees Julie, she knows something is wrong—she’s emaciated, with sallow skin and odd appetites. And as the weekend unfurls, it becomes impossible to deny that the Julie who vanished two years ago is not the same Julie who came back. But then who—or what—is she?

Author : Natalia Chernysheva
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773062107
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Natalia Chernysheva and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming home from her independent city life, a young woman rediscovers childlike wonder and comfort at her grandmother’s house. A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother’s cooking. She has returned home. When they sit down at the table, the young woman has shrunk to a child-like size, and the two share a meal together in the garden. In this gentle, wordless story Natalia Chernysheva beautifully captures the feelings of coming home to comfort and memories and of returning to our childlike selves. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Author : Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher : SPENCER HILL Press
ISBN 13 : 9781939392626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and published by SPENCER HILL Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fates are cackling their bony asses off... It's been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they've given him have been violent and bloody--which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He's got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet. Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy's deal might be, but it's a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her. But it might be the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed, secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of all. Because history has once again been flipped to repeat.

Author : Dulce Maria Cardoso
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 085705435X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Dulce Maria Cardoso and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by the rebels, and the family must leave without him. Not knowing if the father is alive or dead - or if they will ever find out what has become of him, Rui, his mother and sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home. This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet, seaside suburb of Lisbon, where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen. These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life. The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them - ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland. Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life: growing up, dropping out of school, facing discrimination, and the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health and his father's fate. And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Joseph Conrad and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Return" explores the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. The plot is emotionally and psychologically charged. The story follows the lives of a successful businessman Alvan Hervey, his wife, and their marriage. When Alvan Hervey got home from work, he expected to see his wife, but instead, he found a letter. The letter states that the wife has left the house for another man. But, just as this terrible truth begins to sink in, Hervey is confronted with his wife, who has returned to make one last desperate attempt to save their marriage. With their lives in shambles, husband and wife are forced to confront the truth. Will they be able to resolve their marital issues?

Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345807766
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Hisham Matar and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE: from Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of answers to his father's disappearance. In 2012, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar journeys to his native Libya after an absence of thirty years. When he was twelve, Matar and his family went into political exile. Eight years later Matar's father, a former diplomat and military man turned brave political dissident, was kidnapped from the streets of Cairo by the Libyan government and is believed to have been held in the regime's most notorious prison. Now, the prisons are empty and little hope remains that Jaballa Matar will be found alive. Yet, as the author writes, hope is "persistent and cunning." Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for biography/autobiography, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, France's Prix du livre étranger, and a finalist for the Orwell Book Prize and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, The Return is a brilliant and affecting portrait of a country and a people on the cusp of immense change, and a disturbing and timeless depiction of the monstrous nature of absolute power.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988983199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Return explores the attempt to implement a nomadic ideal as it intersects with the reality of modern life.

Author : Lacey Sturm
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493412663
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Lacey Sturm and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's easy to go through days, weeks, even years on autopilot, moving from one activity to another, rarely taking the time to consider what it's all for anyway. Why did God make us? What does he want us to do with the time he has given us? And how can we find out? In her bestselling story-driven style, Christian rocker Lacey Sturm shares with readers the beautiful struggle of learning what one's unique gifts are and pursuing them wholeheartedly. She helps them see each day as a gift from God, find balance in their busy lives, and discover the joy of giving God's gifts back to him by using them to bring him glory. Young people especially will love this openhanded and openhearted take on what to do with their lives, as will those who feel like they've been coasting or heading down the wrong path.

Author : Victoria Hislop
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061901245
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Victoria Hislop and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already a #1 bestseller in the UK, The Return is a captivating new novel of family, love, and betrayal set against a backdrop of civil war, flamenco, and fiery Spanish passion. The author of the beloved international bestseller The Island, Victoria Hislop now transports the reader to Granada, Spain, in a time of historic turmoil. The Return is a colorful and spellbinding saga of a family inspired by music and dance, only to be torn apart by fragile hearts and divided loyalties during the bitter war that brought the dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power.

Author : Camille Funk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733433112
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return written by Camille Funk and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've never met anyone who remembers their birth but I remember mine. I dream about it all the time. Why? Because today, October 10, 1997, will be the seventh time it's happened. Eleanor Blackwell is turning seventeen and although excited about her birthday, she already knows what it will bring. At seventeen Ellie will meet the boy of her dreams, get swept off her feet, and fall in love only to be murdered a year later, right before her eighteenth birthday. How does Ellie know this? Because this isn't the first time she's lived this story¿ it's the seventh. With each rebirth, Ellie finds herself in a different time period but surrounded by the same souls of both her friends and enemies leading her to the conclusion that in order to change her fate she must unravel the secrets those closest to her are hiding. Piecing together the clues spanning over 200 years, can Ellie alter events enough to change her death this time around? Or, is she cursed to repeat the same mistakes and return once again?