Showing results for "Labrador" in Genre Fiction

Labrador is the story of two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the eldest, is willful, beautiful, and wayward; to Kitty, the youngest, she is the radiant center around which everything revolves. Kitty, too, is willful, but in the brooding manner of the inveterate loner. She is the one who is visited by an angel, Rogni, who reshapes her beliefs by telling her eerie, enigmatic fables that defy time and place, parables about bears, martyrs, and imprisoned daughters that seem to contain warnings about betrayals and violence to come.

Sur la côte désolée du Labrador, face au Grand Mécatina, une famille de pêcheurs mène une vie frugale et unie: le père Labarou, le fils Arthur, le cousin Gaspard, mère Hélène et Mimie. Leur existence se règle au passage du hareng, de la morue et du maquereau, et au va-et-vient saisonnier d’une goélette de cabotage. Mais sur ce rivage âpre, où la fortune des jours dépend du vent et des filets, l’équilibre peut vaciller d’un instant à l’autre.

Escriba errante é uma jornada com as palavras e os amores. Jornada essa cheia de encruzilhadas. Sem GPS. O livro narra a vida de uma escriba mais inquieta do que correta. Mais errante do que linha reta na sua obsessão de fazer sentido ao escrever. Uma escritora trafegando na fronteira do analógico com o digital. Ora seguindo a manada, ora se insurgindo contra ela. Mas não só.

From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in...