Timothy Schaffert - Böcker

"This is a superb novel, enchanting and brutal in equal measure. This is historical fiction at its finest, vivid and beautifully rendered; and yet in their longing for a lost world, Schaffert's characters feel entirely contemporary to our pre...

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A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose survival upends the course of his life. For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea....

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"Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller." -Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept From the author of The Perfume Thief , a remarkable tale about the l...

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A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair.On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloqu...

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A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful. It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and l...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz."e;The sheer volume of responses to the first issue of Fairy Tale Review shows that fairy tales...

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Nebraska Book Award, Special Poetry recognition More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Through person...

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Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial p...

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An 83-year-old obituary writer for a struggling, small-town newspaper finds herself embroiled in intrigue, stumbling onto the story of her career: a country girl has gone missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer. Or so it ...

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A blithe and redemptive seriocomic love story filled with country music, the ghosts of Halloween, and an ironic brand of down-home religion. Newly divorced and feeling the pain of separation from his family, Hud Smith channels his regret into writ...

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A failed erotic novelist; a hostess of prim sex-toy parties; an artist and a bookshop owner pursued by a demented if harmless stalker; wives, lovers, twin sisters, daughters--all members of the artsy crowd in Omaha, try to hold their families, fri...

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Renowned author Timothy Schaffert's celebrated debut novel, reissued here in an entirely new paperback edition, chronicles two sisters on the cusp of womanhood as they struggle to understand their father's suicide as well their mother's abandonmen...

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