Denning Michela (4 results)
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Denny cut the engine in his mother's driveway at forty-five, four months shy of forty-six, with everything that mattered folded down into a Civic - three boxes of books, a footlocker of manuscripts nobody bought, and a guitar he could no… longer make himself play.Twenty-four years of marriage, gone. Fourteen years watching other men's worst days across eleven monitors, resigned. He'd come home to the twin bed of his childhood the way a person comes home when he isn't moving toward anything, only away.Then, standing barefoot on the cold patio at midnight, he felt it for the first time - a pull. East. Specific and immediate and impossible, a compass needle snapping toward something out past the dark hump of the hills. There was nothing there. He believed maybe sixty percent of that.What waits at the end of the Pull is older than Denny, and more patient, and it knows him better than anyone living. It has been singing the same low note since he was fourteen years old - since an unfinished story, a closed notebook, a boy who walked away from the one thing he'd made with everything he had.Now it wants him to come back and finish the harmony.To stand against it, Denny has almost nothing: a fierce, guarded photographer who refuses to be a stranger, a quiet studio owner steadier than she lets on, and the slow, terrifying work of learning the difference between surviving a life and actually living one.The house isn't quite empty. The town isn't quite safe. And the ordinary man at the center of it is being asked to be braver than he ever planned on being - before whatever has waited thirty-one years decides it has waited long enough.Some things need rushing. Most things don't. This one has all the time in the world.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sashara Jones came to Maniago because it was a town with nothing to say to her.A medium whose gift had gone dark-then came violently, unbidden, back to life-she chose a small place in the foothills below the Dolomites for the one quality… it seemed to offer: it didn't pull at anything in her. Just a fountain, a bookshop with the best morning light in town, and a river that had never once slowed down to consider its surroundings. She wanted to be left alone with her notebook and her quiet. She thought she'd found the perfect place to disappear.Michael Denny came back for almost the opposite reason. Twelve years of watching rooms he couldn't control left him with a stillness that only looked like peace, and Maniago was the last place he could remember feeling like a whole person instead of a collection of habits someone trained into him. He came to see if any of it was still there.Two people carrying wounds no stranger could see, in a town built on turning something sharp into something useful-generation after generation, on purpose, at a cost.What grows between them is slow, and unguarded, and given at exactly the pace each of them can survive giving it. A love story told in overlapping not Elektronisches Buch, in careful disclosures, in the space two people learn to leave around each other's locked doors.But Sashara has learned, the hard way, not to trust a feeling just because it arrives with weight attached. And some things have their own gravity. You feel yourself starting to lean before you've agreed to fall.How much are you willing to have to lose, once you finally have something worth losing.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - She was lifted from the warm dark beneath the porch, carried into a house full of strange smells, and set down in front of the small human she would love beyond all reason. She had no word for it. She only knew: this is mine.Shadow tells… the whole of one dog's life from the inside - without a single human sentence she can understand, without ever once believing she is doing wrong. To her, the yard is a kingdom to be held. The soft old dog by the door is a weakness to be filed away. The child with bitten nails and grass-stained hands is the center of everything, the one being she was put on earth to keep.And love, in the only language she has, is protection. Order. Possession. The oldest arithmetic there is - the sorting of the world into what is above and what is below.Told entirely through Shadow's wordless, luminous understanding, this is the story of a bond too fierce for the world it was born into, and of the family who tried, for as long as they could, to hold on. It asks the question every devoted owner is afraid to ask aloud: what happens when a dog's whole heart becomes the very thing that cannot be lived with Some dogs cannot be made safe, no matter how much they are loved. Shadow never stops believing she is keeping her people safe. That is the tragedy.A story for anyone who has ever looked into a dog's eyes and wondered what was looking back. Follow Shadow all the way to the end - but know that love is not always enough.A story for anyone who has ever looked into a dog's eyes and wondered what was looking back. Follow Shadow all the way to the end - but know that love is not always enough.For readers of Fifteen Dogs and other unflinching stories told from inside an animal's mind.
