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Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel
by Geoffrey Strachan Andreï MakineEvery summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. <P><P>In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales--watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and the hopeless chaos of war. Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant, carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and '80s. Her warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. Dreams of My Russian Summers is an epic full of passion and tenderness, pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
Dreams of Origami
by Elenor GillA missing person brings together an eclectic group of people in this haunting novel of supernatural suspense from the author of The Moon Spun Round. Psychic researcher Gideon Wakefield dreams of hands folding white paper, and as his origami dreams become more urgent, he discovers that ghosts real and perceived are never far away, and that something powerful is coming for him. In the wake of Matthew Caxton’s disappearance, Gideon and an unlikely collection of individuals are thrust into a series of events that will force them all to question everything they believe, and everyone they trust. Unseasonal storms rage, violence and sudden death strike, and ancient mysteries, buried long ago, will split the surface with devastating consequences. “Dreams of Origami is the perfect companion when snuggling indoors on cold winter days and nights. . . . You won’t be able to put it down.” —CoffeeGroup.org
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century
by Jay WinterIn the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the "major utopians" who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's "minor utopias" whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the Paris World's Fair), 1919 (the Paris Peace Conference), 1937 (the Paris exhibition celebrating science and light), 1948 (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), 1968 (moral indictments and student revolt), and 1992 (the emergence of visions of global citizenship). Winter considers the dreamers and the nature of their dreams as well as their connections to one another and to the history of utopian thought. By restoring minor utopias to their rightful place in the recent past, Winter fills an important gap in the history of social thought and action in the twentieth century.
Dreams of Rescue
by Laura Shaine Cunningham"I have spent the winter at my summer place," begins the narrator of this startlingly original literary chiller. Juliana Durrell Smythe, known for her "female in jeopardy" performances on film, fears her roles are proving prophetic. As an actress, she is accustomed to rescue. In movies, "Having known the comfort of muscled arms, I still expect, without reason, to be carried to safety and, ultimately, to be loved. " But confined to her Victorian lake house, Juliana discovers the discrepancies between film and actual jeopardy. "The police have not turned out to be kindly, potential lovers. . . . " She must walk the fault line of fiction and confront the mysterious and violent end of her marriage. An atmosphere of danger descends with the snow. The men who enter Juliana's life seem suspect; her predicament shadowed by the distress of her house cleaner. How much did she see? How much does she know? Haunted by her past roles and the history of her romantic home, built for a wedding in 1899, Juliana's marital mystery becomes entwined with that of the original Victorian bride's. To survive, she is compelled to connect a nineteenth-century disappearance to the contemporary despair of the lakeside resort. In a snowscape of dazzling beauty, Juliana must enact the role that will save or cost her own life. Plumbing the secrets of two centuries,
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving
by Martin MillarElfish's friends live hand to mouth in a bleak section of London, squatting, seeing local bands, getting high, and feeling bitter over lost ambitions. Except Elfish, who pursues exactly what she wants with demonic single-mindedness.Elfish rarely eats, never washes, and is devoted to Queen Mab - both the Shakespearian fairy, "deliverer of dreams," and her thrash metal band, formed with her attractive but dimwitted lover, Mo. When Mo jilts her and calls his new band Queen Mab, Elfish is determined to keep the name for her own band and sets about getting revenge. To stop Mo, Elfish is obliged to steal, cheat, and lie to everyone around her. Happily, Elfish is a compulsive liar, and quite fond of cheating and stealing.On the night Mo's band is to play, he and his friends laugh cruelly around her. The people she has deceived turn on her viciously. It is up to Elfish whether to give up hope or to rally, proving to all the power of her will.A fearless stage diver and shameless purveyor of bad sex, Elfish stands alone. Surrounded by people who have given up hope, only she will not put down her guitar. Only she refuses to stop dreaming.
Dreams of Ships, Dreams of Julia: At Sea with the Monitor and the Merrimack---Virginia, 1862 (Young American Series #2)
by Maureen S. SappeyA young engineering student leaves Harvard to help build an ironclad ship to defend the Union against Confederate naval forces, and is subsequently blinded in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
Dreams of Significant Girls
by Cristina GarcíaBrought together each summer at a boarding school in Switzerland, three girls learn a lot more than just French and European culture. Shirin, an Iranian princess; Ingrid, a German-Canadian eccentric; and Vivien, a Cuban-Jewish New Yorker culinary phenom, are thrown into each other's lives when they become roommates. This is a story of 3 paths slowly beginning to cross and merge as they spend the year apart, but the summers together. Through navigating the social-cultural shoals of the school, developing their adolescence, and learning the confusing and conflicting legacies of their families' past, Shirin, Ingrid, and Vivien form an unbreakable bond. Like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, this story takes readers on a journey into the lives of very different girls and the bonds that keep them friends.
Dreams of Sleep
by Josephine HumphreysAlice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place, their interior lives are sensitively and convincingly explored. .
Dreams of Steel (The Black Company: Book of the South II)
by Glen CookCroaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors--determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost. But in assembling a new fighting force from the dregs and rabble of Taglios, she finds herself offered help by a mysterious, ancient cult of murder--competent, reliable, and apparently committed to her goals. Meanwhile, far away, Shadowmasters conspire against one another and the world, weaving dark spells that reach into the heart of Taglios. And in a hidden grove, a familiar figure slowly awakens to find himself the captive of an animated, headless corpse. Mercilessly cutting through Taglian intrigues, Lady appears to be growing stronger every day. All that disturbs her are the dreams which afflict her by night--dreams of carnage, of destruction, of universal death, unceasing. . .
Dreams of Tang Dynasty: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Di YiCiJieChuThe only female emperor in China, in troubled times. The outstanding talents of the martial arts world rose together as a rain of blood and gore. Was there someone who would end this endless slaughter and redeem the billowing evil? Was there someone who would join her in vowing to the heavens and pacifying the surging feelings of her children? Did the Luoyang in your heart collapse with the smoke into a ruin? Did the light ever transform into neon on the streets? Is the Luoyang in your heart the banner of the great Han Dynasty? But the beacon lit by Cao Wei Xiao Xiong? Or perhaps, Magnificent Tang … Golden Age, Ranger, Red Dust … Whose figure would this sword reflect? Would anyone listen to that song? Everything is in the Tang Dynasty [put away]
Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400–1700
by Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici MalikIn this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative literature, need to be read and studied together with the way the works were composed by poets and eventually consumed by readers. With a generous selection of more than one hundred poems from thirty-three poets, Dreams of Waking is unique in its coverage of the three main languages—Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish—and lyrical styles employed by peninsular poets. It contains new translations of canonical poems but also translations of many poems that have never before been edited or translated. Brief headnotes provide essential details of the poets’ lives, and a general introduction by the volume editors shows how the poems and languages fruitfully intersect. With helpful annotations to the poetry, as well as a selected bibliography containing the most important editions and translations from all three of the main Iberian languages, this volume will be an indispensable tool for both specialists and students in comparative literature.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
by Kresley ColeA ruthless Norse warrior will defeat anything standing between him and his beautiful obsession - even Death itself. A millennium ago, Aidan the Fierce lost his heart to the Valkyrie Regin the Radiant, but he was murdered before he could win her. Since then, he has reincarnated into different identities, with his memory of the past buried deep. This time he has returned as Declan Chase, a human soldier bent on exterminating all immortals - including Regin, his newest captive. The proud Northman that Regin still mourns has been replaced by a twisted madman. Once tortured by immortals, Chase now metes out vengeance against them, and he's fixated on her. Regin's only hope is to make him remember her, though she knows that whenever he recovers his memories, history will repeat itself, and he'll be lost to her again. . . .
Dreams of a Dark Warrior (Immortals After Dark #11)
by Kresley ColeIn this ninth installment in the wildly popular Immortals After Dark series from #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance author Kresley Cole, a woman must conceal her identity from her one true love—or risk losing him forever.He vowed he&’d come for her… Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives. She awaits his return… When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals—unaware that he belongs to their world. To sate a desire more powerful than death… Yet every reincarnation comes with a price, for Aidan is doomed to die when he remembers his past. To save herself from Declan&’s torments, will Regin rekindle memories of the passion they once shared—even if it means once again losing the only man she could ever love?
Dreams of a Hero
by Charlie CochraneMild-mannered and unassuming, Miles is on a journey he never expected. After a visit to Greece with his partner, Roger, he begins to experience vivid dreams in which he travels back in history and takes on the role of avenging hero.Roger notices Miles's newfound bravery during his waking hours and is concerned that his lover is changing into someone he doesn't recognize.When they discover a gay-friendly café is being plagued by violent thugs, Miles is uncharacteristically determined to take action, no matter the cost. Roger argues it would be both dangerous and pointless to intervene, but Miles insists he's been called to fight an army, and now he's found one.17,000 words
Dreams of a Longing Heart
by Jane Peart'Dreams of a Longing Heart' is Kit's story--the sustaining power of faith. After her grieving, widowed father leaves Kit, her younger brother and baby sister at Greystone, she tries futilely to keep the family together. Yet the younger children are 'placed out' and Kit is sent West on the Orphan Train.
Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
by James Tate"Fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"When he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits a surprisingly uncomplicated style."--DetailsJames Tate seems both awed and bemused by small-town life in these forty-four stories full of legends, flights of fancy, tragedies, and small ruptures in ordinary existence. His narrators speak in an idiom that is odd and completely American.James Tate is the author of fourteen books of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards: fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim foundations, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
Dreams of a Wild Heart
by Danube AdeleDr. Cecilia-Ceci-Bradford at your service.I dance, rock climb, and have mastered MMA, because just being a twenty-six-year-old doctor isn't enough. It doesn't keep me from remembering the terrifying night my life changed, the night my true love died. I was nearly seventeen.Life goes on, but the secret I keep is that I still talk to him in my dreams. That was getting me by until Tabron showed up-or, more specifically, until the six-foot-two brute of a Viking whisked me off to another planet because his leader is dying. And the joy didn't end there. I'm being forced to choose a mate. The Brausa are facing extinction.Tabron has no need for a mate, himself, and he's told me as much. Multiple times. What he does have are hands and wicked lips that stir feelings I thought lost forever. Choosing him (just to play along until I can find a way home) seems to irk him and I find this surprisingly fun. But surviving a hidden conspiracy and the dangers of this alien place might be more difficult than I could ever imagine...Book Three of The Dreamwalkers
Dreams of the Centaur
by Montserrat Fontes"With his bare hands and stubborn drive, Jose Durcal has built the ranch in Sonora where he and his family live. He dreams of a time when his sons will become powerful ranchers, but he is struck down through jealousy before he can make his dreams come true. When his oldest son, Alejo, avenges his father's murder, the boy sets his life in a direction that brings him face to face with evil." "This fast-paced novel follows the rites of passage of Alejo through love, murder, prison, war, death, and regeneration. Told through the voices of Alejo and Felipa, his strong, independent mother, Dreams of the Centaur explores the unusual psychic tie between mother and son." "Sustaining her family through all their troubles, Felipa binds her remaining sons to her, while, from a distance, she watches Alejo's soul harden. She fears for her son, who has always been her kindred spirit. She will summon all her strength and all the ferocity of a mother's love to save his life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Dreams of the Dead
by Perri O'ShaughnessyIn a spellbinding new thriller, New York Times bestselling author Perri O&’Shaughnessy plunges the audacious yet all-too-human Nina Reilly back into the center of a murderous family game and reawakens a very real nightmare she had every reason to believe was dead…and buried. In addition to coping with her demanding, sometimes creepy clients, Nina Reilly is dealing with prickly personal issues involving her sixteen-year-old son, Bob, his estranged father, and her investigator, confidante, and sometimes lover, Paul van Wagoner. Then, in walks disaster. The millionaire owner of a Tahoe ski resort, Philip Strong, is the father of Jim Strong: a sociopath who devastated many innocent lives, including Nina&’s when she defended Jim again charges of murder two years earlier. He shattered her life, then vanished. Paul van Wagoner made sure of that. Now in negotiations to sell his ski resort, Philip has received a letter purportedly from his fugitive son in extradition-free Brazil, demanding his share of the profits. Nina is certain it&’s a con, but to prove that means exposing the secrets of someone very close to her. But when two local women are murdered, Nina begins to question their links to her client and the truth about Jim Strong&’s sudden disappearance. As Nina&’s worst fears flood back, with time running out, she&’s about to discover that the dreams of the dead can still destroy the living. With its breakneck pace, pulsing human drama, and serpentine twists, Dreams of the Dead once again establishes why O&’Shaughnessy has been hailed as &“a master of the legal thriller&” (Vincent Bugliosi).
Dreams of the Dead (The Waking)
by Thomas RandallIn this first book of a frightening trilogy, 16-year-old Kara Foster feels like an outsider at her private school in Japan, where students soon turn up dead, viciously attacked by someone--or something.
Dreams of the Desert Wind
by Kurt R. A. GiambastianiIn the secretive and volatile Middle East, 3 people struggle to protect their lives, their loves, and their future. An alternate history novel.
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend
by Winsor MccayFrom the creator of Little Nemo comes this pioneering cartoon strip, a world of dreams and nightmares, fraught with episodes of wish fulfillments and exaggerations in size and perspective. This facsimile of the rare 1905 first edition recaptures Winsor McCay's imaginative brilliance and his influence on latter-day animation with 60 cartoon sequences.
Dreams of the Raven (Star Trek: The Original Series #34)
by Carter CarmenDreams Of The Raven A merchant ship's frantic S.O.S sends the U.S.S. Enterprise speeding to the rescue! But the starships mission of mercy soon becomes a desperate struggle for survival against a nightmarish enemy Captain Kirk can neither identify nor understand, an enemy he must defeat without the aid of one of his most trusted officers. For the Leonard McCoy Kirk knew is gone. In his place stands a stranger -- a man with no memory of his Starfleet career, his family, his friends... or the one thing James T. Kirk needs most of all. His dreams.
Dreams of the Red Phoenix
by Virginia PyeDuring the dangerous summer of 1937, a newly widowed American missionary finds herself and her teenage son caught up in the midst of a Japanese invasion of North China and the simultaneous rise of Communism. Meanwhile a charismatic Red Army officer requests her help and seems to have shared some surprising secret about her husband. Shirley must manage her grief even as she navigates between her desire to help the idealistic Chinese Reds fight the Japanese by serving as a nurse and the need to save both herself and her son by escaping the war-ravaged country before it's too late.Taking her own grandmother's life as inspiration, Virginia Pye, author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel River of Dust, has written a stunning new novel of Americans in China on the cusp of World War II.uickly as he searches the nearby town for a missing Chinese friend and sees the devastation caused by the outbreak of war. He understands before his mother does that they must leave North China right away. But at her clinic, Shirley feels a rising sense of purpose and is determined to stay and help. Having grown up privileged, but lonely, she admires the communal ideals of the Reds, and experiences camaraderie and a shared sense of conviction for the first time in her life. When she visits a Red Army camp, she meets their leader who she hopes will appreciate her newfound zeal, but instead he calls her foolish for placing herself in danger where she does not belong. He orders her to return to America, but by then, it's too late, and the Japanese capture her.With her life threatened, Shirley is forced to choose between betraying her newfound friends with their high ideals or abandoning her beloved son and the safety of everything she knows.
Dreams to Sell
by Anne DouglasThe future she dreamed of is drifting further and further out of reach…Spirited Roz Rainey lives in post-war Edinburgh with her sister, brother and widowed mother. She spends her days working in a lawyer’s property office and dreaming – not of love, but of one day having a beautiful house of her own. After all, why shouldn’t she be ambitious?Then the unexpected happens when she falls in love with her new boss, the charming Jamie Shield. Full of happiness, it seems as though a blissful future beckons for Roz. Fate, however, has other ideas…Roz will face heartbreak and danger, both for herself and for her family. Can she learn life’s lessons and overcome its trials to find true love?A captivating historical saga set in Edinburgh, perfect for fans of Pam Howes and June Francis.