SFESS LIBRARY FICTION E-BOOK COLLECTION - SECTION I
F Ifu - (epub)
Author: Jordan Ifufko Title: Raybearer Summary: Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai, who has always wanted to belong somewhere. But The Lady has other ideas, including a magical wish that Tarisai is compelled to obey: Kill the Crown Prince once she gains his trust. Tarisai won’t stand by and become someone’s pawn—but is she strong enough to choose a different path for herself? ISBN: 9781471409288 Year: 2020 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Igg - (epub)
Author: C.F. Iggulden Title: Darien / Series: Empire of Salt - #1 Summary: The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city - Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who cannot speak, Daw Threefold, a chancer and gambler, Vic Deeds, who feels no guilt - and Nancy, a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all. Their arrival inside the walls as the sun sets will set off a series of explosive events. Before the sun returns, five destinies will have been made - and lost - in Darien. ISBN: 9780718186463 Year: 2017 Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Science Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Igg - (epub)
Author: C.F. Iggulden Title: Shiang / Series: Empire of Salt - #2 Summary: In Shiang, the young king rules without dissent. Mazer swordsmen stand watch on every corner, looking for the first sign of rebellion. This city is a place of quiet and slow dignity, like a man eating rice with a razor pressed against his throat. Yet with one sharp movement, order is overturned. The balance of centuries is undone in the sudden spill of blood - and in the darkness, something terrible returns to Shiang. Far to the west, four Shiang masters approach the city walls of Darien. The sword saint and his companions have crossed a continent to bring an old man home for punishment. They will not be denied, even if the whole city stands in their way. TWO ANCIENT CITIES. ONE FINAL WAR. ISBN: 9780718186760 Year: 2018 Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Science Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Igg - (epub)
Author: C.F. Iggulden Title: The Sword Saint / Series: Empire of Salt - #3 Summary: Cities have been broken. Empires have fallen. And darkness is coming. Success has drawn a cold gaze. A false king seeks dominion. His soldiers will bring desolation and despair to Darien. With treachery on all sides, the ancient capital looks set to fall. Yet within the walls of that great city, a small team gathers. Tellius knows each one: a hunter, a gambler, a dead man, a wielder of threads - and the sword saint of Shiang. When Darien herself is threatened, Tellius will ask them to stand. A city is worth more than the lives of those within. Darien's streets and courts and homes and taverns are a bonfire on the hill, a beacon of life and light in the world. That is why they will die to save her. ISBN: 9780718186807 Year: 2019 Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Science Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Igg - (epub)
Author: Conn. Iggulden Title: The Khan Series Summary: Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters and driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed. Through a series of courageous raids, Temujin’s legend grew until he was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject all nations and empires to his will. ISBN: 9780345538468 Year: 2012 Genre: Fantasy, Historical Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Inc - (epub)
Author: Jessica Inclan Title: When You Believe Summary: Chased by thugs, San Francisco poet Miranda Stead plunges through a door to what she thinks is safety. Instead, she finds herself surrounded by a bunch of paranoid, robe-wearing people who can read her thoughts. And then he steps up: tall, dark, amber-eyed, gorgeous Sariel Valasay - lured by her mind probably, and its deliciously wrong ideas.Sariel knows no ordinary human should have been able to break through to their world, but here she is, all lush curves, red hair, and snappy comebacks. As a member of the ancient Les Croyant des Trois, Sariel is sworn to protect her kind from the dark forces always at work. He never thought he'd have to protect her from his own desires. A simple touch would erase all memories of the evening from Miranda's mind. Tomorrow, he'll make her forget. Tonight, he only wants to make her believe. ISBN: 9780821780817 Year: 2007 Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: A Pale View of the Hills Summary: In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast. ISBN: XXXX Year: 1982 Genre: Cultural, Japan, Historical, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: An Artist of the Floating World Summary: In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being. ISBN: 9780307829061. Year: 1986 Genre: Cultural, Japan, Historical, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: Klara and The Sun Summary: Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love? ISBN: 9780593318188 Year: 2021 Genre: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Fantasy Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: Never Let Me Go Summary: Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. ISBN: 9780571224135 Year: 2006 Genre: Contemporary, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: The Buried Giant Summary: "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war. ISBN: 9780385353229 Year: 2015 Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: The Remains of the Day Summary: In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper. ISBN: 9780307576187 Year: 1988 Genre: Historical, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: The Unconsoled Summary: Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise. ISBN: 9780571225392 Year: 1995 Genre: Contemporary, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ish - (epub)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Title: When We Were Orphans Summary: The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it--is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In his previous novels, he has explored this inner world and its manifestations in the lives of his characters with rare inventiveness and subtlety, shrewd humor and insight. In When We Were Orphans, his first novel in five years, he returns to this terrain in a brilliantly realized story that illuminates the power of one's past to determine the present. Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging, to solve the mystery of the disappearances. ISBN: 9780375412653 Year: 2000 Genre: Cultural, China, Historical, Mystery, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ita - (epub)
Author: Frances Itani Title: The Company We Keep Summary: Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. When her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group. Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store. Four people turn up for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently retiree in her early 60s, who finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot; Chiyo, a 40-year-old fitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother through the final days of her life; Addie, a woman preemptively grieving a close friend who is seriously ill; and Tom, an antiques dealer and amateur poet who, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first meeting hoping cake will be served. Before long, they are joined by Allam, a Syrian refugee with his own story to tell. These six strangers are learning that beginnings can be possible at any stage of life. but as they tell their stories, they must navigate what is shared and what is withheld. Which version of the truth will be revealed? Who is prepared to step up when help is needed? ISBN: 9781443457545 Year: 2020 Genre: Cultural, Canada, Contemporary, Literary Fiction Source: Telegram: Open Library |
F Ive - (epub)
Author: Eowyn Ivey Title: Snow Child Summary: Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them. ISBN: 9780316192958 Year: 2012 Genre: Historical, Fantasy Source: Telegram: Open Library |
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