Best Selling Books by Charles Frazier

A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history—culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.” Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins—for a brief moment—a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will’s destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians—including a Cherokee Chief named Bear—he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee’s homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that “only desire trumps time.” Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man’s passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man’s destiny over the many moons of a life.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape, choosing to live apart from the small community around her. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. In a lean, tight narrative, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art. “Impossible to shake.”—Entertainment Weekly “Fantastic.”—The Washington Post “Astute and compassionate.”—The Boston Globe

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI sniper—and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val''s search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them. In The Trackers, singular American writer Charles Frazier conjures up the lives of everyday people during an extraordinary period of history that bears uncanny resemblance to our own. With the keen perceptions of humanity and transcendent storytelling that have made him beloved for decades, Frazier has created a powerful and timeless new classic.

Dr. Charles Frazier reveals how he embarked on an incredible journey where God taught him to trust and have faith as He saved his marriage and rebuilt his life. In a sequel to his first book, Crossing the Great Divide, Walking with God through Nature, he explores in even greater detail what led him down a path of destruction – and how God led him back home. On his walk with the Lord, he deepened his faith and trust in our Heavenly Father. In sharing his story, he answers questions such as: How can you avoid losing yourself in the lust and darkness of the world as you pursue success? How can God strengthen your love for your spouse even after the ultimate betrayal of adultery? How can God heal even the deepest scars? The author also shares how the Lord blessed him and his wife with a lifelong dream of a waterfront condo, which they began remodeling. As they went about their work, they found that God began to remodel their lives and their marriage – and as their love for Him grew, their love for each other began to grow again.

In this day of technology, children can get on their electronic devices and read stories on their own. However, this method eliminates the parent-child bonding process. These stories were written to allow parents and children to share the opportunity to go into the world of imagination for a brief time and share the precious moments. They are short stories, so they allow for the imagination to take over for a brief period. They were written so that even those with demanding schedules, even single parents, are allowed the time to share some precious moments with their children. My hope is that all will enjoy them, with imagination, and escape into the world of creativity that imagination brings. Imagination, after all, is the catalyst to creativity and invention.

"Few places hold more allure for the adventurous traveler than the northern Andes, land of the ancient Inca Empire. Here are the ruins of Machu Picchu, the jungles of the Amazon Basin, the mysterious desert paintings of the Nazca, and just offshore, the exotic Galapagos Islands. Featuring more than 100 of the best hiking trails in the world, this Sierra Club adventure travel guide is the most complete and up-to-date guidebook to this scenic region ever produced." --

A la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Inman, un soldat sudiste blessé à la bataille de Petersburg, déserte pour retrouver Ada, la femme qu''il aime. En chemin, il traverse les paysages dévastés des Etats confédérés, tandis qu''Ada essaie tant bien que mal de survivre dans les montagnes de Caroline du Nord.

¿Hasta dónde llegará William Cooper para defender los derechos de los indios americanos? A los doce años, William Cooper recibe una llave, un mapa y un caballo, y se enfrenta al inexplorado paisaje de los indios cherokee, donde debe regentar un destartalado almacén. Allí encontrará el hogar y el padre que nunca tuvo. Adoptado por el jefe Oso y su tribu, Cooper descubrirá el compromiso y el sacrificio, llegando a convertirse en el mítico jefe blanco de los indios. El destino le hará ser testigo de excepción de momentos clave de la Historia norteamericana, como el dramático Sendero de Lágrimas que produjo la reubicación de los cherokee en 1838 o la Guerra Civil americana. Inspirada en la figura del gran defensor de los derechos de la nación india, William Holland Thomas, la esperada segunda novela de Charles Frazier es la emocionante crónica de una vida marcada por la aventura, el honor y el desencanto, una vida con un protagonista de excepción: un personaje a la altura de los grandes héroes americanos. «Mágica, la lección de Historia de Trece lunas es fascinante y conmovedora... Encontrareis mucho que admirar.» USA Today «Sublime... Trece lunas trae a la mente el asombro ante la naturaleza que produjera Cold Mountain, además de la consternación, y su convicción de que el amor, sin importar cuán torturado e inexplicable sea, puede definir una vida, ser algo fascinante, vívido y vivo.» Newsweek «Tiene el poder de inspirar a futuras generaciones de escritores... A aquellos que sencillamente se deleitan en la experiencia literaria, Trece lunas les deparará la inmensa satisfacción de internarse en un viaje literario de esta magnitud.» Los Angeles Times «Trece lunas resucita un mundo desaparecido, el de los grandiosos nativos norteamericanos y la historia americana, un maravilloso regalo para todos, cortesía de uno de nuestros mejores escritores.» Kirkus Review «Una novela feroz y convincente... Frazier es un narrador nato, a través de su relato picaresco nos encontramos con una elegía y grandes temas.» Boston Globe

Dans l’Amérique des Sixties, au fin fond des Appalaches où elle vit retranchée, loin des soubresauts du monde, Luce, jeune femme farouche et indépendante, se voit confier la charge des jumeaux de sa sœur défunte. Ayant vu leur père, Bud, une brute épaisse, assassiner leur mère, les orphelins traumatisés se sont réfugiés dans un mutisme inquiétant, où sourd une violence prête à exploser à tout moment. Patiemment, Luce va tenter de réapprendre la vie à ces deux écorchés vifs, et elle-même de reprendre goût à l’amour et à la compagnie des hommes. À celle, en particulier, de Stubblefield, nouveau propriétaire des terres où elle s’est établie. Mais leur idylle est menacée par le retour de Bud, blanchi du meurtre de sa femme et bien décidé à retrouver le magot que les deux enfants, croit-il, lui ont volé. C’est le début d’une longue « nuit du chasseur » : un western d’une beauté crue et crépusculaire, où Charles Frazier se révèle une fois de plus, après l’immense succès de Retour à Cold Mountain, comme l’un des grands romanciers des espaces américains.

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This fast-paced tale set mostly in the last weeks of the American Civil War tells of a soldier and his sweetheart and their efforts to reunite. Inman, the soldier, is wounded, and as he slowly walks away from the ravages of war he travels through a devastated land. He does meet his sweetheart, Ada, but their lives have been forever transformed. 1997.

The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?

A wounded Civil War soldier''s journey home to his sweetheart.

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The American Civil War provides the backdrop for this tale. Inman is wounded in battle and treks home to North Carolina, where Ada waits for him on a run-down farm. Ada has been helped by the vitality of Ruby, whose will to live has kept Ada''s own life afloat.

De blauwe bergen. - Na zwaar gewond te zijn geraakt in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, deserteert een soldaat en begint aan de lange, gevaarlijke thuisreis naar North Carolina.