Most Popular Books by Charles Frazier

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?

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.

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.

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.

In my pursuit of worldly success, I became lost in the darkness of the world. The road I was walking, God gave me signs and detours I choose to ignore. I let the enemy lead me into the dark abyss of life. Then one day, God shined a ray of hope into the darkness and brought me to a dead-end road. He led, I followed, and He brought His lost sheep home. He spoke, I listened, and I heard His voice. “He said, let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee” (Genesis 33:12). He would heal me, our home, marriage, and family. He would bless us through obedience; give me grace I did not deserve. He would teach me to have faith in Him as we walked the white rock path to cross the Great Divide to the other side. He would teach me as we journeyed to the top of the mountain in search of the lone tree atop the mountain.

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

A Hideghegy írója ismét fordulatos, egész Amerikán keresztülvezető útra hívja olvasóit különleges szereplői társaságában. Val, a fiatal, naiv festő olyan kalandba keveredik, amelyre nem készítették fel az Akadémián. Wyomingba utazik, ahol még él a régi Vadnyugat emléke, hogy egy helyi kisváros postahivatalának falára készítsen egy freskót, ám időközben más megbízatást is kap: felbérelik, hogy kutassa fel egy gazdag marhakereskedő eltűnt feleségét: a titokzatos múltú, zavaros jelenű, mégis minden férfit megbabonázó Eve-et. Nyomozása során Val bejárja a nagy gazdasági világválság Amerikáját: a kaliforniai mocsaraktól Seattle nyomortelepein át San Francisco bohémvilágáig jut, és végül megtalálja, amit keres, sőt valami sokkal többet is – de mindez talán az életébe kerül. A regény egyszerre egy szerelmi háromszög és egy ellopott Renoir-festmény utáni nyomozás története, a korabeli Amerika aprólékos bemutatása és a hatalmas ország ezerféle lakójának tablója – de legfőképpen igazi sodró lendületű amerikai nagyregény. Charles Frazier (1950) amerikai író Észak-Karolinában született és nőtt fel. Első regénye, a Hideghegy elnyerte a National Book Awards-t, meghódította a bestsellerlistákat, 2003-ban pedig hollywoodi mozifilm készült belőle olyan sztárokkal a főszerepekben, mint Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger és sokan mások. A nyomkövetők az ötödik regénye.

With Crossing The Line: A Model for Domestic Violence Therapy, Charles Frazier reveals his extraordinarily powerful, proven model for working with domestic violence clients: both offenders and victims to achieve authentic healing and growth. Bravely tackling the factors causing intimate partner abuse and exposing the trauma that often precludes the violence, Frazier uncovers the reality that therapeutic intervention has a place domestic violence intervention.Crossing The Line provides the practitioner with practical, proven alternatives to the previous approaches to DV services, removing judgment and stigma from the counseling, healing journey. This eliminates defensiveness, blame, and disgrace so that genuine, lasting growth can take place in a safe environment. Without minimizing the seriousness of the offense or excusing the offender''s abusive behavior, Crossing The Line gives the practitioner an entirely new method of guiding clients through their own personal traumas, the reasons they make destructive choices, the consequences of those choices, and finally envisioning, planning and implementing decisions and actions that can rebuild their lives around healthy, positive opportunities.Yes, it all takes work, both on the part of the client and the practitioner. But it¿s worth it! Lives and families are healed through the methods practiced for years by Charles Frazier and his colleagues at Radiance Innovative Services. Here, they share all they¿ve learned through decades of experience and wisdom. In Crossing The Line you¿ll identify what works best for you in your practice, and perhaps in your everyday life.

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.

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?

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.

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

High Magic is a complete, comprehensive guide to performing ritual magic. It explains in great detail the relationships between the laws of magic and magical correspondences, and gives the reader a ringside seat at spellworking that gets the job done.

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.

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.

An anthology of poems written between 1984 and 2011. In his book, Charles D. Frazier offers the ''raw truth'' of his perceptions and the fundamental revelations he experiences as a result of his unwavering search for a resolution to the incongruities of life. His words implore all to wake up, honor the Golden Rule, and most importantly to love one another.