Books with author Thornton

This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins "The Bridge of San Luis Rey, " one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.

The bloodline of a god lives on...Two women, both unaware of their true heritage, and both with Magic within them, learn to control their gifts and use them for good, as they fight against those who threaten the lands of Ayrenia.The sequel to Bloodline brings two new strong heroines, Autumn Storm and Tessa Oak, to follow in the footsteps of Braelyn. What will they have to sacrifice to keep their world safe?

One day, Kylee and her younger sister, Lexie, are playing in the yard at their Grandmas cottage when they discover a very unusual bush. It sounds like it may be alive; there is a very loud humming sound coming from it. Burning with curiosity, they decide to investigate the bush; they take a pair of scissors from their Grandmas sewing basket early one morning and tell her that they are going to pick some flowers.Once they cut away part of the bush, they discover a magical creature that looks a little like a bird but is very different indeed. He tells them his name is Gomo, and he is a Gholdee. They meet his friend Vinista, who is invisible at first but then reveals herself to them. They soon find out that the Gholdees fear humans, so they set out to show them that there is nothing to fear.At the same time as this discovery, their not-so-nice neighbor stops by their home looking for his missing dog, Champ, a big and fluffy St. Bernard. Is Champ really Mr. Snivelys dog? Will the Gholdees become their friends? Come along and see on a magical adventure with Kylee and Lexie.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy--a tiny foot-bridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses the catastrophe, the question in inescapable. Why those five? Suddenly, Brother Juniper is committed to discover what manner of lives they led--and whether it was divine intervention or a capricious fate that took their lives.