Books with title Wintering

Published three years after the last novel in the author's popular Dartmoor Trilogy, "Wintering Hay" is another tale by John Trevena, the pseudonym of Ernest George Henham. In this story, Trevena revisits the English moor and the moral struggles of its rural folk. He centers our attention on Cyril Rossingall, a young man living with his religiously conservative aunt and uncle. They despise him for not sharing their same level of devotion to faith. On Christmas Eve, Cyril's life is forever altered when, attempting to help a woman being abused by her common law husband, he accidentally kills the man and buries the body to conceal his actions. The tragic event forces Cyril along a path of exploitation and manipulation that highlights two weaknesses: his lack of moral courage and self-love. The incident impacts his relationships with his closest friend, George Corindon, and his sister, Lilian Corindon, to whom Cyril has confessed his love but not his bloody secret. Lilian's father refuses to consent to their marriage until Cyril makes something of himself. After being turned out by his relatives, Cyril tramps his way to London where he leads a depraved lifestyle until returning to the Dartmoor village of Blue Violet. Back in his native surroundings, Cyril encounters Squire Tucker, a bizarre mystic who warns him that: "when we bring suffering to others we bring it upon ourselves." Will Cyril restore his friendship with George and his romance with Lilian? Will he ever be free of the guilt of killing a man? What is his destiny given the weak choices he has made? Originally published in 1912, this annotated edition of "Wintering Hay" includes numerous notes on the text to better understand the many geographical, Biblical and historical references that are typically found in the best of Trevena's work.

Exceptional and acclaimed writer Peter Geye presents his third novel, far and away his most masterful book yet.There are two stories in play here, bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide vanishes into the forbidding northernmost Minnesota wilderness-- instantly changing the Eide family forever. He'd done this once before, thirty-some years earlier, fleeing a crumbling marriage and bringing along Gustav, his eighteen-year-old son, pitching this audacious, potentially fatal scheme to him as a reenactment of the ancient voyageurs' journeys of discovery. It's certainly a journey Gus has never forgotten. Now-- with his father pronounced dead-- he relates its every detail to Berit Lovig, who'd waited nearly thirty years for Harry, her passionate conviction finally fulfilled.

“We live here, my girl, because it is close to the Way, and echoes of its magic are felt in our world. The Way is a path leading to another place, where the people are governed by different rules. Magic runs through them and their land.”With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land.Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mór rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter.Sarah Prineas captivates in this fantasy-adventure about a girl who must find within herself the power to set right a terrible evil.

"What happened this afternoon is too terrible to write...Please, God, let Will live. And please, God, forgive me."Cassie's journal opens her dramatic story and that of her older brother Will, as they are both forced to reexamine their lives after a farm accident leaves Will without a leg -- and without hope.After a winter of healing, Will knows his future must be away from the farm that he loves. He and Cassie go to stay with their older sister and her husband in the nearby town of Wiscasset. There, with the excitement of Maine's new statehood as a backdrop, Will finds that being disabled can be a social handicap as well as physical one. But with hard work he can win respect -- and find exciting possibilities for his future.Living in town opens Cassie's eyes too. She sees Will considering career options not open to her, and she wonders if she can be fulfilled by keeping a house and a family. Are there other possibilities for a young woman in 1820? As Cassie watches Will make his life decisions, she struggles to find her own place in the world.From the author of Stopping to Home and Seaward Born comes this remarkable story of hardship, determination, and the joy of finding the right path in life.