Deborah Ellis: A Company of Fools
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Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour BookGeoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour BookMr. Christie Silver Book AwardRuth Schwartz Award, finalistManitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, nomineeRocky Mountain Book Award, nominee
"Before Micah came to St. Luc's, he knew how to beg, how to steal, and how to run from a beating. He did not know how to comb his hair, walk in line when he felt like running, or obey anyone's whim but his own. He was a stranger in a strange land. If it had been me, I would have found a way to disappear inside myself until the
strangeness wore off.Micah was not like me."Henri has been living within abbey walls all his life, first in the care of nuns, then as a choirboy at St. Luc's, not far from Paris. He expects to spend the rest of his life there, copying books in the Scriptorium with the other brothers, and
singing Mass in the great cathedral.Then Micah arrives, a streetwise ragamuffin with the voice of an angel, saved from certain hanging to sing for God instead of coins. Micah comes like a fresh breeze into dead places, bringing exuberant joy at a time when Henri most needs it.For the plague is coming, the grim reaper that will slash at the very roots of Henri's security. And neither Henri nor Micah nor anyone else in their world will ever be the same.
The unconscious has had a long and chequered history. For at least the last 4,000 years, societies have concocted comforting fables A Company of Fools download PDF in the face of the recurrent puzzles of human existence - death, dreaming, madness, possession, inspiration - that invariably rely on some notion of the unconscious. Supernatural 'fairy stories' need some internal proxy or contact point through which the influence of demons and spirits can flow. And without such gods and forces, some psychological machinery is needed to take over their work. But what IS the unconscious? Is it 'God's viceroy', the soul? Is it the locked ward of Freudian desire? Is the subliminal mind the source of the sublime emotions of the Romantics? Is is the mental microchip of cognitive science? Or is it simply the brain?
Anna is content with her well-ordered life in San Francisco. But her world is turned upside down when her beloved grandfather, Max, reveals a startling secret: Anna is part of an aristocratic family who lost everything during World War II. What s more, Max was forced to leave behind a precious item over seventy years ago in their estate in old Prussia. It s now his ardent wish that Anna retrieve it.Anna burns with questions as she heads for Germany: What memento could be so important to her grandfather? And why did he keep their history hidden? As she searches for answers, she finds herself drawn to Wil, a man who may hold the key to unlock the mystery. Together they discover that her family s secrets are linked with an abandoned apartment in Paris, and these secrets go deeper than she ever imagined.Alternating between 1930s Europe and the present, "The House by the Lake" illuminates the destiny of a family caught in the tumult of history."
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Author: Deborah Ellis
Number of Pages: 191 pages
Published Date: 15 Jun 2008
Publisher: FITZHENRY & WHITESIDE
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781554550722
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