Michael jonathan hyde (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ArchitectMarcus Hale has spent twenty-three years trying to be the architect he always believed he could be. He has never quite managed it. Then one night, exhausted and out of ideas, he falls asleep at his drafting table - and wakes to find a complete set of extraordinary plans that he did not draw.He takes them. He presents them as his own. And for a while, everything he ever wanted falls into place.But the plans came with a note.This comes with a price.What follows is a quietly devastating story about talent and longing, about the lies we tell the people who love us most, and about a dead architect who loved his wife so completely that he reached back from wherever the dead go and found a way to build her the house he always promised.Set against the backdrop of a single remarkable house - its butterfly roof, its creek-facing windows, its small room that nobody ordered built - The Architect is a story about what we owe each other, what we owe ourselves, and the strange, crooked, entirely human ways that gifts find their way into the world.Some debts cannot be avoided. They can only be paid.Michael Jonathan Hyde is a retired businessman, traveler, and storyteller from Salt Lake City, Utah. The Architect is his second book.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a world that has cured itself of love, feeling is a sickness - and kindness is how they take it from you.Elara has never once been undone by an emotion. No one she knows has. For generations, the capacity to love, to grieve, to ache for another person has been quietly bred and treated out of humanity - gently, reasonably, for everyone's own good. What little feeling remains is an illness, and the people who still carry it are not punished. They are noticed. They are cared for. And, one by one, they are made easier.When her father dies and leaves her his cold, orderly house, Elara expects to settle his affairs and feel nothing - the way she has felt nothing her whole life. But beneath the house is a room he never allowed her to enter. A warm room, hidden from a world gone cold: walls of photographs of people touching, hundreds of letters from strangers, and a recording in her father's voice.And slowly, terribly, against everything she was raised to be, Elara begins to wake.What she finds in that room will cost her more than she can imagine - because in this watchful, well-meaning world, there is no escape from care, and no safe place for the ones who still feel. There is only the warmth itself, and the people who hold it in secret, for as long as they are allowed.The Cold House is a spare, haunting novella about grief, awakening, and the most dangerous thing a person can still do in a world that has forgotten how: love.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He carried everything alone. Until she wouldn't let him.At sixteen, Ethan knows how to keep a secret. His mother is ill. His father is gone. Every morning he checks the oxygen concentrator, fills the prescriptions, makes dinner for two, and walks into school like none of it exists. He has been doing this for two years. He is very good at it.Then a girl named Lily sets her tray down across from him at lunch and starts paying attention.What begins as an unlikely friendship slowly becomes something neither of them planned for - complicated by the secret Lily is keeping of her own, a quiet friendship with Ethan's mother conducted in stolen afternoon hours while Ethan is at school, unaware that two people he loves have found each other in the space he left behind.Lily is a tender, aching story about the weight we carry alone, the people who find us anyway, and the quiet courage it takes to let someone stay. Told through the eyes of adult Ethan looking back on the year that changed everything, it is above all a love letter to a mother who knew exactly what she was doing - right up until the end.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some memories refuse to stay lost.In a small Montana town, thirty-eight-year-old writer Sara Mitchell has been alone for nine years. Her work is solitary. Her cat is gone. Her evenings are quiet. She has stopped expecting much from her life.Then she starts dreaming of a little girl.The girl wears a yellow sweater and a green clip in her hair. She is always eight years old. She sits with Sara on a porch that does not exist, beside a lake Sara has never seen. The girl tells Sara things - small, impossible things - that turn out to be true. Mack misses you, she says, naming Sara's cat. Claire hates red wine.The girl calls herself Bug.Two thousand miles away, in Boston, an architect named Zach Holm is finishing eighteen months of grief. His relationship has ended. The woman he loved told him he could not let something go. He doesn't know how to explain what he was holding on to - but seven years ago, on a train platform, he saw a child in a yellow sweater. He has thought of her every day since.He has been drawing a house for her without knowing it. A porch with a missing spindle. A kitchen looking out at a lake.When Sara and Zach finally meet, they realize they have both been in the company of the same child - a child who is not theirs yet, but who is doing everything she can to make sure she will be.bug is a quiet, luminous novel about the strange threads that bind us across time, about the kinds of knowing that arrive before language, and about what happens when we listen - even when what we hear cannot quite be explained.For readers of The History of Love, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Plainsong.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She brought the book back from Paris. The chapters keep coming true.In Jackson, Wyoming, on a Wednesday morning in October, Alice walks into her usual coffee shop and sees a man in a brown felt hat at the counter. She is forty-five. She has not let herself want anyone in over a decade. She does not know yet that the chapter describing this morning was already in print on her desk at home.An old bookseller in Paris had pressed the small dark book into her hands. As Alice begins to read, the chapters keep coming true - the green mug at her kitchen table, the man at the coffee shop, the gate left open at his ranch. Her oldest friend Sam, who has run the bookstore in town for thirty-eight years, watches it happen with her.The book is doing something. So is her life.Then a stranger comes back from Paris to take the book away - and another stranger arrives from her past with a question Alice did not know how to be asked.And They Loved is a quiet, restrained novel about love arriving late, about the friend who reads ahead, and about the family that gets made one impossible morning at a time. Set in the cottonwoods and ranches west of Jackson, it is a book about second chances, about what we owe a child who has lost too much, and about the strange grace that sometimes finds the people who have stopped looking.For readers who love the work of Kent Haruf, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout - quiet literary fiction with deep emotional weight, told in plain American prose.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a hidden city that opens only in the dark, memory is currency-and Wren Adaire is the best broker on her row.For nine years she has bought grief from the desperate and sold joy to the hungry, carving the unbearable out of strangers with a steady hand and an empty heart. She lives by her father's law: the memory lies, the bleed never does. Forgetting is mercy. Remembering is weight. She has built her whole life on the difference.Then a man she has never seen presses a memory into her hand-for free. A rain-soft afternoon. A woman on a sofa, laughing. And love so complete it pours through her like a tide.The woman is her.The man is a stranger.And the life inside that memory is one she cannot remember living.As the stranger returns, giving back her own past a piece at a time, Wren begins to pull a thread she was never meant to find-down through the lantern-lit lanes of the Market, past the things that wait in its depths, toward a truth she once paid everything to bury. She sold her grief to survive it. But some wounds cannot be cut from the love they're grown into. And in a place where nothing ever comes back, Wren Adaire is about to learn what she gave away-and how far she'll go to get it back.The Memory Market is a haunting, lyrical novella about love, loss, and the unbearable cost of forgetting-for readers of Ray Bradbury, Erin Morgenstern, and V.E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four stories. Four lives interrupted by love that refuses to stay finished.A man carries a ring in his pocket for eleven days, waiting for the right moment - until the moment runs out. A woman leaves a photograph hidden in a book at a library sale, certain no one will find it. A woman in Louisiana buys an antique writing desk and discovers a letter inside from a stranger in Montana. Two people give up every memory of each other in order to save one life - and then have to find their way back.The Answer Was Yes is a collection of four literary love stories about loss, longing, and what remains when love is interrupted. Quiet, precise, and deeply felt, these stories ask what we carry, what we leave behind, and whether love - even unfinished love - is ever truly lost.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They were not abandoned. They were hidden.Thirteen-year-old Jonah Pryce has learned never to unpack. Homes change. People leave. Hoping only makes it harder.Jonah has also always heard rain where no rain is falling - the secret sound of other people's sadness. Then his only friend vanishes from the Fairbridge Home for Children, and every adult says he ran away. Jonah knows better. He heard him.A mysterious old woman offers Jonah a place at Merrick House - a ruin to the outside world, but warm, strange, and very much alive, with four other gifted children waiting inside. For the first time in his life, Jonah may belong somewhere.But these children were hidden for a reason. Someone patient and polite is searching for them - someone who can take nothing that isn't freely given, and has never once needed to. And Jonah's missing friend may be closer than anyone realizes.Book One of The Found Children. For readers 10-14. Perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Mysterious Benedict Society. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claire Bellamy restores houses the world has forgotten. She keeps the burned places and the worn wood - the marks left behind by the people who once loved them. She has spent twenty years making homes for others and keeping none for herself.When she arrives at a remote adobe in the New Mexico mountains to begin a restoration, she finds that the woman who hired her has died only weeks before - leaving a grieving husband, Daniel, who is preparing to let the house go.But the house is not empty. As the summer storms gather, messages begin appearing on an old chalkboard in a handwriting that should not exist - guiding Claire through the work, revealing what the walls remember, and drawing two wounded strangers slowly, impossibly, toward one another.Some houses remember. And some loves refuse to leave quietly.The Shape of Rain is a haunting, deeply human novel about grief, healing, and the people who change us long after they're gone.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For five years, Luke has lived alone in the quiet aftermath of loss, moving carefully through days that no longer feel entirely his.Then small, impossible things begin happening in his flat. A chair no longer seems empty. Flowers are moved in the night. He begins to feel watched - not with fear, but with longing.Eva was never meant to be seen. She is one of nine unseen beings who move through the world arranging the quiet coincidences that bring lonely strangers together - and she was sent to find the woman Luke is meant to love. But the longer she lingers near the grieving man at the edge of town, the more the boundary between their worlds begins to thin. And when Eva discovers why she cannot find Luke's match - when love begins to ask something impossible of them both - she is forced toward a choice that could cost everything she has ever been.The Blind Spot is a haunting, tender literary love story about grief, longing, and what it means to step fully into a fragile human life - and to love something precisely because it can be lost.…