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The Revenant
Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Drama, and Best Director
Ridgeline
‘An exciting, vividly-imagined reconstruction of an extraordinary moment in the history of the American West’ Ian McGuire, bestselling author of THE NORTH WATER and INCREDIBLE BODIES ‘A highly compelling page turner; you won’t be able to put it down’ Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON and AMERICAN RUST
Fire and Brimstone
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both ...
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
From the #1 international bestselling author of THE REVENANT – the book that inspired the award-winning movie – comes the fascinating story of America’s first battle over the environment.
The Revenant
1823. Sungai Grand-perbatasan antara Dakota Utara dan Selatan. Hugh Glass, penjelajah berpengalaman dan ahli melacak jejak, tak menyangka masih bisa hidup. Ketika berhadapan dengan beruang grizzly, dia terluka sangat parah. Semua orang di rombongannya menyangka hidup Glass tak akan bertahan lama. Dua orang rekan seperjalanannya diperintahkan merawat dan menunggui Glass yang sedang sekrang. Alih-alih membantu, mereka justru kabur dengan membawa semua peralatan bertahan hidup milik Glass. Pengkhiantaan itu membuat Glass bersikeras bertahan hidup demi satu tujuan: membalas dendam. Dengan tekad kuat, Glass merangkak sejauh ratusan mil di perbatasan dataran Amerika, mengejar incarannya. Inilah kisah mendebarkan mengenai pengkhianatan, keserakahan, juga perjuangan antara hidup dan mati-perjalanan luar biasa dari seorang penjelajah di dataran Amerika pada abad ke-19. [Mizan, Noura Books, Best Seller, Novel, Terjemahan, Oscar, Film, Indonesia]
Summary of Michael Punke's Fire and Brimstone
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began as an effort to improve safety at the Granite Mountain shaft. The cable crew was installing a sprinkler system, but they had to relocate a large electrical transformer first. #2 The crew had worked for sixteen straight hours before the lower end of the cable finally came even with the 2,600 Station. As they prepared to begin threading the cable toward the site for the new transformer, they noticed a problem. The cable appeared to be coiled around the hoisting rope. They tried to straighten out the kinks, but the cable fell down. #3 Butte, Montana, was a powder keg waiting to explode. It was a microcosm of Europe, and Europe was at war. The Irish, with historical animosity toward England, stood in bitter opposition to an American alliance with the British. #4 The Butte miners’ riot was the result of a $5,000 electrical wire being pulled from the mine shaft. The men knew they were lucky to be alive, but there would be serious consequences for their role in ruining a valuable piece of mine property.
The Barrens
"The Barrens grabbed me from the opening pages and never let go."—Michael Punke, author of The Revenant This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic love—and an extraordinary father-daughter collaboration. Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while takin...
Incredible Bodies
______________ 'Hugely entertaining' - The Times 'A wincingly entertaining portrayal of academe with its pants down. And a reminder that when things are at their worst they're also at their funniest' - Liz Jensen 'Covering familiar territory in this sardonic academic novel, McGuire wittily exposes his characters' pretensions and frustrations ... Outwitted and exploited at every step of the way, Gutman and his story are at once very funny and disconcertingly sad' - Sunday Times ______________ Thirty-something Morris Gutman is a chronically indecisive temporary lecturer at the University of Coketown. Life hasn't turned out as he planned: he has a demanding wife, an insomniac child and teaches demeaning courses to ungrateful English students. However, he is willing to do whatever it takes to negotiate a permanent departmental job, even if it means finding his way through the minefield that is academia and winning over the alluring and manipulative research fellow Zoe Cable.
The Abstainer
‘Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times A man hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap. From the acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession. Manchester, 1867 Two men, haunted by their pasts. Driven by the need for justice. Blood begets blood. In a fight for life and legacy. Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance. James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin fo...
The Revenant
Rocky Mountains, 1823 Hugh Glass has been imprisoned by pirates, trained by the Pawnee Indians and is now one of the most respected trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. The company is under threat from the Arikara Indians and rival bands of men, keen to secure their fortune. John Fitzgerald is a fugitive mercenary. It was a twisted path of murder and theft which led him to the wilderness. Inspired by stories of the plainsmen, Jim Bridger is a young man who signs up for his own frontier adventure and immediately pledges loyalty to Glass. When Glass is horrifically mauled by a grizzly bear, Fitzgerald and Bridger are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. Fearing an imminent attack by the Arikara, Fitzgerald takes the decision to abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized Anstadt rifle and ordering a reluctant Bridger to follow him. As Glass watches the men flee, he vows to undertake an epic journey of survival. It is a journey which will see him travel over 3000 miles to seek revenge for the men who betrayed him.
