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A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can’t forget. What’s it like when everyone’s dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise – if “paradise” means endless paperwork, quotas to meet, and entitled tourists. But it’s not all bad: Ameera’s pastime of choice is the swingers scene, and the resort is the perfect place to hook up with like-minded couples without all the hassle of having...
| Автор | Farzana Doctor |
Als Udo Graf Plessentin eines Tages unangekündigt zu dem kleinen Landhaus in der Nähe von Paris fährt, das er seit einiger Zeit regelmäßig besucht, erlebt er eine schlimme Überraschung: Er findet Liliane, die Frau, die er über alles liebt, in den Armen eines anderen Mannes – vertieft in Zärtlichkeiten. Der junge Graf sieht rot, und im nächsten Moment kracht ein Schuss. Und dann ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Fünf Jahre vergehen, bis Udo und Liliane einander wieder begegnen. Es ist ein Wiedersehen,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt, wie sie hätte sein können. Die Welt ist untergegangen, aber Hig hat überlebt. Ebenso sein einziger Nachbar, ein menschenfeindlicher Waffennarr mit dem Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, der ihn – brutal, aber verlässlich – beschützt. Hig lebt im Hangar eines verwilderten Flughafens und tuckert mit einer alten Cessna übers Gelände, sein Hund Jaspar ist sein treuer Copilot. Man schlägt sich halt so durch. Dann empfängt er plötzlich ein Funksignal. Gibt es doch noch...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
 “There is lyricism in the language of Ms. Ermelino’s splendid collection that lulls us, line after seductive line, from the mundane to the menacing. [i]Malafemmena is the work of a bold and original writer.”—Gay Talese  “What Louisa Ermelino knows about the heart could fill a book and has. The unadorned authenticity of her prose is so powerful, it gave me whiplash. I read [i]Malafemmena in one sitting and wanted more, more,...
| Автор | Louisa Ermelino |
"A piercing story of a girl who responds to trauma by mustering the most powerful weapon available to her: silence. (…) melodic, mythological, transformative, a testament to literature’s powers…" Vanity Fair Ellen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We’re a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them...
| Автор | Linda Boström Knausgård |
Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"Wakefield wrote an intrepid nonfiction book about modern squatting, Not for Rent (1996), and now vividly fictionalizes the experience, portraying various oddball characters in her charmingly laid-back, dialogue-rich first novel with empathy and insight."–Booklist"Wakefield…draws on personal experience for this colorful and entertaining depiction....the sentiment of the nomadic community in New York in the...
| Автор | Stacy Wakefield |
First printing of 20,000The debut novel from Michael Imperioli, a well-known and respected actor, best known for his role of «Christopher» on The Sopranos .Imperioli is also very well-connected in the theater and literary worlds, having launched his own theatre company, appeared at NYC's Symphony Space's Selected Shorts reading selections from Paul Auster's work, and has been involved in other readings at the Queens Museum of Art, etc.Imperioli is very motivated to publicize and...
| Автор | Michael Imperioli |
Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on ( Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's novel is from the point of view of a female skater, the culture of female skaters in particular was recently covered in the New York Times . Tara Jepsen's prose is fresh,...
| Автор | Tara Jepsen |
For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a ”pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father’s disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics" ― The Guardian Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of the bedtime stories he used to tell. The...
| Автор | Pierre Jarawan |
The author grew up in the only mixed-race family in an all-white suburb; with Mostly White , she speaks to mixed-race experiences many have but do not see widely depicted in literature. A strong theme of institutionalized racism ties in to current nationwide discussions of race and class. The author is well-established in the California literary scene; she has been a featured reader at the LA Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, the Works/San Jose Art and Performance Center, Oakland Beast...
| Автор | Alison Hart |
"Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because it means you are about to lose someone you love." Llorona is the only girl Guero has ever loved. A wounded soul, she has adopted the name of a ghost from Mexican folklore. True to her namesake, Llorona cast Guero away with the coldness of the apparition she has become. But Guero–though he...
| Автор | Rubén Degollado |
Zahia Rahmani was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and as a member of the College of the Diversity. She was awarded Special Mention Prize by the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for Muslim: A Novel ; the prize is given annually to a book that displays an «audacity, an excess, a singularity that escapes commercial purviews.» She is considered one of France’s leading art historians and writers, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s Gallatin Faculty. Muslim: A Novel is the second...
| Автор | Zahia Rahmani |
A man in his early forties is unable to sleep as he contemplates the decision of running for mayor of his small town. While considering his options, his thoughts drift to his wife and their devoted relationship. As he reflects on his good fortune, one fact becomes apparent—his relationship with his wife originated even before it began. In 1992, life is anything but predictable for fifteen-year-old Scott Furman as he comes of age in his Midwestern small lower-class town of South Hillside. An...
| Автор | A. S. Peterson |
Big Hig gehört zu den Wenigen, die eine verheerende Epidemie überlebt haben. Ebenso wie sein einziger Nachbar, ein menschenfeindlicher Waffennarr mit dem Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, der ihn – brutal, aber verlässlich – beschützt. Hig lebt im Hangar eines verwilderten Flughafens und tuckert mit einer alten Cessna übers Gelände, sein Hund Jasper ist sein treuer Copilot. Eines Tages empfängt er plötzlich ein Funksignal von weit her. Gibt es doch noch weitere Überlebende, jenseits seines kleinen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Der arme Spielmann Als Sohn eines hohen und einflussreichen Staatsbeamten versagt Jakob, weich, träumerisch und nach innen gewandt, vor den Anforderungen der Wirklichkeit. Er wird vom ehrgeizigen und jähzornigen Vater von der Schule genommen und muss als kleiner Schreiber in einem Büro arbeiten. Aber auch hier entzieht er sich der lauten und rohen Umwelt; nur sein Geigenspiel und Barbara, die Tochter eines Kuchenbäckers, die er schüchtern liebt, sind ihm Zuflucht und Lebensinhalt. Barbara ist...
| Автор | Franz Grillparzer |
Mark Twains Tom Sawyers Abenteuer ist als klassisches Jugendbuch in die Weltliteratur eingegangen und wird von den meisten Menschen wohl zweimal entdeckt: einmal im Alter Toms, wenn man selbst auf gefährliche Abenteuer auszieht, und irgendwann in späteren Jahren, wenn man auf diese Zeit zurück schaut. Mit Musik von Moondog aus seinen Veröffentlichungen Elpmas und Sax Pax For A Sax Die Produktion wurde im November 2002 auf die hr2-Hörbuch-Bestenliste gewählt "Mit jungenhafter...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
England, Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Lord Henry Wotton, ein geistreicher englischer Aristokrat und Dandy, ist fasziniert vom Aussehen des jungen Dorian Gray. Im Atelier seines Freundes, dem Maler Basil Hallward, versucht Henry, den noch knabenhaften Dorian zu manipulieren, um ihn letztendlich als Jünger für seine hedonistischen Ideale zu gewinnen.Durch den Einfluss des Lords wird sich der junge Mann der eigenen Schönheit als auch deren Vergänglichkeit bewusst. Dies lässt ihn im Angesicht...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Beeinflußt durch die Ereignisse der französischen Revolution und die aufkeimende Freundschaft zu Schiller reifte blickt dieser Roman auf die Lehrzeit eines poetisch gesonnenen Bürgermanns in der vorrevolutionären Gegenwart. Als Finacier einer Schauspielertruppe bricht Wilhelm aus seiner engen bürgerlichen Herkunft aus und blickt hinein in die Welt des Theaters. Was als Irrweg erscheint, entwickelt sich zum Lebensweg; immer wieder neues Irren lehrt Wilhelm zu leben. Lebendige Darstellung der...
| Автор | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
* The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction *The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*A Best Book of 2019 — Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." —Carmen Maria...
| Автор | Sarah Rose Etter |
Disc one includes: Gwen's Adventure in the Snow; Rosa's Tale; What Polly Found in Her Stocking; A Hospital Christmas. Disc two includes: A Hospital Christmas (continued); A Country Christmas. Disc three includes: A Country Christmas (continued); Mrs. Podgers' Teapot; Peace from Heaven; The Quiet Little Women. Disc four includes: The Quiet Little Women (continued); A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True; A Song; Kate's Choice; Bertie's Box. Disc five includes:...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Der Deichgraf Hauke Haien hat den kühnen Plan, einen neuen, besseren Deich zu bauen. Doch die Dorfbewohner stehen dem Vorhaben skeptisch gegenüber. Ihr Aberglaube wird noch genährt, als der Deichgraf einen lahmen Schimmel kauft, der unter seinen Händen prächtig gedeiht. In einem Oktober jagt der Deichgraf auf seinem Schimmel zum Deich hinaus, der von einem schweren Unwetter bedroht wird. Um den alten Damm zu retten, müsste er den neuen einreißen, was er aber verweigert. Da bricht der alte Damm,...
| Автор | Theodor Storm |
In Heart of Darkness, Polish-British author Joseph Conrad deploys atmosphere, ambiguity and nuance to spin a languid tale of intrigue and madness in late 19th-century Colonial Africa. The story's narrator, Marlow, tells of a trip up the Congo River to rescue a legendary ivory trader, Kurtz, from a mysterious illness. Considered Conrad's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century (it was written and serialized in 1899 but not published in book form until 1902),...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to Zeena, his older and ailing wife, Ethan Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of their youthful cousin, Mattie Silver, who becomes employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but also stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. However, their growing love for each other is discovered by the embittered Zeena, and it presages an ending to the tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.
| Автор | Edith Wharton |
In this Christmas story, a poor girl named Tilly finds an injured bird in the snow and takes it home to care for it, believing in the lessons her mother has taught her concerning the golden rule and Christ's commandment to love our neighbors. Although her friends think she shouldn't take care of the bird, her kindness is rewarded unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. This version of Tilly's Christmas is included as a part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott.
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |