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Beth Brandon has always dreamed of owning a flower shop, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves…because, today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband. Izzy Vaughan thought she and her husband would stay together forever, but sometime last year, their love began to fade. They both find such joy in their young son Noah-but is he enough to keep them together? Eight years ago, something happened to these two women-something...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession-with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In Exteriors, Annie Ernaux concentrates not on the essential details of a relationship with a family member or lover as before but on ephemeral encounters within the larger circle of one's environment and the hundreds of strangers who inhabit it. Here, she captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is, in many ways, the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books, the first in which she appears largely...
| Автор | Annie Ernaux |
My father drowned in the Aegean Sea, fifty nautical miles northeast of the port of Piraeus. When it happened, my mother and I were at home in Toronto. It was early evening in Greece, afternoon for us, and I was at school when she found out. Niko Kiriakos, tentative heir to the ailing Calypso Shipping fleet, always suspected he was cursed. Following his sudden disappearance, his wife, Anna, and daughter, Zoe, are left adrift. Unmoored, they begin to test the boundaries of their lives, struggling...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In dieser Welt sterben Königinnen jung. Dunkelheit. Das Gefühl, zu fallen. Und dann: nichts. Eben noch stand Mailin in ihrer irischen Heimatstadt, plötzlich wacht sie in einer anderen Welt auf. Hier, im Königreich Lyaskye, trachtet ihr alles und jeder nach dem Leben – nur nicht der mysteriöse Fremde, der Mailin aus einer tödlichen Falle rettet. Der so gefährlich wirkt und sie dennoch beschützt. Und der ihr nicht verrät, wer er in Wahrheit ist. Erst, als er sie zum Königshof bringt, erkennt...
| Автор | Jennifer Benkau |
WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) – a devout Mennonite farmer – might have...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Raine returns as a sophomore, one year closer to fulfilling her dream of becoming the first witch FBI agent. More complex classes, special privileges, and deepening relationships keep her busy. There isn't time to investigate rumors of a large black dog roaming the campus. But when sightings turn into attacks, Raine can no longer deny something is wrong at the school. Time to be a hero. No one else is going to get hurt on her watch.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Vom sexuellen Elend, vom Untergang und von der Kraft des Witzes Seine Stärke sah Schmidt in Beobachtungen und in Witzen. Und so ist diese Hörproduktion ein fantastischer Mix aus scharfsinnig-poetischen Beobachtungen, derben Kalauern und intellektuellen Wortwitzen: Sex in Niedersachsen und Kannibalismus auf dem Mond; Adenauers Wiederaufrüstung und die letzten Überlebenden des 3. Weltkriegs; neblige Heidemoore und staubige Mondkrater. Virtuos wirbeln zwei Erzählungen durcheinander, bis man...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Nova hat viele Fähigkeiten. Sie spricht fünf Sprachen. Sie weiß, welche Zutaten auf ein gutes Sandwich gehören. Sie erkennt einen Lügner am Klang seiner Stimme. Aber eines kann sie nicht: sehen. Als eine Operation ihr die Sehkraft schenkt, findet sich die selbstbewusste junge Frau plötzlich nicht mehr zurecht. Die Sehenden scheinen mühelos Regeln zu befolgen, die sie sich erst erarbeiten muss. Dann begegnet sie Kate, deren Vergangenheit ebenfalls von Dunkelheit geprägt war. Gemeinsam stellen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Not every story has a happy ending. Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a bottle, and Papa has exiled himself to the barn with the birds. Big sister Kathy tells stories to Egg so that the world might not seem so awful.The Murakami family is not happy. But in the hands of Tamai Kobayashi, their story becomes a...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wie wäre es, wenn wir in das Bewusstsein eines anderen schlüpfen könnten? Was sähe ich, wenn ich die Welt durch deine Augen sähe? Um diese Fragen kreist dieser spannende Roman von Peter Høeg, mit dem er auf sehr persönliche Weise an den Bestseller «Der Susan-Effekt» anknüpft . «Von meinem ersten Buch an habe ich versucht, ein Fenster in eine andere Wirklichkeit aufzustoßen. Immerzu habe ich nach Bildern dafür gesucht. Zuvor waren es der Schnee, die Musik, der Humor, jetzt sind es Hirnscans und...
| Автор | Peter Høeg |
Set in Iran and New York City, this book tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried in Iran. Tucked in his pocket throughout the trip, the ashes propel him into a first-person excavation-full...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Katie has the ability and desire to see Brock again and show him and his guys a good time. Will that include any special time for the two of them? (Pandora hopes so). That stranger left a message about a sword and armor…but is Pandora willing to help or does she even know what he was talking about? Someone is stalking Calvin's girlfriend. He has to ask a couple of humans he respects for a little help-even if they won't remember who he is. Even in the middle of a war, humans will always...
| Автор | Laurie Starkey S. |
There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past. It also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green...
| Автор | Max Porter |
Twenty-four-year-old Mary Kendricks is a vivacious young teacher living in the quiet Northern town of Highford, her beauty turning heads wherever she goes. But when she catches the eye of Robert Carter, initial flattery quickly turns dangerous. Wherever she goes, Carter is not far behind and Mary soon becomes stifled by his attention, telling friends of her fears that he's getting too close. And then Mary's body is discovered, stabbed to death in her own bedroom. The case quickly...
| Автор | Neil White |
In dieser zauberhaften Fabel erzählt der Autor von seiner Begegnung mit einem «kleinen, ganz außergewöhnlichen Kerlchen», das er nach einem Flugzeugabsturz in der Wüste «tausend Meilen von jeder bewohnten Gegend» entfernt trifft. Von Tag zu Tag lernt er seinen neuen Freund besser kennen. Er hört von der wundersamen Heimat des kleinen Prinzen, von dessen Reise über sechs Planeten hin zur Erde und von den Weisheiten eines Fuchses. Es ist eine Geschichte über das, was wirklich zählt: Freundschaft,...
| Автор | Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери |
1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Please tell me how I can convince you to move out. Toby Dobbs...
| Автор | Лайза Джуэлл |
The interwoven tales of three women unfold in the voices of Sarah, Miriam, and Beth, whose unshakable friendship takes root in a Buffalo college dorm in the late 1960s. Fueled by the optimism and bravado of that era, they charge into adulthood with high expectations and lofty ideas. They were, as Beth would later observe, the first generation of women to feel entitled to interesting lives. At times, they find themselves living long distances from each other as each of them seeks new directions...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Young, beautiful, and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse, and her Instagrammable holidays. It's a long way from the neighborhood she started out in, and it's been far from easy. Along with making sure she always looks fabulous – because people didn't sacrifice their lives in the freedom struggle for black women to wear the same cheap T-shirts they wore during...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Als der elegante Jungunternehmer Richard an der Küste Devons der dunkelhaarigen Schönheit Isabel begegnet, ist es schnell um ihn geschehen. Isabel aber zögert, seinen Heiratsantrag anzunehmen: Sie hütet ein Geheimnis, das sie Richard nicht offenbaren kann. Der Bestsellerautorin Judith Lennox ist mit Das Haus in den Wolken eine wundervolle englische Familien-Saga gelungen, die in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts spielt. Doris Wolters fängt die Stimmung dieser Zeit eindrucksvoll ein.
| Автор | Judith Lennox |
In 1963, Annie Ernaux, twenty-three and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist and ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux...
| Автор | Annie Ernaux |
Jack exists in a world that has seen its fair share of tragedy, but also the success and the wealth that comes with it. One snowy night, he crosses paths with Evie, a homeless girl, and it changes everything. Three years on, Evie's life is very different. She's the assistant to a prestigious wedding gown designer, she's settled in Manhattan, has her own apartment and friendships she holds dear. But the past is lurking in the background, threatening to spoil everything, and...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Three months ago, there was a demon invasion. Due to that, old rules are thrown aside as the world figures out just who the enemy really is. A mercenary named Katie (or KatieDora by some) is trying to take a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately, both friends and foes want her in the worst possible way. Katie's Killers are facing a new reality, one where they are needed more than ever now that the world's eyes have been uncovered. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get up in the...
| Автор | Laurie Starkey S. |
By day, the park rings with the sound of children's excited laughter. But in the early hours of the morning, the isolated playground is cloaked in shadows – the perfect hiding place to conceal a brutal murder. When London journalist, Mark Roberts, is found battered to death, the police quickly arrest petty thief, Nick Connor. Criminal defence lawyer, Dan Grant, along with investigator Jayne Brett, are called to represent him – but with bloody footprints and a stolen wallet linking him to...
| Автор | Neil White |