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“Stay Out Of The Woods” is an adventure story about a group of young boys that hang out together. Logan Archer, his cousin Jacob, brothers Jordan and Quinn, and lastly, a boy named Sammy. They are ordinary ten year old boys that live in a small town in the late 1950’s. Their trouble started when Logan goes reluctantly into the woods to catch his dog. No-one has been allowed in those woods since a meteor fell there. Logan ran out of there as fast as he could when he saw a man with a gun look up...
| Автор | Ruth-Anne Mullan |
Young Finto excelled at an early age in every possible way. He established his most important relationship here with Jules. As he reached notoriety on and off the field of play, he was adopted by the Children’s Halls’ most generous donor, Mr. Negrassi. When the Rassi was old enough to leave the Hall, he chose to serve the country he was so blessed to call home. After his service was complete, he returned home to his friend Jules and those he cared for most. This included Mr. Negrassi, who passed...
| Автор | Sherman E. Hister |
Despite several years of study, Kilisha, an aspiring young apprentice wizard, has much to learn. After gathering ingredients for a lesson, she returns home to find her master, Ithanalin the Wise, transformed into a statue. A tax collector interrupted Ithanalin while working on a spell, a magic mirror tells her, with the result that the wizard's soul has been distributed among the various household objects. «The dish had run away with the spoon» is literally the case here, as all the...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
The participants in an epic battle fought thousands of years ago have risen again, and the world as we know it is almost at an end. When seventeen year-old Alex Stone leaves Northwood Boarding school to accompany her father on a controversial archeological dig in Egypt, she has no idea that she will be responsible for awakening Set, the dark god of chaos. The balance between good and evil has tipped in Set's favor, and only Isis, goddess of light and Ancient Egypt's most fearsome...
| Автор | Matthew J. Elliott |
Dit het alles begin met ’n waterpyp wat die nuwe buurman in sy tuin raakgespit het terwyl Erin besig was om haar hare te kleur. Die gebleikte haardos was ’n ramp en haar eerste ontmoeting met Francois ’n fiasko. Die vlaswit hare kon sy mettertyd aanvaar. Maar die skade wat die verleidelike Bolander met die kwiksilwer oë aan haar hart veroorsaak het, was onherroeplik. Sy weet hy’s ’n rokjagter en ’n meisie-morser; sy weet sy moet hom uit haar lewe sny. Maar ’n verraderlike hart laat hom nie...
| Автор | Ettie Bierman |
Cilla is ’n hoërskoolonderwyseres op die Overbergse dorp Caledon. Haar groot liefde is diere – perde in die besonder – en sy kan van kleins af met hulle kommunikeer. Toe Reynecke Retief se hings probleme gee, vra sy plaasbestuurder haar om te help uitvind wat die perd pla, maar dis gou vir haar duidelik dat Reynecke haar nie vertrou nie. Trouens, hy beskuldig haar daarvan dat sy sy perd wil toor, en haar intuïtiewe benadering staan hom geensins aan nie. Maar sy diepblou oë en swart krulhare is...
| Автор | Elsa Winckler |
Engela, teatersuster in murg en been, keer terug hospitaal toe ná langverlof. Nie net lyk die gebou binne en buite nuut nie, maar dit spog ook met ’n hele paar vreemde gesigte, waaronder ’n nuwe dokter, Johan Kotze, en superintendent Gerhard de Beer. Engeltjie, soos die personeel haar noem, beland egter sommer met die intrapslag aan die superintendent se verkeerde kant, tot so ’n mate dat die verpleegsters dink hulle moet liewer ingryp. In dokter Johan Kotze ontdek Engela weer ’n opregte vriend,...
| Автор | Naretha Franken |
In this tour-de-force of invention, by ranging across Guyanese ethnicities, gender and time in the purported authorship of these stories, Mark McWatt creates a richly dialogic work of fiction. Back in 1966, each of a group of Guyanese sixth-formers is 'sentenced' to write a short story that reflects their newly independent country. Years later, Mark McWatt, one of the group, is handed the papers of his old school friend, Victor Nunes, who has disappeared, feared drowned, in the...
| Автор | Mark McWatt |
‘It’s like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off played out in the French sticks’ The Independent Anna Gavalda explores the themes of time passing and the highs and lows of family life, with characteristic wit, warmth, and brilliant characterisation. On the car journey to a family wedding, Garance reflects on how adult life, with its disappointments and responsibilities, has not always gone to plan for herself or her three siblings. ...
| Автор | Анна Гавальда |
An early work by the Marquis de Sade «Justine, Or, The Misfortunes of Virtue» was originally written during a two week period in 1787 while the author was imprisoned in the Bastille. The story is concerned with the titular character, a twelve year old maiden who sets off, to make her way in France, and follows her through age twenty-six in her quest for virtue. In the search for work and shelter Justine continuously falls prey to a series of scoundrels who subject her to sexual torture and...
| Автор | Маркиз де Сад |