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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 |
When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life. What followed in the years after that journey could not have been foreseen by Peter or his countrymen. In 1941, the Ukraine was invaded by Hitler’s army and remained under its control until its retreat two years later, taking Peter and his young family with them, as workers in Germany’s labour camps...
| Автор | Olga Chaplin |
Sadistic Hamish McMurtrie ‘Hacka’ Blanchard hatches a brutal but brilliant plan, the cold-hearted brutality of which shocks even the hardest-nosed policemen. With the aid of three former cellmates, he contrives to kidnap two federal politicians and demand a $5 million ransom from the government. Nothing could go wrong. But Senior Sergeant Ken McLoughlin and his partner Tony Delarosa have other plans. In a dangerous race against time, they sweep through the sun-drenched Great Barrier Reef, the...
| Автор | Graham Guy |
