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From glittering debauched nights of 1980s Hollywood («Escape from Houdini Mountain») to the festering bowels of New York's Lower East Side («Must Have Been Love»), these 26 mind-bending tales chronicle a young woman's quest for romantic adventure. Infectiously entertaining, Escape from Houdini Mountain is a rollicking ride of a read with resonance.
| Автор | Pleasant Gehman |
Readership includes, but is not limited to: -the GLBT community -readers of Latin-American literature -those diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and/or Tourette's Syndrome -urban hipsters
| Автор | Myriam Gurba |
In this wholly unpredictable collection of tongue-in-chic short stories, NY Times bestselling author Beth Lisick casts a cool eye on the lost and living dead of offices, nightclubs, shopping malls, and rent-controlled apartments. Pretentious web designers, reality show wannabes, and hipster party girls are among the characters populating a seemingly ordinary world teetering on the brink of chaos.
| Автор | Beth Lisick |
‘Both comic and deeply serious. A truly dazzling debut.’ BERYL BAINBRIDGEJemima Weiss grew up with a special feeling for Action Man, American westerns, the Knights of the Round Table, bagels with cheddar on the top and, above all else, her family: her rumpled father, glamorous mother and four remarkable siblings. Now grown into a worldly yet deeply troubled woman, Jem reflects on her days as a young girl, even as she struggles not to be engulfed by the present.An edgy and deeply funny account...
| Автор | Emma Richler |
Shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2020 ‘A tense page-turning thriller…powerful’ The Times‘A masterful feat of storytelling’ Tim Pears, author of The West Country trilogy* * * * * *As a young woman, May found that sometimes it was easier to say nothing and cope with what life threw at her in silence. Now, decades later, May has suffered a stroke and has lost her ability to speak. She is still as sharp as ever, but only her daughter and a new friend from the care home, see this.When...
| Автор | Rosalind Stopps |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps readers away to a sun-drenched summer on the shores of Willow Lake in a stunning tale of the delicate ties that bind a family together…and the secrets that tear them apart When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form...
| Автор | Susan Wiggs |
Das Weihnachtslied «Alle Jahre wieder» kennt jedes Kind. In Gedichtform vorgetragen ist es umso besinnlicher … Doris Wolters interpretiert den bekannten Text von Wilhelm Hey wunderbar stimmungsvoll.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Auf dem Land werden die Christwochen-Aufführungen gezeigt, doch der Mutter sind diese Spiele verhasst. Aber die Tante, die auf dem Land aufgewachsen ist, liebt diese Aufführungen und nimmt den Protagonisten heimlich mit … Christian Rode liest einen Auszug aus Sergei Aksakows «Familienchronik».
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Der zweideutige Regenschirm" ist eine kurze Erzählung über die männliche Eitelkeit. Eine junge Frau leiht einem Mann einen Regenschirm, aber ist das dann auch immer gleich eine Einladung? Konrad Beikircher liest Moritz Gottlieb Saphiers lustige Erzählung über einen missverständlichen Regenschirm.
| Автор | Moritz Gottlieb Saphir |
At Dante’s ServiceToo hot to handle!Private chef Rebekah Evans has vowed to keep her oven gloves firmly off her boss, sizzlingly hot celebrity divorce lawyer Dante Jarrell. But one night things heat up in the kitchen… Dante never would have imagined that Rebekah’s chef’s whites hid such luscious curves! He’s not yet had his fill so he whisks her away to Tuscany, where he makes it clear that he wants her…no (apron) strings attached. In the intense heat of their affair Rebekah is slowly breaking...
| Автор | Шантель Шоу |
Return of the Untamed BillionaireEvery night, prima ballerina Anya Ilyushin dances for Roman Zverev – the man who once captured her heart, before shattering it. Anya has buried the fragments behind an impenetrable wall, but when Roman saunters into her dressing room, their fierce attraction is rekindled…Beneath Roman’s wealth and sophistication lies an untamed wildness – there’s nothing civilised about what he feels for Anya! He left before their longing could consume them both, but memories...
| Автор | Tara Pammi |
Die Geschichten in Raumpatrouille sind literarische Reisen in einen Kosmos, den jeder kennt: der Kosmos der eigenen Kindheit. In diesem Fall einer Kindheit in den Siebzigerjahren des letzten Jahrhunderts in einer kleinen Stadt am Rhein, die damals Bundeshauptstadt war. Einer Kindheit, zu der neben dem Abenteuer und der Hochstapelei auch Phantasie, Gefahr und Einsamkeit gehören.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A translator, fed up with translating paperback romances, undertakes the translation of the autobiography of a sadistic serial killer, Leonard Ming. She travels from Canada to Spain to do her work, encountering love and death in the seaside Andalusian town of Almunecar.
| Автор | Hélène Rioux |
Runner-up for the 2004 ReLit Award High fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all these when he’s suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today’s Toronto. Stacey’s part black, part white, and apparently on a fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as if he’s standing still. But does he really want the glitz?
| Автор | Kim Barry Brunhuber |
Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Translation Larry Volt is one of the rare Quebec novels that deals with the FLQ crisis. Pierre Tourangeau captures a generation of young people who are rebelling, but above all, searching.
| Автор | Pierre Tourangeau |
To Blackmail a Di Sione by Rachael Thomas Billionaire Liev Dragunov has spent a lifetime plotting revenge against those responsible for his family's ruin. Finally he has the way: Bianca Di Sione. She's denied their obvious attraction and coolly rebuffs every request to work for him-until he finds her weakness: a diamond bracelet she desperately needs! Bianca must become his fake fiancee if she wants her trinket! But the taste of revenge isn't as sweet as desire, and Liev discovers...
| Автор | Шантель Шоу |
Morelli’s Mistress by Anne MatherFive years ago Abby Laurence would have given anything to be Luke Morelli's mistress. The taste of his lips and the burn of his touch offered a safety and sanctuary she craved more than anything. But Luke's love was off-limits, because Abby was married to another man…A Tycoon to be Reckoned With by Julie James Bastiaan Karavalas loves the thrill of the hunt. His prey this time is tantalising Sarah Fareham. Pity this seduction won't be purely for...
| Автор | Julia James |
Four Passionate Modern Romances all in One Bundle A Di Sione for the Greek's Pleasure “Finding my book will take you on a journey in more ways than one.”Natalia is trembling. She hasn’t left the Di Sione estate in years, but must retrieve her grandfather’s lost book of poems from formidable tycoon Angelos Menas – who’s just mistaken her for his daughter’s new nanny!The brooding Greek and his precious daughter were scarred in the fire that claimed his wife, and Talia is drawn to man beneath...
| Автор | Линн Грэхем |
Novelist and poet Claude Le Bouthillier draws on his Acadian and New Brunswick heritage to create Phantom Ships. First published in 1989 as Le Feu du Mauvais Temps , it gives an account of the end of the French Empire in Canada as experienced by the authors own ancestor, Joseph Le Bouthillier.
| Автор | Susan Ouriou |
Four tantalising tales of desire!Twins for the Billionaire by Sarah M. AndersonWidowed mum Sofia Bingham needs a job – fast! Her babies won't feed themselves. Working for real estate tycoon Eric Jenner is the perfect solution. But her childhood buddy is all grown up now…and tempting as hell. Surely one unforgettable night of passion wouldn't hurt? After that, they can go back to being all business!Little Secrets: Holiday Baby Bombshell by Karen BoothCompetitive swimmer turned real...
| Автор | Charlene Sands |
From the bestselling author of The Kashmir ShawlDinah Steward has a secret. Hidden beneath the comfortable family life she shares with her successful husband Matthew and their two sons lies a shameful secret that has haunted Dinah for fifteen years. She and Matt never speak of it or the impossible choice he forced her to make all those years ago: they think the cracks have been papered over.But when a chance encounter brings the past into sharp focus once more, Dinah realises she can no longer...
| Автор | Rosie Thomas |