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In geselliger Männerrunde bei einer Feuerzangenbowle beschließt der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, entgangene Schulerlebnisse nachzuholen. Smoking und Zigarren, mondäne Freundin und Mercedes bleiben in Berlin zurück. Als Oberprimaner Pfeiffer nimmt er sich ein möbliertes Zimmer, geht ins Babenberger Gymnasium und wird zum Helden zahlreicher berühmter Streiche…
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
There's a woman here who wishes to be introduced to you Mr Pemberton . . . I should caution you, though. She has frightened off every other bachelor in Boston . . . Just remember you were warned, just as I've warned her. 1929. George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and saves her husband's life in the...
| Автор | Ron Rash |
Imprisoned by the Philistines, blind and chained, his hair shorn and his strength sapped, Samson's story is one of great feats of violence and even greater hubris. He believes that he has been sent by God to deliver his people from the heathens, and so strong is his conviction in his divine mission that his behaviour verges on the psychopathic. His delight in killing for God knows no bounds, and his Herculean speed and strength seems unstoppable, but then there's Dalila… In...
| Автор | David Maine |
London, 1593. A city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, strangers are unwelcome, suspicion is wholesale, severed heads grin from the spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet and spy, Christopher Marlowe walks the city's mean streets with just three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer escaped from the pages of his most violent play. Tamburlaine Must Die is the searing adventure of a man who dares to defy both God and the state and whose murder remains a taunting...
| Автор | Louise Welsh |
There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. Thanks to his home-distilled hooch, Ol' Death Whisper, he reckons he's in with good shot at immortality. And then there's Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent. And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound mallard, partial to a drink herself, whose unique presence transforms the Santee household. ...
| Автор | Jim Dodge |
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes – and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's best friend, who has suffered a tragedy of her own. With the flash of a camera, one girl's life is shattered and another's is altered forever.
| Автор | Lidia Yuknavitch |
Now available in eBook. One hot summer afternoon in South Yorkshire, Faro sits at a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has travelled from London to the Northern mining town where generations of her family have lived and worked, to explore her own past. Decades before, in the early twentieth century, Bessie Bawtry also ponders her place in the world. A child of unusual determination and precocious intelligence, she longs for the day she will eventually escape the working class life her...
| Автор | Margaret Drabble |
Captured American airmen, their faces a ghastly purple, are leading savage suicide attacks against their own men. Backed by his Battle Aces, G-8 uses all his powers of disguise and daring to smash the devilish plot – and all his fighting nerve as his Spad takes to the air against the mystery staffel of the Purple Aces.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Resi hätte wissen können, dass ein Untermietverhältnis unter Freunden nicht die sicherste Wohnform darstellt, denn Freundschaft hört bekanntlich beim Geld auf. Sie hätte wissen können, dass spätestens mit der Familiengründung der erbfähige Teil ihrer Clique abbiegt in Richtung Eigenheim und Abschottung und sie als Aufsteigerkind zusehen muss, wie sie da mithält. Aber Resi wusste es nicht.
| Автор | Anke Stelling |
*Longlisted for the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award* Once upon a time there was a Persian prince. The prince had many brothers, for his father had married over a thousand wives, but Prince Naser alone stood to inherit the kingdom. As the prince ascends to the throne we lurk in his shadow to overhear the whispered intrigues and plotting of bloody battles. The weight of the nation bears heavily on Shah Naser's shoulders. Will this young king triumph or will he succumb to the...
| Автор | Kader Abdolah |
“Jy sit op ’n brander en dink jy gaan in een rigting, dan stoot die onderste oseaan en slaan die branders ’n ander rigting in. Jy verloor jou bewussyn. Die volgende oggend, jare later, word jy wakker op ’n vreemde strand. Jy staan verdwaas op en wil dieselfde rigting in stap wat jy van vroeër onthou, maar die pad is weg, die deur is toe, die een wat jy onthou is nie daar nie, jy kan nie terug nie. Jy staan verdwaas op. Jy het verdwaal, hy het verdwyn. Ek kan nie onthou hoe ek hier beland het...
| Автор | Valda Jansen |
Few in his native Scotland know about Thomas Pringle – the abolitionist, publisher, and – some would say – Father of South African Poetry. A biography of Pringle is in order, and a reluctant writer takes up this task. To help tell the story of Pringle is the spectre of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave whose history he had once published. Also offering advice is the ghost of Hinza Marossi, Pringle’s adopted Khoesan son, and the timetraveller Sir Nicholas Greene, a character exhumed from the...
| Автор | Zoeë Wicomb |
Media tycoon Reece Callahan would publish scandalous information about Lauren Courtney's stepfather – unless she agreed to pose as Reece's mistress for a week. It was a price Lauren was willing to pay to protect her beloved stepfather's name.And it wasn't exactly hard – jet-setting around the world to luxurious locations, going to glittering social occasions. Even spending twenty-four hours a day with the cool and ruthless Reece was tolerable – he was gorgeous, after all!In...
| Автор | Sandra Field |
Gina Arnett came home to Saddler’s Prairie to say goodbye to her uncle and sell the family ranch she’s just inherited. Her focus is on getting back to Chicago and her high-powered job.Two things change her plans: a sudden blizzard that snows in the small town, and Zach Horton—the ranch foreman who tries to convince her to stay. Gina’s boundless ambition is something Zach understands all too well. He’s kept his own past a secret, and to uncover it, she’ll have to reveal her own uncomfortable...
| Автор | Ann Roth |
"Das Schloß" ist der letzte große unvollendete Roman Franz Kafkas. 1926 postum von Max Brod veröffentlicht, erzählt er von K., der vom Grafen eines ländlich gelegenen Schlosses als Landvermesser beauftragt wird. Doch K.s Versuche, ins Schloß zu gelangen, scheitern ebenso wie sein Bemühen, im Dorf seinen Platz zu finden.
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
Years ago, Whit Tanner had taken Melissa Jacobs into his bed – into his heart – only to have her marry his best friend.Now the pretty widow was struggling to raise her son alone. And Whit was bound by Tanner honor not to deny her request for help…. Melissa Jacobs had a son to think of, a future to protect. But once she saw Whit Tanner, surrendered to his tender touch, she found herself wanting it all, wishing for what could have been.Wondering if the rugged cowboy would ever love her again once...
| Автор | Peggy Moreland |
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND Single mum Annie Bernard needed a new beginning for her young son and a miracle for her run-down farm. Enter Mitch Ryder, the sexy blue-eyed handyman who answered her call for help. Mitch yearned for more time before he had to return to the life he left behind.And what better way to avoid his past than to mistakenly slip into the role of Annie’s handyman? He just never counted on falling for Annie and her precious son. His true identity might be hidden, but his...
| Автор | Susan Crosby |
When Kat O'Brien saw the rain-soaked stranger pull up on his motorcycle, her instincts went on red-alert. Except he was no stranger. He was Dane Rainhart, hometown war hero…and Kat's girlhood crush. Now the single mother was more intrigued than ever by this sexy, powerful man who was already bonding with her son. After being wounded in the line of duty, Dane needed a place to mend–and hide away from the world.Instead, the haunted military doctor was falling for the much-too-attractive...
| Автор | Mary J. Forbes |
When Karyn Lambert appears on Vaughn Ryder’s doorstep, claiming to be his little girl’s aunt, he can hardly turn her away.Instead, the guarded rancher invites her to stay, and soon they’re engaged in a battle of the sexes and fighting the raging attraction that blooms the instant Karyn steps over the threshold! For years Vaughn has been focused only on being the perfect father.Now the bubbly personal shopper has taken hold of his heart and he wonders if they might be able to create the perfect...
| Автор | Susan Crosby |
For better…or for worse? When she sees Lanzo di Cosimo again after ten years, Gina Bailey’s pulse races at the memories of their heady affair – a time when life seemed perfect. Now she is far from being the carefree innocent she was before. Abused by her exhusband, and with her dreams of a family dashed, she’s built up barriers around her heart.But Lanzo’s sweet caress implies that he wants Gina for the long term. Can she afford to surrender in the hope that he might protect her, cherish her,...
| Автор | Шантель Шоу |