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Through a Glass, Darkly

Charlotte Miller

Through a Glass, Darkly

Charlotte Miller’s debut novel, Behold, This Dreamer, was a regional success story in 2000-2001. She continues now with the second installment of her trilogy exploring romance, culture, and place in the Depression-era Deep South. In the new book, Janson Sanders and his new bride, Elise, have been exiled by her wealthy father and have returned, penniless and landless, to his poor-but-proud relatives in Alabama. There, they struggle to build a life for themselves and to recover the family farm...

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Charlotte Miller

Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside t...

Clayton Sullivan

Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church

Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church, Beulah Buchanan at age 16 marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents, thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Over the next six years, Beulah works in her domineering husband’s cafe all day and cooks him dinner at home every night, dutifully attends church, and falls into an affair with the preacher. When she embarasses her husband by not cooking enough food for the ravenous visiting revival preacher, Ralph...

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Clayton Sullivan

Reload Hörbuch Deutsch

Ксюша Ангел

Reload Hörbuch Deutsch

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Ксюша Ангел

Fitness Tracks, Vol. 1

Ксюша Ангел

Fitness Tracks, Vol. 1

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Ксюша Ангел

Niemandsland (Ungekürzt)

Gernot Wolfgruber

Niemandsland (Ungekürzt)

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Gernot Wolfgruber

Ankunftsversuch (Ungekürzt)

Gernot Wolfgruber

Ankunftsversuch (Ungekürzt)

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Gernot Wolfgruber

Escape from Coolville

Sherman Sutherland

Escape from Coolville

L.J. Davenport is the best telephone psychic at the Appalachian TeleServices call center, if best means most persuasive while offering outlandish advice. When a self-appointed karmic enforcer is among the group of new hires, will L.J. foresee how much his world is about to change? Subconscious monster truck announcers, post-teen angst and cubicles full of telephone psychics–Escape from Coolville has that and more. –So much more. A meth-addicted wookie. –Chewbacca. A beautiful young woman. ...

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Sherman Sutherland

Eden Rise

Robert Jeff Norrell

Eden Rise

In Eden Rise Tom McKee, a white college freshman, returns to his home in the Alabama Black Belt in the summer of 1965 and becomes embroiled in a civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity. His wealthy and powerful family is not prepared for the shocks that have followed the racial quake of the Selma March a few months earlier. Tom’s black college friend accompanies him home and gets caught in racial violence. Coming to his friend’s defense, Tom earns the enmity...

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Robert Jeff Norrell

Watershed

Mark Barr

Watershed

Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn’t known she possessed. The arrival of electricity in the rural community, where...

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Mark Barr

Forsaken

Ross Howell

Forsaken

In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. «Virgie» died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters,...

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Ross Howell

Aussage (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Aussage (Ungekürzt)

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Helmut Zenker

Für so einen wie dich (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Für so einen wie dich (Ungekürzt)

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Helmut Zenker

Die Nähe der Sonne (Ungekürzt)

Gernot Wolfgruber

Die Nähe der Sonne (Ungekürzt)

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Gernot Wolfgruber

Verlauf eines Sommers (Ungekürzt)

Gernot Wolfgruber

Verlauf eines Sommers (Ungekürzt)

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Gernot Wolfgruber

Dantons Tod (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Dantons Tod (Ungekürzt)

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Helmut Zenker

Herrenjahre (Ungekürzt)

Gernot Wolfgruber

Herrenjahre (Ungekürzt)

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Gernot Wolfgruber

Fallout

Mark Ethridge

Fallout

Josh Gibbs decided he was through with investigative reporting when controversy derailed his Pulitzer Prize ambitions in Atlanta. Now editor of a weekly paper, he gets two pieces of news from Dr. Allison Wright that change everything. The first is that his daughter has cancer. The second – that a mysterious condition is plaguing Wright’s patients – leads the widowed newspaperman and divorced physician in pursuit of an unimaginable danger. Fallout is the story of their journey – a journey through...

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Mark Ethridge

Coasters

Gerald Duff

Coasters

Waylon McPhee, middle-aged and divorced, moves back in with his widowed father in hopes of coasting through another year. But his father is dating again, and his sisters are trying to manipulate Waylon into asking their father for their inheritance before he gives it to a second wife. The sarcastic Waylon, juggling his relationships and responsibilities caustically but light-heartedly, hangs on hoping to recover something he lost in his youth: enough momentum to reach escape velocity. By turns...

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Gerald Duff

The Yazoo Blues

John Pritchard

The Yazoo Blues

Junior Ray Loveblood, one of the most outrageous and original personalities to appear in American literature in many years, returns in The Yazoo Blues, the sequel to John Pritchard’s Junior Ray. Now semi-retired, Loveblood works as a security guard in one of the floating casinos that have replaced cotton as the cash crop in the Mississippi Delta. In his spare time, Junior Ray has become obsessed with the ill-fated Yazoo Pass expedition by a Union armada up the Mississippi River in 1863. He...

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John Pritchard

A Walk with Love and Death

Hans Koning

A Walk with Love and Death

During the plague year of 1358, Heron, a French student, decides to walk to the sea and then to seek passage to England. His journey symbolizes freedom, as he turns his back on both the ruling oligarchy and the peasant armies forming all over Europe. He travels through a chaotic wasteland, where armies clash for unknown reasons, where the barren countryside is plagued by robbers and warlords. He meets death, destruction, and famine before finally finding Claudia, the daughter of a medieval lord....

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Hans Koning