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"Dieses Buch ist tief bewegend und trifft einen mitten ins Herz." Elke Heidenreich Alle erhalten ihre Wunde. Alle scheitern, alle brechen oder werden schließlich von Erfahrungen der Niederlage und der Vereitelung, der Entsagung, wenn nicht der Resignation ereilt. Mancher erhält seinen Knacks durch einen Verlust, einen Schmerz, ein Trauma. Der Knacks, das ist der Moment, in dem das Leben die Richtung wechselt und nichts mehr ist wie zuvor. Aber mehr noch als die großen Brüche interessieren...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Was machen drei junge, hypochondrische Freunde samt einem neurotischen Foxterrier, wenn sie dem Wetter entfliehen wollen und wilde Abenteuer suchen? Sie packen Blazer, Hut und Schlips ein und fahren in einem Ruderboot auf der Themse in die Wildnis hinauf. Doch sie haben den Büchsenöffner vergessen, die Zahnbürste ist unauffindbar, und wenn sie einem Schild begegnen, auf dem steht «Achtung! Gefahr! Nicht hier entlang!», dann steuern sie schnurstracks in ihr Verderben. Ungekürzte Lesung des...
| Автор | Джером К. Джером |
2020. aasta 12. märtsil kell 23.54 kuulutatakse Eestis välja eriolukord. 2020. aasta 2. aprilli õhtul lobiseb selle raamatu autor Messengeris ühe tuttava arstiga. Arst on Kuressaare haiglas. Võtab vastu uksest ja aknast tulevaid patsiente. Hooldajaid napib aina enam. Elo on aastaid tagasi pikalt põetanud oma isa. Arstidelt, õdedelt ja hooldajatelt omandatud toonased kogemused annavad talle kindlust pakkuda ennast appi koristajaks. Nii satub Elo Selirand, režissöör, stsenarist ja kirjanik,...
| Автор | Elo Selirand |
Joseph Levy leads a quiet life in rural Wheaton, Arizona. Retired from a long career in psychiatric research and practice, he reads, writes, and walks in the mountains and hills near the Native reservation. His quiet life ends, however, when a dental crown replacement causes trouble just before meeting an internet date in California. Thus begins a year of back-to-back nightmare infections, a drug overdose, and two failed relationships. At every step, Levy is confronted by matters of life and...
| Автор | Rick Strassman |
None of the neighbors considered it trespassing. The run-down shack on five overgrown acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills had been abandoned for years. But their exploits on the land are suddenly threatened when a woman appears out of nowhere, claiming to have just inherited the place. As she starts digging around, she does far more than uncover weeds and rocks: she uproots the very landscape of each of their lives. “Gently and poetically, Sara takes us on a journey into rural America where...
| Автор | Adina Sara |
This book is a heady journey through the counterculture of the 60s and beyond. The narrator is the fortunate product of its particular manifestation in California, experiencing this unique spread of years in all its intensity at just the right age. He enjoys a childhood in Brentwood, near the beaches of Los Angeles where he went to school with the children of Hollywood celebrities, and moves, when older, to Venice Beach and Topanga Canyon. He then heads north to La Honda, Oakland and finally...
| Автор | Donald Ellis Rothenberg |
This provocative novel takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-’60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about everybody and why he wants to shoot Leland Shaw, a shell-shocked World War II hero and poet who is hiding in a silo from what he believes are German patrols. Through a series of sleights of hand,...
| Автор | John Pritchard |
Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for their infant daughter. Michel Stone s harrowing novel meticulously examines the obstacles each faces in pursuing a new life: manipulation, rape, and murder in the perilous commerce of border crossings; betrayal by family and friends; exploitation by corrupt officials and...
| Автор | Michel Stone |
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...
| Автор | Charlotte Miller |
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...
| Автор | Clayton Sullivan |
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. ...
| Автор | Sherman Sutherland |
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...
| Автор | Robert Jeff Norrell |
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...
| Автор | Mark Barr |
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,...
| Автор | Ross Howell |
