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The Columbia space shuttle and its contents rain down on the people of Kiser, Texas, in Kathryn Schwille’s imaginative debut novel set six weeks before the invasion of Iraq. What Luck, This Life begins in the aftermath of the space shuttle’s break-up, as the people of Piney Woods watch their pastures swarm with searchers and reporters bluster at their doors. A shop owner defends herself against a sexual predator who is pushed to new boldness after he is disinvited to his family reunion. A...
| Автор | Kathryn Schwille |
Janson Sanders, part Cherokee, part poor-but-proud white, is intent on avenging his father’s death and taking back the land stolen from him by a wealthy planter. Parentless and alone, Janson sets out, hopping a train with only a few biscuits and some cold pieces of chicken to his name. Thus begins a journey across the Souh to earn enough money to return home and reclaim his birthright. He eventually settles on rich landowner William Whitley’s land, working alongside the poverty-stricken...
| Автор | Charlotte Miller |
After her father's death, Sarah Rutledge returns from North Carolina to Nicaragua in an attempt to prevent the family's property from being expropriated by the Sandinista government. The novel begins with Sarah's childhood on the coffee farm where her British-American family has lived for almost a century. Natural disasters, civil conflicts, and political changes force her to ponder who belongs in Nicaragua, just where she belongs, to whom she belongs, and what belongs to her....
| Автор | John Keith |
For more than twenty years, the murder of a thirteen-year-year-old boy during racial unrest in rural South Carolina has gone unpunished, unsolved, even uninvestigated. But that changes when Charlotte Times reporter Matt Harper sits down with a fellow who shows up in the newsroom, a guy with a grievance. As he struggles with his journalistic legacy, Harper comes to understand why the investigation must be pursued and why he must be the one to do it—despite the opposition of his publisher, violent...
| Автор | Mark Ethridge |
December 1, 1955: Flood gates are poised to slam shut on a concrete dam straddling the Oogasula River, creating a lake that will submerge a forgotten crossroads and thousands of acres of woodlands in rural Georgia. The novel unfolds in one day’s action as viewed through the eyes of Elmer Blizzard, a troubled ex-deputy; Mrs. McNulty, a lonely widow who refuses to leave her doomed shack by the river; her loyal, aging dog, Percy; and a rapacious politician, State Senator Aubrey Terrell, for whom...
| Автор | Joe Samuel Starnes |
Er galt als der deutsche Lester Bangs, legte sich nicht nur mit Heinz-Rudolf Kunze an, verehrte Buddy Holly und schrieb sich verrückt. Wolfgang Welt war ein Kind des Ruhrgebietes, genauer gesagt des Bochumer Arbeiter-Stadtteils Langendreer. Ab Anfang der Achtziger Jahre schrieb er unverschämt subjektive Plattenkritiken in diversen Stadt- und Musikmagazinen, beschrieb ungeschminkt die Lebenswirklichkeit im Pott, setzte sich mit Literatur und Politik auseinander und verfasste insgesamt vier...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Auf fünf Erdteilen war Roger Willemsen unterwegs, um seine ganz persönlichen Enden der Welt zu finden. Manchmal waren es die großen geographischen: das Kap von Südafrika, Patagonien, der Himalaja, die Südseeinseln von Tonga, der Nordpol. Manchmal waren es aber auch ganz einzigartige, individuelle Endpunkte: eine Bahnstation in Birma, ein Bett in Minsk, ein Fresko des Jüngsten Gerichts in Orvieto, eine Behörde im kriegszerrütteten Kongo. Immer aber geht es in diesen grandiosen literarischen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
When Helen Honeycutt falls in love with Emmet Justice, a charismatic television journalist who has recently lost his wife in a tragic accident, their sudden marriage creates a rift between her new husband and his oldest friends, who resent Helen’s intrusion into their tightly knit circle. Hoping to mend fences, the newlyweds join the group for a summer at his late wife’s family home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Helen soon falls under the spell not only of the little mountain town and...
| Автор | Cassandra King |
Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League is a brilliant reimagining and republication of Jonathan Odell’s debut novel, The View from Delphi. Set in pre-Civil Rights Mississippi, and inspired by his Mississippi childhood, Odell tells the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida – one wealthy and white and the other poor and black – who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another. Embittered and distrusting, Vida is...
| Автор | Jonathan Odell |
When looking for advice or seeking an answer, where do you turn? Do you have a trusted ally, a respected colleague or wise relative who gives you insight? Or do you look within? Tangible Intuition – Clarity Through Body Insights is an interactive guidebook that will help you clearly understand how intuition speaks. You will learn how to read your body's insights so that you are better able to make solid decisions, gain deeper confidence, and be more successful in all areas of your life....
| Автор | Julie Farha |
The Friday Night Debrief is a romantic comedy that follows Kylie McManus as she leaves her home town of Mount Isa to take a job in Townsville. Alone in a new town, 27-year-old Kylie struggles to find herself and the life she so desperately wants. Hitting rock bottom, she makes a decision to turn bad situations into positive ones. She also joins a sport – Outrigging. One Friday night Kylie invites some of her teammates back to her flat for drinks and to debrief about their weeks. This becomes...
| Автор | Kylie Jane Asmus |
"Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu verstehen. Oder wir verstehen, können aber nicht sagen, was eigentlich." "Kafka erscheint uns rätselhaft, dabei schreibt er doch eigentlich in einer schlichten Prosa, seine Schilderungen sind präzise, seine Personen reden in einfachen Worten und es wird weder um das, was sie tun, noch um das, was sie reden, noch um das, was ihnen zustößt, ein großes Gewese gemacht. Aber wir verstehen nicht. Oder glauben, nicht zu verstehen. Oder wir...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Es gibt diesen Moment, in dem das eigene Universum zerbricht und weit und breit kein neues in Sicht ist: Eine junge Frau sitzt mittellos und nahezu dehydriert vor einer Tankstelle im Death Valley. Als plötzlich ein Indianer vor ihr steht und ihr das Leben retten will, glaubt sie zu phantasieren. Doch das Universum setzt sich nach seinen eigenen Regeln wieder zusammen. Schon bald teilen sich die beiden einen Doppelwhopper, gehen gemeinsam ins Casino und stranden schließlich in einem dieser...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Konrad Beikircher über Ovid «Liebeskunst»: Die Schule, die ich in Bozen besuchte, war das Franziskanergymnasium und dieses legte Wert auf Latein und Altgriechisch. Ich gestehe: auch wenn ich kein As war, habe ich beides gerne gemacht. Was mich allerdings damals immer schon belustigt hat, war dieses hölzerne Altphilologen-Deutsch, in dem die Übersetzungen dahergestelzt kamen. Mit dem Abitur war das natürlich erst mal vergessen, bis ich mit zunehmendem Alter immer mehr die Schönheit und...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |