Контркультура

19049 кн. Подписаться на жанр

Сортировать по:

дате добавления

названию

году выхода

количеству скачиваний

Der Drache Martin (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Der Drache Martin (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Helmut Zenker

Playing Sarah Bernhardt

Joan Givner

Playing Sarah Bernhardt

Harriet’s acting career suffers a catastrophic setback when memory loss forces her to quit her role as Sarah Bernhardt. In turmoil, she accepts the role of Mazo de la Roche in a production written by an amateur playwright and being performed in small-town Saskatchewan. Harriet soon discovers that she was chosen for this role because she holds the key to a secret from Mazo’s past. Meanwhile, the play, the role, and the town draw Harriet into the vortex of her own past.

Автор

Joan Givner

The Devil's Paintbrush

André Brochu

The Devil's Paintbrush

Like any young man, Etienne longs for independence and dreams about a bright future. But he's a Tourangeau, part of a sprawling Quebec family that, though destitute, thrives as insecurely as weeds in a well-tended garden, nurtured by a mother whose abundant love is more than maternal. Then he meets Odile, a beautiful young woman from a good family who inspires Etienne to transform his future into something worthy of her. But, like Romeo and Juliet, their wild, pure love for each other...

Автор

André Brochu

The View from Tamischeira

Richard Cumyn

The View from Tamischeira

At the dawn of the twentieth century a disparate group of travellers are thrown together in the Caucasus Mountains, fabled land of Argonauts, Amazons, and Cossacks. Henry Norman, a British Member of Parliament and author, teams up with Canadian radio pioneer and amateur archaeologist Reginald Fessenden and Katherine Waddell, the lover of Fessenden's dead friend, Ottawa poet Archibald Lampman. Each has a question. Fessenden seeks physical confirmation of the Garden of Eden, Atlantis, and...

Автор

Richard Cumyn

The Glenwood Treasure

Kim Moritsugu

The Glenwood Treasure

Short-listed for the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel After her marriage breaks down, shy schoolteacher Blithe Morrison takes refuge for the summer with her parents in the affluent Toronto neighbourhood of Rose Park. Blithe’s return home evokes memories of her lifelong sibling war with Noel, her golden-boy older brother, now a diplomat posted in England. But when Blithe befriends a lonely 11-year-old girl and takes on a local history project, she uncovers truths about a long-rumoured...

Автор

Kim Moritsugu

Skyfisher

Dan Dowhal

Skyfisher

Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of Phasmatia, the world’s first great Internet religion, and its megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher. As one of the trio of ad men who schemed to concoct Phasmatia, Evans certainly knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to tellprovided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and co-conspirator, Stan Shiu, whose technical genius helped...

Автор

Dan Dowhal

Der Drache Martin (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Der Drache Martin (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Helmut Zenker

Wie Selbstliebe nicht funktioniert...

Ксюша Ангел

Wie Selbstliebe nicht funktioniert - Hunga, miad & koid - Ein Hoch aufs Leben, Oida!, Folge 1 (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Ксюша Ангел

Das Klebe-BH-Dilemma - Hunga, miad...

Ксюша Ангел

Das Klebe-BH-Dilemma - Hunga, miad & koid - Ein Hoch aufs Leben, Oida!, Folge 10 (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Ксюша Ангел

Kassbach (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Kassbach (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Helmut Zenker

Valley of Fire

Steven Manners

Valley of Fire

John Munin is a rational man, a gifted Montreal psychiatrist who believes that the soul and psyche are interesting only in dissection. Even relationships are ripe for analysis, and Munin has identified «six elements that are necessary for love.» His wife, Cynthia, an aspiring artist who paints only self-portraits, remains unconvinced taht love can be so quantified. More susceptible to Munin’s seraching analysis, though, is Penelope, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and is Munin’s...

Автор

Steven Manners

Something Remains

Hassan Ghedi Santur

Something Remains

Long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards Andrew Christiansen, a war photographer turned cabdriver, is having a bad year. His mother has just died; his father, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, gets arrested; and he’s married to a woman he doesn’t love. To make matters worse, Sarah, the gifted actress from his past, storms back into his life, bringing with her a hurricane of changes and the possibility of happiness. Keeping Andrew sane is his beloved camera through which he captures the many...

Автор

Hassan Ghedi Santur

A Day with Mr. Jules

Diane Broeckhoven

A Day with Mr. Jules

When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. This ritual repeats itself every day, until one morning she finds him lifeless on the sofa in the living room – the coffee hasn’t quite finished filtering through. While Jules slowly turns into a statue that seems to be carved out of marble, Alice reminisces about earlier days and tells him things she hasn’t dared or been able to express before. When subsequently she has to come to terms with the sorrow...

Автор

Diane Broeckhoven

The Featherbed

Джон Миллер

The Featherbed

When Anna and Sadie discover the diaries of their mother, Rebecca, in the days following her death, they learn that her life was far more complex than either of them knew: a garment worker in early-1900s New York; the reluctant wife in an arranged marriage to an ailing and abusive husband; the improbable friend of a pregnant prostitute. But the diaries reveal more than just surprising details about Rebecca’s life: they also point to a family secret – and questions about Sadie’s true parentage. ...

Автор

Джон Миллер

...von Winterausflügen und zwiespäl...

Melanie Werlberger

...von Winterausflügen und zwiespältigen Nebenjobs - Nicole und andere Katastrophen, Folge 3 (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Melanie Werlberger

Totes Pferd (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Totes Pferd (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Helmut Zenker

Geht so Sex vor dem ersten Date - H...

Ксюша Ангел

Geht so Sex vor dem ersten Date - Hunga, miad & koid - Ein Hoch aufs Leben, Oida!, Folge 2 (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Ксюша Ангел

Handstand am Hochhaus (Ungekürzt)

Nadja Bucher

Handstand am Hochhaus (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Nadja Bucher

Journal (Ungekürzt)

Helmut Zenker

Journal (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Helmut Zenker

Der besondere Kick - Eine erotische...

Michael Annon

Der besondere Kick - Eine erotische Schwulengeschichte (Ungekürzt)

Автор

Michael Annon

Our Only Shield

Michael J. Goodspeed

Our Only Shield

Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf . Hastily recalled from a successful career in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Rory arrives in Britain only to find a war that is being prosecuted with political indecision and wishful thinking. The skills he displayed as a spy in the Great War are once again sorely needed by a small group of...

Автор

Michael J. Goodspeed

Godblog

Laurie Channer

Godblog

Circumstances force Dag, a young snowboarder, to give up his sport and to find another way to live. He embarks on two paths, the first a subsistence job as a barista in a coffee mega-chain, where he works hard to be a worker extraordinaire. He also invents an online alter ego who pronounces his own brand of wisdom and rant, expressing what Dag can’t in his role of coffee slave. Dag doesn’t know who he is any more. Crapped out of his sport. Can do no right by his best friend. Can do no wrong by...

Автор

Laurie Channer

The Hemingway Caper

Eric Wright

The Hemingway Caper

Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he’s investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway. What is Tyler’s connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler’s wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he’s come up with the required evidence of Tyler’s infidelity? While these questions hang...

Автор

Eric Wright

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

Jules Lewis

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

Jim Myers is a painfully shy kid living in Toronto's west end Bloorcourt Village. Rarely is he able to muster enough courage to say anything beyond «ya» or «dunno.» After school he hangs around with his neighbour and only friend, Oleg Khernofsky, playing basketball against a NO PARKING sign in a laneway. In the evenings, he haunts Nicky's Diner, a restaurant owned by Oleg's uncle. On the first day of junior high, Jim crosses paths with Charlie Crouse, a brash, mouthy kid full of...

Автор

Jules Lewis

←
1
2
...
643
644
645
646
647
648
649
...
793
794
→
стр.

Для правообладателей и по всем вопросам knigism.info@yandex.ru