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Architect and single mother Emily Harada has structured a well-ordered existence around her work restoring historic houses and the parenting of her teenage son, Jesse. But her carefully laid foundation cracks when she develops a nagging ache in her shoulder, has her architectural integrity questioned, and feels shut out by Jesse's assertions of independence. What she doesn't need right now – or does she? – are the romantic attentions of a former student, an attractive but much...
| Автор | Kim Moritsugu |
Becky Chan’s life gets off to a rocky start. She is born into a poor family, with a ne’er-do-well father. But by 1967, she is the reigning queen of the Hong Kong film industry, and her life is frequently confused by her public with the roles that she plays, including the Goddess of Mercy. In the city, Communist factions are setting bombs and kidnapping people. In mainland China, itself in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, rival factions of the Communist Party are terrorizing the nation. In...
| Автор | Jared Mitchell |
Children travel across generations and across time: yesterday to the present. Childhoods determine the fantasms of existence. Wounds slow to heal: abandonment, adoption, feelings of rejection and uselessness, of blame, of uncontrolled initiation to sexuality, extreme loneliness when one retreats from society, obsessive searching for the absolute, desire to rebuild the world again by giving birth, confrontation of death. All these themes appear in the violent yet tender stories in this...
| Автор | Pauline Michel |
Runner-up for the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brother’s impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, strangers living continents apart, fixtures of each others memories and imaginations, are connected again....
| Автор | Heather Burt |
Kogu oma elu oli ta nii ema, kolleegide, sõprade kui ka kallima jaoks olnud Kitty Harrison. Kuid ühel päeval saabunud imelik anonüümkiri külvas ta hinge kahtluseseemne. Kui Kitty pärast ema surma ta päeviku leidis, hakkas see seeme jõudsalt idanema. Loetud read panid naise oma päritolus kahtlema ja ta otsustas asjasse maksku mis maksab selgust tuua. Selleks pidi ta aga pääsema mõjuvõimsa pankuri jutule.
| Автор | Johanna Reeds |
Novellikogu „Tahan tunda, et elan“ on omamoodi romaan novellides, mille lugudest joonistub ühiste tegelaste toel välja pilt ühe suguvõsa käekäigust XX sajandi Soomes. Pöördelised ajaloosündmused toimuvad taustal, esiplaanile tõusevad sünnid ja surmad, pulmad ja matused – nendes lugudes elavad ja armastavad, kukuvad ja tõusevad jälle jalule tugevad soome naised.
| Автор | Tuula Liina Varis |
Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood. High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. it may be the fall of 1982, but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they inhabit a medieval world steeped in ritual...
| Автор | Brian Payton |
Long-listed for the 2006 Re-Lit Award for Best Novel For 15-year-old Cathy Mugan, «a place apart» is where she longs to be: apart from her mother, an unhinged, uncontrollable terror who explodes at the slightest provocation. So Cathy has a chance to work at a rectory for the summer, she seizes it. But «a place apart» is also where Cathy is: surrounded by violence, a cowering father, and a contemptuous brother, she is almost completely alone. Her closest friend exists only in her imagination, a...
| Автор | Maureen Lennon |
Eric Wright’s popular detective, Charlie Salter, is introduced in this collection of the first three books in the well-loved mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector , and Death in the Old Country . Self-righteous and outspoken, Salter has gotten himself shunted to routine duties from what he considers the «real» police work of investigation. However, circumstances give him the chance to redeem himself, and his intelligence and sensitivity guide him through the cases that...
| Автор | Eric Wright |
Ex-boxer Joe Grundy is embroiled in the intrigues of his own boss, millionaire Leo Alexander, the owner of Vancouver's Lord Douglas Hotel. Somebody has murdered Leo's live-in servant and not-so-secret lover, and Grundy has to get to the bottom of the incident in order to clear the man he's forged a bond with since first coming to work for him as security for the hotel. But Leo's past serves up more surprises than Grundy bargained for. It seems Leo has had a life full of...
| Автор | Marc Strange |
Long-listed for the 2006 Re-Lit Award for Best Novel Grant McRae has a loving wife, a healthy son, and a new career with the local police department. Bert Commerford has a pretty good life too, as the proud owner of Commerford & Sons Auto Service. But Bert’s sons are polar opposites: Travis is a budding junior hockey star, and Russell is a thug loaded with resentment for Bert. When tragedy befalls the Commerfords, Bert finds himself too haunted by his murky past to stop his life from...
| Автор | Philip David Alexander |
Sinavormis lühiromaan „Kahtlased kujud öises rongis“ põimib argised tähelepanekud unenäoliste kogemustega. Oma teekonnal rongiga läbi Euroopa linnade ja Aasia avaruste puutub „sina“ kokku terve rea iseäralike tegelastega: konduktorite ja konterbandistide, professorite ja prostituutide, näitlejate ja jumalatega. Need ette kavatsemata kohtumised sunnivad peategelast pidevalt ümber hindama oma suhet ümbritsevaga ja koguni iseendaga.
| Автор | Yoko Tawada |
Wegen eines kuriosen Testaments, soll Kate eine unglaubliche Aufgabe erfüllen. Sie muss sich auf die Suche nach einem wertvollen Miniaturgemälde begeben. Doch das Abenteuer beginnt mit einer Lüge, die unabwendbare Konsequenzen mit sich führt.
| Автор | Sylvie C. Ange |
In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has occurred. Little does he know that not only has he killed an innocent man, but the man is the son of Annie, with whom Rick had an intense relationship in his youth. As Rick and Annie struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, each recalls the life they once led, and...
| Автор | Mary Soderstrom |
Short-listed for the 2004 Dartmouth Book Award Sara has the perfect career: as a photographer for a glossy travel magazine, she is able to pursue her passion for photography while at the same time appeasing her mother, who wants her to have a «real job.» But Sara’s ideal world comes crashing down when she is diagnosed with macular degeneration. As her vision begins to deteriorate, she faces the devastating prospect of having to give up both her career and her passion. Hoping to avoid surgery,...
| Автор | Heidi Priesnitz |
Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garner’s best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the book’s events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens. ...
| Автор | Hugh Garner |
This volume combines three of Richard Rohmer's best-selling novels in one book. Ultimatum, Exxoneration , and Periscope Red are all fast-paced, incisive novels in which Rohmer makes fiction read like fact. They are chilling visions of a world of military conflict, legal and political entanglements, and Canada's role in domestic and international spheres. The issues inside are just as important to Canada today as they were when the books were written. In all of these works, Rohmer...
| Автор | Richard Rohmer |
David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably. He will be flung headlong into a journey of discovery that leads him to Canada’s rugged West Coast, a journey of loss and deliverance long overdue. There, in the midst of a spirited pioneer people, David veers into the tangled realms of love and passion, and stares even into the jaws of death. This unpredictable pilgrimage of the soul makes no guarantees and offers no safe...
| Автор | Brian E. Pearson |
"Ajaloolisi öid" kirjutama asudes seadsin ma endale eesmärgiks taastada rohkem või vähem tuntud sündmuseid nii täpselt ja värvikalt, kui allesjäänud materjalide põhjal vähegi võimalik. Ma valisin need juhtumused, mis olid kummalised ja hõlmasid endas inimlikke kirgi, ning vormides iga sellise sündmuse jutustuseks, jälgisin hoolikalt ja ettevaatlikult, et lugu järgiks tegelikke ülesmärgitud sündmusi ja midagi ei oleks välja mõeldud… Rafael Sabatini
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Pistaks pere, üheksakuune tüdruk Rott kaasa arvatud, autohaagisesse ja hängiks kaks kuud Hispaanias? Miks mitte. Mõeldud – tehtud.
| Автор | Peeter Sauter |