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After the death of his sixteen-year-old twin sister, Lyle Rettew moves from the mountains of Idaho to Eugene, Oregon. His religious, well-intentioned older brother has forbidden any mention of her name. But Lyle, fighting to keep his memory of her alive, has quit taking the lithium that numbs his mind, and openly rebels against his mother and brother for the first time. Taking his mourning out of the house, he embarks upon a fraught pilgrimage that is at once heartbreaking and macabre. Dark...
| Автор | Ryan Blacketter |
Rector's assistant Owen Mathias, a young and average sensualist, gradually stumbles on the considerable connections his church in Kobe, Japan, has to atrocities committed by Unit 731, Japan's biological warfare research center in Harbin, Manchuria, during World War II. Mathias's discoveries toss him into theodicy's deepest pit, savaging his faith and pinballing him among the vapid convictions of his rector, the pieties of ex-pat parishioners, the bitter doubts of an American...
| Автор | John Zeugner |
As revolutionary forces gather in the Lacandon jungle of southern Mexico in the fall of 1993, an idealistic American priest vanishes from his post in San Cristobal de Las Casas. The Church, immersed in trying to negotiate a peaceful solution to the escalating conflict between wealthy landowners and poverty-stricken indigenas, remains strangely silent in the face of his disappearance. When his sister, Eva, only thirty-four but already a hardened battlefield photojournalist, finds out what's...
| Автор | Paula Huston |
Ideals and reality collide when six college friends band together to start an ice cream store, promising «Better Food for a Better World,» but finding a worse world than they had expected. It seems like a great idea: six friends from college pool their money and energy to start an ice cream store. Natural High Ice Cream: Better Food for a Better World. It's high-minded, with a wink, like the marital self-help group they all belong to. The store finds a ready clientele in its northern...
| Автор | Erin McGraw |
Kunagise menukogu «Torupillid, haldjad ja hiiglased» jälgedes sammuv iiri muinasjuturaamat, mille allikas on sama, mis nimetatud kogulgi W. B. Yeatsi tuntud kogumik «Irish Folk Stories an Fairy Tales».
| Автор | Eva Luts |
Four unlikely teenagers are summoned to quest for the salvation of a perpendicular world. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie, and Alex must overcome their own personal challenges of blindness, self-confidence, and Down syndrome as they struggle together to fulfill their mysterious calling as Bairnmoor's last prophetic hope. Join them on an adventure through singing forests and stardust valleys full of mystical, glorious, and ferocious creatures, all of which test their resolve in the...
| Автор | James Daniel Eckblad |
In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James’s call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work. The aging James had agreed to revise his novels and tales into the twenty-four-volume New York Edition. Enter Bosanquet, a budding writer who would record the dictated revisions and the prefaces that would become a lynchpin of his legacy. Embracing the role of amanuensis and creative counterpoint cautiously at first, Bosanquet kept...
| Автор | Susan Herron Sibbet |
In her day job as a nurse, Sandy Holston cares for the elderly and the sick, even as she is haunted by her own questionable past and the deaths that marked it. Her true self resides among the mountain trout streams of her Appalachian home, where she wields her fly rod with uncanny accuracy as her life plays out along a tight line between herself and a fish on the other end. But then the Ripshin River threatens to flood. Sandy can no longer deny that dementia has taken hold in James Keefe, her...
| Автор | Tim Poland |
The Hairdresser of Harare, which the New York Times Book Review called “a fresh and moving account of contemporary Zimbabwe,” announced Tendai Huchu as a shrewd and funny social commentator. In The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician, Huchu expands his focus from Zimbabwe to the lives of expatriates in Edinburgh, Scotland. The novel follows three Zimbabwean men as they struggle to find places for themselves in Scotland. As he wanders Edinburgh with his Walkman on a constant...
| Автор | Tendai Huchu |
Tavaliselt avaldatakse koos Väikeste naistega ka nende abiellumislood, siiani pole seda eesti keeles tehtud. Siin on nüüd esimene osa väikeste naiste abiellumislugudest. Kui mõne vanema inimese (kuigi arvan, et mitte noorte) arvates on selles loos liiga palju armastust, võin vaid vastata Mrs. Marchi sõnadega: Mida sa siis ootad, kui mul on neli lõbusat tüdrukut majas ja kena noor naaber üle tee?
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
"Torupillide, haldjate ja hiiglaste" autori haldjajutte, kus härjapõlvlased pakuvad peidetud varandusi ja rüüstavad veinikeldreid. Haldjad varastavad lapsi ja jätavad nende asemele vahetisi. Kõige vaimukam lugu aga räägib peata ratsanikust, kellele hakkab meeldima üks uljas ratsutaja.
| Автор | Thomas Crofton Croker |
Not Out of Hate —published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939–42—was Ma Ma Lay’s fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma’s foremost writers and voices for change. A journalist by trade, Lay applied her straightforward observational style with compassion and purpose to the story of Way Way, a teenage village girl whose quiet life assisting her father in his rice-brokerage business is disrupted by the arrival of U Saw Han, the cosmopolitan Burmese...
| Автор | Ma Ma Lay |
Eliza Orzeszkowa was a trailblazing Polish novelist who, alongside Leo Tolstoy and Henryk Sienkiewicz, was a finalist for the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. Of her many works of social realism, Marta (1873) is among the best known, but until now it has not been available in English. Easily a peer of The Awakening and A Doll’s House, the novel was well ahead of the English literature of its time in attacking the ways the labor market failed women. Suddenly widowed, the previously...
| Автор | Eliza Orzeszkowa |
In the early 1980s, a pharmaceutical company administers an unethical drug trial to residents of the Niger Delta village of Kreektown. When children die as a result of the trial, the dominoes of language extinction and cultural collapse begin to topple. Decades later the end looms for the Menai people. Continents-apart twin brothers separated at birth, an excommunicated daughter living an urbane life with her doctor husband, and an infamous vigilante are among the indelible characters whose...
| Автор | Chuma Nwokolo |
Jonathan Harker saadetakse kaugesse Euroopa nurka kohtuma ühe oma firma kliendiga. Loss on mahajäetud ja krahv väga veider võõrustaja. Kuid noor Jonathan ei oska kahtlustadagi, et ta ise ja talle kõige lähedasemad inimesed satuvad kohutavasse ohtu ja peavad läbi elama jubedusi, mida keegi ei oska isegi ette kujutada. Nüüd peavad nad Dracula leidma ja hävitama, enne kui vampiir nemad hävitab.
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Maniakkide Tänava romaanivõistlusel esiletõstetud teos on kui meeletu postmodernne kompott, milles segunevad õuduskirjandusest tuttavad öised surnuaiad, veri, soolikad ja mootorsaed, punkkultuurile omane õhustik, vaimukas ja kaasahaarav jutustamislaad, hoogne stiil ning moodsale linnafantaasiale omane maagilis-realistlik element.
| Автор | Maniakkide Tänav |
"Seesama jõgi" on 2007. aastal ilmunud autobiograafiline romaan. Teos jutustab kolmandas isikus üliõpilasest noormehe, kelle nime ei nimetata, naissuhetest ja eneseotsingutest.
| Автор | Jaan Kaplinski |
Uhkuse maja, Pidalitõbine Koolau, Hüvasti, Jack, Aloha Oe, Chun Ah Chun, Kona Šerif, Jack London iseendast
| Автор | Jack London |
Sacred chants are Ada Franklin’s power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family’s barn is consumed by flame, her identity as a healer is upended. The heat, the roar of the blaze, and the bellows of the trapped cows change Ada. For the first time, she fears death and—for the first time—she doubts God....
| Автор | Jim Minick |
Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—a raw and barren strip-mined landscape—and saw in it his escape from the drudgery of his factory job. He bought an old bulldozer and used the machine to carve patiently, acre by acre, a beautiful little farm out of a seemingly worthless wasteland. Wally’s...
| Автор | Gene Logsdon |
Polish émigrés have written poignantly about the pain of exile in letters, diaries, and essays; others, more recently, have recreated Polish-American communities in works of fiction. But it is Danuta Mostwin’s fiction, until now unavailable in English translation, that bridges the divide between Poland and America, exile and emigration. Mostwin and her husband survived the ravages of World War II, traveled to Britain, and then emigrated to the United States. Mostwin devoted her scholarly career...
| Автор | Danuta Mostwin |
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist’s granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice—each story takes place over one...
| Автор | Imraan Coovadia |