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It’s 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area—the “Heartland Grid”—just north of the city. In the meantime, in the wake of declining American power a multinational force has established itself in Cleveland. Behind these quickly shifting alliances lies a troubling yet tantalizing question: what will the American future look like? Sharp and Dangerous Virtues is the story of ordinary...
| Автор | Martha Moody |
Mit gebrochenem Herzen und dem Vorsatz, sich nie wieder zu verlieben, strandet Fiona in einem kleinen irischen Dorf. Akute Geldnot führt sie auf eine Austernfarm, wo sie nicht nur mit ihrer Angst vor dem Wasser und zwei störrischen Eseln zu kämpfen hat, sondern auch mit ihrem Arbeitgeber Sean. Der hat genaue Vorstellungen von der Austernzucht und eine Partnerin, die Fiona das Leben schwer macht. Vor allem aber hat er diese wunderschönen dunklen Augen, die Fionas Vorsatz ins Wanken bringen …
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Addie May was in many ways before her time. She was strong willed, not afraid to speak her mind, and could distinguish between right and wrong with good common sense. For her, there was no middle ground. This became evident at a very early age as she was born with two strikes against her. First, one leg was shorter than the other, which caused her to limp all of her life and subjecting her to be ridiculed as a child. Secondly, she was left-handed. Today this is not an issue, but for thousands of...
| Автор | K.W. Attle Jr. |
This is the first digital version of Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, a collection of three historical novels by noted American writer Janet Lewis. For the first time, these works have been brought together in a single edition, each with a new introduction by Kevin Haworth: The Wife of Martin Guerre Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, The Wife of Martin Guerre follows Bertrande de Rois and her lost-and-returned husband through a tale of impersonation, conspiracy, and...
| Автор | Janet Lewis |
Ivan Turgenevi (1818-1883) lühijutt «Asja» (1858) on autori elufilosoofia ja impulsiivset laadi õnnetunde märkimisväärne peegeldus. Loost leiame süütu nooruse ähmased ihad vastandina küpsuse tarkusele ning keskne idee on vastastikuse armastuse ja õnne võimatus, mis esineb paljudes Turgenevi teostes.
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
A finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-destruction; and Dawn Jewell, a young mother searching—for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart. Picking up six years after the end of Robert...
| Автор | Robert Gipe |
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 |