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Romaan üliõpilasarmastusest, noorest abielust, selle karidest, ühtaegu noore ebakindla mehe meelelistest otsingutest leidmaks iseennast, fooniks seitsmekümnendad oma kentsaka tegelikkuse ja sundkäikudega.
| Автор | Mati Soonik |
Sellesamusesse raamatusse on koondatud osa Shakespeare'i lugudest, mis Edith Nesbit laste jaoks ümber jutustas: Romeo ja Julia, Suveöö unenägu, Veneetsia kaupmees, Kuningas Lear, Tõrksa taltsutus, Macbeth, Palju kära ei millestki, Othello, Nagu teile meeldib, Hamlet
| Автор | Эдит Несбит |
In this new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the historical and the imaginary, the personal and the political, to invent complex, charged stories about love, death and struggle. With a cast of real and fictional characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Wideman’s own family, it is a journey through the soul of America. In ‘JB & FD’ Wideman imagines conversations between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and abolitionist Frederick...
| Автор | John Edgar Wideman |
Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum...
| Автор | George Friel |
Tunes of Glory Household Ghosts Silence This volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty. Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and conflicts in the officers' mess of a Highland regiment lead to shame and tragedy. ...
| Автор | James Kennaway |
Set in the village of Mandragora in an unnamed country, The Testament of Yves Gundron opens with a description of a harsh, rural existence of and daily toil in a pre-industrial medieval community. Then Yves Gundron, yeoman farmer, invents the harness and life in Mandragora begins irreversibly to change. All is not as it seems, however, and when anthropologist Ruth Blum appears in the village – native of Boston and the late twentieth century – what had seemed to be a simple historical document...
| Автор | Emily Barton |
Daisy oli alati tahtnud olla originaalne, ekstravagantne, «metsik», nagu ta enda kohta ütles. Ta oli tahtnud elada eksootilistes kohtades, armastada ebatavalist meest. Kõike seda oli ta elus olnud ja kõik see oli kaasa toonud pettumust ja valu. Siis aga kohtas ta Teague`i, põhimõttekindlat ja tõsist meest…
| Автор | Janelle Gordon |
Romaanis peategelane on vägagi salapärane nooruk kes idealistliku heategijana ei tunnista kurjust, siis aga…Romaan on kirjutatud 1971/1972 kuid jäi oma viidete tõttu Jeesuse elule ning totalitaarsele riigikorrale ilmumata.Eesmatrükk 1987.
| Автор | Enn Vetemaa |
Tagasihoidlikku töösipelgat Addy Taylorit ei saa kuidagi varakaks tütarlapseks pidada. Lumena kaelasadanud varandus ei tee teda sugugi õnnelikumaks, pigem kutsub see esile sekeldusi. Kõigele lisaks tuleb tal tegemist teha täiesti kobeda advokaadiga.
| Автор | Amanda Goldridge |
Serena armastab juba aastaid Davidit, kes vastab talle samaga. Kuid nad kuuluvad ühiskonna eri kihtidesse ja seetõttu arvab neidis, et nende armastusel puudub õnnelik ja helge tulevik…
| Автор | Tawny Michell |
'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible – his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The...
| Автор | Michel Faber |
Behind the high walls of a mansion in Geneva a night of sinister revelry is about to begin . . . In the staff quarters, the servants led by the cool, unflappable butler are preparing for the downfall of the Baron and Baroness. Meanwhile in the attic, the Baron's invalid brother awaits his fate as an unwitting pawn in their devious plans. And in the library, the Baron, the Baroness and their young handsome secretary are locked in a mysterious, heated discussion. As the macabre...
| Автор | Muriel Spark |
Introduced by Giles Gordon. Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland’s finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily human condition. This wide-ranging collection of the very best of Elspeth Davie’s short fiction offers an important reassessment of a wonderful writer. ‘Exceptionally...
| Автор | Elspeth Davie |
Lesestunud Saral pole uutes suhetes õnne ja ta jõuab järeldusele, et tõeline armastus saab inimesele osaks vaid korra elus. Seda hetkeni, kui naabermajja kolib ärritav, kuid samas vastupandamatult ligitõmbav Norman, kes lisaks kõigele otsib endale üheks õhtuks fiktiivset abikaasat.
| Автор | Johanna Reeds |
Prantsuse kirjanduse klassiku Guy de Maupassant’i tuntuim romaan nägusast sõna- ja tegudeosavast ajakirjanikust Georges Duroyst, kes jultunult endasse naisi armuma pannes teeb ameti-, äri- ja abielurindel peadpööritavat karjääri.
| Автор | Guy de Maupassant |
Peakangelasel Juhal tuleb nüüd napsitamise asemel keskenduda raseda naise tujudele ja tundepuhangutele. Kuidas sobitub enesekeskne ja naudinguile pühendunud endine prohvialkohoolik uude olukorda? Panused on igatahes kõrged… Raamat on kindlasti mõnelegi emale ja isale hurmavalt meeleolukas meenutus sellest, kui kohutav ja tore lapseootus oli.
| Автор | Juha Vuorinen |
Lucca Montale, a 32-year-old Danish actress, is rushed into hospital after a motor accident. She is severely injured after a head-on collision with a lorry. Robert, the doctor responsible for treating her, is obliged to break the news that she may never see again. Robert and Lucca are both suffering the after-effects of love. He has sought refuge in controlled resignation since his divorce. She has rushed into dramatic, desperate acts. Gr�ndahl masterfully deploys a dual narrative, switching...
| Автор | Jens Christian Grøndahl |
Agent Kasper is kidnapped in Cambodia whilst on a mission for the CIA to investigate counterfeit money schemes. He is supposed to disappear forever. Because Kasper has uncovered something so terrible, so explosive and so damaging that the intelligence service he works for wants him dead. When Kasper finds himself in the appalling squalor of one of the world's most notorious prison camps near Phnom Penh, the corrupt guards sent to execute him spot an opportunity and wonder – is Kasper...
| Автор | Agent Kasper |
Princeton. New Jersey. 14th March 1954 'Albert Einstein speaking.' 'Who?' asks the girl on the telephone. 'I'm sorry,' she says. 'I have the wrong number.' 'You have the right number,' Albert says. From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speaking begins with two unlikely friends – the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. From their first...
| Автор | R.J. Gadney |
"Trusting another is showing the most vulnerable part of yourself, and if you can't trust, you can't find happiness.", In this fast paced fiction story written from different point of views we see the lives of six high school students unfold with lust, turmoil, family clashes, relationship mix-ups and much more. Friendships will end, relationships will blossom some for the best and some for the worst. Their stories are intertwined together and in the end they...
| Автор | Keosha Boone's Gowins |
When Angels Fail To Fly <br><br>A Steve Cassidy Mystery <br><br>Private Investigator Steve Cassidy returns for another adventure involving murder, intrigue, scams, former and current lovers, and his distinctive sarcastic loathing for everyone, including himself. <br><br>Six months after solving a celebrated missing persons cold case, the ex-cop's life appears to be back on track. His P.I. business is booming after a True Crime book portrayed him as a...
| Автор | John Schlarbaum |