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Tuisu talu perenaine oli nii kange rahvatarkuste teadja, et teda kutsuti Ravitseja-Leenuks ja abiotsijaid vooris tema juurde lähedalt ja kaugelt, mõisahärragi nende seas. Ja kust seda arstiabi Suuremõisa kandis Hiiumaal kahesaja aasta eest nii väga võtta oligi. Paljud Ravitseja-Leenu ravivõtetest annavad tänapäevalgi soovitud tulemuse.
| Автор | Mati Soonik |
"Eesti avastamine" koondab aastatel 1881-1920 Ungaris Eesti ja eestlaste kohtakirjutatud artikleid. Suurem osa neist on ilmunud etnograafi ja tõlkija AladárBáni sulest, kes käis Eesti saartel ja Setumaal etnograafilisel kogumisretkel1911. aasta suvel. Kogumik on Ungari-Eesti kultuurisuhete ühe tähtsa peatükiesmatutvustamine eesti publikule.
| Автор | Urmas Bereczki |
Jewels on Tiger Island is a fictional suspense novel which includes romance and will also captivate the reader from the beginning to the end of the book in finding a "killer" or "killers".<br><br>A young woman's corpse has been accidentally discovered on Tiger Island, Florida by residents from Amelia Island, Florida. Various clues from the Bahama Islands to Canada have led the people who discovered the corpse, as well as crime detectives...
| Автор | Catherine Pickren |
Mysteries Unlimited Ltd is the name of a small company that answers questions of any kind, no matter how strange or even dangerous. Occasionally they take projects that cause even the redoubtable owner and Willie Nelson, look alike Sydney Constant Lee to take pause.<br><br>Mysteries Unlimited is staffed by a zany bunch of misfits, all of whom have one thing in common; they are very smart. However they don't always operate in close proximity with reality. The May Day Massacre,...
| Автор | Donald Ph.D. Ladew |
"Ten Bridges Seven Churches No Stop Light" is a riveting tale of small town people living exciting lives.<br><br>This journey will have you hanging onto the farm sleigh as the team of draft horses fall through the ice. Ring the alarm bell on the assembly line and tell the car and truck manufacturers to fix it before you push the start button. Everett and Rose take on the largest company in the world and you can work with them to correct the problem. Hide in the dark...
| Автор | Rodney Earl Andrews |
When Rex calls after years of being incommunicado, his best friend Grant is hesitant to accept his invitation. Just like the old days, Rex knows the buttons to push. He has invited Annie, the woman Grant thought he was going to marry. Former friends and lost loves reconnect on a long, playful and soul searching weekend in Palm Springs. Each discovering they hold hopes long forgotten, each hold fears that the best times of their lives may have already passed by. The mending of emotional fences...
| Автор | Edward Inc. Cozza |
Selle raamatu lugeja saab aimu autorit ümbritsenud inimestest ja ajastutest tema enda südame ja silmade läbi. Värvikad eluhetked, muutused ja areng peegelduvad autobiograafilises reaalsuses, ilustamata sündmustes osalejaid.
| Автор | Arvo Möldri |
Kolmas raamat Hiiumaal elanud ja tegutsenud legendaarsest jõumehest Matsist, kel lisaks kasvule ja tohutule jaksule on ka veel terane mõistus ja hea huumorimeel, mis aitavad teda kõiksugustes olukordades.
| Автор | Mati Soonik |
Bibi's Rainbow is a delightfully narrated novel centered around a large Iranian immigrant family and their old, wise and faithful nanny, Bibi, a talented cook armed with inexhaustible secret recipes, who is resolutely determined to ease the transition of four generations of her "family" into American society. Using her wits and miraculous recipes as weapons, she ultimately manages to avert a "Clash of Civilizations" in their Beverly Hills neighborhood,...
| Автор | Majid Amini |
"Chronicle of a Silence Endured" is a highly intriguing and deeply woven fictional piece. It chronicles the psychological and spiritual trials that befall the 'hero' as he moves through life bound by the stigma of his childhood abuse. The result is a self-imposed and family-reinforced sentence of intolerable silence across 35 years of his life. The complex events that unfold are further explained applying highly-detailed psychological and spiritual research and...
| Автор | Guido da Verona |
First published in 1996 immediately following the narrow referendum victory by the Quebec Federalists, Death in October has become a Canadian classic. Out of print for many years, the book has become a collector's item, new copies selling in some quarters for well over $100! At the urging of his many fans and readers Lowell has updated and added chapters to this book and as you can see has re-printed a much more modern hard cover version. What many will find interesting is that although...
| Автор | Lowell Inc. Green |
While witnessing unprecedented increases in autism among young children, an internationally revered medical doctor finds his retirement troublesome. Dr. Jeremiah Trent is convinced that a mercury-based vaccine preservative, similar to one he helped create while a young university chemist, could be the catalyst behind a rampantly spreading malady that had no recorded history before 1945. <br><br>Trent moves forward quickly, forming an unlikely alliance with irascible former U.S....
| Автор | Jack Peterson |
Võromaa sydames on kaardilt leitamatu Räestu kylä, autori maailma keskpunkt. Lõunaeestilistes panoraamides saavad hääle Virunuka kalme inimesed ja rahvasuu, kohalikud romantikud Adson ja Jaik, vanavanemad, lapsepõlv, kassid, jõed, kivid, teised, kolmandad ja veel Keegi.
| Автор | Lauri Sommer |
Kes on öelnud, et kõigile on antud ühesugused võimalused olla õnnelik? Caroline Donnell lakkas sellesse lõplikult uskumast, kui tema väljavalitu eelistas talle ta nooremat õde. Sellest ajast alates unustas ta isikliku elu ja pühendas end täielikult tööle. Aga kuhu jäid siis tunded? Mis tunded saavad olla sellel, keda kolleegid nimetavad sinisukaks? Kuid sellele vaatamata saabub ometi päev, mil Caroline vapustab kõiki jalustrabava uudisega…
| Автор | Jacqueline Bedford |
Baltisaksa päritolu soome rahvaluuleteadlase, poeedi, ajakirjaniku ja tõlkija Suonio (Julius Krohn) jutustused.
| Автор | Suonio |
This riveting novel tells the story of Isabelle, a beautiful child, who grows up in the tempestuous city of Bombay. It takes readers through Isabelle's emotional roller-coaster of a journey – her childhood, her starry-eyed romance, the killing of innocence as she endures a traumatic marriage, and her final tryst with true love in Canada.<br><br>The book is richly evocative and entertaining in its portrayal of Bombay. But saddened by the overwhelming poverty, depressed over...
| Автор | Colleen Ph.D. Ansley |
An inspirational story of love and the transforming power of music, Stradivarius is a novel that will engage and delight everyone who believes that wonderful things can happen to good people.<br><br>On the Korean peninsula during the freezing winter of 1951, a wounded American soldier finds a rare violin in the wall of a farmhouse where he has taken refuge. This is the beautifully told story of how a centuries old Stradivarius came to be in that unlikely place and how it changed the...
| Автор | Donald P. Ladew |
Rebecca Beresford left a hardscrabble farming family and never looked back. It was the best decision she ever made. She became a teacher in Riverton on the Western Slope of Colorado. The worst decision she ever made was marrying John Richards Jr., a bank manager, whose charm and worldly ways were just on loan. It was a debt the whole family would end up paying back. <br><br>The first years brought contentment, two sons and a look behind John's dark curtain. He turned to...
| Автор | Joseph Dylan |
Esimest korda kohtame me seda pikka ja pisut vibalikku kahupäist noormeest hetkel, kui ta on just vajutamas ühe neljakorruselise, kahe maailmasõja vahel ehitatud kivimaja altukse kellanupule. See liigutus muudab täielikult tema elu, aga ta ei tea seda veel, ehkki käitub, justkui teaks: ta on kätt välja sirutades vajunud mõttesse ja näib, nagu kaaluks ta, kas ikka helistada või mitte.
| Автор | Rein Raud |
Selle tänapäevase lühiromaani käivitab suhteliselt lihtne sündmus. Nimelt on peategelane üpris isekas ja võrdlemisi edukas sisekujundusbüroo omanik, kelle poole ootamatult pöörduvad veidravõitu kliendid suurejoonelise pakkumisega: tal tuleb üksi ja piiramatuid võimalusi kasutades luua ideaalse hotelli sisekujundus. Peategelane otsustab töö vastu võtta. Siit lähebki lugu edasi ja lugejal on ees avastusretk, mis ei olegi nii tavapärane, kui esmapilgul võiks paista.
| Автор | Rein Raud |
Off the barren west coast of Tasmania a fishing boat crew drag two sailors from the ocean. The only clue as to why they were there is held in a sailor's diary – written in a foreign language. Unravelling the mystery, the Australian authorities must find the vessel on which the sailors had sailed before other interested parties get to it first.<br><br>The discovery of the vessel becomes a deadly race when a saboteur is despatched to ensure that it will be destroyed,...
| Автор | Mr Stuart Jackson Jackson |