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Clues of Chaos is honored as an 2015 International Book Awards Finalist in the "Fiction: Cross Genre" category. <br><br>After the mysterious death of a senator's sister in the country of Megalos, master wizard Leozanthicus is tasked with solving her heinous murder and retrieving weapons stolen from her estate. After recruiting loyal companions—including a Dawn Knight and a Mystic Knight—to join him, the group embarks on a quest to...
| Автор | Gary Caplan |
In September of 1940, Ned Smith, Professor of Physics at a small men's college in Illinois, gets a telegram inviting him to join a secret project at MIT. He jumps at the chance, even if it means parting from attractive and intelligent Dorothy Wilson, just as they are getting to know each other. In the next few months, while Franklin Roosevelt runs for his third term and Britain seems ever more likely to succumb to a Nazi invasion, Ned feverishly works on the Radar project in Cambridge,...
| Автор | Richard Black |
In this emotional and thought provoking story, we follow the heart stopping moments of a hardworking professional as he faces the fact that he may never get the chance to say goodbye to his beloved family. While incorporating a whole host of business wisdoms gained through his extensive real-life experience, author Teguh Pranoto Chen remembers that it can be all too easy to lose focus on what is in our heart and the people we hold dear. This realization allows him to wake every morning, looking...
| Автор | Teguh Pranoto Chen |
Abikaasa otsinguil pöördus Ariel viimases hädas abieluagentuuri poole, kus talle pakuti fiktiivabielu, mille lõppedes oleks teda oodanud suur tasu. Ahvatletud võimalusest osta suures linnas korter, Ariel nõustus. Pärast abielulepingu allkirjastamist leidis ta aga, et selle tingimused on orjastavad ning fiktiivne mees pole sugugi nii korralik ja hästikasvatatud, nagu alguses paistis.
| Автор | Helena Norman |
Kogumik Ivan Turgenevi lühijutustusi. Hor ja Kalinõtš Jermolai ja möldrinaine Lgov Kasjan Krassivaja Metšist Opman Kontor Birjuk Kaks mõisnikku Lauljad Elav surnu Mets ja stepp
| Автор | Ivan Turgenev |
Rory Flenagan aitab vennal korraldada äri jõusaalis, mille kaasomanik ta on. Ühel päeval saab tema kliendiks veetlev ja teravmeelne kirjaneitsi Cara Chien. Ühiselt veedetud tunnid jõusaalis ja basseinis tekitavad sideme, mis aitab Caral vabaneda eelmise suhte painetest, Rory aga jätab eluohtliku põhitöö Türgi õppepolügoonil.
| Автор | Tracy Weld |
This is a factual, no-nonsense book as told by a professional American assassin. The stories he tells are descriptions of true events with only a few names changed for obvious reasons. The author pulls no punches and never softens the story to make it more palatable. What you will read describes accurately the preparation, dedication, training and mind-set of a man and his associates who kill America's enemies for a living.
| Автор | Robert J. Firth |
An Deck eines Schiffes auf dem Weg von New York nach Europa sitzt Gustav Mahler. Er ist berühmt, der größte Musiker der Welt, doch sein Körper schmerzt, hat immer schon geschmerzt. Während ihn der Schiffsjunge sanft, aber resolut umsorgt, denkt er zurück an die letzten Jahre, die Sommer in den Bergen, den Tod seiner Tochter Maria, die er manchmal noch zu sehen meint. An Anna, die andere Tochter, die gerade unten beim Frühstück sitzt, und an Alma, die Liebe seines Lebens, die ihn verrückt macht...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This unique little book shows life confused, conflicted, and enriched by diversity. A fanciful world of «perfect squares» must cope with new rectangles, triangles, circles, «gons» and other weirdos, each with distinct personalities and predilections. In this quirky story, creativity and teamwork work wonders. Principles of human relations, change management, even Quality Management are exemplified in a simple, amusing story that appeals to many ages and backgrounds. The author has also designed...
| Автор | Dolly Haik-Adams Berthelot |
Alexander Otto has it all – eminence as a surgeon, admiring colleagues, a loving family. Yet from the opening lines of this modern tragedy, he is a man on the run. What secrets lie beneath the successful veneer of Alexander Otto's life? Edwina Frye is Otto's biographer, she is also having an affair with him. As she writes the official biography, she writes a parallel life of Alexander which develops into a disturbing fiction of betrayal and revenge. UNDER THE KNIFE does not take...
| Автор | Andrea Goldsmith |
Love doesn't come easy – especially for China. With her family out of the picture, China must rely on her friends instead. But friendship does not always withstand the struggles of the streets. Tragedy strikes China's life again and again, knocking her support and hope for happiness out from under her. That's when she meets Black. Just as things are looking up for China, Black's hustlin' ways and short temper keep her from finding the security she craves. Hustler after...
| Автор | Sabrina Eubanks |
Maailmakirjanduse romaanivaramusse kuuluv teos Tatjana Hallapi tõlkes.
| Автор | George Sand |
Väikeses õdusas Karlovas, kus kõik tunnevad kõiki ja naabritesilme eest ei jää miski varjule, on vanas puumajas elavad naised osanudperekonna saladusi läbi aastakümnete hoida. Teadmatusest sündinud valedotsused muudavad kinnisvaramaakleri Maaris Saugase elu üha keerulisemaks. Kuiühel talvehommikul leitakse tema endise naabri, omandireformi hammasratastevahele jäänud sundüürniku August Arksoni laip, kutsutakse Maarispolitseiuurija juurde.
| Автор | Merle Sild |
Jutukogus on lugusid absurdikast etnohuumorist kuni fantaasia jateadusliku fantastikani. Salapärased paharetid kõnnivad linnatänavail jaröövivad inimestelt nägusid. Külanõid joodab pahaaimavatele külalistele jaiseendale sisse nõiajooki, mis toob kaasa ootamatuid tagajärgi. Igatsuselinnudneelavad inimesi, näkid varastavad suplejailt kehaosi ja toimub palju muud.Merca on Vanemuise näitleja, kirjanik, eesti esimene naispunkar. Avaldanudluulekogusid ja raamatu „Mees“.Raamat on eesti ja inglise...
| Автор | Merca |
No one said living a double life was easy. When Raimone marries his high school sweetheart and starts a family, he’s still not satisfied. What’s more, Raimone’s wife Sasha doesn't know that her husband fathered a child right under her nose with his mistress NaTaisha. After four years of sitting on the sidelines, NaTaisha will do whatever it takes to destroy Raimone’s family and control him – even if it means putting him behind bars. After Raimone is released and a pregnant NaTaisha is found...
| Автор | Cachet Johnson |
All Souls' Day – the Day of the Dead, 1941. Florence, city of strife. It is Hitler's state visit to Florence and the last of the good times for Mussolini. From now on, he and his lover Clara will cling more closely together, ever more dependent upon each other as their country spirals into civil war and their lives disintegrate.<br /> <br />Annabelle and Enrico, young cousins from an ancient Florentine family, work first with the clandestine resistance, then openly with the...
| Автор | Jan Wallace Dickinson |
Whoever said whoring wasn’t easy, never lied! But somebody had to do it! Working the mean streets of Detroit was getting hard on young Kamone, with two small mouths to feed. Forced to get on the grind non-stop by her madam, Cookie, after being abandoned by her dopefiend, HIV infected mother, there’s nothing Kamone won’t do to get that paper – drugs, murder, sex, lies and videotapes! That is, until she is scandalously set up to be raped, drugged and left for dead. Just when Kamone thinks it’s the...
| Автор | Tanika Lynch |
What do you do when the love you've been searching for your whole life suddenly disappears? You know you’re loved, but you ask yourself, is your lover crazy? Or is it you?<br /> <br />Searching for Sophia is a beautifully composed, wonderfully compassionate, and often laugh-out-loud story about two veterinarians operating their practice in a prestigious eastern suburb of Sydney whose lives are turned upside down when an internationally acclaimed violinist from Romania enters...
| Автор | Andrew Saw |
Vaiksest suveidüllist saab äkitsi pisut pööraste süžeekäikudega armukolmnurk ja kui lisame terake müstikat ja mõne toekama pulli siis saamegi ühe eestimaise Corrida.Raamatu järgi on valmind ka samanimeline Olav Neulandi mängufilm.
| Автор | Teet Kallas |
Kogumik sisaldab eesti kirjandusklassiku proosaloomingu paremiku, kokku üksteist jutustust: “Pildikesi Peipsi rannalt”, “Pahased naabrid”, “Muldmäe Mats”, “Mis sest viimaks sai?”, “Aias”, “Vari”, “Käkimäe kägu”, “Esimesed kirjanikutundmused”, “Peipsi pääl”, “Igapäevane lugu” ja “Nõia tütar”.
| Автор | Juhan Liiv |
Anton Pavlovi poeg Tehhov on viidanud, et püss esimese vaatuse seinal teeb pauku viimases. Juhtub aga nii, esimeses vaatuses käivad hoogsad paugud ära ning krimiuurijad Andres Västrik ja Rita Leidpalu olgu targad ning tehtku kindlaks, milline püss hiljem seinale riputada. Sest, vaadake Pärnumaal on igal mehel vintraud kodus ja ka paugu tegemiseks on paljudel põhjus. Kui puud saaksid rääkida…
| Автор | Mihkel Ulman |
Waiting is a story of two odd couples in prose as marvellously idiosyncratic as its characters. Big is a hefty cross-dresser and Little is little. Both are long used to the routines of boarding house life in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, but Little, with the prospect of an inheritance, is beginning to indulge in the great Australian dream, which has Big worried. Little's cousin, Angus, is a solitary man who designs lake-scapes for city councils, and strangely constructed fireproof houses...
| Автор | Philip Salom |