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With her passion for love and food, Chilli Montgomery is at a stage in her life when it seems life itself could not get much better: a happy marriage to her childhood sweetheart, and a successful business with her son in their restaurant. However, all is not as it seems and Chilli is unprepared for what this next chapter of her life brings. In minutes, the world she once knew is shattered and nothing will ever be the same again. Not even her infatuation and adoration of food.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Tracy Madden |
Australian Arnold Rosen is celebrating his 70th birthday with his family aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.<br /> <br />By coincidence, on the same cruise ship, the American Gus Smith and his family are also celebrating his 70th.<br /> <br />The two men meet. They are identical in appearance but clearly not related. Arnold is the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, while Gus' parents were German – indeed, his father was a rabid anti-Semite.<br /> <br...
| Автор | David Finchley |
An expose of contemporary life seen from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy.<br /> <br />Shaun, a country boy, is orphaned after a bushfire and must now live in the city where he meets many lonely, mixed-up residents. Can his world of benign nature and theirs of dispirited culture, be reconciled?<br /> <br />It is a story of polarities: the country and the city; nature and culture; the material and the digital; the spirit and the flesh; lost faith and renewed...
| Автор | Robert Hollingworth |
Kuumal Egiptuse rannal tutvuvad kaks noort inimest – austerlanna Anna ja inglane Robert. Loomulikult kujuneb sellest kohtumisest romaan. Isegi otseses tähenduses, sest Robert kirjutab armastusromaani ja palub Annal olla «konsultant naiste psühholoogia alal». Ärialane koostöö ei taha neil aga kuidagi laabuda. Välja tuleb hoopis midagi muud…
| Автор | Violet Slade |
Teet Kallase romaani „Niguliste” tegevusajaks on kuuekümnendad aastad, peategelasteks neli sõpra, kes ühel või teisel määral kannavad toonase vaimsuse – aga ka naiivsuse – pitserit. See on romaan noorusest, ent mitte ainult. Ei teadnud ju keegi neist näiteks 1967. aastal täpselt öelda, et juba on ta saabunud, kafkalik stagnatsiooni-periood, mille kätte murenesid mitmed põlvkonnad – ka „Niguliste” elu-ummikus kangelased.
| Автор | Teet Kallas |
Carrots and Jaffas tells the story of two red-headed identical twins whose oneness is ruptured when one of them is kidnapped. Their startling intimacy is both a strength and a fault line in their being, and once separated, their individuality emerges. In the course of this exhilarating domestic tale set in Melbourne and the Flinders Ranges, the reader encounters the twins' parents – emotional, scripture-quoting Luisa and calm Bernard – as well as two remarkable storytellers, Doc, an...
| Автор | Howard Goldenberg |
'All I Need In This Life of Sin is Me & My Boyfriend.'' Here comes a honey colored, hazel-green eyed St. Louis bombshell named Meesa. With money in the bank, designer clothes in her closet and true friends by her side, Meesa still longs for more. All of her life she's wanted for one thing and one thing only, love. When she meets the infamous Black, a street pharmacist from the North side of The Lou, finally love is in her grasp. Follow Meesa and Black, this century's...
| Автор | Keisha Ervin |
Lindsay, an Aboriginal elder, and Rob, a young white traveller meet in the Outback and make discoveries that may re-write Australia's history. Based on facts this story takes the reader on a journey through inner, personal landscapes and traditional Aboriginal country. Lindsay's challenge is to locate three sacred objects ( tjurunga ) that are needed to revive important ceremonies. They disappeared decades earlier and could be anywhere in the world. Through personal contacts, a...
| Автор | Paul Bryden |
When we last visited the South Bronx, the South Bronx Bitches and an infamous drug ring, promoted lies, betrayal, and disloyalty resulting in drama and death. Nobody s lives were ever the same. Six weeks later, Dink and Laci are adjusting to life as college students at Boston University. But with Laci fighting the demons of her past addiction at the hands of the South Bronx Bitches, and Dink struggling to adapt to the legit life away from his former drug empire, will their pasts keep them from...
| Автор | Lisa Lennox |
Nad on põlised oponendid. Michael on ufoloog, kes usub teiste maailmade ja tulnukate olemasolu. Roberta uurib meteoriite ja usub ainult seda, mida oma silmaga näeb. Tundub, et mitte miski ei suuda neid lepitada, kuni nad kohtuvad „Päikese pojaks” nimetatud meteoriidi kraatri juures. Võiks arvata, et see salapärane keha kukkus kosmosest tuhat aastat tagasi Maale just selleks, et need kaks põikpead kokku viia.
| Автор | Carrie Croft |
Tammsaare lühiproosakogumik, mis sisaldab klassiku novelle, jutustusi ja proosalaaste: «Kooli Alma», «Lehekandja nr 17», «Looja», «Päästmisel», «Pärast võitlust», «Sõprus», «Tähtis päev», «Tõsi jah», «Vanad ja noored», «Vastukaja», «Võsaküla uus koolmeister», «Mäetaguse vanad».
| Автор | Anton Hansen Tammsaare |
Funny, Passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has it all under control until she meets and greets herself. Born on the Flip Side of the hustler's game, she is the child of a fifteen year old drug addict who places her in a trash dump, with a note that read, ''Please forgive me . . . my mother's only fifteen . . .'' Well that is of little consolation to Vera as she lives her gold diggin' life full speed ahead, only to come to a...
| Автор | Tu-Shonda Whitaker |
Set in wintry Tasmania in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to post-war Hobart and Europe during World War II, this story deals with dark secrets, crime and Nazi plots, interwoven with familiar domestic tensions of family life and marriage. Tully creates a fictional world strongly embedded in authentic details of real locations and well-conceived characters.<br /> <br />The earthy, passionate main protagonist, Jack Martin, is richly drawn: <i>'A typical copper – detective...
| Автор | John Tully |
Floyd McGuinness is a D-grade student with a clear lack of direction. His world is changing – is he ready to change with it?<br /> <br />With Year 12 in the rear view mirror, Floyd throws a party for his graduating class. Hard liquor, inexperience and a testosterone-fueled peer group are seldom a good mix.<br /> <br />What seems funny at the time isn't always funny in the morning. A court case suddenly looms on the horizon. Futures are hanging in the balance. The...
| Автор | James Maclean |
Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ''Rah-Lo'' Henderson. He is unhappily married with children, and Celeste is his well-kept secret. He loves Celeste without question, proving his affection for her by financing her dream: a beauty salon called ''Dime Piece.'' But when Rah-Lo is incarcerated for his part in a brutal crime, his right hand man Ishmael Wright is left to hold down the fort....
| Автор | Tracy Brown |
Romaan jutustab ühest seiklusjanusest inglasest, kes pooljuhuslikku noorpõlveeksimust heaks tehes leiab kodust kaugel oma õnne ja armastuse.
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
“Pilvelinnuste ajastu langus” viib lugeja haaravasse ja tempokalt arenevasse seiklusesse läbi erinevate fantastiliste paralleelmaailmade.
| Автор | Siim Veskimees |
Neis rõhutatud romantilistes lugudes, mille teemad lähtuvad eelkõige müstilisest keskajast, võib leida saatuslikke naisi, nõiduskütkes vaevlevaid armastajaid, kummalisi haigusi, salapäraseid sündmusi ja endeid. Eelrafaeliitide kirjanduslik rühmitus kujunes justkui vastukaaluks 19. sajandi Inglismaad haaranud tööstusrevolutsioonile ja ärilisele pragmaatilisusele.
| Автор | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Oskar Lutsu 1920. aastal loodud «Nukitsamees» on lastekirjanduse klassikasse kuuluv lugu Itist ja Kustist, kes satuvad metsa marjule minnes kurja nõiamoori küüsi.
| Автор | Оскар Лутс |
Faraway Places is a collection of three novellas that goes to dark and dingy places that the faint-hearted might wish are truly faraway. But are they? Not when you take a crazed trip with an odd-ball who dreams of a faraway place, while all the while he is on a slow-burn to insanity. Maybe he can solve the problem of living in a caravan alongside a garbage tip with a foul-mouthed significant other and a companion dog. That's not an easy problem to solve when you lack initiative. Perhaps...
| Автор | Albert Trajstman |