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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 |
Mothers-in-law are famous for being difficult but when Nell marries Andy it’s her father-in-law, Hal, who is the problem. A corrosive force in his own family, Hal is a truly ugly Australian who spreads his corruption whenever he gets the chance. Surviving Hal takes place in Sydney and Thailand and is the story of Nell and Andy trying to keep their family together against the influence of a charismatic but ugly soul.<br /> <br />Praise for Penny Flanagan<br...
| Автор | Penny Flanagan |
Moon Over the Mediterranean' is the fascinating story of Alexander, a conscientious objector in 1960s Holland. He embarks on a lifetime adventure, travelling the hippie trail through Greece, India, Nepal, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and beyond. He keeps his sketch pad at hand, always has a good book to enjoy and engages in deep philosophical discussions with fellow travellers, as well as falling in and out of love along the way.<br /> <br />As he matures, Alexander...
| Автор | G J Maher |
Based on events surrounding the infamous, billion-dollar BRE-X gold fraud, and the determined few who recklessly destroyed so many lives with their all-consuming quest for gold, in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.<br /> <br />When Canadian miner Borneo Gold Corporation announces the discovery of gold reserves in excess of twenty million ounces, pundits drive the worthless stock to giddying heights as the rich and powerful in three countries move to secure control over the deposit....
| Автор | Kerry B Collison |
Victoria, armas sinisilmne tütarlaps, oli terve oma elu elanud muretult vaikses linnakeses. Vaid oma armastatud romaanidest sai ta teada armastusest ja kirest, kohutavatest kuritegudest ja uskumatutest seiklustest. Kuid ükskord sai see kõik tema jaoks reaalsuseks. Kõik algas kesköisest kohtumisest talvisel teel…
| Автор | Sondra Tabit |
Keskkooliõpilased lähevad klassiekskursioonile väikesele saarele. Ühe teismelise jaoks jääb see retk aga viimaseks. Tapetu surma uurides põrkavad Vistrik ja Rita kokku erinevate sotsiaalsete pahedega, mis end korraliku pereelu fassaadi taha peidavad.
| Автор | Mihkel Ulman |
Kogumik Sherlock Holmsi lugude autorilt, kus juttu tuleb noorest poksijast, kel seisab ees ennekuulmatutel tingimustel poksimatš, juhtumist merel, kus naisele paistab ilmuvat tema surnud abikaasa jt.
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the US.<br /> <br />Here, he is courted by both Democrats and Republicans as...
| Автор | Ross Fitzgerald |
Peach Avenel is a broken woman. She thought she had a loving marriage. She thought she would be starting a family. She thought she had a successful career… Peach was wrong. She has a life that no longer fits, filled with broken dreams. When a tumbled down house with a neglected garden comes into her life by serendipitous circumstances, Peach feels something stir within her and although she prefers Jimmy Choo shoes to gum boots, she is drawn to the house and the garden. What unfolds is a story of...
| Автор | Tracy Madden |
Gracious Living plunges into the excesses of the 1980s. Adrian Dadswell, an entrepreneur, is the owner of a holiday resort that boasts everything from an indoor golf range to a fake rain forest. Adrian has a former wife and a disabled daughter who, together with their friends, live very differently from Adrian and his white-shoe brigade. It is these women – young and old, married and single, lesbians and mothers – who come to dominate the novel. The book explores the value of diversity, while at...
| Автор | Andrea Goldsmith |
In 2004 the author found a little diary of 386 pages written by a 62-year-old man in a nursing home. This story is inspired by that diary.<br /> <br />E=mc2? Jack Smythe thinks Einstein is wrong and he has a theory to prove it. But he's no physicist. Instead, he's been a homeless kid, a palmreader, a cosmic theorist, a father of two (who probably aren't his) and a devoted companion to his sister Kitty who has her own demons. But now at 62, he wakes after an operation...
| Автор | Robert Hollingworth |
"Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry – a modern classic in the making." – Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful suicide. But when his father's death is also...
| Автор | Vivian Bi |
Kuulsa Prantsuse kirjaniku ja ajaloolase filosoofiline jutustus inimlikust rumalusest ning massidele omasest pimedast kuuletumisest barbaarsetele jõududele. Armutu satiir, mis paljastab harjumuspärase normaalse pealispinna all varjuvat solvavat absurdsust.
| Автор | Voltaire |
Louise Davitt, a young Australian anthropologist, and Zeno Wolde, an Ethiopian doctor and fellow anthropologist, research and explore isolated villages and tribal lands in Ethiopia, making fascinating discoveries about the people, the environment and themselves. While working for reform to lift poor peasants out of poverty, they fall in love and marry then have a child. Zeno's work takes him away from home for long stretches of time, then he disappears. Louise visits family in London and is...
| Автор | Roger Rees |
In WAIT, WHAT, a man finds perfection, only to discover that someone else has beaten him to it. In HOW TO MEASURE INFINITY, a teenager on an annual camping trip with his family learns that lust and shame often go hand in hand. In DATING APP, a timid adult discovers the ins and outs and complications that come from modern dating. And in the four part series LIAR a young man grows and matures until he can finally realize that the boy he once loved more than anything in...
| Автор | Zachary Leonard |