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The Last Studebaker

Robin Hemley

The Last Studebaker

<P>In 1963, when Lois Kulwicki's father loses his job at Studebaker along with hundreds of other workers, he acts as if he has just been promoted. He buys a new car (the only non-Studebaker he's ever purchased) and takes his family on vacation. On the way home, Mom dumps Dad at a Stuckey's, and that's the last they see of him.</P><P>Thirty years later, Lois has a family of her own, as fractured as her childhood family. Divorced but...

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Robin Hemley

Very Mercenary

Rayo Casablanca

Very Mercenary

From the author of 6 Sick Hipsters comes a razor-sharp, darkly satirical, brilliantly warped new novel about murder, love, torture, art, ninjas, ambition, drugs. . .and everything in between.Leigh Tiller has just been kidnapped. The beautiful, ineffably cool New York socialite is being held by a group of mentally ill terrorists who've demanded millions in ransom from Leigh's wealthy father. There's just one problem: Kip Tiller doesn't want Leigh back. He wants her dead. And...

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Rayo Casablanca

Piano in the Dark

Eric Pete

Piano in the Dark

Chase Hidalgo has a good life. He works as a paralegal in his buddy Jacobi's successful law firm and has a loving wife, Dawn. Yet he feels unsettled. Like he still has dreams left unfulfilled. When he meets Ava in a bar, she seems to know him, but he has no idea who she is. A spark ignites between them, but intrigued as he is, Chase stays true to his marital vows. But when Ava pursues him, the attraction is too powerful to resist, and a fiery romance ensues. How does this mysterious woman...

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Eric Pete

The Streets Keep Calling

Chunichi

The Streets Keep Calling

After doing a 5-year bid, all ex-drug dealer Breeze wants is a normal life with the love of his life and his children. Determined to stay on a straight and narrow path, he follows all the rules of his probation, and even works a full-time job as a janitor. But when the pressure becomes too much to handle, he reverts back to what he knows best. With everything under control, he's the happiest man alive—that is, until he realizes his happiness was achieved at the cost of another man's...

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Chunichi

Kullast loss

Eesti muinasjutt

Kullast loss

Eesti muinasjutt

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Eesti muinasjutt

Ohtlik maagia

Rachel Turner

Ohtlik maagia

Noor, ilus ja veidi häbelik Catherine Arnold töötab väikese Inglise provintsilinna raamatukogus. Tema tulevik tundub kindel ja ettemääratud. Mõne kuu pärast saab temast sümpaatse farmeri Harry Hudsoni naine. Mees armastab teda siiralt. Kuid järsku muutub Catherine'i elus kõik…

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Rachel Turner

Öine külaline

Cinthya Roberts

Öine külaline

Dillon Kameron on tuukrina hinnatud spetsialist Põhjamere puurtornidel. Üle mitme aja tuleb ta Šotimaa rannikusaare väikesesse asulasse, et otsida üles naine, keda ta kunagi armastas ja pole lakanud armastamast tänaseni – oma hukkunud sõbra lesk Teya. Lisaks peab mees leidma ka tütre, kelle olemasolust tal seni aimugi polnud.

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Cinthya Roberts

Swerve

Michelle McGriff

Swerve

Romia Smith is a misunderstood cop. Tall, beautiful, and lethal, her martial arts skills are off the board. During an after-hours gathering with her fellow law enforcement officers, she is accosted by a stranger who, within moments, ends up dead—apparently shot with her service revolver. Romia has an alibi, but it’s one that is less believable than the lie she’s being framed with—murder! In her quest to prove her innocence, Romia finds herself stepping further and further out of line with the...

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Michelle McGriff

For Better Or Worse

Jill Amy Rosenblatt

For Better Or Worse

Touching, funny, and remarkably true-to-life, Jill Amy Rosenblatt's latest novel explores how the friendships between women only grow stronger with time. . .even when life throws curveballs no one sees coming. . . Emily, Elizabeth, and Karen are as different as three women can be, but that hasn't stopped them from forging an unbreakable bond. Newlywed Emily, now half of a New York City power couple, would love nothing more than to see her friends settled down with soul mates of their...

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Jill Amy Rosenblatt

The Boys Who Woke Up Early

A.D. Hopkins

The Boys Who Woke Up Early

Playing cops was just a game until the bullets were real. The gravy train hasn’t stopped in the hollers of western Virginia for more than thirty years when Stony Shelor starts his junior year at Jubal Early High. Class divides and racism are still the hardened norms as the Eisenhower years draw to a close. Violence lies coiled under the calm surface, ready to strike at any time. On the high school front, the cool boys are taking their wardrobe and music cues from hip TV private dick Peter Gunn,...

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A.D. Hopkins

Dancing in the Darkness

Frank Poullain

Dancing in the Darkness

This is one man's guide to begging for sex, smuggling drugs and pretending to be rock 'n' roll…The one time pirate bass warrior of cock rockers, The Darkness; offers an illustrated alternative self-help book based on the philosophy of disaster: 'How To Be A Bass Player With No Sense Of Rhythm', 'How To Be A Tour Guide With No Sense Of Direction', 'How To Get Into The Closet', 'How To Go From Chateau To Shit-hole', and so on. Just take up...

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Frank Poullain

Vankumatu tinasõdur

Hans Christian Andersen

Vankumatu tinasõdur

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Hans Christian Andersen

Unehaldjas

Hans Christian Andersen

Unehaldjas

Muinasjutt Unehaldjast, kes jutustab lastele imeilusaid unejutte. Loeb Karl Sakrits.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Maša ja karu

Vene muinasjutt

Maša ja karu

Mašake läheb metsa marjule ja eksib ära ning satub karu juurde. Karu ei taha Mašakest enam koju lubada. Tüdruk peab kavalust kasutama, et tagasi koju pääseda. Loeb Karl Sakrits.

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Vene muinasjutt

Karma

C. J. Wright

Karma

NoneWilliam Nothingham is fair, decent, honorable, principled, virtuous, truthful, and above board. Mr. Nothingham is also a product of his environment, background, culture, and ménage. He tries to handle and abide by the influences and factors that are imposed upon him by his family, even though they are not in alignment with his character. William’s sincere and genuine self is constantly clashing with his family’s traditions, beliefs, customs, and rituals. He wants to be warm and fuzzy. His...

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C. J. Wright

Flying Lessons

Karen Hood-Caddy

Flying Lessons

The sequel to Tree Fever is a story of redemption and the power of belief. Tree Fever, Hood-Caddy’s first novel, introduced strong, spiritual heroine Jessie Dearborn, who struggled to save an old growth stand from a ruthless developer in her small Muskoka town and found her life’s meaning in the process. Flying Lessons once again finds Jessie and her small group of friends fighting those who would despoil the beauty of nature, this time the builders of a resort which will destroy the ecosystem...

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Karen Hood-Caddy

The Allegra Series

Barbara Lambert

The Allegra Series

Weaving finely spun filaments of the lyric and mythic, Barbara Lambert creates a vivid tapestry of a year in the life of Vancouver’s Allegra Schliemann, a middle-aged woman in the throes of a knotty love affair with a married man, a newly-crafted career as an artisan and a battle against a debilitating disease. Unable to see her way clear of the emotional clutter these changes wreak, Allegra hires would-be artist Brad Lindhall to fashion her a mirrored wall, praying it will bring light and...

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Barbara Lambert

Metsluiged

Hans Christian Andersen

Metsluiged

Hans Christian Anderseni muinasjutu ainetel jutustatud lugu üheteistkümnest metsluigeks nõiutud kuningapojast ja nende õekesest Eliisast. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Robin Hood ja kuldne nool

Inglise muinasjutt

Robin Hood ja kuldne nool

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Inglise muinasjutt

Kaunitar ja koletis

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Kaunitar ja koletis

Ärimehest isa elab pärast suure varanduse kaotust oma kolme tütrega tagasihoidlikku elu. Kuuldes heast võimalusest oma rahalist seisundit parandada, asub ta teele tähtsale kohtumisele, lubades tütardele kingitusi tuua. Noorim tütar Bella soovib üht ainsat roosi. Sellest soovist saavad alguse muinasjutu dramaatilised sündmused. Loeb Karl Sakrits.

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Sherlock Holmesi lood I. Etüüd puna...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmesi lood I. Etüüd punases

Arthur Conan Doyle´i kunagi oma lõbuks kirjutatud lood on tänapäeval klassikaks saanud. Tema kangelased Sherlock Holmes ja doktor Watson on paljudele lugejatele sedavõrd omaseks saanud, et Holmesi nimele tuleb veel praegugi kirju, kus talt palutakse abi. Käesolevas raamatus kuuled Holmesi kuulsat juhtumit «Etüüd punases». Loeb Tambet Tuisk.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Keisri uued rõivad

Hans Christian Andersen

Keisri uued rõivad

Petised lubavad keisrile kududa ja õmmelda haruldlaselt ilusad rõivad, mida ei näe vaid need, kes ei kõlba oma ametisse või on lihtsalt rumalad. Kõik käivad kangast imetlemas ja kiitmas. Keisrit rongkäiku nähes julgeb vaid laps öelda, et keiser on alasti… . Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.

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Hans Christian Andersen

We Could Stay Here All Night

Debbie Howlett

We Could Stay Here All Night

These twelve linked stories confirm what we’ve suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmrat our parents. In this brilliant debut collection by Debbie Howlett we return to the turbulent 70s revisiting the bittersweet wonder years of Diane Wilkinson, a precocious teen living in suburban Montreal amidst the Catholic/Protestant, Federalist/Separatist split that foreshadowed the October Crisis. Against this backdrop of upheaval, Diane quietly chooses sides in her own domestic battles and armed...

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Debbie Howlett

The Wisdom of Water

Karen Hood-Caddy

The Wisdom of Water

In Karen Hood-Caddy’s third inspiring novel featuring environmentalist heroine Jessie Dearborn, Jessie is concerned about the health of the water in her northern town. Harley, Jessie’s Ojibway partner, declares he wants to move further north to where the real wilderness is. She is torn between her allegiance to Harley and her devotion to the land. The Guerrilla Grannies, a group of feisty seniors, start a door-to-door campaign to raise environmental awareness. Trouble erupts when Jessie and...

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Karen Hood-Caddy

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