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Cassandra Claude is a Miami-based vocal instructor, as well as a vocal health consultant training performer since 2005. Exclusively specializing in diverse vocal technique for optimal versatility and longevity. Cassandra works with singers to achieve a voice that can move healthily and easily through a variety of genres. Her students consist of professional singers, committed young performers, professional voice users (actors, radio personalities, public speakers, teachers), as well as dedicated...
| Автор | Cassandra Claude |
Valik toredaid Eesti muinasjutte! Sisukord: 1. Matsipoeg Mats 2. Uss-kuningatütar 3. Kalevipoja heategu 4. Kust oatera endale musta joone sai? 5. Härja saunategemine 6. Söögikott ja peksukott 7. Kuidas hunt kriimsilmaks sai ja miks on karul lühike kael? 8. Miks kass ja hiir omavahel läbi ei saa? 9. Miks mets kohiseb?
| Автор | Toimetanud Tuuli Kaalep |
Charlene Dixon—called Charlie by family and friends—is devastated at the recent loss of her job. For the last five years, the twenty-seven-year-old has blossomed as the activities director of an exclusive all-girls school. But when a misunderstanding with the headmistress leads to a pink slip right before the holidays, Charlie packs up her dreams and returns to her grandmother, Sis, who raised Charlie as her own in the mountains of North Carolina. When Charlie...
| Автор | Eva Marie Everson |
At the time of the construction of Borobudur in the ninth century, Buddhism had been established in Java for several centuries. Mackenzie’s Borobudur, an exquisite long poem, tells the story of its legendary architect, Gunavarman, and of Indonesia’s mystical monument with cultural understanding, sensitivity and great feeling. Like Gunavarman by the poem’s end, Mackenzie becomes ‘a dot on the horizon’ leaving us stilled in silence. ‘Like turning a wonderfully textured and beautifully glazed...
| Автор | Jennifer Mackenzie |
In her interlinked short stories Liz Gallois captures both Indians and Westerners in new and unexpected guises, their relationships teetering on the edge, or caught at odds by the allure and the chaos of the subcontinent. Delicately spiced with humour this is an intriguing work of fiction, by an exciting new talent, where sexuality, loss and yearning are always simmering just beneath the surface. India Vik has been described as ‘a stylish debut’ –The Australian and ‘an enjoyable collection’–...
| Автор | Liz Gallois |
In Keeping Faith the innocence and certainties of childhood are delicately tested against the realities of adult life. Josh and Gracie grow up in a working class world centred on the values of faith and family. Both cherish their father, a lay preacher, and their mother, but for Josh the complex secrets, doubts and subtleties of the world do not allow for certainty. In adulthood he works as a labour ward attendant, his younger sister Gracie as a nurse on a remote mission station in Papua New...
| Автор | Roger Averill |
„Kosmose pikk vari“ on lugu kaevanduslaeva kapteni Kalle Moskari ohtlikust ja seiklusterohkest elust. Röövellikud korporatsioonid, tulnukad, uued tehnoloogiad ja nende ohud ning kosmilised kataklüsmid. Romaani tegevus toimub enamjaolt kosmoselaevades ja väikeplaneetidel ning tegemist on Eesti ulme ehk kõige kosmilisema teosega.
| Автор | Maniakkide Tänav |
Sarja „Lumivalgukeste lugusid kogu maailmast“ 3. e-raamat
| Автор | Enno Littmann |
Sarja „Lumivalgukeste lugusid kogu maailmast“ 2. e-raamat
| Автор | Mathias Winther |
Elas kord väike tüdruk, kellel olid ilusad, heledad, kullakarva juuksed. Teda hüüti Kuldkiharaks. Ühel päeval läks ta metsa jalutama. Märkamatult jõudis ta juba päris sügavale metsa, kust leidis majakese. Et tüdruk oli väsinud, koputas ta tammepuust uksele. Keegi ei vastanud. Kuldkiharake soovis aga väga puhata ja nii astus ta julgelt uksest sisse. Inglise muinasjutt
| Автор | Inglise muinasjutt |
One woman’s adventurous search for love, meaning and connection. In the ‘70s travel scenes of Afghanistan, India and Thailand, Elsie discovers adventure, friendship and freedom. After three years she returns to her welcoming and loving family in suburban Australia where time seems to have stood still. Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of authoritarian and Catholic Adelaide she becomes a restless spirit torn between the call of family and the world. An ever-searching series of...
| Автор | Gaynor McGrath |
<P>Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of...
| Автор | Mongo Beti |
<P>This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala-Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki’s footsteps. Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala-Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out-of-work undocumented...
| Автор | Alain Mabanckou |
<P>Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation’s president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live." Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his...
| Автор | Sony Labou Tansi |
Esimese klassi tüdruk Ingel ja tema suur vend Peeter sattuvad alailma plindrisse. Muidugi kogemata ja ilma pahade kavatsusteta. Mängutuhinas lihtsalt juhtub vahel nii, et elutuba mattub tolmukihi alla, naabritädi koeral läheb kõht lahti, naabrionule lendab sodi selga, isal murdub hammas pooleks või emale kukub tort sülle. Kristiina Kassi naljakaid Peetri-lugusid on varem ilmunud ajakirjas Hea Laps.
| Автор | Kristiina Kass |
Peategelased on Claude Chevalier, Vic (Claude’i vend), Helen, Katerina , Mirjam, Michelle. Noore ambitsioonika kirjaniku Claude Chevalier’ armastuse ja eneseotsingud, tema arengulugu, mis lõpuks kuhugi välja ei vii. Tegevus toimub peamiselt New Yorgis. Kergem ja sõbralikum teos. Loeb Taavi Eelmaa.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
2006. aasta romaanivõistluse võitja Tiina Laanem kirjutab oma esimeses romaanis kõigist neist meestest ja naistest ja lastest, kes iga päev meie keskel oma elu elavad. Seab küsimuse alla sõpruse tegelikkuse ja sisu. Elu tegelikkuse ja sisu. Susi sest kõigest aru saagu. Kõige rohkem räägitakse ses raamatus ikka meestest, kelle varjus joonistuvad välja naised. Ja kusagil kaugel, õige tasa ja õige vaikselt, on ka lapsed. Loeb Hannes Kaljujärv.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
<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...
| Автор | Robin Hemley |
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...
| Автор | Rayo Casablanca |
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...
| Автор | Eric Pete |
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...
| Автор | Chunichi |
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…
| Автор | Rachel Turner |