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<p><em>High Skies</em> recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At the center of this perfect storm is Raymond “Flyboy” Seaker, a respected military veteran, now the vice...
| Автор | Tracy Daugherty |
llinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she’s not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in its pages, seemingly as far away from the world around her as she's ever been. But when her coworker vanishes overnight, an unusual new task is dropped on her desk. Off she goes to meet the Norwegian Postal Workers Union, setting the ball rolling on a strange and transformative six months.This is...
| Автор | Vigdis Hjorth |
Life regularly brings us so much of unexpected, and the most of it is unpleasant, and sometimes really terrifying, taking away all our strength and breaking us. And then, when we appear in an extremely desperate situation and suppose that it just could not been worse, we have take much harder trials and tests. Only when having lost everything, we start understanding and being aware of the real values of life, of what is significant and what only lasts for a certain time period.
| Автор | Влад Вас |
Mehis Heinsaare maagilise alatooniga lühiproosa. Raamat on pärjatud Betti Alveri kirjandusauhinnaga. Loeb Karin Tammaru.
| Автор | Mehis Heinsaar |
Elas kord mees, kellel oli armas tütar. Kurjale kasuemale aga mehe eelmisest abielust sündinud tütar ei meeldinud. Ta kiusas vaest last paljude kodutöödega ja soovis salaja temast lahti saada. Ühel päeval läks mees kodust ära ja kasuema andis lapsele ülesande: „Mine oma tädi, minu õe juurde ja palu talt pluusi õmblemiseks niiti ja nõela.“ Naise õde oli tegelikult Baba-Jagaa, hirmuäratav nõid. Vene muinasjutt
| Автор | Sergei Aksakov |
A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope – edited, annotated and commented upon. History has come to an end, war is regulated as if it's all a game. But Wat, the History Maker himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened. Alasdair Gray...
| Автор | Alasdair Gray |
Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude – a sure tonic for the young. The first work of fiction in over six years by one of Britain's most original and brilliant writers, this wonderful (and very funny) new collection reaffirms Gray's position as a master of the short...
| Автор | Alasdair Gray |
A beautiful collection – charming, witty and touching – these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a child who has an email pen pal on Jupiter and an old lady who becomes a star through 'zimmerobics'. Often writing in a vibrant Glaswegian vernacular, Donovan deftly gives her characters authenticity with a searing power, aided and abetted by tender subtlety.
| Автор | Anne Donovan |
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 |
