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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.
| Автор | Cinthya Roberts |
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...
| Автор | Michelle McGriff |
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...
| Автор | Jill Amy Rosenblatt |
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,...
| Автор | A.D. Hopkins |
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...
| Автор | Frank Poullain |
Muinasjutt Unehaldjast, kes jutustab lastele imeilusaid unejutte. Loeb Karl Sakrits.
| Автор | Hans Christian Andersen |
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.
| Автор | Vene muinasjutt |
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...
| Автор | C. J. Wright |
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...
| Автор | Karen Hood-Caddy |
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...
| Автор | Barbara Lambert |
Hans Christian Anderseni muinasjutu ainetel jutustatud lugu üheteistkümnest metsluigeks nõiutud kuningapojast ja nende õekesest Eliisast. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.
| Автор | Hans Christian Andersen |
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.
| Автор | Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont |
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.
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |
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.
| Автор | Hans Christian Andersen |
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...
| Автор | Debbie Howlett |
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...
| Автор | Karen Hood-Caddy |
A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker. These are a few of the amazing array of characters who live in, or near, Sharon MacFarlane’s fictional village of Palliser, a community struggling to survive in an age of rural depopulation. Whether its a terrifying drive on a frozen river («Ice Road») or a cancelled trip («We Didn’t Go to Len’s This Summer»), each of...
| Автор | Sharon MacFarlane |
Kingston writer Richard Cumyn’s second book of short stories is a remarkable collection of fiction about the curse of modernity–displacement. In striking scenes Cumyn subtly explores our own sense of abandonment and loneliness in the face of change, movement and loss. Cumyn’s prose is sparse and direct, the violence supressed beneath the surface casual and foreboding. His characters are at once familiar and eerily distinct, their relationships a tender blend of heartbreak and affection....
| Автор | Richard Cumyn |
Kaunis prantsuse muinasjutt printsessist eeslinahas. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.
| Автор | Charles Perrault |
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 «Nelja märk». Loeb Tambet Tuisk.
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |
Prints soovis abielluda ainult tõelise printsessiga. Ühel õhtul koputas lossi uksele märg ja räsitud tüdruk, kes väitis et on printsess. Kuninganna pani ta magama kahekümnle madratsile ja hanesulgedest padjale, mille alla asetas ühe hernetera. Kui kuninganna hommikul kuulis et tüdruk pole silmatäitki maganud, sest tal olevat midagi väga kõva madratsite all olnud, oligi tõeline printsess leitud. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.
| Автор | Hans Christian Andersen |