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Short-listed for the 2001 Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Fiction Prize and the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Prize Lilith Boot’s life changes forever the night she drowns the flowers in her parents’ garden. Frightened by their daughter’s odd behaviour, and her recent pronouncements of psychic visions, the Boots send Lilith to a Vancouver mental hospital. It is there that she becomes pregnant, giving birth after her discharge. Years later, Lilith uses her visions to help Toronto police...
| Автор | Elizabeth Mills Ruth |
Vikkan Lantry, a pianist with more talent than ambition, is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano, Ulrike Vogel, draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music. Ulrike’s mysterious past, and her friendship with elderly Viennese piano teacher, Dieter Mann, usher Vikkan into an intrigue that begins in the nineteenth century with an unknown song cycle composed by Robert Schumann, and ends in the present-day with a grisly double...
| Автор | Peter Schaffter |
Dave Bolden’s life feels like it’s on repeat. He works his eight hours at a boutique accounting firm, goes home, gets drunk and wakes up the next day to go back to work with a hangover. But his life changes when an eighteen-wheel truck crashes through the front windows of his workplace, killing everyone except him. Shortly after the accident, he is approached by an eccentric businessman, Mr. Thorrin, who interprets Dave’s survival as luck and sets out to exploit what he perceives as a gift. Mr....
| Автор | Scott William Carter |
Elas kord naine, kes soovis endale kogu südamest lapsukest, kuid ei teadnud, kuidas teda leida. Nii läks ta vana nõia juurde ja ütles: „Minu südamesooviks on saada laps. Palun ütle mulle, mida peaksin tegema, et see juhtuks?“
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Külmal talveajal hulkunud üks äranälginud rebane mööda metsa ja otsinud endale toitu. Viimaks olnud rebasel mets risti ja põiki läbi käidud, aga siiski polnud talle midagi silma hakanud, mida oleks võinud suhu panna. Kogemata kombel tulnud rebane ühe tee äärde. Seal näinud ta eemalt üht meest kalakoormaga tulemas. Rebasel kohe hea nõu peetud.
| Автор | Eesti muinasjutt |
"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it." Mark Twain’s «tale» became his first historical novel, <i>The Prince and the Pauper,</i> published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
The four stories that make up the <I>Mabinogi, </I>along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is...
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This is Mark Twain's first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. The Mark Twain Library edition contains the only text since the first edition (1876) to be...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel, Les Bohémiens , has nearly vanished. Only a half dozen copies are available in...
| Автор | Anne Gedeon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport |
Elasid kord kolm õde, kõik väga ilusad. Ühel kaunil päeval kiskusid nad tee ääres lina. Sealt juhtus mööda sõitma kuningas, kes neiusid märkas. Ta käskis hobused kinni pidada ja alustas juttu.
| Автор | Eesti muinasjutt |
Rikkaks tahtis kord saada väike Sannä, väga rikkaks, kui seisis Tähttornil ja vaatles maailma. Nüüd on ta rikas. Kuid nüüd tahaks ta jälle olla Sannä – ainult väike poiss oma unistuste mäe otsas…
| Автор | Richard Roht |
Days of Purgatory is a mystery thriller set against the backdrop of westward expansion. The action and intrigue rolls across the frontier landscape of the nineteenth century as the ensemble cast of characters is swept along on the currents of time, chance, fate, or destiny. Their lives intersect at those hard crossroads where faith meets reality. From the idealism of the River Brethren of Conoy Creek to the passions of the abolitionist movement, Deke Coburn becomes entangled in the horrors and...
| Автор | Ken R. Abell |
Echoes of Evil rejoins Deacon Coburn and company in a new adventure that picks up storylines and characters from Days of Purgatory and Shadows of Revenge. Joys and sorrows weave through this mosaic narrative, for the pursuit of justice extracts a great price as gripping scenarios unfold and secrets are confronted in the midst of upheaval. True to his sojourner outlook, the whiskey-sipping philosopher from Conoy Creek always comes to the aid of others at just the right time, embodying a theme...
| Автор | Ken R. Abell |
In Ephesian Miracle things begin on an ominous note. Two Christian priests are murdered in Istanbul shortly before Art and his fiancee Marissa are to be married in the Chora Church in that cosmopolitan city. On top of that, it appears the bones of Mary the mother of Jesus have been found in Ephesus! Art and Marissa's honeymoon plans go awry when suddenly Marissa is missing and a ransom note is found by Art under the door of his hotel room in Kushadasi. It will take a miracle, an Ephesian...
| Автор | Ann Witherington |
When Jesus offers his body as a promise to his disciples, he initiates a liturgical framework that is driven by irony and betrayal. Through these deconstructive elements, however, the promise invites the disciples into an intimate space where they anticipate the fulfillment of what is to come. This anticipatory energy provides the common thread between Donne and Dickinson, who draw specifically on the unstable story that unfolds during the Last Supper in order to develop a liturgical poetics. ...
| Автор | Jamey Heit |
Traveling in New Mexico in 1971, Will George converts to Bhakti Dharma, a new religious movement influenced by Hinduism and Sikh tradition. Returning to his home in Minnesota, he renounces his previous life, provoking a crisis for everyone in his family. Peter, Will's older brother, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago who studies early Christian asceticism partly to understand his brother's devotion. He gains insight into kundalini yoga, gender roles in the ashram, the...
| Автор | John D. Barbour |
Elas kord puusepp nimega Geppetto. Kord sattus tema kätte kummaline puutükk. Kui ta seda voolima asus, hakkas puupakk itsitama ja piiksatas: „Hei! Ära kõdista!“ Geppetto oli rabatud, avastades, et puuhalg on võlutud ja elab. Ettevaatlikult nikerdas ta välja pea, juuksed ja silmad, mis kingseppa uudishimulikult põrnitsema jäid. „Panen talle nimeks Pinocchio,“ ütles kingsepp enesele. „See nimi toob õnne.“
| Автор | Carlo Collodi |
Whether from established authors or by writers new to fiction, the short stories in this volume explore life as change, using Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 as the lens. The writers come from different backgrounds, perspectives, and levels of familiarity with the short story, but what ties them together is a willingness to creatively explore the raw and more uncomfortable dimensions of life–big events and small happenings–all bound up by a recognition of the inevitability and (dis)comfort of change....
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Time is running out for Khalil el Said, as his cancer treatments have become less and less effective. And so it is that his old friends Art West (and his new wife, Marissa) and Grace Levine plan something very special for Khalil, while there is still time– the opening of an el Said wing of the Israeli Museum of Antiquities, which includes many of the items he bequeathed to the museum over many years. All of this might be quite enough, but as the Wests and others arrive in Jerusalem, a huge...
| Автор | Ann Witherington |
A lost tale of domestic nightmares This rediscovered modernist classic tells the story of a young woman who, while still traumatized by the Second World War, struggles to resign herself to domesticity and motherhood. Slowly consumed by a weight of circumstances beyond her control, Berta endures the deep hypocrisies and the abiding cruelty of everyday life, behind which bloody tragedy threatens to break free. The Weight of Things was Fritz’s debut novel and the first of her books to be...
| Автор | Marianne Fritz |
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 kuulete lugu «Sherlock Holmesi seiklused» Sherlock Holmesi lugude I osast. Loeb Tambet Tuisk.
| Автор | Arthur Conan Doyle |