Fiction
In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent―her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a “processing error”―Daphne take...
From the award winning author of The Lightkeepers comes a page turning new novel that explores the bond between siblings and the animal instincts that threaten to destroy them. When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headline...
The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards—including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize—returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resiliency and compassion in times of great upheaval. Willa Knox has...
Незамысловатые будни молодого писателя могут обернуться совершенно неожиданным поворотом с приходом в его жизнь необычных сил, обречённых помогать ему, а быть может, и навредить. Содержит нецензурную брань.
Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago--soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new little boxes with moving images that were finding their way into the homes of more & more Americans--a young PR man at General Electric sold his 1st short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his 34d, he decided to quit GE & join the likes of...
In this hilarious sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire!—that even includes a guest appearance by J. K. Rowling a.k.a. "Oldwhatshername"—Madeleine wants nothing more than to save money for college, but her impractical, ex-hippie parents are broke. When the family unexpectedly inherits a sweet shoppe in England that has the potential to earn serious profit, they see an answer to al...
The Road Through the Wall
When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they'll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do they suspect that Chuck's new employer, the famous TV comedian Bunny Hentman, will also be there aiming his own laser gun. How things came to...
Небольшая история о стрелке Роланде, идущем по следу Уолтера. Роланд попадает в Элурию. После драки Роланд оказывается в больнице, сёстры которой на самом деле оказываются ведьмами. Теперь задача стрелка — спасти себя...
As Baptista travels home to marry her parents? old neighbour, she encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret?
Hanna Boudreaux has lived in the small town of Willow all her life. She's sweet, cute, and quiet. Hanna has a moment of epiphany when she realizes her crush for forever, Raiden Ulysses Miller, is never going to be hers. She sees her life as narrow and decides to do something about it. Raiden Miller is the town's local hero. A former marine with the medal to prove his hero status, he comes ho...
Welcome to Hard Times
Тарзан отказывается от своих прав на женщину, которую он любил. Цивилизация не принесла ему никакого удовольствия. После периода терзаний и жизни среди людей, он возвращается в африканские джунгли, где он вырос и возмужал. Он узнает об Опаре, городе, полном золота, принесенного из легендарной Атлантиды. Это был город страшных мужчин и красивых, диких женщин, которыми правила Лэ, верховная жрица Бо...
The young Portuguese Jesuit Sebastiao Rodrigues (based on the historical Italian figure Giuseppe Chiara) travels to Japan to succor the local Church and investigate reports that his mentor, a Jesuit priest in Japan named Ferreira, based on Cristovao Ferreira, has committed apostasy. Less than half of the book is the written journal of Rodrigues, while the other half of the book is written either i...
An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'.Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes y...
Герои повести борются за право жить свободно в тоталитарном государстве. Существует ли такое государство и такие люди в действительности или все это бред и не может быть правдой?Какие они ценности нашего времени?Ради чего стоит идти в атаку с открытым забралом?Каждый из нас сегодня задается подобными вопросами. Каждый находит свой ответ. Книга содержит нецензурную брань.
Hugh Mechta has hallucinations, and he is determined to find a cure for them. After visiting unhelpful doctors, he stumbles across Masha the Mystic and her advice to remedy his curious ailment. She determines that Hugh must connect with others. In the search to rid the theatre of his mind from projecting fanciful visions onto reality, Hugh meets an eccentric young girl whose hidden emotional agony...
Exciting adventures of a smart mouse named Fly. This book with colorful illustrations by the author will capture the attention of the youngest readers and introduce them to the planet Mercury.
Что значит быть свободным? Какова цена истины? В чем заключается природа счастья? И главное – в чем смысл бытия человеческого? Данные увековеченные философские вопросы раскрываются в этом произведении, погружая читателя в необычный мир, который ничем не отличается от реального. Если вы любитель эксцентричных мыслей, то вас должен заинтересовать этот рассказ.
Повесть окутанная мистикой и что называется человеческими пороками. Но будет ли здесь место для настоящей любви?
In New Orleans, Louisiana, where everyone seems a bit strange, an ordinary student named Jack Cornell finds himself drawn into a world of magic and mystery. He is tasked with protecting a young witch who also happens to be his best friend’s sister. But what will come of it? After all, Jack and Sabrina have been fighting almost from the cradle!The situation is further aggravated by the fact that Sa...
