30-year-old Bronwyn Artair, feeling out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor, Diane Fenwick. After a year of living alone in Southern New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces. When she finally accep ...
«Небо несет свет, и пусть мир вокруг взорвется, пока есть небо – мы живем». Во время каникул учительница Рина сошла с поезда раньше своей станции, вдохновленная красотой утреннего леса. К вечеру она – нелегальный житель планеты, депортированный в неизвестное захолустье и вынужденный ночевать в сарае. Рина не оставит без внимания полученный пинок на конец света. Пусть придется перекрасить волосы, шантажировать контрабандиста, бороться с собственн ...
Joseph Schneider grows up in a Cherokee-Jewish family in the Smokey mountains of North Carolina. He dreams to be a cook on the biggest ship there is in the world but his attachment to his mother Rachel and his rootedness to the little mountain village keep him from moving on. When his mother falls ill she reveals she stole him from a Palestinian girl Aliya in the 80s when she volunteered at a hospital in Gaza. Joseph refuses to know anything mor ...
Cold War spy thriller featuring Max Falkland, hero of Cold Crash. Set just a few weeks after the first novel, Max meets up again with the mysterious John Knox, a chance for their relationship to deepen. But a family request pulls her away to the Berlin International Film Festival where the stakes get bigger and more deadly until Max is faced with a dangerous choice if she wants to save both John and her family. ...
Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known as Juvenal, is one of the greatest satirists and moralists in history. His works, of which sixteen are preserved, are scathing and unapologetic in their presentment of Rome and its citizens. Juvenal is also revered as a social historian for his vivid depictions of Latin life. He wrote his satires between 100 and 127 AD, and although his volumes of poetry were lost for several centuries, his rediscovered works intr ...
When the Nazis declare war on California's Jews, film producer David Howarth declares war on them. And while he's tracking down crazy Adolph Schleisser and his gang, a quiet, retiring psychopath by the name of Rita Goren is on his trail. Not to mention the mafia and the police… David's War is under way! ...
When their parents are killed, Nick and Nita find themselves destitute. Only an uncle they've never known offers them a refuge on his East Texas farm. The culture shock is intense for Nita, but Nick takes to farming, learning how to plow with a mule, bale hale, milk cows, and tend gardens.<P> "Mayhar's roots in East Texas are never more evident than in this lovely tale of teenagers forced to re-evaluate their lives. Poignan ...
Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel, 1921– 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later «slic ...
Texas cowboys Billy Birthday (aka Shortcut) and Wallace F. Fidgle (aka Tapes) are touring Florida to see the lighthouses there. In the midst of a storm, they give a ride to a jogger who turns out to be the governor of Florida. And as soon as they drop him off, he's murdered. Stuck in a hotel on remote Gasparilla Island by the vicious tropical squall, the pair are accused of murder by the Lieutenant Governor, who has them arrested them and b ...
