Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, «Golden» Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994 Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for ...
Я даже не мог представить, что назову этот мир своим домом. Но близкие друзья, любимая девушка – это ли не счастье?! Добившись первых успехов и обустроившись, понимаешь, что это мир возможностей и все только в наших руках. Но неожиданно мэр с друзьями подкидывают задачу из ряда невыполнимых, и отказа они не стерпят. Что мы там найдем? Что узнаем? Впереди еще большая неизвестность, и от этого становится страшно. Но нужно выполнить, а лучше постар ...
Mit „Spree-Babe“ legt Mareen Vahle ihr zweites Buch vor. Dieses Mal geht die Jagerin und Waldpadagogin im Gro?stadtdschungel Berlin auf die Pirsch. Mit flotter Feder und sicherem Gespur fur die Komik im ganz normalen Wahnsinn bietet sie den Lesern ein Kaleidoskop von Liebe, Lust und Frust in der Hauptstadt. Meist kann man sich das Schmunzeln nicht verkneifen, doch schon im nachsten Moment wird man nachdenklich gestimmt. Sinnliches und Besinnlich ...
Good Lady Ducayne', is a gothic novella by Mary Elizabeth Braddon originally published in 1869. It is a nineteenth century incarnation of the popular vampire myth, setting it against the backdrop of an Anglicised region of the Italian Riviera during the Victorian era. This is a great read and an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the genre. To this republication is added a specially commissioned brand new shor ...
In this tour-de-force of invention, by ranging across Guyanese ethnicities, gender and time in the purported authorship of these stories, Mark McWatt creates a richly dialogic work of fiction. Back in 1966, each of a group of Guyanese sixth-formers is 'sentenced' to write a short story that reflects their newly independent country. Years later, Mark McWatt, one of the group, is handed the papers of his old school friend, Victor Nunes, ...
The futuristic Caribbean island of Jacaranda is a place under the constant pressures of crime, globalisation, advancing technology and environmental decay. Under these ominous skies Curdella Forbes builds a compelling tale of love, murder and psychological mayhem – a forbidden, tragic love affair, and a family torn apart by injustice. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaica's independence, and written in a heady, ...
When Winston receives a telegram informing him of his father's imminent death, his decision to return to Jamaica is very reluctant. The memories opened up by his return tell us why. But twenty-five years in the USA without contact with his family has allowed mutual resentments to mature and trapped Winston in the traumas of his childhood. And when he discovers he has a half-sister no one has told him about, his fury knows no bounds. ...
Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship—a ‘living memorial’ to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable—it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry.Jan ...
