On the fringes of human space, a murder will light a fuse and send two different people colliding together. He's a thirty-year veteran of military operations; she's the youngest daughter of a wealthy business family. Both used roundabout means to become detectives. She's smart; he's tactical. Now they need to learn from each other. Mix in a very early high-budget R&D AI created by the Military, and we might have a problem ...
Война за освобождение Алжира, 1959 год. Филипп Руссель, французский офицер, влекомый марксистскими идеями, переходит на сторону алжирских партизан и становится двойным агентом. Эта пародия на бондиану, щедро приправленная политической сатирой, – третий роман британского историка-медиевиста, востоковеда Роберта Ирвина, автора нашумевшего «Арабского кошмара».
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В романе «Пределы зримого» (1986) известный современный писатель Роберт Ирвин открывает перед читателем мир английской домохозяйки, неожиданно оказывающийся удивительной фантасмагорией.
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First published as Never Love a Stranger, and originally under a pseudonym, this is a new edition with a new introduction from the author. Anne Symons is content living with her widowed father in a sleepy Dorset town.She has a good job in a solicitor’s office and a kind, reliable, good-looking boyfriend Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad appears on the scene, she suddenly feels something was missing from her life. But shou ...
A tragic tale of love and the bonds of marriage. Teenager Judah Jacobs is employed regularly as a babysitter by Peter and Joyce Kane. When Joyce is taken to hospital, Judah allows herself to be seduced by Peter. They embark on an affair, and eventually, once Judah is pregnant, Peter leaves Joyce and they embark on a new life together.Tragedy strikes when their son dies from leukaemia and Peter finds comfort in the arms of Judah's sister ...
WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Finalist; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (gra ...
"Puuh, das war knapp! Danke, Johanna."Bitte! Man sind das kaputte Typen. Du brauchst mich jetzt ubrigens nicht mehr im Arm zu halten, Marek." «Oh, ich… ja, sorry!» «Schon ok.» Bem-vindo e bom apetite – herzlich willkommen und guten Appetit. In Hamburgs Portugiesenviertel wird leckeres Essen aufgetischt und die Besucher freuen sich uber das kleine Stuck Portugal mitten in der nordischen Hansestadt. Zudem steckt die Stadt gerade auch noch mi ...
Eight years ago, Tyler Donnelly left Wishing River, Montana, after a terrible fight with his father and swore he'd never return. But when his father has a stroke, guilt and duty drive him home, and nothing is as he remembers??from the run-down ranch to Lainey Sullivan, who is all grown up now. And darn if he can't seem to stay away. Lainey's late grandma left her two things: the family diner and a deep-seated mistrust of cowboys. ...
Nova hat viele Fahigkeiten. Sie spricht funf Sprachen. Sie wei?, welche Zutaten auf ein gutes Sandwich gehoren. Sie erkennt einen Lugner am Klang seiner Stimme. Aber eines kann sie nicht: sehen. Als eine Operation ihr die Sehkraft schenkt, findet sich die selbstbewusste junge Frau plotzlich nicht mehr zurecht. Die Sehenden scheinen muhelos Regeln zu befolgen, die sie sich erst erarbeiten muss. Dann begegnet sie Kate, deren Vergangenheit ebenfall ...