15,000-copy paperback printing, along with 5,000-copy hardcover run Bernice L. McFadden remains one of our best-selling novelists Her previous novel won the prestigious NAACP Image Award (other finalists in her category included: Jacqueline Woodson, Colson Whitehead, Yvvette Edwards, and Lawrence Hill) Her previous novels have received glowing reviews in the New York Times, Washington Post, O, the Oprah Magazine, on NPR, and have been praised by ...
“Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African American family’s history to mend present day relationships . . . Ms. McFadden has a beautiful writing style that is simultaneously lyrical and transparent. In parts of the narrative, time seems to stand still as she describes an event in riveting minute to minute detail. Other times she employs a kin ...
Twin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family’s orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys’ grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents’ deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin – now a student actor in a wintry Montreal – is g ...
A mass ritual suicide, the notorious puputan took place on Bali in 1906. In 1942 the Japanese invaded. In 1965 there were terrible disturbances. Before each of these disastrous sets of events clouds of yellow butterflies were seen in the skies over the island. A coincidence? A terrible omen? Or is there another explanation?Victor Mason's cultural thriller delves into a secretive civilization where a roll call of strange characters including ...
“Нам бывает скучно… Что ж, скука – хорошее лекарство от страха”. Родовое поместье Мэндерли. Любимое и ненавистное. Юная компаньонка капризной пожилой американки встречает английского аристократа, терзаемого тайной печалью, и… Нет, это не очередной готический любовный роман. Не потому даже, что он о взрослении, о кризисе идентичности, об одиночестве и утрате жизненных целей, о зрелости и порочности; икона саспенса, психологический триллер, Хи ...
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, by King David Kalakaua, who lived from 1836 to 1890, is a remarkable work. It combines many traditional Hawaiian legends with stories about historical incidents, such as the death of Captain James Cook at the hands of Hawaiians in 1779 and the destruction of Hawaiian temples in 1819.No other collection of Hawaii's myths has come so directly from a literate Hawaiian. King Kalakaua ruled his subjects with symp ...
Knallkopf Wilson gelesen von Heikko Deutschmann 1894 entstand diese wunderbare Gesellschaftssatire, die nun in einer Neuubersetzung von Heikko Deutschmann ungekurzt gelesen wird. Twain kolloriert das Leben in dem kleinen Stadtchen Dawson's Landng mit seiner unvergleichlichen Art des Sprachwitzes und seinem spitzfedrigen Humor. ...
When the world government realized that the world was about to be damaged beyond repair, they had to take drastic action. A thousand years later and the last of the population are living without technology and under the strict regulations set by The City of Hope council. The problem is that nobody can fight back. Each person is required by law to have a chip inserted into them at birth. This chip can be deactivated at any time and once that happ ...
Sarah knows that if she wants to save Nathan, she’s going to have to do it soon. Sirens from the city tell her that the chips are now inactive, but will that be enough to let her break into the city and get the man she loves back? The last thing Nathan was expecting was a rescue. He'd be happy about it, too, if it wasn't for the fact that Bella is going to get punished in his place. Will he be able to convince Natasha and Sarah to turn ...
