Showing results for "James" in Contemporary Fiction

What if the wealth you're working so hard to build isn't the wealth your family truly needs? Mark and Emily Stone have built an enviable life. A thriving business, financial security, the admiration of their peers. But on the night of their biggest celebration, Emily sees what others miss: their adult children slipping away, a marriage running on autopilot, their legacy being measured in money instead of meaning. An unexpected encounter draws them to a mysterious mountain lodge where nothing is quite as it seems.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story The Rose Garden. Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story The Tractate Middoth. Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Jim spielt den Dummen. Es wäre zu gefährlich, wenn die Weißen wüssten, wie intelligent und gebildet er ist. Als man ihn nach New Orleans verkaufen will, flieht er mit Huck gen Norden in die Freiheit. Auf dem Mississippi jagt ein Abenteuer das nächste: Stürme, Überschwemmungen, Begegnungen mit Betrügern und Blackface-Sängern. Immer wieder muss Jim mit seiner Schwarzen Identität jonglieren, um sich und seinen jugendlichen Freund zu retten. Percival Everetts »James« ist einer der maßgeblichen Romane unserer Zeit, eine unerhörte Provokation, die an den Grundfesten des amerikanischen Mythos rüttelt.

In the first passage James Baldwin reads with passion about the suicide of a young black man in despair. The second passage takes place at his funeral service, where Baldwin speaks with both anger and eloquence, in the voice of the minister attempting to comfort his friends and family.

James Jones brings powerful emotion and expression to his reading of the famous passage from his celebrated World War II novel in which Private Prewitt plays a version of Taps that expresses "the requiem of the common soldier".

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

This fascinating, fact-inspired fiction collection from Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, is a sequence of fourteen stories about travels to, in, and from North America. With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways...

Frankie is a regular guy - at first - until a series of circumstances sends him spiraling downward into an abyss of a brutal fight for his life. Set in the savage and intriguing world of mixed martial arts (MMA), this story sends a powerful message of love, faith, and redemption. The underlying theme, however, is a positive one, especially for young people who are faced with a myriad of choices - life altering decisions - on a daily basis.

You will find this book, although an exciting narrative, has an unpolished feel, because it was published in June of 1918, while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress.

Cat and his friends are back! The rich, cantankerous, narcissistic, but generous, septuagenarian Cajun, Clarence "Cat" Touchette, helps when his friend, Crosby "Souris" Babineaux finds his son in a coma at the family's marine transportation company. Cat begins probing, discovers unusual business practices by Souris' son, and scrutinizes a sleazy crew aboard a vessel chartered by a mysterious company.

A Trieste la posizione geografica non è solo collocazione spaziale, ma è la coscienza stessa della città. È così da sempre: non sono i confini tanto agognati, ma il mare, il golfo, gli altipiani del Carso a far infiammare le tante anime di Trieste. Anime che vibrano insieme alle spire della bora, che parlano lingue e dialetti differenti e che ricordano una storia fatta di sacrifici ed eccellenze.

During a long, hot summer, a young man, inspired by Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover", becomes infatuated with a beautiful girl only to make an emotionally wrenching discovery.

As part of their project, a group of high school students took up a mission to explore the ever mysterious Bermuda Triangle. It lies on a specific region between Puerto Rico and Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. A number of planes and ships have gone missing in this specific region. Since its discovery by Christopher Columbus, hundreds of planes and ships that have passed through that region have mysteriously disappeared. These kids have taken it upon themselves to fly to the Bermuda triangle to see what it actually holds and if the mysterious disappearing of planes and ships were true.