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Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy. Filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry, this Australian classic will take you straight back to the colourful slums of Sydney with convincing depth, careful detail and great heart.

When recently orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except there is one small problem: His uncle is trying to kill him. Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way for Barnaby to stop his demonic uncle: He will just have to kill him first.

In fünf Monaten wird der Wachmann einer Pariser Bank das Eigentum an seiner kleinen Mansarde endgültig erworben haben, wird ein weiterer Markstein seines Lebensplanes gesetzt sein. Doch dieser fatalistische Ablauf wird an einem heißen Freitagmorgen jäh vom Erscheinen einer Taube in Frage gestellt.

The town of Little Woodford seems peaceful and picture-postcard beautiful, with its marketplace, ancient church and immaculate allotments. But behind the tranquil facade, troubles are brewing. Olivia Lewthwaite, former town councillor, pillar of the WI and all-round busybody, has been forced by her husband's gambling debts to sell their house - her pride and joy. She hates the new estate they've moved to and knows she needs to humble herself to apply for a job.

It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his 12th summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Through the eyes, ears, and voice of Brautigan's youthful protagonist, the listener is gently led into a small-town tale where the narrator accidentally shoots and kills his best friend. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of "what if", which fuels anguish, regret, and self-blame, as well as some darkly comic passages of bittersweet romance and despair.

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.

A BBC World Play written by Matthew Solon and directed by John Dryden. On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy filed in US...

A Christy Award winner, New York Times best-selling author Beverly Lewis enthralls millions with her inspiring tales of Amish life. Now engaged to hardworking Silas Good, Rose Kauffman struggles with her feelings for longtime friend Nick Franco, who left the Amish community under a cloud of suspicion. Meanwhile, Rose’s older sister has returned to her parents’ farm, hoping to re-establish her place among the People and to retain custody of her daughter.

In Fern Michaels’s extraordinary, inspiring New York Times bestseller, an overweight woman sets out to improve her life by losing fifty-five pounds—and ends up changing much more than her dress size! Rosie Gardener fell under the spell of handsome Kent Bliss, and not even her best friend...

Dann steht man da und ist nur Deutschland. Fred ist eine erfahrene und ehrgeizige deutsche Konsulin. Eine Frau, die eigentlich nichts aus der Ruhe bringt, überall und nirgends zu Hause. Dann jedoch, in Montevideo, scheitert sie erstmals in ihrer Karriere. Sie wird versetzt ins politisch aufgeheizte Istanbul, ihrer bisher größten Herausforderung. Zwischen Justizpalast und Sommerresidenz, Geheimdienst und deutsch-türkischer Zusammenarbeit, zwischen Affäre und Einsamkeit stößt sie an die Grenzen von Freundschaft, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und europäischer Idee.

England in den Dreißigerjahren: Ganz London schwärmt von Christopher Banks und seinen Erfolgen. Es gibt nur einen Fall, den der Meisterdetektiv bisher nicht aufklären konnte: Das mysteriöse Verschwinden seiner Eltern in Shanghai, der Stadt seiner Kindheit. Beide waren in den Opiumhandel verstrickt: der Vater als Profiteur, die Mutter als erklärte Gegnerin. Als die Erinnerungen an die Zeit, als er Waise wurde, Banks immer häufiger quälen, beschließt er, sich auf den Weg nach Shanghai zu machen, um endlich das größte Rätsel seines Lebens zu lösen.

Ravel fut grand comme un jockey, donc comme Faulkner. Son corps était si léger qu'en 1914, désireux de s'engager, il tenta de persuader les autorités militaires qu'un pareil poids serait justement idéal pour l'aviation. Cette incorporation lui fut refusée, d'ailleurs on l'exempta de toute obligation mais, comme il insistait, on l'affecta sans rire à la conduite des poids lourds. C'est ainsi qu'on put voir un jour, descendant les Champs-Elysées, un énorme camion militaire contenant une petite forme en capote bleue trop grande agrippée tant bien que mal à un volant trop gros.

Ein bürgerlicher Held, ein Jurist und Schriftsteller namens Roth, begibt sich für eine längere Auszeit nach Niendorf: Er will ein wichtiges Buch schreiben, eine Abrechnung mit seiner Familie. Am mit Bedacht gewählten Ort gerät er aber bald in die Fänge eines trotz seiner penetranten Banalität dämonischen Geists: ein Strandkorbverleiher, außerdem Besitzer des örtlichen Spirituosengeschäfts. Aus Befremden und Belästigtsein wird nach und nach Zufallsgemeinschaft und irgendwann Notwendigkeit.

Mark O'Brien is finally being honest with himself. His relationship with Rachel is over, and he's moving out of the home they've shared for six years. They get along, but he can't fix a relationship when the person he's with is the wrong gender.

"Am Morgen des 16. April trat der Arzt Bernard Rieux aus seiner Wohnung und stolperte mitten auf dem Flur über eine tote Ratte." Die Pest ist ausgebrochen. Leidenschaftlich, aber mit wachsender Verzweiflung, tun Rieux und einige andere alles, um zu helfen.

2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia's Ukrainian border.The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and pin-up girl for Soviet propaganda, but the question of her fate remains unanswered. Was she a German spy who faked her own death, as the Kremlin claims? Her lover, Valentin Orlov, now a highly-decorated general, refuses to believe it. Lily, a young Australian woman, has moved to Moscow to escape from tragedy.

There's no two ways about Les Norton - the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw, fists like hams, and they say the last time he took a tenner from his wallet Henry Lawson blinked at the light. Lethal but loyal, he's always good for a laugh. In this, the third collection of Les Norton adventures, Les gets his boss off the hook. But not without the help of the boy from Binjiwunyawunya. Les then finds himself in a spot of bother in Long Bay Gaol then in a lot more bother on a St. Kilda tram in Melbourne.

Diwan-e-Ghalib is the famous collection of poetic works of legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

「島崎、わたしはこの夏を西武に捧げようと思う」。各界から絶賛の声続々、いまだかつてない青春小説！2020年、中２の夏休みの始まりに、幼馴染の成瀬がまた変なことを言い出した。

Jimmy está a punto de embarcarse en el mayor compromiso de su vida. Tiene tanto miedo de perder a su amada Christy que ha decidido desertar del ejército y correr tras ella para pedirle matrimonio. Ella está aterrorizada, pero no tanto por el hecho de que va a tener un bebé, sino porque, si acepta a Jimmy, puede que acabe teniendo dos.