When Crane, a graduate journalism student, hears that his fiancée has committed suicide, he’s immediately suspicious and launches into an investigation of her death. The tiny New Jersey town she lived in has seen a rash of suicides lately, with the unlikely coincidence that everyone who has died worked for Kemco, the chemical factory company that fuels the town’s economy.As Crane digs deeper, he encounters Boone, a local woman writing a book about the environmental destruction that has come at the hands of the local chemical giant. The two team up to unravel the conspiracies surrounding the factory — which soon makes them the next targets for those aiming to keep Kemco’s shady dealings under wraps.The pair races to expose the illegal operations poisoning the town and bring Kemco to justice — before either of them becomes the latest in the growing list of “suicides.”

In the winter of 1981, trapped by unpassable roads, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes a life-altering decision when she performs an emergency cesarean section on a woman she fears has died of a stroke.

Este libro de memorias está escrito a los cincuneta años, punto de inflexión de la existencia. Y es también el testimonio de varias décadas fundamentales en la historia de las mujeres. El sentido del humor y el ingenio con que Erica Jong levanta acta de los logros obtenidos por las mujeres desde la eclosión del feminismo a finales de los sesenta y principios de los setenta han convertido esta inusitada autobiografía en un verdadero éxito mundial. Miedo a los cincuenta encierra la vida de una generación de mujeres educadas para ser como Doris Day cuando fueran mayores y que ahora tienen que educar a sus hijas en los tiempos de Madonna y las Spice Girls.

Premio Planeta 2000Es una novela sobre mujeres de varias generaciones, sobre sus pasiones y sus dudas, sobre su forma de vivir y su lugar en el mundo. Premio Planeta 2000.Es una gran historia de admiración y celos, de mentira y verdad, de odio y amor, de pérdidas y encuentros. Judit tiene veinte años y quiere ser como Regina Dalmau, novelista consagrada y próxima a la cincuentena, por la que siente una obsesión casi enfermiza. El día de Todos los Santos se dirige a su encuentro, convencida de que la escritora sabrá ver su talento para la literatura y la ayudará a abandonar el barrio proletario en el que ha crecido y del que reniega. Judit ignora que Regina, sumida en una grave crisis creativa, y víctima de un profundo desasosiego moral, no puede ni siquiera ayudarse a sí misma. La irrupción de la joven en la casa de la famosa novelista hará que ésta se enfrente a las verdaderas raíces de su doble crisis, y a su relación con Teresa, la mujer nunca olvidada que iluminó su pasado. La última lección de Teresa se prolongará más allá de su muerte, porque esta gran novela trata de la herencia que se transmiten las mujeres cuando se eligen unas a otras para tejer entre sí un vínculo más fuerte que la sangre.

The year is 1988.Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysterious ‘red menace’.There are no bars nearby, no art galleries, no cinemas and no air-conditioned shopping malls. Worst of all, there are no lithe young ladies willing to pose nude for an eager painter-in-training. What Thomas has found in plentiful supply are sand dunes, barbwire fences and landmines. He may as well have landed in hell.When a man approaches on foot from Angola, the place where the terrorists are said to come from, Thomas discovers that life can still get a whole lot worse.MiG-23 Broke my Heart is a war novel, a tale of action and adventure, a fictional road trip and—deep in its dark heart—a certain kind of love story.Please be advised that the novel contains violence, hard-biting humour and sensitive subject matter that some readers may find disturbing. This is a full-length novel, which in paperback form would be about two hundred and fifty pages.

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed — but precociously observant — neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.

Hija ilegítima de un rico hombre de negocios, Mariam se cría con su madre en una modesta vivienda a las afueras de Herat. A los quince años, su vida cambia drásticamente cuando su padre la envía a Kabul a casarse con Rashid, un hosco zapatero treinta años mayor que ella. Casi dos décadas más tarde, Rashid encuentra en las calles de Kabul a Laila, una joven de quince años sin hogar. Cuando el zapatero le ofrece cobijo en su casa, que deberá compartir con Mariam, entre las dos mujeres se inicia una relación que acabará siendo tan profunda como la de dos hermanas, tan fuerte como la de madre e hija. Pese a la diferencia de edad y las distintas experiencias que la vida les ha deparado, la necesidad de afrontar las terribles circunstancias que las rodean -tanto de puertas adentro como en la calle, donde la violencia política asola el país-, hará que Mariam y Laila vayan forjando un vínculo indestructible que les otorgará la fuerza necesaria para superar el miedo y dar cabida a la esperanza.

Here are the swift pace, the hard, crisp prose, the almost unbearably tense dramatic situations which are typical of James Cain. But here also are a deeper view of life, a bigger subject, and a group of characters closer to the average reader’s experience than Mr. Cain has ever given us before. Here, in other words, is his most substantial and most ambitious novel.

It is the story of a woman, her daughter, and her two husbands. At twenty- eight she was a “grass widow” without a cent. She learned to work; she created a business and built it into a notable success. Along the way she acquired two lovers, one of whom became her second husband. But none of that was important. What was important was her daughter Veda — the lovely, haughty, greedy, cruel child who knew what she wanted and got it.

The relations between mother and daughter, between mother and husband and lover, between husband and daughter, intermingle and fuse into a shattering climax. Nine years have passed, and in this terrific moment all the characters are at last stripped and revealed, all the motives — good and evil — hared, all the ways of life finally chosen. It is a scene no one will easily forget.

Mary is a new mother transformed by the birth of her baby; Walter, a lonely gay Episcopal priest, privately struggles with his contradictory desires; and John, a monk who has left his monastery after fifteen years, craves intimacy with a woman. With mesmerizing prose, Darcey Steinke weaves together the lives of these three characters in ways that explore the intersection of spirituality and sexuality and reveal how even our rawest, most confused impulses may contain elements of the divine.

Milkman is extraordinary. I've been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It's frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time. – Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious HeresiesIn this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous.Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.

KurzbeschreibungSchnäppchen – Schnuller – Shoppingtüten!Becky Brandon, geborene Bloomwood, hatte sich ihr Dasein als Mutter leichter vorgestellt. Die zweijährige Minnie ist tatsächlich ein sehr lebhaftes, willensstarkes Kind – man könnte sie auch als Teufelsbraten bezeichnen. Ihr Lieblingswort ist »Meins!«, und eine Vorliebe für Markenartikel ist nicht zu übersehen. Woher sie das nur hat? Becky jedenfalls kauft angesichts der Krise nur noch das Notwendigste – Handtaschen, Schuhe, Spielsachen für Minnie ... auch die Firma ihres Mannes leidet unter der Wirtschaftslage, und um Luke aufzuheitern, plant Becky heimlich eine Party zu dessen Geburtstag. Inzwischen soll die aus dem Fernsehen bekannte »Nanny Sue« aus Minnie einen Gemüse liebenden Wonneproppen machen. Kann das alles gutgehen?Pressestimmen„Unterhaltung in wunderbarer Vollendung: eine liebenswerte Heldin, seitenweise Spaß und die enorm wohltuende Gewissheit, dass wir hemmungslosen Shopaholics nicht allein auf der Welt sind.“ (Sunday Independent )»Sophie Kinsella ist die Königin der romantischen Komödie! Ihre Figuren haben genau die richtige Dosis liebenswerter Schrullen.« (New York Post )

Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson. It's a coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories. A journey across a shifting dreamlike landscape, featuring feral children, teenage oracles, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar.With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and mad hope across a startling, vibrant landscape.

Basharat and his family are Indian Muslims who have relocated to Pakistan, but who remain deeply steeped in the nostalgia of pre-Partition life in India. Through Mirages of the Mind’s absurd anecdotes and unforgettable biographical sketches — which hide the deeper unease and sorrow of the family’s journey from Kanpur to Karachi — Basharet emerges as a wise fool, and the host of this unique sketch comedy. From humorous scenes in colonial north India, to the heartbreak and homesickness of post-colonial life in Pakistan, Mirages of the Mind forms an authentic portrait of life among South Asia’s Urdu speakers, rendered beautifully into English by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad.

Alexandria — die Stadt des Sonnenlichts, von Himmelswasser rein gewaschen, das Herz von Erinnerungen, voll der Süße des Honigs und der Bitternis von Tränen… Die Pension Miramar hat ihre besten Zeiten hinter sich, sie ist zum Zufluchtsort einer zusammengewürfelten Gästeschar geworden.Hier logieren die Generationen des Landes: Der Grandseigneur vergangener Revolutionen, dessen Namen kaum einer mehr kennt. Der Playboy, der mit seinem Ford über die Wüstenstraße braust und durch die Bordelle streift. Der enteignete Ex-Großgrundbesitzer, dem nur erbärmliche hundert Feddan Land geblieben sind. Der junge Radiosprecher, der aus der Bahn geworfen wird, weil er sich von den verfolgten Kommunisten absetzt. Der Chefbuchhalter der Textilfabrik, der sich als Musterkind der neuen Ordnung gibt und in den Schwarzhandel einsteigt. Jeder versucht, sich auf seine Weise mit den neuen Verhältnissen zu arrangieren: resigniert, skeptisch, zynisch, ehrgeizig.Und alle umwerben sie die Magd Zuchra, die schöne, energische Fellachin, die vor einer Zwangsheirat aus ihren Dorf geflohen ist und als einzige eine Zukunft hat. Verstrickungen ergeben sich, Intrigen, ein mysteriöser Todesfall.Die arabische Originalausgabe erschien 1967 unter dem Titel Miramar~~~~~~~~~~~~~Der AutorNagib Machfus, 1911 in Kairo geboren, gehört zu den bedeutendsten arabischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Schon früh hat er sich vom Gängelband europäischer Literatur gelöst und eine eigene, aus dem ägyptischen Leben schöpfende Erzählhaltung und Form gefunden. 1988 erhielt er als erster arabischer Autor den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Im Unionsverlag sind »Die Midaq-Gasse«, »Die Moschee in der Gasse«, »Die Kinder unseres Viertels«, »Die Spur«, »Der Dieb und die Hunde«, »Zwischen den Palästen«, »Palast der Sehnsucht« sowie »Die segensreiche Nacht« lieferbar.

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??”Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men’s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.

Antoine y Mathias no han perdido el contacto desde que se conocieron de niños. Ahora, ya treintañeros, siguen compartiendo muchas cosas, pues ambos han pasado por un divorcio y por la experiencia de ser padres: Antoine, de un niño llamado Louis, y Mathias, de una niña llamada Emily. Pero mientras que Antoine se fue a vivir con su hijo a Londres, Mathias sigue residiendo en su París natal, cada vez más insatisfecho con su trabajo y teniendo que soportar que su hija viva también en la capital inglesa. Por eso cuando Antoine le propone regentar una pequeña librería en Londres, él acaba aceptando la oferta. Sin embargo, sus planes se ven trastocados por la decisión de su ex mujer de trasladarse a París por motivos laborales y de pedirle que se haga cargo él de Emily, para que la niña no tenga que adaptarse de nuevo a un cambio de hogar y colegio. Esto dará pie a que Mathias y Antoine decidan pasar de ser vecinos a vivir en la misma casa para así criar juntos a sus hijos. Eso sí, comprometiéndose a respetar dos reglas básicas de convivencia: no contratar a una canguro y no traer mujeres a casa.

"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II.Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood.As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain.That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks-a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin-travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it.A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope.

Попытка понять, о чём же думал Синдзи и что чувствовала Рей в шестом эпизоде «Neon Genesis Evangelion» - в то время, что Синдзи провёл в госпитале после почти смертельной атаки пятого Ангела. И, меня всегда интересовало - что же именно постоянно слушает Синдзи, включая плеер? Ficlet. Частично POV.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Фанфик по "Neon Genesis Evangelion".Involving: Ikari Shinji, Ayanami Rei. Disclaimer: все права - господину Садамото, господину Анно и студии Gainax.