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Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors — anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye — soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, desperate to pull himself up to greatness. Depressed and vulnerable, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor and audacious prose, Saint Jack is a gripping work from an award-winning author.

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever-particularly that of 17-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt. Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love…A New York Times Notable Book.

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty-even when Prohibition kicks in-and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets.When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bowery; homelessness is rampant. If Mazie won't help them, then who? When she opens the doors of The Venice to those in need, this ticket-taking, fun-time girl becomes the beating heart of the Lower East Side, and in defining one neighborhood helps define the city.Then, more than ninety years after Mazie began her diary, it's discovered by a documentarian in search of a good story. Who was Mazie Phillips, really? A chorus of voices from the past and present fill in some of the mysterious blanks of her adventurous life.Inspired by the life of a woman who was profiled in Joseph Mitchell's classic Up in the Old Hotel, Saint Mazie is infused with Jami Attenberg's signature wit, bravery, and heart. Mazie's rise to "sainthood"-and her irrepressible spirit-is unforgettable.

Це книга-виклик, книга-провокація. Це розповідь про те, що не афішують, що обговорюють у дуже тісному товаристві — і що становить більшу частину усього інтернет-трафіку. Про порно. Про гласні й негласні правила цього «іншого» кіно, з його зірковими режисерами, халтурним трешем, власним «Оскаром» і міфами про манливу доступність. Про зруйновані стереотипи і приголомшливі одкровення. Це історія дівчини з української провінції, яка знайшла адреналін, особисту свободу й улюблену роботу на знімальному майданчику за щільно запнутими вікнами. Утім, пошуки себе тривають.

Tanaya Shah longs for the wonderful world of Paris, the world that she fell in love with while watching Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina-so when a proposal comes along for an arranged marriage with a man who is living in Paris, Tanaya seizes the chance. But once she lands in the city, she shuns the match. A stroke of luck turns Tanaya into a supermodel, and soon the traditional girl is cavorting with rock stars and is disowned by her family.In her new whirlwind life, she is reintroduced to the man she was supposed to marry, the man she now realizes she should have never walked away from, the man who is her only connection to the family she longs to reconcile with, if only it's not too late.

From the national bestselling author of PLAIN TRUTH comes an acclaimed, richly atmospheric novel about a teacher undone by a disturbing modern-day witch hunt. Tall, blonde and handsome, Jack McBride was once a beloved teacher and football coach at a girl's school, until a student's crush sparked a powder-keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life; taking a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner, and slowly forming a relationship with her. But just when it seems like his life is back on track, Jack finds himself the object of fresh accusations of rape brought on by a coven of bewitching teenage girls from Salem Falls, and history repeats itself as Jack's hidden past catches up with him. In a sleepy hamlet haunted by enduring love and wicked deceit, Picoult masterfully leads readers toward a truly shocking finale.

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist-for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in ‘Trout and Salmon’-who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen…a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history forever. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters-including a visionary Sheikh, a weasely spin doctor, Fred’s devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon-Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability, and the transforming power of faith and love.

This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.In 'The Dabba Dabba Tree' Tsutsui describes the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of one's bed, creates erotic dreams that metamorphose into communal farce. In 'Commuter Army' -a sly commentary on the ludicrousness of war-a weapons supplier whose rifles cease functioning after just one shot becomes an unwilling conscript in a war zone. 'The World is Tilting' imagines a floating city that slowly begins to sink on one side, causing its citizens to reorient their daily lives to preserve a semblance of normality. In 'Rumors About Me', an ordinary office worker finds himself the subject of intense media scrutiny, his every action documented in the tabloids. And in the title story, we learn just how obscenely absurd the environment on Planet Porno can seem to a group of hapless research scientists.With a sharp eye towards the insanities of contemporary life, Yasutaka Tsutsui crafts in Salmonella Men on Planet Porno an irresistible mix of imagination, satiric fantasy, and truly madcap hilarity.

A beautiful novel detailing the life and loves of a Pakistani girl living in the U.S.Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories to tell, and secrets to hide.Like salt and saffron, which both flavor food but in slightly different ways, it is the small, subtle differences that cause the most trouble in Aliya's family. The family problems and scandals caused by these minute differences echo the history of the sub-continent and the story of Partition.A superb storyteller, Kamila Shamsie writes with warmth and gusto. Through the many anecdotes about Pakistani family life, she hints at the larger tale of a divided nation. Spanning the subcontinent from the Muslim invasions to the Partition, this is a magical novel about the shapes stories can take- turning into myths, appearing in history books and entering into our lives.

Un profesor divorciado de mediana edad regresa a Tokio tras pasar quince años impartiendo clases en una universidad americana, para ser sometido a una arriesgada operación. El recuerdo de un antiguo alumno le obsesiona y decide dar con él. Cuál será su sorpresa al encontrar al niño convertido en un muchacho que trabaja para la facción radical de una secta religiosa, un peligroso movimiento que predica el fin inminente de la humanidad.En Salto mortal, la primera novela que publica Kenzaburo Oé desde que recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1994, el autor se desvía de la narración autobiográfica, para adentrarse en una magnífica historia sobre la fe, el carisma de los líderes y los riesgos del fanatismo en la que analiza, con meticulosa sagacidad, la moderna sociedad japonesa. Multitud de escenas se entretejen con naturalidad en una trama que el autor maneja hábilmente, dosificando las sorpresas y las revelaciones, para mantener el suspense hasta la última página.Salto mortal es un logro asombroso que confirma a Kenzaburo Oé como uno de los narradores más importantes de la actualidad. Su obra ha encontrado siempre una unánime acogida: «Oé no nos ahorra nunca ni un instante de reflexión sobre la cruda realidad», ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS; «sus obras representan una de las exploraciones morales más impresionantes de la novela contemporánea», The Observer; «es un legítimo heredero de Dostoievski», HENRY MILLER.

Galarneau est un drôle de bonhomme. Il tient un snack-bar dans un vieil autobus et vend des hot dog. Bien sûr, il s'intéresse à son commerce mais en même temps il pense à beaucoup d'autres choses. À son père, lui aussi un drôle de bonhomme, à ses frères, à son enfance. Ses amours vont tant bien que mal. Marise est appétissante mais on tourne autour d'elle. François Galarneau la défend mal contre les assauts de Jacques, son frère, beaucoup plus hardi. Et puis Galarneau écrit des poèmes. Il faut bien s'occuper entre deux fritures. Ses projets sont vagues et sérieux en même temps, jusqu'au jour où Galarneau oubliera tout pour s'emmurer vivant dans sa maison. Ce qui lui manquait, c'était de construire une vie, sa vie qui s'en va de tous les côtés, qui prend l'eau comme un navire échoué au fond d'un bassin. On aime bien Galarneau. Mais où est Galarneau? Dans la lune, dans ses petits cahiers ou dans son joli langage québécois, dru et savoureux? On aimerait serrer la main de Galarneau.

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.

From the critically acclaimed author of "The Last of Her Kind", a breakout novel that imagines the aftermath of pandemic flu, as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.

His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, Cole Vining is lucky to have found refuge with the evangelical Pastor Wyatt and his wife in a small town in southern Indiana. As the world outside has grown increasingly anarchic, Salvation City has been spared much of the devastation, and its residents have renewed their preparations for the Rapture.

Grateful for the shelter and love of his foster family (and relieved to have been saved from the horrid, overrun orphanages that have sprung up around the country), Cole begins to form relationships within the larger community. But despite his affection for this place, he struggles with memories of the very different world in which he was reared. Is there room to love both Wyatt and his parents? Are they still his parents if they are no longer there? As others around him grow increasingly fixated on the hope of salvation and the new life to come through the imminent Rapture, Cole begins to conceive of a different future for himself, one in which his own dreams of heroism seem within reach.

Written in Sigrid Nunez's deceptively simple style, "Salvation City" is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, weaving the deeply affecting story of a young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on the meaning of belief and heroism.

Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising Khayyam's genius, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, bleak book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone…Thus begins the seamless blend of fact and fiction that is Samarkand. Vividly re-creating the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, Amin Maalouf spans continents and centuries with breath-taking vision: the dusky exoticism of 11th-century Persia, with its poetesses and assassins; the same country's struggles nine hundred years later, seen through the eyes of an American academic obsessed with finding the original manuscript; and the fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, whose tragedy led to the Rubaiyaat's final resting place — all are brought to life with keen assurance by this gifted and award-winning author.

One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest. In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi.What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow. Who is lying? What is Samedi? And what will happen on the seventh day?

"Sami swoi" to opowieść o zwaśnionych rodach Pawlaków i Kargulów. Przed wojną kargulowa krowa weszła na łąkę Pawlaków, co spowodowało, że spłonęły dwie stodoły, polała się krew i Jaśko Pawlak, uciekając przed karą za pocięcie kosą Kargula musiał wyemigrować do Ameryki. Jednak spór dwóch rodzin trwa dalej.Film "Sami Swoi" cieszy się popularnością aż po dziś dzień. Został on oparty na książce pod takim samym tytułem. Książka ta została napisana przez Andrzeja Mularczyka, który również napisał scenariusz do filmu "Sami Swoi".Początek filmu Sami Swoi jest nieco mało sielankowy… Przed wojną kargulowa krowa weszła na łąkę Pawlaków, Władyk Kargul zaorał miedze na trzy palce i w końcu polała się krew. Jaśko Pawlak, uciekając przed karą za pocięcie kosą Kargula, musiał wyemigrować do Ameryki. Tenże Jaśko, teraz John, przyjeżdża po wojnie do Polski i zastaje sytuację niezwykłą – obie rodziny żyją w zgodzie i harmonii. Tak jednak nie od razu było, ale życie zmusiło emigrantów zza Buga do zakończenia dawnego sporu, a miłość Witii Pawlaka i Jadźki Kargulanki połączyła ich więzami rodzinnymi.

Slovak writer Daniela Kapitáňová’s first novel is narrated by an intellectually and physically stunted creature and arch-conformist who enthusiastically embraces every kind of prejudice both under Communism and in the newly independent Slovakia. This book was a sensation when it appeared in Bratislava in 2000; still a best-seller in its fourth edition, it has been translated into Czech, Swedish, French, German, Arabic, Polish and Japanese and now appears in English. (Description taken from Garnett Press website.)

Piękna, nowoczesna baśń rozgrywająca się w czasach średniowiecza i współczesności. Rzecz dzieje się w świecie budowanym z motywów mitologii słowiańskiej i tradycji chrześcijańskiej, elementów rzeczywistości baśniowej i wizji historiograficznej, w którym nowy bóg zajmuje miejsce starych i okrutnych bóstw plemiennych. Przesłaniem autorki jest uświadomienie nie tylko młodemu odbiorcy, konieczności wzajemnej tolerancji między ludźmi żyjącymi w różnych światach, tradycjach i kulturach. Powieść odznaczona Nagrodą Poznańskiego Przeglądu Nowości Wydawniczych WIOSNA 98 oraz Nagrodą IBBY 98.

From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A couple suspects their friends think them boring; a woman resolves to see herself as nothing but then concludes she's set too high a goal; and a funeral home receives a letter rebuking it for linguistic errors.