Een handelaar in bedden vlucht van West- naar Oost-Duitsland om aan zijn schuldeisers te ontkomen.

"Aubrey Lyle has removed herself from the polite society of those who do their jobs in clothing, to earn a wage that she can live on in San Francisco. The sign over Naughtyland's door, her place of work, reads 'Live Nude Girls.' Unfortunately the job has its drawbacks, including smelly dressing rooms and sadistic bouncers. Most of the other girls are great, except the one who ends up dead. With her lively housemates as sidekicks and confidants, Aubrey uncovers a sordid network of self-serving politicians, smarmy club owners and corrupt union organizers."--Page 4 of cover.

Een jaar na de dood van hun baby denken een man en een vrouw dat ze hun leven wel weer aankunnen, maar er blijken scherpere randjes aan hun verdriet te zitten dan ze willen toegeven.

Een dochter uit een excentriek gezin emigreert als kind met haar ouders van New York naar Nieuw-Zeeland.

De oorlog in Tsjetsjenië (1994-2004), toen de Russische republiek zijn gekozen onafhankelijkheid met bloedige onderdrukking door het Russische leger moest bekopen, heeft dramatische gevolgen voor enkele inwoners.

Een vader vertelt over het leven van zijn dochter, die suïcide pleegde nadat haar ex-man hun kinderen had ontvoerd, en over zijn strijd om contact te krijgen met zijn kleinkinderen.

Een metselaar, een slager, een schoonmaakster, een boekhouder en nog een paar eenvoudige werkers mogen hun kunsten vertonen in een reality show met publiek.

A multigenerational saga chronicles the intertwined lives of the multi-ethnic residents of Dream Street in a town called Place, following one family from the Deep South of 1895, to rural Oklahoma and the industrial Midwest.

Inge is tall and cool and Mira is petite and dynamic. When they meet, each is attracted by something special and different about the other. But friendships based on the attraction of opposites can be stormy, and theirs is no exception. Blonde Inge is a native of Sweden, while dark Mira has fled there to escape the living hell of Chile at the time of the military coup led by General Pinochet. They are brought together by their mutual love of plants, but this gentle pastime is soon overshadowed by the terrible legacy of Mira¿s past. It is a legacy that will reach out to touch many lives, including those of Inge and Mira¿s children. Bestselling Swedish author Marianne Fredriksson has again created a totally involving story. Written with sympathy and insight and sparkling with unexpected humour, INGE & MIRA is a deeply moving tale of lives haunted by past violence.

Southern novelist and activist Lillian Smith (1897-1966) considered One Hour her best work of fiction. The novel, originally published in 1959 and long out of print, brilliantly depicts the destructive effects of mass hysteria on the people of a small southern town. The protagonist is an Episcopal minister who chronicles a series of tragic events set in motion when his closest friend, a gifted scientist, is unjustly accused of molesting a young girl. The novel's tensions culminate in an eruption of violence and hate that destroys the community. In a new introduction, Rose Gladney places One Hour in its historical context and highlights its enduring meaning for today's readers.

Desperate to escape the despair, hopelessness, and hardship of the migrant-workers' existence, Estrella, a young Mexican-American migrant worker, fights back against a system that will do almost anything to keep her down. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

The muteness of an Aleut woman intrigues a scientist in Alaska, and her disappearance calls up desperation within him. An incendiary tale set against the landscape of the Great North, this novel merges the enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic compulsion.

Eine erfolgreiche, einsame und verschlossene Konzertpianistin, die sich nur durch die Musik auszudrücken vermag, erinnert sich: als die deutschen Besatzer den Juden de Leon abführen, bleiben ihr von ihrem Klavierstundenglück nur die Notenbücher.

Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.