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Welcome to Ruth's Keeper. Based upon a true story, set against the backdrop of crushing poverty in the Mississippi Delta. This is a tale of trauma and tragedy, then grief and redemption. Equal parts emotion and psychology, this tale is guaranteed to pull at your spirit and crush it, all to rebuild it back stronger. Ultimately, this is a study of perseverance, the power of human triumph of suffering, and the power of hope.

In questo meraviglioso romanzo James Baldwin ci restituisce una toccante storia d’amore in un mondo fatto di dolore e ingiustizia. La storia è raccontata attraverso gli occhi di Tish, una diciannovenne bella e innamorata di Fonny, il giovane scultore padre del suo bambino. Il racconto mescola romanticismo e tristezza. Tish e Fonny avevano programmato di sposarsi ma Fonny viene accusato ingiustamente di stupro da un poliziotto bianco, e imprigionato. Tish tenta con ogni mezzo di supportare il suo amato mentre sta per partorire il bambino che hanno concepito insieme.

Set against the backdrop of the antebellum South, this compelling work of historical fiction follows the harrowing journey of a young man, stolen from his family and thrust into the merciless world of slavery. The story unfolds with the abduction of IDI, a bright and resourceful young man who is cruelly torn from his family and homeland. His journey takes him to the American South, where he is subjected to the dehumanizing horrors of servitude. Driven by an unshakable determination to regain his freedom, David befriends a group of fellow slaves who share his longing for escape.

In the second Domesticated installment, East Anglian punk poet James Domestic is once again taking potshots at work, so-called-punk-rock, outdoor and indoor pursuits, aging, right wing lunatics, politics, feet, and himself. As if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also find his trademark surrealism, sarcasm, and quintessentially British whimsy applied to animals, emails, food, and the power of music, alongside his idiosyncratic illustrations, and photographs from his murky past.

Nessuno sa il mio nome è la seconda raccolta di saggi di James Baldwin pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1961 e scritta durante la sua permanenza in Europa, quando la distanza dagli Stati Uniti, fortissimamente voluta, gli aveva permesso di riflettere in modo nuovo sulla condizione delle persone nere in una società dominata dai bianchi. Trascendere la sterile categoria di blackness, sia essa quella imposta dal mondo bianco o quella eretta a scopo difensivo dalla comunità nera, divenne il nucleo dell’opera di Baldwin come scrittore.

Dr. Wolfgang Pike would love nothing more than to finish the requiem he’s composing for his late wife, but the ending seems as hopeless as the patients dying a hundred yards away at the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis sanatorium. If he can’t ease his own pain with music, he tries to ease theirs—but his boss thinks music is a waste, and in 1920s Louisville, the specter of racial tensions looms over everything. When a retired concert pianist arrives, Wolfgang is thrust into an orchestra of the most extraordinary kind that emerges to change everything.

"TOWARD the close of a warm spring day on April, 1867, luminous spots appeared both on the north and on the south of the setting sun. I noticed them as I returned to our lodge, after watering Is-spai-u and picketing him upon a patch of new sprouting buffalo grass close in front of camp.

An elderly Blackfeet warrior tells the story of his youth, when his tribe owned and lived free on the great plains at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. During those days of freedom and plenty, they hunted the vast herds of buffalo, worshipped their ancient gods, and sought glory in war parties against their traditional tribal enemies. In order to achieve his adulthood in the tribe, Little Otter must face the dangerous vision quest to find his sacred helper and then risk death as a member of a daring war party. Most of all, though, Little Otter wants to become a Sun priest.

Ain’t Long Fore Day are poems that carry on in the spirit of the blues. With music and enigma, James Sallis delivers lyrical and narrative poems steeped in the beauty of the every day.

Take an unforgettable journey from the Cold War USSR to Savery, Wyoming, from the mountains of Tuscany to the peak of Yosemite's Half Dome, from the Canadian wilderness to the beaches of Normandy.

“We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy.

These are poems about possibilities. Fletcher uses free verse to explore connections of love, humanity, history, current events, nature, and more. Writing, concisely and beautifully, about things most of the world never notices.

Die Lederstrumpf-Bände, die um 1830 nach Deutschland kamen, gerieten zu einer Sensation und sie gehören seit dieser Zeit zu den klassischen Jugendbüchern. Der Held, ein Pfadfinder, ist ein Mann von edler menschlicher Gesinnung, der mit den indianischen Ureinwohnern Freundschaft schließt. Gleichzeitig ist er Pionier und Entdecker des amerikanischen Westens, einer der Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit.

Die Lederstrumpf-Bände, die um 1830 nach Deutschland kamen, gerieten zu einer Sensation und sie gehören seit dieser Zeit zu den klassischen Jugendbüchern. Der Held, ein Pfadfinder, ist ein Mann von edler menschlicher Gesinnung, der mit den indianischen Ureinwohnern Freundschaft schließt. Gleichzeitig ist er Pionier und Entdecker des amerikanischen Westens, einer der Wegbereiter der amerikanischen Unabhängigkeit.

In early February of 1885, the robbery of the Pensacola and Atlantic train could not have come at a worse time for Florida panhandle railroad magnate William Chipley. He had put time, money, and both his personal and business reputation on the line to host the first Gulf Chautauqua in DeFuniak Springs. Now, with the murder of two guards, and the theft of both a payroll and a shipment of new US Army rifles, the success of the Chautauqua was at risk.

Domesticated is a collection of James Domestics street-poetry and punk-prose. Punk, politics, habit, the nature of work, the environment, nostalgia, aging, and some quintessentially British whimsy, all crammed in together like a last minute bag hurriedly packed for tour.

"List og længsler" er ottende bind i serien om kriminalkommisær Adam Dalgliesh fra Scotland Yard. Adam Dalgliesh ferierer ved Nordsøkysten i Norfolk, men dumper lige ned i problemerne omkring et nærliggende atomkraftværk og en bestialsk kvindemorder, som huserer på stedet. "List og længsler" udkom første gang i 1989.