Showing results for "1,000" in Contemporary Fiction

Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

"Der alte Mann vom Berg": Eine Wanderung ins Gebirge führt zu der seltsamen Rede eines alten Mannes. "Walgesang": Ein Traum wird Realität. "Schatten": Ein deutscher Pädagoge erkennt seine Hilflosigkeit der Abschiebungspolitik gegenüber. "Einer von 1000": Ein Kindersoldat in Afrika rennt um sein Leben und triumphiert.