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Héctor Tizón (1929-2012) ist mit seinem ab 1960 entstandenen literarischen Werk (11 Romane, viele Erzählungen, einige Essays) einer der Klassiker der argentinischen Literatur. Dabei vollzogen sich Leben und Schreiben des Autors stets fernab der Metropole Buenos Aires, als Diplomat in Mexiko, als Anwalt...

Tom is a former soldier with an awful injury who lives with his mum. When she needs an operation, he finds himself in a care home. It is the beginning of spring—the fighting season in Afghanistan. But, to beat the soul-eating boredom of his days, help him forget his medical issues and to please...

Atalante, Cassandre, Gaspard, Théodore Atalante - Les mains expertes et agiles de Clotho courent sur le fuseau, se hâtant de créer cette nouvelle vie avant qu’Althée ne mette au monde son enfant. De ses doigts aériens comme des papillons, elle peigne les brins avec habileté, car le...

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Tom Jones is a humorous novel written by the English author and playwright Henry Fielding. The book is set in Somerset where Squire Allworthy and his sister live on a large estate.

On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a...

An NYRB Classics Original   Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then,...

Luke Cevennes, M.D. He liked the way it sounded even after a decade and a half of wearing the mantle. Jeremy Kell, PhD. That rolled over Luke's tongue with more flavor than any name in his world. The sexy Jamaican immigrant literally swept him off his feet nearly two decades before. The two fit...

From the author of the internationally acclaimed novel If I Should Speak comes the anxiously awaited sequel. In this deft second book, Umm Zakiyyah again takes us through the lives of Tamika and those who brush her life.Now Muslim, Tamika must face her Christian mother who instilled in her...

In this novel that spans the Atlantic, from Saudi Arabia to America, internationally acclaimed author of the If I Should Speak trilogy and the novel Realities of Submission shares with readers a heart-moving tale of faith, betrayal, and affection. Sharif, the main character of this novel, after completing...

The Devil Wears Prada meets Lost in Translation in this irresistible new novel from L. A. Woman author Cathy Yardley Meet Lisa Falloya, an aspiring half-Japanese, half-Italian American manga artist who follows her bliss by moving to Tokyo to draw the Japanese-style comics she's been reading...

Three intertwining voices span the twentieth century to tell the unknown story of the Jews in Ireland. A heartbreaking portrait of what it means to belong, and how storytelling can redeem us all. At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search...

The poetry of Seamus Keith, while often spiraling into fantasy and anthropomorphism, remains characteristically Earthy and reliant on 'the code' every Christian lives by. This even to the point of page-after-page of artful instructions for Christian living!

Some people are in good relationships and some bad. But what if a relationship turns bad? It does for the man in this book when his girlfriend asks him for money if he still wants to keep having sex with her. It is almost by accident they suggest it one day. But how will it end? Is anyone up for making...

The youthful Alexander II, who ascended to the Scottish throne in 1214 at the age of sixteen, was delighted to welcome to his court a young man of royal blood, heir to the ancient - and all but rival - line of the Cospatricks, Earls of Dunbar. Rather than begrudge Alexander his crown, Patrick, Master...