Category: Contemporary Literary Fiction

Tidi is a larking little angel traveling the celestial tuition for parent angels on the way to turn into a father or mother angel for kids on the earth. He loves teenagers greater than something! even if he‘s an keen student, he‘s additionally jam-packed with pranks and concepts. Saint Peter, the heavenly gatekeeper, can inform a narrative or approximately that! nonetheless, he can by no means carry a grudge opposed to his „scallywag“, specially on the grounds that Tidi continually paints lovely images to make up for his mischief. Tidi can‘t wait to guard a baby in the world. but if Tidi turns into the reason for a bad mishap, the heavenly specialists harbour critical doubts. Is it applicable to ship Tidi right down to Earth already? Will he have the capacity to do something about taking care of a baby? those matters develop while Tidi makes it his challenge to make the great Lord snicker. He even dares to defy grasp Rigoroso from the top heavenly professionals whilst being reprimanded. That has severe results! in any case, every little thing seems totally different – even for Tidi …
„Stubborn With a couple of Wings“ is a funny tale, invigorating but profound, not just for kids but in addition for adults. This booklet will encourage kids, mom and dad and grandparents alike. and those that weren‘t partial to angels prior to would definitely be captivated via the little heavenly scallywag‘s charm.

Le lecteur découvrira ici un monde où s’agitent, entre autres, un romancier raté doublé d’un amoureux transi, une documentaliste qui en a vu d’autres, un politicien somme toute assez banal, une journaliste très… journaliste et un libelliste réactionnaire. Il fera aussi los angeles connaissance de quelques puissances et associations effrayantes ou cocasses.
Ce monde inquiétant pourrait-il être le nôtre ? Allons…

Mary Hood’s novella Seam Busters explores the connections we make to each other, from the best of acts to these moments that outline lifestyles and demise. while Irene Morgan returns to Frazier materials, a family-owned cotton mill within the hardscrabble middle of prepared, Georgia, she joins an eclectic staff of girls staff sharing their interwoven lives in and out the manufacturing facility. lower than consistent surveillance and beholden to construction quotas and never-ending protocols awarded below the auspices of “American Pride,” the ladies stitch state of the art camouflage for U.S. troops battling in Afghanistan, one among whom is Irene’s son.

As Irene toils less than the strain of the training curve and creation objectives in her first 90 days, she involves embody the camaraderie of her friends, a few of whom play at the mill’s bowling workforce, the Seam Busters. She involves be aware of Coquita, a shaky veteran back from 3 excursions within the center East; equipment, an angel-haired rule breaker unfortunate in love; the stoic Hmong girl Sue Nag; the crushed yet now not but defeated K’shaundra; and Jacky, a well-intentioned idiot decided to be heard. In time Irene involves worth her bonds with this motley workforce up to together with her husband, Deke, on their small farm and along with her far-flung teenagers and grandchildren. whilst the shadow of dying travels from the struggle entrance to the house entrance, Hood deftly braids the threads of those disparate lives and tales right into a lifeline for Irene, as her complete group gathers jointly in an impassioned act of mourning eventually giving upward push to mercy.

Bruce Glasscock is pissed off and drained. He lives platonically along with his spouse Linda as caretakers of an English belief residence, preserved because the Nineteen Thirties - very like the Glasscocks' intercourse existence. Bruce isn't really relied on to do a lot and the capsules he is on from his military days suggest he's banned from doing issues he'd like, so he passes his days cleansing bogs and being taken care of like a toddler via Linda. His major leisure comes from encouraging his puppy Bruno to piss at the head of the backyard gnome and sneaking to the RegNancy pub for a few falling-down water. whilst a willing new volunteer referred to as Richard arrives, he is every thing Linda adores and Bruce hates - cocky, invaluable, fascinating, and an expert. And the tougher Bruce attempts to get it correct and are available out as most sensible puppy, the more serious it kind of feels to be getting.

Die Erzählungen dieses Buches skizzieren Stationen einer ungewöhnlichen Persönlichkeit, die bereits in jungen Jahren die Aufgabe übernahm, sexuellen Missbrauchsopfern in ihren akuten Notlagen sofort und kompromisslos zu helfen. Als unauffällig in die Gesellschaft integrierter Mensch führt Manuel ein geheimes Doppelleben, in dem er seine Aufgaben schnell und präzise ausführt. Er wandelt sich zu Elias, dem einzigen überlebenden Wolf von Midnapore und gründet mit seinem Mitstreiter, dem ex-GSG-9-Beamten Simon, die supplier Wave of Roses, die sich nach vielen Jahren harter Arbeit, getrieben von Hoffnung und Erwartung durch eine ganz besondere individual vervollständigen wird.

Elias Wolf von Midnapore von Manu el Turiya ist die Vorgeschichte zu dem Buch Wave of Roses von Yuscha Thyra. Die beiden autobiografisch geprägten Bücher bilden ein symbiotisches Werk und weisen auf unglaubliche Abgründe in Deutschland hin, wenn es um das Thema des sexuellen Missbrauchs geht.

Dieses Buch ist ein Buch voller Geschichten, voller Verse und Überlegungen. Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung aus 27 Texten, entstanden in mehreren Jahren. Jeder textual content ist eine Komposition von Gedanken und Überlegungen, von Gefühlen und von Situationen, eine Komposition des Menschlichen. Weiterhin ist jeder textual content vom Autor kommentiert, und jeder Kommentar gibt Einblick in die Geschichten hinter den Geschichten, in die Gedanken hinter der Lyrik, und in die Emotionen, die dazu führten. Insgesamt ist dieses Buch ein Mosaik einer individual, ein Bild voller Schattierungen der Gedankenwelt des Schreibenden. Geleitet werden die Texte mit einem aktuellen 27-Zeiler, der den teilweise Jahre alten Texten den Reflex des Aktuellen vorhält.

Das dritte Werk des Jungautoren und Slampoeten Tobias Bischoff ist ein Querschnitt seines bisherigen Schaffens. 27 Kommentierte textual content mit Vorwort, mal Lyrik, mal Drama, mal Prosa. Darunter auch einige Slamtexte, die das erste mal in gedruckter shape veröffentlicht werden.

«J'allais mal ; tout va mal ; j'attendais los angeles fin. Quand j'ai rencontré Victorien Salagnon, il ne pouvait être pire, il l'avait faite los angeles guerre de vingt ans qui nous obsède, qui n'arrive pas à finir, il avait parcouru le monde avec sa bande armée, il devait avoir du sang jusqu'aux coudes. Mais il m'a appris à peindre. Il devait être le seul peintre de toute l'armée coloniale, mais là-bas on ne faisait pas realization à ces détails.
Il m'apprit à peindre, et en échange je lui écrivis son histoire. Il dit, et je pus montrer, et je vis le fleuve de sang qui traverse ma ville si paisible, je vis l'art français de l. a. guerre qui ne switch pas, et je vis l'émeute qui vient toujours pour les mêmes raisons, des raisons françaises qui ne changent pas. Victorien Salagnon me rendit le temps tout entier, à travers los angeles guerre qui hante notre langue.»
Alexis Jenni.

From the mountains of Utah to the seashore underbelly of Venice, California come brothers on a voyage of holy revenge and consciousness. Ross hunts the rapist of his one real love, Lizzy. His more youthful brother, Brentwood, is unknowingly alongside for the experience. Culminating with 3 murders devoted on Christmas Eve, this can be a darkish, modern tale of a tender guy who destroys what he loves such a lot. Van Gogh’s Ear is the soul-rending account of affection among brothers. it's the narrative in their previous few months jointly in an international the place love tears aside and the teachings of the brain are hardly ever these of the heart.“David Nash writes with a blade. Van Gogh’s Ear is the type of novel that's immediately engrossing and annoying, and it leaves us in awe. Ross is satan and angel in a dismal, excessive octane cosmos, and that i couldn't glance away as he spun out his revenge. this is often fierce and wonderful writing, and Mr. Nash indicates us back the efficiency of fiction.”—Ron Carlson, writer of The Signal“What a gloomy, flame-lit, searing cauldron of affection and hope David Nash has illuminated right here. Van Gogh’s Ear astounds in its emotional ferocity, its wide-eyed examine the character of torment, the emotional hell we every one create for ourselves and people we adore: and continually, handy, the chance for redemption. Love, that which might keep us all, each one to every. this can be biblical literature at its such a lot modern: Venice, California; sand and the board-walk and seashore; the darkish facet of the song scene and those that so populate — written in a prose, line by means of line, that aches to be bought, its cadences melodically healthy and thundering in the darkish good of those lives the place the center so insistently drums. purely David Nash may write this novel. Like a chum, an opportunity intersection at nighttime evening of a soul, this e-book will switch your existence. Leonard Cohen writes, ‘Forget your ideal supplying / there's a crack, a crack in every thing / that is how the sunshine will get in.’ Van Gogh’s Ear is that light.” —T. M. McNally, writer of Low Flying Aircraft

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Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake urban no longer for his aunt's funeral, yet to come across where he fled in bitterness forty-five years in the past. A profitable statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward adolescence to develop into a determine who commanded overseas recognize. however the realities of the current recede within the face of ghosts of his earlier. As he makes the perfunctory preparations for the funeral, his internal pilgrimage leads him to the daddy who darkened his early life, the mummy whose help was once either redeeming and embarrassing, the pal who drew him into the good global of which he so craved to be an element, and the girl he approximately married.

In this profoundly relocating booklet, Stegner has drawn an intimate portrait of a guy knowing how his lifestyles has been formed via stories likely distant and inconsequential.