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The people were tough, but the times were even tougher. It was Detroit’s Golden Era. The 1920s. The new automobile industry was booming, jobs were plentiful, and people were happy to work for five dollars a day. In this collection of all-new stories, J.A. Jernay paints a picture of a period long gone—an era of immigrants, scrub football teams, factory production, whiskey runners, and violence. There are stories of mothers and fathers, of organized crime and disorganized cops, of ambition and failure, of loud racism and quiet opportunities. Discover the sights, sounds, and challenges of ...

Venturing into the bustling city was her family's last hope to save their struggling farm. Little did she know that fate had other plans. In New York, Lillian Guilford loses her job at a textile mill and takes on a daring disguise to secure a new position as an author of Penny Bloods. Her gripping tales provide both escape and livelihood, but her success comes at a cost. Lillian must navigate a precarious balancing act, concealing her true identity while being drawn to the handsome owner of the publishing house, Apollo Donovan. Shadows lurk on the edges of her life, threatening to unravel ...

Die tatsächliche Anzahl derer, die wegen ihrer sexuellen oder geschlechtlichen Präferenz verfolgt, misshandelt, deportiert oder getötet wurden, ist bis heute nicht geklärt. Ihnen ist diese Geschichte gewidmet. #gegendasvergessen. Tom ist Architekt. Für ihn zählen messbare Größen, etwas Handfestes, Reales. Er lebt im Hier und Jetzt. Und er lebt gut. Mit seinem Verlobten Jack in New York. Tom war noch ein Kind, als der sogenannte "Unzucht-Paragraph" in Deutschland abgeschafft wurde. Geschichte ist für ihn etwas Abstraktes, worüber alte Männer bei einem Glas Whisky palavern

A young king is desperately trying to hold his kingdom together in the backdrop of his diminishing powers owing to the influence of the new French colonial masters. He flexes his muscles and takes his sister out of her conjugal home by arrogating to himself the use of his traditional powers over the issue of the bride price. Her overzealous uncle with an overactive imagination challenges the new king in a French court, thereby highlighting a bizarre but insightful case of the clash of occidental and African cultures. The beleaguered princess finds herself at a crossroads and acts the best ...

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...

A teenage girl who is about to take a leap of faith seeks the counsel of his insightful uncle. But all he can provide are insights. Does a journey that takes her to the heart of altruism, charity and solidarity, bigotry, racism, and divine providence provide the guidelines that can help her come to terms with her destiny? Does his insightful hand-in-hand lead provide the answers she needs? “Fateful Ties” proceeds “The Fire and Ice Legend”, and precedes “The Sweetest Madness” in the short stories collection entitled “Me Before Them”.

El destino del imperio incaico sobre un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Podrá Atahualpa ver el siguiente movimiento de los españoles o sucumbirá por su inocencia? Una de las tradiciones más entrañables de Palma.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B084ZVTHMM (copy and paste the link into your browser) Being smart was as much a curse as it was a blessing for Jewel Anderson. And then when her father died, leaving the family in financial turmoil, the time had come for her to give up her free independent ways and find herself a man. Only problem was, there wasn’t a man in all of Portland Maine who didn’t know her as an opinionated loud mouth. It was up to her mother and younger sister to find Jewel a husband, and so they did. They sent her out West to the little town of Shady Falls where ...

Эрик-Эмманюэль Шмитт — мировая знаменитость, это едва ли не самый читаемый и играемый на сцене французский автор. Впервые на русском языке новый роман автора Женщина в зеркале. В удивительном сюжете сплетаются три истории из трех различных эпох. Брюгге XVII века. Вена начала ХХ века. Лос-Анджелес, наши дни. Анна, Ханна, Энни — все три потрясающе красивы, и у каждой особое призвание, которое еще предстоит осознать. Призвание, которое может стоить жизни.

"The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly" unfolds as a captivating short story within Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series. In this intriguing narrative, the fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is called upon to investigate the apparent kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly, the young son of a wealthy industrialist.

Svegliata di soprassalto da frastuoni di metallo, rombi di vampa, urla di ribelli. Bombardata dalle palandre del Re Sole. Conquistata dagli austriaci, con le teste rasate e le uniformi impeccabili. Terra di nobili e mercanti, di idealisti e faccendieri, di patrioti ed espatriati. Genova. Porta del Mediterraneo. È lei la città che presta le sue strade, le sue piazze, i suoi quartieri a questi nove racconti in cui le vicende della grande Storia – remota e recente, eroica e vergognosa – irrompono nella vita dei singoli e la stravolgono.

"Unspoken Bonds: A Tale of Compassion in Early 1900s New York City" is a captivating short novel that transports readers to the vibrant yet unforgiving streets of a city defined by stark contrasts. The story revolves around two individuals from vastly different backgrounds who form a deep and unspoken bond.

Glass Stories is a collection of two short stories set in the Muranów neighborhood of Warsaw, Poland over 250 years apart. The two young protagonists—an immigrant servant woman named Paolina, who is being punished for something she didn’t do, and Moishe, a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto who wants to fight his Nazi oppressors—struggle against impossible odds.

A collection of short stories about the extremes we often find ourselves in—sometimes of our own making. Each story uses the adverb “so” in its title, emphasizing the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude). McDowell uses fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, and speculative fiction genres to capture his explorations of the human experience.

No conto "Caso em que entra bugre", de Mário de Andrade, conta-se a aventura de um coronel que, com o suposto objetivo de procurar outro potentado, organiza uma bandeira que acaba na mais bárbara selvageria, com o extermínio de muitos índicos com armas de fogo.

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss. Inhalt: Der Maulaufreißer von Wien (Juli 1865) - Die Enterprise des pompes funèbres (April 1867) - Politik und schlechtes Wetter (März 1887) - Johann Strauß und Richard Wagner (Jänner 1877) - Die Götterdämmerung (November 1879) - Die Corruption in Österreich (September 1872) - Reisebericht eines Wiener Spaziergängers (August 1872) - Ein Bad in der Renaissancezeit (Juni 1881).