Diane sukkel van jongs af met 'n eetversteuring. Toe sy Robert ontmoet is sy so dankbaar vir die aantreklike man wat haar help en aanvaar net soos sy is. Robert het haar nog altyd lief gehad, maar nou is hulle huwelik op die rotse. Hoekom sal Robert nou die pad vat? En wie is die persoon wat se dat Robert die pa van haar kind is? En sal sy haar seuntjie wat outisties is kan help? Of is sy juis die oorsaak van sy probleme? Sal Diane kans sie ...
Every man’s mind is a universe with countless places in which he can hide—even from himself! Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction. ...
Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world’s detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks qu ...
Der arme Spielmann Als Sohn eines hohen und einflussreichen Staatsbeamten versagt Jakob, weich, traumerisch und nach innen gewandt, vor den Anforderungen der Wirklichkeit. Er wird vom ehrgeizigen und jahzornigen Vater von der Schule genommen und muss als kleiner Schreiber in einem Buro arbeiten. Aber auch hier entzieht er sich der lauten und rohen Umwelt; nur sein Geigenspiel und Barbara, die Tochter eines Kuchenbackers, die er schuchtern lieb ...
Arthur Upfield, creator of the Aboriginal detective 'Bony' followed his classic crime novel <i>The Sands of Windee</i> with this historical romance:<br /> <br />The Crown Prince of Rolandia is visiting Australia – and two brilliant Americans, Earle Lawrence and Van Horton – abduct her on the trans-continental train on the Nullabor Plain. They hide her in caves near Eucla on the Great Australian Bight, until the ...