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Seine Frau will raus, seine Geliebte will ein Kind. Die Beschwerden, die er sich bei seiner einstigen Babysitterin geholt hat, machen ihm das Lieben zur Qual. Der Filmemacher, für den er arbeitet, will sein Leben verfilmen: als Dokumentation eines Fehlschlags. Dies ist die Geschichte des fluchbeladenen Fred Bogus Trumper, eines Schlawiners und Schwindlers, eines Nichtstuers voller Charme und guter Vorsätze.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.In a stor...

Homer ist anders als die anderen Kinder im Saint-Cloud¿s Waisenhaus: Er will nicht weg. Nach vier gescheiterten Adoptionsversuchen erlaubt Dr. Larch ihm daher, zu bleiben - unter der Bedingung, daß er im Waisenhaus mit angeschlossener Entbindungs- und Abtreibungsstation bei »Gottes Werk« - dem Entbinden - und bei »Teufels Beitrag« - dem Abtreiben - assistiert. Doch das ist nur der Beginn von Homers Odyssee.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This book is a detailed and profusely illustrated guide to navigating small yachts, with information on reading tides and tidal streams, navigating at night, correcting bearings, and many other related aspects. "The Navigation of Small Yachts" has been carefully selected for a modern readership, and will be of considerable utility to novice yachtsmen. Contents include: "Position, Direction and Distance", "The Chart", "Elementary Chart Work", "...

In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys - best friends - are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents, Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.

bTitle:/b Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee tribes.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include ar...

This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek ...

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John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, and he once admitted that he was a 'grim' child. Although he excelled in English at school and knew by the time he graduated that he wanted to write novels, it was not until he met a young Southern novelist named John Yount, at the University of New Hampshire, that he received encouragement. 'It was so simple, ' he remembers. 'Yount was the first person to point out that anything I did ex...

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¿Recuerdan cómo devoraron en su momento Una mujer difícil, la novela en la que John Irving contaba la historia de Ruth Cole? ¿Se acuerdan del cuento protagonizado por sus hermanos Tom y Tim? ¿Y del inquietante ruido que los despertó en plena noche? Ahora publicamos ese cuento en un volumen aparte, maravillosamente ilustrado por Tatjana Hauptmann. Nada más salir en Alemania, el semanario Stern lo ha recomendado sentenciando: De lectura obligada...

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