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Im Kapstadt einer sehr nahen Zukunft beherrscht die Wasserknappheit das tägliche Leben der Bewohner einer Behelfsunterkunft, in die sie geschafft wurden, nachdem die Behörden ihre Häuser beschlagnahmt haben. Deidre, eine Weiße, hat als Teenager bei einer Explosion ein Bein verloren, nun benutzt sie ihre Behinderung, um sich kleine Vorteile in ihrem trostlosen Alltag zu verschaffen. Hinter ihrer Barschheit verbirgt sich eine tiefe Verletztheit,...

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Der Leuchtturmwächter Samuel lebt seit zwanzig Jahren allein auf einer Insel vor der südlichen Küste Afrikas. Abgesehen von dem Schiff, das alle zwei Wochen anlegt, um ihn zu versorgen, hat er kaum Kontakt zur Außenwelt. Dann findet er am Strand einen bewusstlosen Geflüchteten und nimmt ihn bei sich auf. Je länger sich Samuel um den Mann kümmert, desto mehr Erinnerungen kommen in ihm hoch, an Unterdrückung, Freiheitskampf, dem Verlust seiner F...

Sheikh Ra'id Ossamah Abdul Hasib has a charmed life. He comes from a loving family, he is the ruler of his country and is massively wealthy, but something is missing from his life-until the day he saw a beautiful pair of legs coming out of a construction van. Amanda Pearson had to work her way through college and graduated at the top of her engineering class. She put together a small crew of fellow students and opened her own construction comp...

Sheikh Ra'id Ossamah Abdul Hasib has a charmed life. He comes from a loving family, he is the ruler of his country and is massively wealthy, but something is missing from his life-until the day he saw a beautiful pair of legs coming out of a construction van. Amanda Pearson had to work her way through college and graduated at the top of her engineering class. She put together a small crew of fellow students and opened her own construction comp...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores--the American debut of a major new voice in world literature.Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless...

This second story evolved after the first book was completed. Annie and Katie's family just couldn't end with one generation similar to my own loud loving family. When strong bonds are required both families join together to face all that life gives us. We love, we laugh, and we forgive.

This second story evolved after the first book was completed. Annie and Katie's family just couldn't end with one generation similar to my own loud loving family. When strong bonds are required both families join together to face all that life gives us. We love, we laugh, and we forgive.

A young refugee washes up unconscious on the beach of a small island inhabited by no one but Samuel, an old lighthouse keeper. Unsettled, Samuel is soon swept up in memories of his former life on the mainland: a life that saw his country suffer, then fight for independence, only to fall to a cruel dictator, he recalls his own part in its history.

Annie and Katie met in college, and started working in their respective fields of endeavor. They met two men who would change not only their lives, but they would all learn the importance of communication. Annie and Katie came very close to losing not only their true loves, but their lives.

Annie and Katie met in college, and started working in their respective fields of endeavor. They met two men who would change not only their lives, but they would all learn the importance of communication. Annie and Katie came very close to losing not only their true loves, but their lives.

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From July 10th through July 13th, 1994, an informal workshop co-organized by RILEM committees 116-PCD and 123-MME was held at Saint-Remy-Ies­ Chevreuse, France, and attended by 38 delegates from 16 countries. Twenty-nine papers were presented, converging the general subjects of modelling micro­ structures and predicting durability of concrete and other cement-based materials. A short summary follows: G. M. Idom's paper entitled "Modelling Rese...

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