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What do a flowerpot, two doves and a roof have in common? They all came together in this charming tale about the two doves who move in to Tom and Helene's flowerpot. The doves have many adventures, and there's also a suprise in store for everyone. What's everyone cooing about?

All families have their dark secrets, secrets which, if they were revealed, would have dramatic and devastating consequences for those involved The Jacobs are no exception... or are they? For, not only is something terrible about to be revealed, but it is something that goes beyond anything they could have imagined. This dark, passionate and provocative story cleverly combines the theme of the tensions inherent in all relationships, with the c...

This time the well-known author and rafter offers his readers a completely different picture. This extremely crude narrative, based on personal experiences, is one more episode among the many that Cuban rafters suffered at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo during the confinement, and the anxiety surrounding the longed-for departure to the United States. This is the story of how they survived and had sex, despite the ever-present adversities plag...

Born and raised in Malawi, Jennifer has a love and understanding of Africa that only someone who has lived there would possess.African Butterfly is a story which has its roots based on Jennifer's childhood experiences in Africa, detailing the adventures and mysteries she encountered as an unlikely observer in this vast continent. We are given a unique insight into a different culture as Jennifer challenges our perception of Africa and our own ...

Captain Groad appraoches the earth in his spaceship. Coming from an advanced civilisation, he is appalled at how primitive the inhabitants are. Why not try some improvements? He decides to cross-breed with them, and selects a woman - Mary - to be fertilised. The name of the child: Jesus. Groad has great schemes for the planet's inhabitants. His son, Jesus, is to be the prototype for an improved race of humanity, but Deablo, who has been all...

Many of us have visited ancient sacred sites and been moved by the numinous atmosphere to 'see' the former inhabitants. Indeed, a British historical novelist recently said, 'The dead of a place live on in the landscape'. It could be Stonehenge, the Pyramids or Mycenae. It could be an old site in the New World, likfe the temple in Occo at Mounds State Park, Indiana. Here, Paul Startzman uses his powerful imagination to construct a thrilli...

An unprecedented sexual encounter leads a drunken sea captain to seek love via pen-courtship. Their combined psychological peculiarities make for a yarn.

Before the Holy Bible, before the Church, before the Holy Trinity, there was one, extraordinary man... This intelligent and challenging exploration of Jesus and his lifetime offers a refreshing slant on the most famous stories of all time. Examining the Bible from a historical perspective, the author sheds new light and offers new theories as to the man behind the legend, and behind the religion of one-sixth of the world's population. ...

Brooklyn at the beginning of the 1950s is a colorful and violent place. Family ties among the Italian immigrant population, coupled with a culture of corruption at all levels, make for a neighbrhood that is at once close and threatening. The city police don't reach here, and the law is old to anyone able to pay to escape a beating. Into this world comes Joey Campione, a butcher's son risking his life to pursue his love for Rosalie, daughter of...

Californian Erika Johanssen is visiting Greece to escape a troubled past, to be alone with her thoughts. The last thing she wants is to become involved. But when she meets handsome, tanned Chris Pappas, the journey they take to his family's small village in the mountains draws them both enigmatically together. Will the past that draws Erika inward prevail, or will the haunting Greek countryside pull her closer to Chris?

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My Discovery of Brazil: 500 Years After Cabral is a first-hand account of a farmland owner-settler in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil. With her background in anthropology, Anna Russell has explored the national character of Brazil, borne out of her personal experiences, in a narrative that deals with the Brazilian People and their attitude towards work and land in the backdrop of land-grabbing movements of the MST. Her long stay as...

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En el clamor de un hombre agitado por la injusticia y la desverguenza, recibimos la clara y activa invitacion a meditar sobre nuestro papel en la historia. ?Es posible que un hereje puenda mostrar fe en una humanidad plagada de descreencias, y que sea precisamente esta, la que posea toda la esperanza de la salvacion? El corazon abierto y una mente logica nos expone su verdad mientras nos lleva de la mano por hechos y acontecimientos, que mere...

The eight golden pears grow mysteriously in the south, land of long ago... when slavery was only yesterday, and the myths and beliefs in curses and woe threaten behavior, and secret knowledge hangs in the humid air, like Spanish moss in the cottonwood trees... This unusual book is a parable-of evil, and rape, and the strange growths that can flower in secret gardens... Gold-the golden pears, the golden ornament that appears from nowhere-runs ...

Happiness for Harry is big money in the bank and a trip to Whistler in his BMW. It's a weekend with his tax haven associates, and maybe some fun on the side. Fine. After a killing on the stock market, Harry plans another killing. He's going to dump his wife, Beatrice, and leave the twins and not-so-bright Charles, his son, and start living...for himself. But there's trouble on the road. A Hell's Angel annoys Harry, whose BMW has a blowout. ...

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Jeremy's love for his brother, Stephen, knows no bounds, but he has no idea that his desperate attempts to secure his beloved's affection forever will have such dramatic consequences. One act born out of love, and another born of jealousy, combine to set this roller coaster of events in action. The devastatingly handsome Stephen is aware of his effect on women even before he meets Johnny, the master of seduction. Perfecting his art across t...

Señora Tillito Tamborina (a.k.a. Tilli) is a turtle who offers a tram service - yes, tram! She even has her own special "Tilli Meter". Unbelievable or what? Well, it's not only Tilli who might come across as a little eccentric in these parts - most of her friends along the shore are rather colorful characters themselves. There's El Chirpo, the avaricious blackbird, Monsieur Henrì, the one-quarter French and very pompous heron, Senor Pepper...

At the bottom of the garden where the yellow leaves of the forsythia bush entwine with the sweet-smelling lilac, where the hollyhocks grow and a crystal pond reflects the bobbing blossoms of spring, there is, if you look very carefully, a beautiful Ice Palace, shining like diamonds in the setting sun. And if you look even closer, you might just catch a glimpse of a fairy or two, beautifully dressed in colorful hollyhock flowers, with flutter...