検索キーワード： "hunter" 現代文学

En un inesperado golpe de suerte, la vida de Rosamund Jameson cambió por completo. Ahora es una mujer adinerada y copropietaria de un nuevo negocio gracias a la herencia del duque de Hollinburgh. Su repentina fortuna no solo le permite trasladar su modesta sombrerería al elegante Londres, sino que ahora podrá darle un mejor futuro a su hermana, con una digna presentación ante la sociedad inglesa. El único inconveniente para la ingeniosa Rosamund es su arrogante y atractivo socio, Kevin Radnor.

This is an Irish novel set in Los Angeles and read by the author, the actor Chris Sullivan. It tells the story of Alfredo Hunter, a depressive Jewish/Irish playwright who is in Hollywood to make a killing in the film business. It also tells the story of the unknown narrator, who observes Alfredo's various fluctuations of mood and humor. Humor is to the fore in this novel of a building friendship between two Dubliners as they encounter the New World, with its new language and confusing mores.

Das junge Halbblut Sakenwah wird in Nogales von Sheriff Tamson, einem Indianerhasser, verhaftet und misshandelt. Doch Sakenwah, den alle Welt nur "Hunter" nennt, kann eine Botschaft zum Fort Buchanan schmuggeln lassen. Kurz darauf befreit ein Offizier Hunter. Mit Hilfe von Basil Osborne, dem Vorsitzenden des Stadtrates und Mitgliedern seines Stammes, den Mimbres-Apachen, klärt er einige Verwicklungen um Viehtriebe und kostbaren Wasserstellen auf.

Hootenville, Pennsylvania: It looks like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface throbs a network of violence, blackmail, and murder. It takes an ex-Army spy to coolly fit together the puzzle and expose the game of terror, intrigue, and cunning known as industrial espionage. Someone at Hooten Plastics Corporation has been selling its manufacturing secrets.

Regina is a little girl whose dream takes her through a magical adventure.

Cookies had a normal, happy childhood until the truth about her mother comes out, sending her life spiraling out of control, leading to her untimely death.

William Lodger thinks his ambitions in life are perfectly normal. He experiences tragedy early in life, with the death of his younger sister and grandfather, he determines that he will never suffer again. William's ambitions if realized will have life-changing consequences. Will DI Ivor Gunn be able to stop the top level scientist before it is too late?

The story is about a curious kitten who wanted to learn how to swim and the answer from his mother is always no.

A practical joke goes wrong and changes the lives of innocent people.

A rainy Halloween that is strange and also ends in a weird way.

A young girl and her family accompany their housepainter father on a trip to collect his wages from a slow-paying customer and encounter surprising consequences. Winner of Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest 2007, Honorable Mention.

This is about Captain Morgan Jones of the Vindaloo Curry, a submarine he found in the desert one day, and after hauling it back to the ocean by camel train, set it to floating again after repairing a few holes. After trial and error and a lot of huffing and puffing, he managed to get to the Taff River and after sailing up it to Ponty, took on a crew and then set off for the Orient and many adventures.

The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles. Imagine a world where sleep could trap you for days, for weeks, months.... A world where you could even die of sleep rather than in your sleep. Karen Thompson Walker's second novel is stunning, the story of a Californian town's epidemic of perpetual sleep.