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Writing with the same mastery that has won him praise for his fiction, Richards takes us - even those unfamiliar with days spent in chilly waters - on an unforgettable journey to the famed Miramichi River. Casting new light on the mysterious and elegant world of fly fishing, it teems with lore and wisdom, humor, and most of all, passion.

Terrence McCauley delivers up the tale of a former moonshiner looking to make his fortune on dirt tracks of stock-car racing. J. Walt Layne details one of the first interracial college football games ever played. Up next, John Rose gets us into the ring with a boxing prodigy from the hills of Kansas, and then Fred Adams Jr., offers up a barnstorming adventure with the Negro Baseball League Moline Wizards.

Die weltbekannte Saga vom Exodus der Kaninchen: Der junge Fiver spürt, dass seinem Volk das Verderben droht. Nur seine engsten Freunde kann er überreden, mit ihm das Kaninchengehege zu verlassen und sich auf die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat zu machen. Was sie unterwegs durchleben, ist so beispielhaft wie fesselnd: zahllose Abenteuer, Meuterei, Treuebruch und Heldentum, Schlachten mit hohem Blutzoll - und schließlich der glückliche Einzug ins Land der Freiheit und des Friedens.

I Kaninbjerget fortælles om en lille flok unge, vilde kaniner, der anført af den kloge Hassel bryder op fra deres koloni. Hassels bror, Femmer, fornemmer, at kolonien er truet af tilintetgørelse, og hans sjette sans slår aldrig fejl. Derfor forsøger brødrene at overtale så mange kaniner som muligt til at flygte sammen med dem, men ikke mange vil lytte til dem, for det er forår, og græsset er grønt og saftigt.

Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo ship Lutheran. Hector Penniac had been planning to go to university, perhaps to study medicine. Roger Savage, a loner who has had to make his own way since his youth, comes under suspicion of killing Hector over a union card and a morning’s work.

In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist. David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s most beloved and celebrated authors, has been wrestling with questions of morality, faith, and religion ever since he was a child.

Das junge, hellsichtige Kaninchen Fiver spürt, dass seinem Volk große Gefahr droht. Nur seinen Bruder Hazel und einige Freunde kann er davon überzeugen, mit ihm das Kaninchengehege zu verlassen und sich auf die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat zu begeben. Auf ihrem gefahrvollen Weg erleben sie zahlreiche Abenteuer, bevor sie ein glückliches Leben in Freiheit und Frieden führen können. Richard Adams' Erzählung hat weltweit Millionen von Menschen berührt.

C’est dans les fourrés de collines verdoyantes et idylliques que se terrent parfois les plus terrifiantes menaces. C’est là aussi que va se dérouler cette vibrante odyssée de courage, de loyauté et de survie. Menés par le valeureux Hazel et le surprenant Fyveer, une poignée de braves choisit de fuir l’inéluctable destruction de leur foyer. Prémonitions, malices et légendes vont guider ces héros face aux mille ennemis qui les guettent, et leur permettront peut-être de franchir les épreuves qui les séparent de leur terre promise, Watership Down. Mais l’aventure s’arrêtera-t-elle vraiment là?

In August 1860, would anyone have conceived that the upcoming November presidential election would result in the unraveling of a nation and a war between its parts, a war that would claim more lives than all the nation's other wars combined? Told through the lens of West Point classmates and graduates, THE PARTING is a factual narrative of the impulsive descent of the United States of America from peace to war from August 1860 through the First Battle of Bull Run, July 1861.

Charlie's Ashes: A Greatest Generation Story is an acclaimed factually-based narrative about five WWII veterans and war heroes, ages 93 to 101 (Sam Lombardo, John Beard, Bill McCowen, Joe Gossen, and Charlie Geiger). They are members of The author's Destin, Florida, veterans group known as the Crispy Warriors. Also featured is an African-American Vietnam War veteran (Tommy McCraney). Two weeks before a Veterans Day "Red, White, and Blue Celebration" at Harbor

Därufen kömmt ihren jedem zeitung hätte gestellungsreiche.

Slavná kniha ze zlatého fondu světové literatury. Poprvé vyšla v roce 1972, stala se bestsellerem i předlohou animovaného filmu, seriálu a několika počítačových her. „Sem tam některý panáčkoval na vrcholku mraveniště, s nastraženýma ušima se rozhlížel kolem a větřil. Ale nerušený zpěv kosa na pokraji lesa zvěstoval, že odtamtud nebezpečí nehrozí.“ Nebezpečí však přichází s člověkem a jeho plány postavit domy na území obývaném sandlefordskou králičí kolonií.

A lively discussion on various topics related to faith, organised around the alphabet, featuring Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet of St Albans Masorti Synagogue, Fr. Richard Watson, Vicar of St Saviour's Church in St Albans, and Akhtar Zaman, President of the Islamic Centre of St. Albans. Three faiths, one family.