Emily, 29-aastane raamatukoguhoidja, asutab raamatuklubi ning tutvub seal 54-aastase Kerstini ja 33-aastase Millaga. Kuigi naised on üsna erinevad, saavad neist peagi head sõbrannad. Kui Milla ühtäkki salapärastel asjaoludel kaob ja politseiuuringud ei paista mingeid tulemusi andvat, otsustavad Emily ja Kerstin asja ise uurima hakata. Samal ajal peab Emily toime tulema üheksa-aastase tütre kasvatamise ja pühapäevaisast eksabikaasaga ning otsustama, kas ta on viimaks ometi valmis uueks romantiliseks suhteks. Autorid: Ketlin Priilinn
Based on the Gigantosaurus animated TV series. Four young dinosaurs navigate the Cretaceous world in this ROAR-some prehistoric adventure! A mighty groundwobbler interrupts a peaceful day by the hot springs, leaving Mazu, Tiny, Rocky and Bill no option but to find their way over a terrifying crack in the ground. With Giganto stomping around somewhere close by, they'll need all their courage to get home. But courage is not one of Bill's strong points! Can the little brachioasurus find a way to be brave? Watch the episode and read the story! Autorid: Cyber Group Studios, Cyber Group Studios
Puzzle Mazes for Kids is packed with mazes to entertain, stimulate, and challenge your kids. These mazes can help improve fine motor skills, problem-solving skills, and visual perceptual skills. Various types, themes, and shapes ensure your child wo
There's no better time to become a data engineer. And acing the AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate (DEA-C01) exam will help you tackle the demands of modern data engineering and secure your place in the technology-driven future.Authors Sakti Mishra, Dylan Qu, and Anusha Challa equip you with the knowledge and sought-after skills necessary to effectively manage data and excel in your career. Whether you're a data engineer, data analyst, or machine learning engineer, you'll discover in-depth guidance, practical exercises, sample questions, and expert advice you need to leverage AWS services effectively and achieve certification. By reading, you'll learn how to:Ingest, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines effectivelySelect the ideal data store, design efficient data models, and manage data lifecyclesAnalyze data rigorously and maintain high data quality standardsImplement robust authentication, authorization, and data governance protocolsPrepare thoroughly for the DEA-C01 exam with targeted strategies and practices Autorid: Sakti Mishra, Dylan Qu, Anusha Challa
"A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia town After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek's black quarter, a retired carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for acceptance, something that will give meaning to their lives. Bill tries to find it through goodwill in the community.Johnny finds it in the Nightriders, a local gang. David Diggs, Johnny's dispirited uncle, aspires to be an artist but has to settle for sign painting. David and Johnny's new friendship with Bill kindles hope that their lives will get better. David's marriage has failed; his wife's shallow faith serves as her outlet from racial and financial oppression. As the church society's Fall Festival approaches, the battle between the repressive small town and the aspirations of its trapped inhabitants come to a nail-biting head. First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupies fresh territory that is neither the gritty realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison"-- Provided by publisher. A rediscovered "masterpiece" (Kirkus) of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia townAfter several years of seclusion in the Black quarter of Beetlecreek, West Virginia, in the precarious 1930s, a retired carnival worker named Bill Trapp strikes up a chance friendship with Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager transplanted into his uncles home. Bill is white. Johnny is Black. Both are searching for something that will give meaning to their lives. While Bill tries to court favor in the community, Johnny joins a local gang; meanwhile, their new friendship kindles hope that there is something for each of them beyond the bounds of Beetlecreek. But as the church societys Fall Festival approaches, the battle between the repressive town and the aspirations of its trapped inhabitants comes to a nail-biting head.First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism, and a classic of Black American literature. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupied fresh territory for its time: neither the gritty realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison. Autorid: William Demby
La joven George siempre ha veraneado en el pueblo de la costa bretonadonde vive Gauvain. Ambos se conocen desde que eran niños. Con eltiempo, él se ha convertido en un tosco marinero que, en teoría, nodebería interesar lo más mínimo a alguien como ella, parisina,universitaria y de buena familia. Sin embargo, una noche, los dos sedejarán llevar por una atracción tan poderosa que ignorará cualquierconvención social y que, inevitablemente, los unirá en secreto paratoda la vida. La escritora Benoîte Groult, famosa entre otras cosas por sureivindicación de los derechos de la mujer, quiso en esta novela darvoz a un personaje femenino profundamente libre y, a través de él,recrear el lenguaje de la pasión y la sexualidad femenina. Al tenercomo protagonista a una mujer emancipada que narra su deseo y susexperiencias con toda claridad, un terreno tradicionalmente reservadoa la visión masculina, la obra se convirtió en un escándalo cuando sepublicó en los años ochenta. Sin embargo, hoy en día está consideradauna de las grandes historias de amor de la narrativa francesacontemporánea.«Una provocativa y triunfante exhortación a la pasión física capaz dedejar de lado todas las diferencias sociales y culturales, losobstáculos maritales, la distancia y el tiempo.» Claire Gallois (LeMagazine Littéraire)«Benoîte Groult se ha atrevido a llamar a las cosas por su nombre ypor eso esta novela ha sido calificada de escandalosa. () Pero essimplemente una magnífica historia de amor.» Danièle Mazingarbe (LeFigaro)
The son of extreme privilege who became a great American poetwinner of every major poetry prize, from the Pulitzer to the Bollingenlooks back on his coming of age as a gay man before Stonewall in a charming, searching memoir that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, featuring a new introduction by Hilton Als. "Stands with Merrill's finest work." Los Angeles Times Book ReviewJames Merrill, the son of Charles Merrill, a founder of Merrill Lynch, sailed for Europe in 1950in part for the immersion in high culture and the art, in part to escape his divorced parents and their prying eyes, as well as the stifling round of their South Hampton-NYC society. Jimmy flings himself on this European adventure, setting up house with a lover in Rome, meeting Alice B. Toklas, and navigating his crucial, sometimes comic sessions with the ex-pat psychoanalyst Dr. Detre, a wonderfully measured presence who helped the young man on the couch strive toward shaping the "different" person he hoped to become.The sixty-something Merrill who wrote this iconic memoir allowed his young self to take center stage, not hiding his foibles, but entering with his elder voice in italicized paragraphs here and there, to provide revealing commentary that revises his callow judgments. A book about the rocky and tender journey to (gay) adulthood, all the more lasting because it is not narrowly conceived as a book about a poet; it is the tale of a questing young man who seemingly has everything but knows it isn't much at all without enlightenment, belonging, and self-understanding. Autorid: James Merrill, Hilton Als
The second novel in The L.A. Quartet. Murder, mayhem and dirty cops on the make against the backdrop of anti-communist hysteria in L.A. in 1950.It’s Los Angeles in the new year of 1950. The Communist Scare is heating up. Gangsters vie for control of the town. The Hollywood studios are feuding with the unions.Then a dead body with its eyes gouged out turns up.The investigating officer, Sheriff’s deputy Danny Upshaw, is obsessed with the murder case that no one else cares about. LAPD Lieutenant Mal Considine jumps onto the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and gain custody of his adopted son. And Buzz Meeks is in it all for the money.The three cops get caught in the city’s web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. All three have purchased tickets to a nightmare.
The first novel in The L.A. Quartet. The Black Dahlia is the haunting and harrowing book that put James Ellroy on the map as one of the most electrifying writers on the scene.On January 15, 1947, the brutally mutilated body of Elizabeth Short is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia, becoming the center of a media frenzy and cultural fixation.Caught up in the investigation are two young cops, Dwight “Bucky” Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, partners in uniform and both former boxers. But the deeper they get in the case, the greater their obsession with the Dahlia becomes. As the two men go rogue and hunt for the killer, they are drawn into the hellish underbelly of 1940s Hollywood, into the victim’s twisted past, and into the extremes of their own desires—a land of demons and madness.Inspired by America’s most infamous unsolved murder, James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia is a classic work of crime fiction that will haunt its readers long after the last page.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel’s dark secrets begin to unravel. “An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” —The Washington PostJack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.
This "thoroughly engaging" third novel by the author of Beetlecreek ("(a] quiet masterpiece" Kirkus Reviews) follows a Black journalist in the 1970s whose bourgeois life is turned upside down by the subject of his writing assignment.In the midst of the tumultuous 1970s, Edwards, a freelance writer and Black Studies professor at a small college in New York City, is assigned a story for New Black Woman magazine: a profile of Mona Pariss, an aging former singer whose popularity once rivaled Josephine Bakers. With his creditors at the door, Professor Edwards beats a path to the crumbling Harlem apartment house where Mona Pariss, once the toast of Europe for her singing, now lives in squalid obscurity. As his interviews progress, Edwards is gradually drawn into Monas strange world. At the same time, he finds himself entering into an affair with Hortense, a beautiful young assistant at New Black Woman. From revolutionary downtown poetry readings to a hospital bed on the Continent and back, becoming entangled in the lives of both women might turn Edwardss bourgeois life upside down for good. Autorid: William Demby
