Mda - Fiction & Literature 1

A Picador Paperback Original The hero of Zakes Mda's beloved Ways of Dying, Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors. T……続きを見る

Hermanus, Sudafrica. La stagione delle balene è iniziata e sono arrivati i whale watcher: turisti dalle camicie fiorate e dai binocoli costosi, determinati a osservare le grandi creature marine nel ……続きを見る

"A voice for which one should feel not only affection but admiration." --The New York Times The Whale Caller, Zakes Mda's fifth novel, is his most enchanting and accessible book yet-a romantic comed……続きを見る

A new novel by a towering presence in contemporary South African literature In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Im……続きを見る

A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa In The Heart of Redness -- shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize -- Zakes Mda sets a story of South African villa……続きを見る

Winner of the M-Net Book Prize Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new S……続きを見る

In a remote mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capit……続きを見る

In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone with her cat in the Roodepoort district of Johannesburg, goes on a one-woman crusade to wi……続きを見る

Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, a……続きを見る

A collection of three science fiction series starters by R.S. Penney, Stephen Drake and Johan M. Dahlgren, now in one volume! Desa Kincaid - Bounty Hunter (Desa Kincaid Book 1): Desa Kincaid has spe……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK! • A "gripping thriller with compassionate social commentary" (USA Today) about three unforgettable characters who seek to riseーto the middle ……続きを見る

In Games of Property, distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues rel……続きを見る

Nora and her two sister pass through the graveyard not realising that a evil power as attached to one of them. Read on to see how the story unveils as this power begins to work in their lives. 続きを見る

The object before the mind of the author in preparing these Lectures was to present a distinct and rational view of the present relation of scientific thought to the religious beliefs of men, and es……続きを見る

Finally, after fifteen years, Jack Tennant is going home. Against his better judgment, he has succumbed to his mother’s guilt-laden pleas that he see his estranged father, who suffers from “locked-i……続きを見る

A dazzling and funny romantic comedy from Adam Davies, the author of The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon. Otto Starks is a "pulse"ーa highly specialized security guard who has hyperdeveloped senses and ……続きを見る

When Viktoria is invited along with her friends to travel to Ireland, to join a Secret Society, the life-changing events that follow are more than what she had bargained for. Follow her as she is co……続きを見る

This is the poetry of my life. Much of it, with certain poetic license, describes events, people, events, etc. that have happened to me personally. A couple were even written at the time it was happ……続きを見る

The Fisher is a short story set in the early 21st century about a man in the mountains of Colorado. A young man struggling to find a balance between modern society and the joys of nature. Please not……続きを見る

A major new collection by one of America’s foremost poets of city life and work, In Line for the Exterminator brings Jim Daniels back to his native Detroit. 続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Quips and Quiddities - A Quintessence of Quirks Quaint, Quizzical and Quotable. It was previously published by other bona fi……続きを見る

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you i……続きを見る

After being told he has one year to live, Jack Lamont’s biggest regret was not getting married, when he had the chance. Jack agrees to allow Mike the bartender to help him advertise for a pretend fa……続きを見る

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When Allied Forces were engaging Rommel in North Africa during World War Two, as usual the frontline troops had the heaviest casualties. So when Act. Sgt. Michael Santini is successful in almost sin……続きを見る

Jack Mayham is a criminal defense attorney with plenty to prove. Fired from three law firms in four years, he believes he's been given the chance of a lifetime to get back on his feet. Soon after de……続きを見る

A formidable sequence of poems in a variety of poetic styles, which cast an ironic and penetrating eye upon the vision that science, and particularly mathematics, can explain all of the great myster……続きを見る

For Hisashi, Bushido is a way of life, a code of conduct. As the son of a noble lord, he is expected to follow the way of the warrior to the letter. But when his oldest friend challenges him to a du……続きを見る

“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content……続きを見る

The Book Of Bulbs by Samuel Arnott—A Project Gutenberg eBook.続きを見る