Showing results for "Blues" in Contemporary Fiction

A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He's ready with the rent, he's willing to lend a hand when he can and he's happy to listen to Mrs Joshi on the imminent collapse of our culture. But he's also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends...

Russ Bryant, a lonely and downtrodden reporter trapped in a job he hates, stumbles onto the story of a lifetime when he is befriended by Casey Fox, a promising rookie catcher on the local minor league team. Possessed of mythic talents but mortal insecurities, Casey isn’t even sure he wants to play in the major leagues (and unless he improves his attitude toward the team’s management, he may never get the option). Still, when circumstances in Boston lead to an offer from the Red Sox, the lure proves irresistible, and Casey moves on the fast track from the anonymity of the minor leagues to stardom at Fenway Park.

Alfred Larribee is sent by his father to live with his cousin’s family in the West. Larribee proves to be lazy and shiftless…spending most of his time in town…drinking and gambling…even cheating at cards. What changes all this is the appearance of Sky Blue…a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. Dan Gurry is the owner and hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue…but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that no one is willing to volunteer to try again except Larribee.

Jim Beam aveva un fratello, una sorella e una madre. Del padre non seppe mai niente. La mamma era seria, preoccupata, sempre nervosa. Aveva paura e non si riposava mai: aveva paura di non riuscire a mantenere i propri figli, aveva paura che uno di loro si ammalasse. Aveva paura di un sacco di cose. Invece Jim non aveva paura di niente, tranne della noia. Abitavano appena fuori Lovelock, in un posto che si chiamava Cottonfarm.

Harlem, Anfang der 70er-Jahre: Tish und Fonny sind ein Paar. Ihren zerrütteten Familien setzen sie trotzige Hoffnung entgegen. Tish ist schwanger, sie wollen heiraten und malen sich eine große Zukunft in der Beale Street aus. Doch dann wird Fonny der Vergewaltigung einer Puertoricanerin beschuldigt und inhaftiert. Tish und ihr Anwalt unternehmen alles Menschenmögliche, Fonnys Unschuld zu beweisen, bevor das Baby zur Welt kommt - gegen die Widerstände einer weißen Justiz. Der Fall spaltet die Nachbarschaft, führt aber auch zusammen, was einst zerrüttet war.

Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down - it had to happen sooner or later. And it isn’t as if Les Norton will starve. He has money snookered away, he owns his house, and his blue-chip investment - a block of flats in Randwick - must be worth a fortune by now. Except that the place is falling down, the council is reclaiming the land, there’s been a murder in Flat 5, and the tenants are the biggest bunch of misfits since the Manson family.

Castroux, France, 1939. In a bare farmhouse above the village, Oriane lives in desperate poverty. When the Germans invade, her simple world crumbles. Passions erupt, moral boundaries break down , and rebellion is soon in the air. Castroux, France, 2000. In an idyllic gîte overlooking the river, Claudia sunbathes on the terrace. She’s pregnant, trapped, and terrified of the future. She confides only in a reclusive neighbour, Oriane, and discovers that she too carried a shameful secret.

Halifax had been in French Africa for five years, doing whatever foolhardy, dangerous thing Serailler ordered him to do. It was some time before he finally snapped, but when he did, he opened the throttle, eased back the stick, and lifted straight and high into a dream.

Written 20 years ago, Puberty Blues is the best-selling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Puberty Blues is about "top chicks" and "surfie spunks" and the kids who don't quite make the cut: it recreates with fascinating honesty a world where only the gang and the surf count. It's a hilarious and horrifying account of the way many teenagers live, and some of them die.

Jules Verne sagte einst, das Meer sei nur ein Behälter für alle die ungeheuren und übernatürlichen Dinge, die darin existieren; es sei nicht nur Bewegung und Liebe, es sei die lebende Unendlichkeit. Jules Verne hat sich nicht geirrt und das Hörbuch "The Blue" ist nicht nur eine kleine Hommage an den großen Autor, sondern auch eine Würdigung einer von Menschenhand bedrohten Unterwasserwelt und ihrer phantastischen Bewohner.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees green, too.

沢辺雪祈は、言葉を覚えるより先に音を覚えた――。幼い頃、音が「色」に見えた少年は、やがてジャズの魅力に取り憑かれ、運命の仲間たちと出逢う。大人気コミックの原作者が魂を込めて描き上げた青春音楽小説！

When a neighbor woman knocks one evening on a lonely young man's door, he thinks their romance is meant to be. After all, hadn't the bartender just told him he needed to "have faith?" Short and taut as a sad song, Zamboni Blues pulls us into its music and holds us to the bittersweet end.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

Ada, la protagonista está en el hospital esperando ser informada sobre el estado de su hermano Darío, que dicen que se ha pegado un tiro con su propia arma y está en coma. Todos creen que ha sido un intento de suicidio, pero Ada sabe que su hermano jamás pensaría en matarse porque se quiere demasiado: ¿quién pensaría en suicidarse por la tarde si se ha pasado toda la mañana poniéndose en forma el gimnasio?

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