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The second novel in Wilbur Smith's The Courtneys series, The Sound of Thunder is a powerful story of family tragedy set against the backdrop of the ravages of the Second Boer War. 'Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own - and now, again, they were pitted against each other....' Sean Courtney, impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds, returns from the wildnerness a rich man - until he is robbed by the Boers of his wagons, his gold and the girl he loves.

இந்தியா சுதந்திரம் அடையும் முன்பு அடைந்த பின்பு நடந்த சம்பவங்களை உள்ளடக்கி வெளியான எழுத்தாளர் கல்கியின் நாவல் அலை ஓசை. பிராமணக் குடும்பத்தில் நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை, தோராயமாக 1933 ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 1948 ஆண்டு வரை நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை வைத்து அலை ஓசை கதை அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது

இந்தியா சுதந்திரம் அடையும் முன்பு அடைந்த பின்பு நடந்த சம்பவங்களை உள்ளடக்கி வெளியான எழுத்தாளர் கல்கியின் நாவல் அலை ஓசை. பிராமணக் குடும்பத்தில் நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை, தோராயமாக 1933 ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 1948 ஆண்டு வரை நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை வைத்து அலை ஓசை கதை அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்தியா சுதந்திரம் அடையும் முன்பு அடைந்த பின்பு நடந்த சம்பவங்களை உள்ளடக்கி வெளியான எழுத்தாளர் கல்கியின் நாவல் அலை ஓசை. பிராமணக் குடும்பத்தில் நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை, தோராயமாக 1933 ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 1948 ஆண்டு வரை நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை வைத்து அலை ஓசை கதை அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்தியா சுதந்திரம் அடையும் முன்பு அடைந்த பின்பு நடந்த சம்பவங்களை உள்ளடக்கி வெளியான எழுத்தாளர் கல்கியின் நாவல் அலை ஓசை. பிராமணக் குடும்பத்தில் நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை, தோராயமாக 1933 ம் ஆண்டு முதல் 1948 ஆண்டு வரை நடைபெறும் சம்பவங்களை வைத்து அலை ஓசை கதை அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது

Daniel Bradford, a poor young Brit, is separated in a cruel twist of fate from his sister, Lyna, and left to rot in the infamous Dartmoor Prison. His only hope for escape comes when he agrees to a seven-year indenture in America. But he discovers he had traded one imprisonment for another under a cruel and exacting master, Sir Leo Rochester.

In the city of Bogot, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medelln cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies above. Back then, Antonio witnessed a friend’s murder, an event that haunts him still. As he investigates, he discovers the many ways in which his own life and his friend’s family have been shaped by his country’s recent violent past.

October 3, 1959: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s latest musical, “The Sound of Music,” starring Mary Martin, has just had its world premiere in New Haven, the first stop on its road to Broadway. But for one member of the company it will prove to be the final performance. The following morning, the lifeless body of beautiful newcomer Eva Rossi–Mary Martin’s understudy–is discovered in a bizarrely-appointed hotel room, beneath a wall defaced with a bloody inscription: How do you solve a problem like Maria?

Custis—a gifted, Black, ten-year-old boy orphaned and left for dead—is discovered by a young White girl. Sarah Tennison hasn’t spoken a word since her mother died. Nursed back to health and raised by Sarah’s widowed father, Custis is sheltered from community biases and anti-literacy laws. In the safety of the Tennison home, his bright mind has room to flourish and he strives to advance to his potential. Along the way, Custis' curiosity and quiet compassion help Sarah find her voice. Sarah and Custis develop an unbreakable bond, but intolerance and bigotry prohibit marriage.

When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden. American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research-her life's dream. While printing resistance newspapers, she hears stories of the movement's legendary Havmand-the merman-and wonders if the mysterious and silent shipyard worker living in the same boardinghouse has something to hide.

September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds their breath. Even the bells fall silent. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. German troops occupy the mountains around her home, as America's Buffalo Soldiers prepare to invade. As Vittoria's country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Should she do what she is told - or what she believes in?

Child prodigy Joshua Bland’s life has been anything but bland. Joshua’s father abandons him and his mentally imbalanced mother when he is a young boy, leaving him to be raised by a cynical, hostile, and self-doubting stepfather. When Joshua loses a national knowledge competition, his family’s reaction puts him on the path to becoming a World War II veteran, best-selling author, successful producer, and absentee father.

In the tradition of narrativa de lo inusual (narrative of the unusual), The Only Sound Is the Wind combines the fantastic with the everyday, weaving elements of magical realism and surrealist twists to sharpen our view of human (and animal) connection. In the title story, the arrival of a mail-order clone complicates a burgeoning romance; a lonely librarian longing for her homeland strikes up an unusual relationship in the award-winning “The Moth”; when humans start giving birth to puppies and kittens in “This New Turn,” a realignment of the natural order ensues.

Money. Power. Prestige. These were the riches that destiny had awarded Edward Enger, but a greedy, ruthless family conspired against him and his own relentless desires enslaved him! As the descendant of a German immigrant, Edward built a business empire and dominated three generations of his family. Caldwell weaves the tale of a modern financial genius and the secret passions that obsessed him.

A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost...

Katie Stuckey and Jonas Weaver are both romantics. Seventeen-year-old Katie is starry-eyed, in love with the idea of being in love, and does not want to wait to marry Jonas until she is 18, despite her parents' insistence. So much can happen in a year. Twenty-year-old Jonas is taken in by the romance of soldiering, especially in defense of anti-slavery, even though he knows war is at odds with the teachings of the church. When his married brother's name comes up in the draft list, he volunteers to take his brother's place.

Recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters, critically acclaimed author Robert Flynn is a treasure of the Lone Star State. The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope is his masterpiece. World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, hebails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it grows less likely that a rescuer will ever come.

In 1924, hoping to cure his illness, Franz Kafka traveled to a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, run by a Dr. Hugo Hoffman. He would spend his last days there. In Robert Cohen’s story, we see the end of Kafka’s life through Dr. Hoffman’s eyes. The doctor attempts to decipher the dying man’s enigmatic communications, scribbled on scraps of paper, while being harried by Kafka’s friend, Klopstock, and a young woman who has fallen in love with the then-unknown writer. As the case progresses, the once-practical and upstanding doctor gets pulled deeper and deeper into his strange patient's world.

In München marschiert eine Gruppe von Rassisten, Antisemiten und anderen rechten Hetzern auf. Umringt werden sie von Polizei und Gegendemonstranten, unter ihnen der jüdische Stadtrat Felix Mandelbaum. Dann ein Zusammenstoß in der Menschenmenge – ein Anschlag? Mandelbaum wird festgenommen, in einer kargen Zelle steht ihm die längste Nacht seines Lebens bevor.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1959, und wieder setzt sich Judy Cooper, in den Straßen von New York mittlerweile besser als Black Stiletto bekannt, für Recht und Gesetz ein. Dieses Mal hat sie es auf einen gefährlichen Gangster abgesehen - den Heroin-König von Harlem - nachdem sie herausfand, dass dieser ihren Kampfsporttrainer erpresst und kurzerhand dessen minderjährige Tochter entführt hat. Gleichzeitig hat die Black Stiletto aber mit ganz eigenen Problemen zu kämpfen.