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**Mature content. May not be suitable for some readers.** She was almost home. Then they came for her. >>>Caught between warring crime factions, Alice Trent is on the run again. Abducted by Vegas mobsters, she now finds herself caught up in their money-laundering scheme. They make her an offer she can't refuse … accept their terms or end up in a hole in the desert. The one man she has ever truly loved, John Barent, embarks on a desperate j...

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¿ Im Übrigen bin ich mehr und mehr überzeugt, dass die Musik ihrem Wesen nach nichts ist, was in eine strenge und traditionelle Form gegossen werden könnte. Sie besteht aus Farben und rhythmisierter Zeit ¿ Alles andere ist ein Schabernack, erfunden von kalten Dummköpfen auf dem Rücken der Meister, die doch vorwiegend nur Musik ihrer Zeit gemacht haben! Allein Bach hat die Wahrheit geahnt." Claude Debussy, 3. Sept. 1907 an Jacques Durand Claud...

Dank seiner außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeit, Melodien zu komponieren, die in den Köpfen seiner Zuhörer Wurzeln schlagen, und weil er diese Kompositionen geduldig auf der Bühne aufgeführt hat, bis sie praktisch ein Teil von ihm wurden, war Avishai Cohen eine der Wenigen, der seinen Traum wahr werden lassen konnte. 'Two Roses' ist das Ergebnis eines langen Prozesses, der 2013 begann, als Cohen sein Album 'Almah' mit seinem Trio und einem kleinen Kam...

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Comrades in distress we were, and it was now that one felt the existence of a brotherhood that establishes itself in circumstances of this kind ⿿ A few of the men are very dejected, and appear to be losing all interest in themselves, their habits and practices not being approved by the majority. In some cases, for the most miserable reward, they cringe to the Germans for the chance of being of some service, others also, despite the fact their ...

When the girl brought my bowl she was in and out through the door like she couldn't move fast enough. And when the lock clicked after her I found something she'd left. A knife. And not one for spreading butter, but a sharp one for slitting throats. Locked in a cell by her stepmother, Snow grows small but she still grows. Even so, she's hardly a match for a world gone wild, where the sun has disappeared behind clouds for good. The night the hu...

Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot. Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, i...

Two sisters await the tidal wave predicted for 1970s Adelaide after Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality. An interstate family drive is complicated by the father's memory of sighting UFOs. Two women drive from Melbourne to Sydney to see the Harbour Bridge before it's finished. An isolated family tries to weather climate change as the Doomsday Clock ticks. Emma Ashmere's stories explore illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebelli...

I still see her sometimes in my sleep. She is walking through the blue and orange lights of the city or in the desert country of red ground, spinifex and oaks. Last night I dreamed she was climbing a green and blue mountain, the kind you see in the tropics, rich and heavy with steam and rain. She is still only a girl in my dreams, but that's how I remember her. In every dream she is walking. In every dream I call out her name. Tania. Ten year...

An expose of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of research data, to disease mongering and promoting drugs that do more harm than good. Authors, Professor Jon Jureidini and Dr Leemon McHenry, made critical contributions to exposing the scientific misconduct in two infamous trials of antidepressants. Ghostwritten publications ...

When Howie, an unassuming, rather clueless kidis zapped by lightning while working on his computer, he absorbs all the information off the interne. His (very) ordinary brain miraculously starts to exhibit extraordinary potential. As Howie struggles to control his new-found power he is faced with all sorts of hilarious predicaments, from contending with mega-mean teachers to being ridiculed by the school braniac, a petite know-it-all determined...

This book is based on an exchange of letters between Jane Sinclair's parents Jean Langley, artist, and John Sinclair, music critic 1960-62, when the author was five and her mother followed her lover, Arthur Boyd, to London, and took her daughter with her. Set in England and Australia, at a time when their friends John and Sunday Reed were high-profile arts patrons at their property Heide, a period of sexual liberation and a flowering of the ar...

When Carly Mills goes to Melbourne with the school choir, she gets more than she bargained for: a trip back in time and a chance meeting with a mischievous little girl who might just grow up to be the world famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. If Carly is to help the little girl achieve her dream, she will have to endure Nellie's practical jokes, an angry headmaster, and her father's belief that opera is not a fit career for a lady. Not to ...

Still a loser, Pig, ' Stormin says. 'Guess you haven't learnt much over summer.' 'Oh, I don't know, ' I reply, bloody, bowed and hating his guts. 'I can read.' Which is when he kicks me. I really should learn to keep my stupid mouth shut. Seeing Stormin thoroughly occupied, the rest of Year 9 drift back, although they do wait till he's left before resuming their commentary. 'Loser.' 'Coward.' 'Hopeless.' 'Pussy.' 'Pig.' That's me: Morgan Patri...

Shattered lives? Fractured friendships? Finding strength, compassion and redemption. Close friends cycle to escape the pressures of big city living. A vehicle cuts them down from behind, causing serious injury. Is this road rage, car versus bike? Or is it a copycat terrorist attack? Could road rage be spreading like a virus? We discover how they became friends, as each opens up with personal stories. As they come to grips with their shatter...