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In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance. It is Vance, sage and charismatic, who will ultimately guide the match, for he holds the secret of the Authentic Swing. And he alone can show his protege the way back to glory. Written in the spirit of Gold in the Kingdom and The Natural, The Legend of Bagger Vance reveals the true nature of the game in a story that is unforgettable.
Draairivier, Engela Ovies se debuutroman, is ’n deernisvolle verhaal oor familie, vriendskap, liefde en vergifnis.
Orphan sisters chase monsters of urban legend in Bloemfontein. At a busy taxi rank, a woman kills a man with her shoe. A genomicist is accused of playing God when she creates a fatherless child. Intruders is a collection that explores how it feels not to belong. These are stories of unremarkable people thrust into extraordinary situations by events beyond their control. With a unique and memorable touch, Mohale Mashigo explores the everyday ills we live with and wrestle constantly, all the while allowing hidden energies to emerge and play out their unforeseen consequences. Intruders is speculative fiction at its best.
From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author comes the latest instalment in the epic multimillion-selling series, The Seven Sisters. This is the book that fans around the world have been waiting for. The six D’Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue – an image of a star-shaped emerald ring. The search to find the missing sister will take them across the globe – from New Zealand to Canada, England, France and Ireland – uniting them all in their mission to complete their family at last. In doing so, they will slowly unearth a story of love, strength and sacrifice that began almost one hundred years ago, as other brave young women risk everything to change the world around them.
When Thomas Barnardo arrived in East London in 1866, his plan was to train at the London Hospital before sailing to China to work as a missionary. The conditions he found in the East End stopped him in his tracks. The unemployment, poverty, overcrowding, drinking and disease were bad enough, but seeing thousands of half-starved children living on the street broke his heart. Inside a year Dr Barnardo had oppened the ragged-school Hope Place and by 1870 the first of his homes was in operation.
Great Expectations was first published as a weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1860 - August 1861. Its first appearance in volume form was as three-volume novel, without illustrations, in July 1861. A one-volume edition, the next year, preceded its inclusion in the collected editions of Dickens's lifetime. The three-volume 1861 edition is the basis of the present text: variant readings, including those in manuscript and extant proofs, are recorded in the textual apparatus, providing an unusually rich source of information on Dickens's methods of composition. The Introduction traces this process of composition and draws attention to the two unperformed dramatic adaptations: the reading version and the 1861 play version, made as a safeguard of copyright. Appendices include the original ending, the author's notes, and two textual examinations, one of the five so-called `editions' of 1861, the other a comparison of the one-volume 1862 edition with the 1864 Library edition.
Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship
from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother
in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Cloud’s, it’s clear to Dr Larch,
the physician and director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child
not only knows she’s Jewish, but she’s familiar with the biblical Queen
Esther she was named for. Dr Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a
Jewish family to adopt Esther; he doubts he’ll find any family to adopt
her.
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry.
Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr.
Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Duncan Weston, eienaar van Soeterwijn, voel of hy uit homself kan stap.
Hoe kan ’n mens alles hê en tog voel asof jy niks het
nie? ’n Vakansie weg van sy alledaagse roetine is wat hy
nodig het. In Rome wag Isabel Haasen hom by die lughawe in. Ondanks
haar kil houding voel Duncan intuïtief tuis in haar geselskap, maar
daar is iets wat sy wegsteek . . .
Die verteller in Heks vind haar toevlug in sprokies en mites.
Terwyl die wêreld die oorlog in Oekraïne op TV-skerms gadeslaan,
verdiep sy haar in die mitologie van dié land – ook as skans teen die
toenemende vyandelikheid in haar huwelik.
Is jy orraait, Elizabeth? is ’n verhaal oor drie vroue wat dekades lank
bevriend is en elkeen met hulle eie persoonlike probleme en
gesinskwessies worstel. Dit is ’n roman wat diep menslike ervarings en
die kompleksiteit van interpersoonlike verhoudings ondersoek.
An intimate glimpse into diverse experiences, from our anxious present
to terrifying futures of climate wreckage to the brutalities of our
colonial past. These stories challenge our preconceived ideas around
queerness, mental health, family, society and loss. The Lucky Ones
champions love, kindness and connection against all odds. It is a
dazzling, poignant collection of stories that brims with unforgettable
characters and heart.
'n Jong man op pad na 'n klooster in Frankryk word deur sy familie
aangeraai om eers 'n verlangse oom in Parys op te soek. Adelbert van
Breda was 'n senior priester in die Katolieke Kerk wat dekades gelede
Parys toe getrek en hom tot die Katolisisme bekeer het. |
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