Fletcher: 1215 books

Eine stimmungsvoll geschmückte Kirche. Eine erwartungsvolle Festgemeinde. Der Bräutigam und sein Trauzeuge im schicken Anzug am Altar. Und eine wunderhübsche Braut, die auf eben jenen Altar zuschreitet und sich mit jeder Sekunde dringender fragt: Ist mein Auserwählter wirklich der Richtige? Oder...

The Artist and the Trinity aims to create a Christian theology of work based on Dorothy L. Sayers' analogy of the Trinity to the process of artistic creation. Sayers' analogy gives us an account of the person that does not collapse into the atomism of the individual of modern liberal capitalism, but...

Five people, representing three generations, meet to share some of their deepest thoughts. Luc and Don get together after thirty years, with their one-time mentor, Jay, and are later joined by Luc's daughter and her friend Ian. Their dialogues, patterned roughly after Plato, start with Jay asking...

In Dialogues with Jen: On Issues of Daily Living, five friends, representing three generations, get together to discuss contemporary topics that touch their lives. The six dialogues unfold dramatically, reflecting situations of the participants, who share personal insights, sometimes surprisingly....

De bewoners van het Schotse eiland Parla zijn nog altijd in diepe rouw over het verlies van een van hen als er op een dag een man meer dood dan levend aanspoelt bij de rotsen van Sye. Is het Tom, de echtgenoot van Maggie die vier jaar geleden in de golven verdween toen hij een jongen redde van de...

Ruby is a active, reflective, object-oriented, all-around software design lingo. It was developed and elaborated in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto in Japan.Ruby embodies structure motivated by Perl with Smalltalk-like attributes and was as well affected by Eiffel and Lisp. It aids numerous...

In Ticklers, Renton Tenting relives the excitement of his unplanned mission by joining a band of professional adventurers who make their living by providing security services throughout the universe, but he discovers that all is not well within this elite force and there is something very wrong...

Renton Tenting is the protagonist of Dumpiter and the ultimate unlikely hero – who, early into the story, is plucked from a carefully planned life and cast into a challenging and disturbing adventure, played out against a backdrop of space travel and distant worlds. In the future, mankind has populated...

Excerpt: "Look here! Rothwell said. You'd better go and make inquiry at Northborough. See if you can track him. Something must be wrong -- perhaps seriously wrong. You don't quite understand, do you, Mr. Copplestone? he went on, giving the younger man a sharp glance. You see, we know Mr. Oliver...

Excerpt: "Every Monday morning, when the clock of the old parish church in Scarnham Market-Place struck eight, Wallington Neale asked himself why on earth he had chosen to be a bank clerk. On all the other mornings of the week this question never occurred to him: on Sunday he never allowed...

A Western tale of a greedy land baron who, after the war, tries to force small ranch owners to sell their ranches and cattle to him at below market prices when land and cattle prices are depressed right after the Civil War. Clint, an officer in the Union army, returns from the war and finds out about...

“Another gripping novel from Classic Detective Presents”… When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then it's found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond...

1947. The earth is invaded by aliens, turning humans into solid rock statues. Can humankind survive this menace?

John Horbury, manager of Chestermarke's bank, in the old-world English village of Scarnham, vanishes overnight. The task of finding him taxes the skill of one of Scotland Yard's best men.