Bøger af Richard Todd

When Max broke his back he thought that his life was as good as over, but when he met Earl he realised that perhaps that wasn't so. Earl's head injury might have left him with trouble in working out the details of exactly what was happening, but Max was after his muscle, not his brains. Meanwhile in downtown Central City trouble is brewing. The turf war between the Jacksons and the Guzmans is hotting up and when Max and Earl stumble into the middle of it all Max sees an opportunity for revenge, but Max's getting even might just be the spark that could cause the whole place to explode. "As dark as a moonless midnight and hard as a brick to the face... Noir fans take note" - Eric Beetner on "Simple Acts of Kindness"

A compelling story of an addict's valiant attempt to do the difficult and challenging work to move into sustained recovery. Sitting Still sheds light on one of the country's most successful alcohol and drug treat programs, displaying in gripping detail why it consistently maintains such a high rate of recovery for its participants. Meet some of the typical residents in this long-term treatment program and discover why some of them succeed while others fail.

There have been many significant changes over the past two decades in the consumption of serious literary fiction in Britain in the light of the prizes given. As well as a study of these changes, this book explains how these prizes work, and analyzes who is reading and who is buying and how much.

This publication presents a selection of the papers and posters thatwere presented at the SJUSK 2013 conference, held at Copenhagen Business School in March 2013 (www.cphspeech2013.dk). It describes spoken language phenomena from many different languages, including Modern Irish, Russian, Hungarian, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and British English. It is our hope that the papers may contribute to the reader's understanding of the challenging diversity of speech in action.