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Brian DeLeeuw

    Brian DeLeeuw je redaktor časopisu Tin House a přispěvatel na webové stránce ThisRecording.com. Po absolvování Princetonské univerzity a magisterského studia na The New School nyní žije v New Yorku, kde se narodil a vyrůstal.

    Racing Rogues
    Cardiff Then & Now
    Butetown and Cardiff Docks
    Central Cardiff
    The Dismantling
    In This Way I Was Saved
    • In This Way I Was Saved

      • 293 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení
      3,1(18)Ohodnotit

      I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided my time. Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but he has one friend, his best friend - Daniel - whom he met in the playground on the day his parents finalised their divorce. Only Luke can see Daniel. They play games together, and Daniel watches over Luke; he is there when he first wakes up and there when he goes to sleep. Daniel's first memory is of Luke calling his name in the playground. Daniel is not an ordinary child. Luke's mother spends more and more time in her room, haunted by family memories. She takes Luke and Daniel from New York to a deserted beach town, as winter sets in. Daniel is changing. He feels faint, weightless. Luke seems forgetful of him. Time passes. Luke and Daniel have not seen one another for a long time. Until, one night, Daniel suddenly finds himself standing in Luke's bedroom, woken by the sound of breaking glass. He does not know how much time he has; but he knows how he can be saved.

      In This Way I Was Saved
    • The Dismantling

      • 272 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      3,2(227)Ohodnotit

      How much of yourself are you willing to sell?At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose time on the transplant list is running out.Tasked with finding a donor for Lenny Pellegrini, a severely depressed ex-NFL player who’s been drinking himself to death, Simon’s luck appears to change when he’s contacted by Maria Campos, a young woman desperate for cash whose liver happens to be the perfect match.The transplant goes according to plan . . . until soon afterward, when Maria disappears and Lenny makes a cruel and destructive decision. As Simon’s world becomes increasingly dangerous, he learns of an unspeakable secret from Maria’s past and must decide, against his better moral judgment, that the only way he’ll survive is to trust her.Chilling and fast-paced,  The Dismantling  questions the meaning of atonement and asks how you can reconcile the person you once were—and the person you want to be—with the person you are today.

      The Dismantling
    • Butetown and Cardiff Docks

      • 128 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení

      This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

      Butetown and Cardiff Docks
    • Looking at the past and present of Cardiff through the use of pictures and informative captions.

      Cardiff Then & Now
    • In The Scams, Scandals and Gambles of Horseracing in Wales, Brian Lee, the veteran and highly regarded Welsh racing correspondent has, for the first time, compiled a comprehensive collection of true stories that reveals Welsh racing's most notorious crooks, loveable rouges and most infamous scams.

      Racing Rogues