Современная проза на английском

1984: Книга для чтения на английском языке
Роман 1984 вершина творчества Джорджа Оруэлла. В нем показано общество, в котором люди четко разделены на классы: верхний, привилегированный, партийная верхушка; средний, не имеющий права ни на что, находящийся под постоянным прицелом телекамер и подслушивающих устройств, лишенный общения и эмоций, делающий механическую работу по регулярному переписыванию истории, обделенный во всем; низший как бы пролетариат. В этом обществе искореняется любая мысль; человекживет в страхе наказания, которое неизбежно последует за любую провинность. Такое общество уничтожает в человеке все человеческое. Чтобы человек меньше думал, примитивизируется язык, переписываются книги и газеты, поощряется доносительство, предательство даже своих близких. Не остается ничего святого и, соответственно, ничего, для чего хотелось бы жить. Этот роман захватывающее, но страшное повествование о том, что могло бы произойти и в СССР времен Сталина, если бы история повернулась иначе. В книге приводится неадаптированный текст романа, снабженный комментариями и словарем.

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Серия: Modern Prose
Год: 2017
Производитель: КАРО
Артикул: 2252265
ISBN: 9785992512342
Автор: Оруэлл Джордж
Страницы: 384

99 Nights in Logar
Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice.Me and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of Logar, together, for the first time, hoping to get Budabash back home before nightfall.It is 2005 in Logar, Afghanistan, and twelve-year-old Marwand has returned from America with his family for the summer. He loses the tip of his finger to the village dog, Budabash, who then escapes. Marwand s quest to find Budabash, over 99 nights, begins.The resulting search is an exuberantly told adventure, one that takes Marwand and his cousins across Logar, through mazes, into floods and unexpected confrontations with American soldiers. Moving between celebrations and tragedies, Marwand must confront family secrets and his own identity as he returns to a home he s missed for six years. Deeply humorous and surprisingly tender, 99 Nights in Logar is a vibrant exploration of the power of stories - the ones we tell each other, and the ones we find ourselves in.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2825889
ISBN: 9781408898444
Страницы: 278

A Book of American Martyrs (м) Oates
Two families.Two faces of America.One violent crime that will bitterly divide them and yet bind them together forever.

Серия: Пазлы
Год: 2017
Производитель: 4th Estate
Артикул: 2623833
ISBN: 9780008221713

A Boy of Good Breeding
Knute is a twenty-four-year-old single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Meanwhile, Hosea Funk, a friend of Tom's and the mayor of Algren has a lot on his mind. The prime minister has promised to pay a visit to whichever town in Canada has the smallest population. Algren has held this position for some time but recent baby booms and returning families, like Knute, threaten to tip Algren over the magic 1500.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Faber & Faber
Артикул: 2705196
ISBN: 9780571341016
Автор: Тэйвз Мириам
Страницы: 237

A Captain's Duty
Richard Phillips knew of the dangers. He'd said as much in an email to his wife. And yet 8 April 2009 began as just another ordinary day for the fifty-three-year-old captain of the Maersk Alabama, the US-flagged cargo ship carrying food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program. Ordinary that is until - some two hundred miles off the Horn of Africa - Somali pirates, armed with AK47s, attacked and boarded the freighter. . ...But the pirates didn't expect the crew to fight back. And they didn't plan on the captain offering himself as a hostage in place of his ship and crew. And ultimately they didn't bargain on the plain-talking, tough-as-nails officer they took as their prisoner. What followed was a tense five-day stand-off and an escalating battle of wills that would end in a daring and deadly high-seas rescue...Captain Phillips' astonishing story is of an ordinary man who did what he saw as his duty, and in so doing became a hero.

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Год: 2013
Производитель: Bantam Books
Артикул: 2397873
ISBN: 9780857502469
Страницы: 286

A Clockwork Orange = Заводной апельсин. Уровень В1
В основе сюжета история, рассказанная Алексом подростком, сколотившим банду ровесников, промышляющую разбоем и насилием. Отбывая наказание за убийство, он становится участником эксперимента, который должен вылечить жестокого подростка. Финал романа остаётся открытым. Алекс уверен, что молодёжь всегда будет бунтовать и каждое поколение будет повторять один и тот же сценарий. В обществе нет настоящей дружбы, совести, чести. Единственный инструмент, который безотказно действует, жестокость.Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень B1.

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Серия: MovieBook
Год: 2024
Производитель: Антология
Артикул: 3036528
ISBN: 9785604981184
Автор: Бёрджесс Энтони
Страницы: 192

A Drink Before The War
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents.But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government.With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear. Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love...............................................

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Год: 1995
Производитель: Bantam Books
Артикул: 2581207
ISBN: 9780553818222
Автор: Lehane Dennis
Страницы: 334

A God in Every Stone
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again..

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2705170
ISBN: 9781526607782
Автор: Шамси Камила
Страницы: 392

A Good Neighbourhood
In Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighbourhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenage daughter.With little in common except a property line, these two very different families quickly find themselves at odds over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard.But as they fight, they fail to notice that there is a romance blossoming between their two teenagers. A romance that will challenge the carefully constructed concepts of class and race in this small community. A romance that might cause everything to shatter...Praise for A Good Neighbourhood...

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 2812352
ISBN: 9781472269355
Страницы: 314

A Legacy of Spies (м) leCarre
Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good.
Год: 2018
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2675708
ISBN: 9780241981610
Автор: Ле Карре Джон

A Life of Adventure and Delight
In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delightis a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection..

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Faber & Faber
Артикул: 2696941
ISBN: 9780571326327
Страницы: 202

A Long Way From Home
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country's relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way..
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2696944
ISBN: 9780571338863
Автор: Carey Peter

A Street Cat Named Bob
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts.........................................................................
Год: 2013
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 2340454
ISBN: 9781444737110
Автор: Боуэн Джеймс

A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali
In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 2675274
ISBN: 9781782118886
Страницы: 259

A Swift Pure Cry
After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, charming, eloquent and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 2682607
ISBN: 9780241331200
Автор: Dowd Siobhan
Страницы: 342

A night to remember
On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world`s largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1, 500 lives. The author`s bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the upstairs/downstairs divide.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Penguin)
Год: 2023
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 3027502
ISBN: 9780141399690
Автор: Lord Walter
Страницы: 215

Abyss and Other Stories
As the young Zinaida and her sweetheart, the student Nemovetsky, stroll through the idyllic Russian countryside, their memories, dreams and thoughts about life and the future mingle in the evening breeze. But when night falls, they hasten to retrace their steps back to town through a small wood, where they are accosted by three threatening drunkards, who knock Nemovetsky unconscious and startto chase the girl through the underwood. When the young student comes round, he is confronted with the horror of what has just happened.Haunting, disquieting, shocking, `The Abyss' - one of the most powerful short stories ever written - is accompanied in this volume by fifteen other stories, never translated into English before by Andreyev, including `Silence', `The Thief' and `Lazarus, some of them never translated before into English. Together, they provide a clear account of the lasting legacy of Russia's foremost man of letters of the early twentieth century.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Macmillan
Артикул: 2934418
ISBN: 9781847497239
Страницы: 314

After
Book One of the After series the Internet sensation with millions of readers.Tessa didn t plan on meeting H. during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be the same.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Simon & Shuster)
Год: 2023
Производитель: Simon and Schuster Ltd.
Артикул: 3027503
ISBN: 9781501100192
Автор: Тодд Анна
Страницы: 584

Akin
A retired New York professor s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother s wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael s ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 2826463
ISBN: 9781529019988
Автор: Донохью Эмма
Страницы: 335

Albert Einstein Speaking
From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speakingbegins with the meeting of two very different minds - the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. Riotous, charming and tender, R.J. Gadney's novel spans almost a century and shines a light on the man behind the myth.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 2751438
ISBN: 9781786890498
Автор: Gadney R.J
Страницы: 260

All That's Left to Tell
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine comes to visit him. At first, her questions are mercenary: who will pay for his release? But when Marc can offer no name, she asks him an even more difficult question: why didn't he go home for his daughter's funeral?So begins a strange and yet comforting nightly ritual. Josephine tells Marc stories about what might have happened had Claire not been murdered. In turn, Marc begins to tell his own, in which his daughter is still alive. Soon, neither Marc nor Josephine are sure which stories are true and which are imagined, or even if it matters. And as they unfold on a journey across America, into the past, and into a future that may never come father and daughter start to find their way toward understanding each other once again.Lyrical, seductive and utterly compelling, Daniel Lowe's debut novel All That's Left To Tell is a story of second chances and the stories we tell to make sense of ourselves.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 2653200
ISBN: 9781509810574
Страницы: 291

All the Money in the World
When sixteen-year-old Paul Getty was kidnapped, the news exploded worldwide. But his grandfather, J. Paul Getty, the richest living American, refused to pay the ransom, oblivious to his sufferings. And as the days dragged painfully on, it was Paul s distraught but determined mother Gail who was left to negotiate with his captors...In this full biography of the Getty family, John Pearson traces the creation of their phenomenal wealth and the ways in which it has touched and tainted the lives of various generations. Packed with colourful characters, bitter feuds and unexpected turns, it is a riveting insight into the lives of the super-rich.

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Год: 2017
Артикул: 2634083
ISBN: 9780008281533
Страницы: 352

All the bright places
Захватывающая и красивая история о девочке, которая учится жить у мальчика, которого тянет к смерти. Теодор Финч пытается искать в мире хорошие вещи, даже если иногда ему не всегда удается их найти. Вайолет Марки существует ради будущего, считая дни до того, как она сможет сбежать из своего городка в Индиане и его болезненных воспоминаний о своей сестре. Когда они встречаются на выступе башни, то, что могло бы стать их концом, превращается в их начало. Только с Вайолет Финч может по-настоящему быть самим собой - забавным парнем, который на самом деле хочет испытывать радость в жизни. И когда Вайолет с Финчем, она забывает желать, чтобы дни прошли как можно быстрее, и начинает их проживать. Но по мере того, как мир Вайолет растет, мир Финча начинает сжиматься. Он пытается цепляться за свои яркие места, но будет ли этого достаточно на этот раз? Книга на английском языке. A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who's drawn to death.Theodore Finch tries to look for good things in the world, even if sometimes he doesn't always find them.Violet Markey exists for the future, counting the days until she can escape her Indiana town and its painful memories of her sister.When they meet on the ledge of a tower, what might have been their end turns into their beginning.It's only with Violet that Finch can truly be himself - a funny guy who actually wants to experience the joy in life.And when Violet's with Finch, she forgets to wish away the days and starts to live them.But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. He's trying to cling on to his bright places, but will it be enough this time?

Серия: Зарубежная литература (Penguin)
Год: 2015
Производитель: Signet
Артикул: 3035802
ISBN: 9780141357034
Автор: Нивен Дженнифер
Страницы: 424

All the light we cannot see (Anthony Doerr) Весь невидимый нам свет (Энтони Дорр) /Книги на английском языке
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Красивый, потрясающе амбициозный роман о слепой французской девочке и немецком мальчике, чьи пути встречаются в оккупированной Франции, когда они оба пытаются пережить разрушения Второй мировой войны.
Артикул: 3038401
ISBN: 9780008548353

All your perfects
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us-whose writing is emotionally wrenching and utterly original (Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)-delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Grahams perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart.The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Simon & Shuster)
Год: 2022
Производитель: Simon and Schuster Ltd.
Артикул: 3027504
ISBN: 9781398519732
Автор: Гувер Колин

Allegedly (м) Jackson
Mary B. Addison killed a baby.Allegedly. She didn t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn t say.Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn t really home no place where you fear for your life can be considered a home. Home is Ted, who she meets on assignment at a nursing home.There wasn t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she s got Ted and their unborn child to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary must find the voice to fight her past. And her fate lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But who really knows the real Mary?
Год: 2018
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2675331
ISBN: 9780062422651

Amazing Spider-Man Volume 9: Sins Rising / Удивительный Человек-паук. Том 9: Восстание грехов
For months, perhaps years, he has crawled in the shadows, manipulating events from afar. Mysterio and Norman Osborn have both known his chilling presence. Now the demon known as Kindred is finally ready to take his revenge - not on Spider-Man, but on Peter Parker! And he's resurrected one of Spidey's most disturbing foes, the fanatical Sin-Eater, to help him carry out his grand plans! Learn the secret history of the Sin-Eater, as he embarks on a collison course with Spidey that will have you quaking in your seat. Spider-Man's world is about to explode, and this is where the fuse is lit..

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Marvel)
Год: 2020
Производитель: Marvel
Артикул: 3030055
ISBN: 9781302920241
Автор: Спенсер Ник

Amelia II
Henry Fielding (1707 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess. "Amelia" is a sentimental novel of a young couple's struggles against adversity. It tells a story of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. The novel contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intelligence..

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Серия: Original м
Год: 2018
Производитель: RUGRAM
Артикул: 2705880
ISBN: 9785521082605
Автор: Филдинг Хелен
Страницы: 428

American Histories
These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of memory. A re-imagined conversation takes place between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. A man sits on the edge of Williamsburg Bridge, contemplating suicide. The author considers the deaths of his brother, uncle, mother and niece.John Edgar Wideman's fiction challenges the boundaries of the form. Emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating, this is Wideman at his best.

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 2751436
ISBN: 9781786892089
Автор: Wideman John Edgar
Страницы: 226

Amnesty
Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life.One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary, yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities . . .

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 2847519
ISBN: 9781509879052
Автор: Адига Аравинд
Страницы: 256

An Ocean of Minutes
A heartbreaking and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of holding onto the past - and the price of letting it go. Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Within months, Frank is dying. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. And she must leave everything she loves behind, including Frank. All they have is the promise of a future together: they will find each other again in twelve years' time, in Galveston, Texas, where the sea begins. But when something goes wrong and Polly arrives late, Frank is nowhere to be found. Completely alone, Polly must navigate a terrifying new world to find him, and to discover if their love has endured.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Quercus
Артикул: 2747302
ISBN: 9781786487933
Автор: Lim Thea
Страницы: 374

An Orphan in the Snow
LIVERPOOL, 1941Haunted by the death of her sister, June Lavender takes a job at a Dr Barnardo s orphanage. June couldn t save Clara from their father s violence, but perhaps she can help children whose lives have been torn apart by war.A WORLD AT WARWhen June bumps into Flight Lieutenant Murray Andrews on the bombed streets of Liverpool, the attraction is instant. But how can they think of love when war is tearing the world apart?A FIGHT FOR HOPEAs winter closes in, and the war rages on, can June find the strength and courage to make a better life for herself and the children?

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Год: 2017
Артикул: 2634084
ISBN: 9780008238940
Страницы: 410

Ancient Light
Alexander Cleave, an actor who thinks his best days are behind him, remembers his first unlikely affair as a teenage boy in a small town in 1950s Ireland: the illicit meetings in a rundown cottage outside town; assignations in the back of his lover's car on sunny mornings and rain-soaked afternoons. And with these early memories comes something sharper and much darker - the more recent recollection of the actor's own daughter's suicide ten years before.Ancient Light is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid: the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief. It is a dazzling novel, funny, utterly pleasurable and devastatingly moving in the same moment.

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 2751498
ISBN: 9780241986455
Автор: Корнуэлл Бернард
Страницы: 245

Ariadne
Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice.When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind?Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Wilfire
Артикул: 3022148
ISBN: 9781472273901
Автор: Сэйнт Дженнифер
Страницы: 388

Attack on Titan: Junior High 5
Based on Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama--Cover.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Kodansha)
Год: 2018
Производитель: Kodansha Comics
Артикул: 3027507
ISBN: 9781632364104
Автор: Исаяма Хадзимэ

Attack on Тitan Оmnibus (vol. 13-15)
Its never been easier to attack Attack on Titan than with these new, giant-sized 3-in-1 omnibus editions! If youve been waiting for the final anime season to check out the do-or-die shonen adventure that defined a decade, nows your chance. These new books tuck almost 600 pages of manga behind a specially-embossed cover, all in a larger size than the regular version. Includes Vol.13-15 of Attack on Titan. At great cost to the Garrison and the Survey Corps, Commander Erwin has managed to recover Eren from the Titans who tried to carry him off. But during the battle, Eren manifested yet another power he doesnt understand.As Eren and Krista find new enemies, the Survey Corps faces threats from both inside and outside the walls. And what will happen to Ymir, now that she has decided to make herself the Titans prize?

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Kodansha)
Год: 2014
Производитель: Kodansha Comics
Артикул: 3027508
ISBN: 9781646513789
Автор: Исаяма Хадзимэ

Avengers. Vol. 4: War Of The Realms
The war is over. And Earth's Mightiest Heroes are looking to celebrate. That's right - there's a party at Avengers Mountain! But who invited the Squadron Supreme of America? The Challenge of The Ghost Riders! Robbie Reyes wants rid of the flame-headed monster inside him. So it's time to do the common-sense thing: perform an exorcism on his car. Only problem is, Johnny Blaze, the King of Hell, has some plans of his own for the newest Ghost Rider and his Avengers friends. Collecting: Avengers 21-25

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Marvel)
Год: 2019
Производитель: Marvel
Артикул: 3027510
ISBN: 9781302914622
Автор: Аарон Джейсон

Avengers. Vol. 5: Challenge Of The Ghost Riders
The challenge of the Ghost Riders Robbie Reyes wants to finally get rid of the flame-headed monster that lurks inside him. So its time to do the common-sense thing: perform an exorcism on his car. The only problem is, Johnny Blaze, the original Ghost Rider and current king of Hell, has some plans of his own for Robbie and his friends the mighty Avengers Now, its Ghost Rider vs. Ghost Rider in a wild race through the deepest depths of the underworld, while the Avengers must fight for their lives against their own Celestial headquarters - now possessed by a rather shocking, rather murderous hell-damned soul

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Marvel)
Год: 2019
Производитель: Marvel
Артикул: 3027509
ISBN: 9781302920937
Автор: Аарон Джейсон

Bad Monkey
When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys, former police detective - now reluctant restaurant inspector -Andrew Yancy senses that something doesn't add up. Determined to get his badge back, he undertakes an unofficial investigation of his own.Yancy s search for the truth takes him to the Bahamas, where a local man, with the help of a very bad monkey (who allegedly worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is doing everything in his power to prevent a developer from building a new tourist resort on the island, with deadly consequences ...Outrageous, hilarious and addictive, this is the unique Carl Hiaasen at his absolute best. Bad Monkey will have you on the edge of your seat and laughing out loud.

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Год: 2014
Производитель: Не установлено
Артикул: 2872917
ISBN: 9780751543346
Автор: Хайасен Карл
Страницы: 416

Bang
Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun.Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the pain of his past. Because Sebastian knows exactly how to rectify his childhood crime and sanctify his past. It took a gun to get him into this.Now he needs a gun to get out.Unflinching and honest, Bang is as true and as relevant as tomorrow's headlines, the story of one boy and one moment in time that cannot be reclaimed.
Год: 2019
Артикул: 2711290
ISBN: 9780316315517

Based on a True Story
Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L.L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2641718
ISBN: 9781408878842
Страницы: 376

Batman Vol. 3: I Am Bane
Superstar artist David Finch (Wonder Woman) along with bestselling writer Tom King completes his run on the Dark Knight in Batman Vol. 3: I am Bane, featuring the ultimate battle between Batman and his arch-foe, Bane! He is not a joke. He is not a riddle. He is not a bird or a cat or a penguin, not a scarecrow or a plant or a puppet. He is not a fairy tale or a circus act, a broken friend or a regretful mentor. He is no rich boy pretending to be a knight. He is Bane. The Batman invaded his home, scarred his mind and broke his back. Now Bane has returned to Gotham City for a single purpose: break the Batman once and for all. But first, he ll destroy everyone the Dark Knight has ever loved or loathed. The young heroes who ve worn the mantle of Robin. The cops, crime-fighters and vigilantes who make up Batman s army of allies. Even the madmen and monsters that haunt the halls of Arkham Asylum. Batman will need all of their help and more to fend off this unstoppable challenger. Because both Bane and Batman know one thing: only one of them will walk away from their final confrontation unbroken Collects Batman #16-20, #23-24 and stories from Batman Annual #1.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (DC Comics)
Год: 2017
Производитель: DC Comics
Артикул: 3027511
ISBN: 9781401271312
Автор: Кинг Том

Be Frank with Me
Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he's as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don't like brilliant and they hate strange. What Frank longs for - aside from a father - is a friend.Meet Mimi - a reclusive literary legend and mother to Frank. Mimi has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years, keeping her secrets and hiding Frank from a cruel world. Until Alice.Meet Alice - the level-headed young woman charged with looking after Mimi's unusual son. In so doing, Alice discovers what it really means to love someone. And she finds a part of herself she never knew was missing.Funny, poignant and unforgettable, this novel - like Frank - is a one-off creation you'll fall in love with.......
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2617469
ISBN: 9781782399209
Страницы: 294

Beautiful Ruins
In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions thatBeautiful Ruinsanswers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner.

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 2751508
ISBN: 9780241986509
Автор: Walter Jess
Страницы: 337

Bella Poldark
Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham s hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldarks youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a singer is encouraged by her old flame, Christopher Havergal, and by a distinguished French conductor, who has more in mind than Bella s music; of Clowance, the Poldarks widowed daughter, who considers remarriage to one of two rival suitors; and of a murderer who stalks the villages of west Cornwall.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 2826468
ISBN: 9780330463317
Автор: Graham Winston
Страницы: 688

Berserk Volume 10
Comprises research articles primarily resulting from a workshop of US-China Workshop on Analytics for Building-Scale Sustainable Ecosystems. Researchers present their views of bottlenecks in engineering, software and social sciences, forming a nexus of critical issues impeding wider application of net-zero-energy building technology in the context of defining building-scale sustainable ecosystems.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (DARK HORSE)
Год: 2022
Производитель: Dark horse comics,U.S.
Артикул: 3027513
ISBN: 9781593073312
Автор: Миура Кэнтаро

Berserk Volume 6
Provides a blend of the best available evidence based data with a ton of experience-based information from a team of authors who take care of kids with headache all the time. The book includes a CD-Rom showing case studies and references. The video demonstrations show not only a broad spectrum of cases and types of headache, but show an efficient manner for extracting the necessary information.

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Серия: Зарубежная литература (DARK HORSE)
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dark horse comics,U.S.
Артикул: 3027515
ISBN: 9781593072520
Автор: Миура Кэнтаро

Berserk Volume 7
Metaphysics and the theory of knowledge lie at the heart of the Western philosophical tradition, and yet they are notoriously tricky subjects to engage. In this book, Jack Crumley makes those difficult topics intelligible, not only introducing the central issues and arguments but also explaining their broader significance, thereby connecting abstract themes to more familiar concerns.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (DARK HORSE)
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dark horse comics,U.S.
Артикул: 3027516
ISBN: 9781593073282
Автор: Миура Кэнтаро

Berserk Volume 8
For those recovering from an addiction, keeping a journal can be a healing experience-yet can also be a trip into uncharted territory. This combined workbook and journal provides a gentle introduction to the healing power of journaling. You`ll discover how to play with words, write through anxiety, and discover your writer`s memory-even if the only thing you`ve ever written is an e-mail.

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Серия: Зарубежная литература (DARK HORSE)
Год: 2017
Артикул: 3027517
ISBN: 9781593073299
Автор: Миура Кэнтаро

Berserk Volume 9
Griffith, charismatic leader of the elite mercenary Band of the Hawk, has seen better days. His fearless champion, Guts, has left the Band, defeating Griffith in personal combat as his ticket out. With his judgment clouded by this unthinkable humiliation, Griffith eases his pain in the arms of the daughter of Midland s king. But the King doesn t take kindly to an employee picking the royal flowers, and the next stop for Griffith is the dungeon and the torture rack Without Griffith and Guts, the Hawks become easy prey for Midland s army, and the AWOL Guts may be the only answer to the Hawks and Griffith s lethal problems.

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Серия: Зарубежная литература (DARK HORSE)
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dark horse comics,U.S.
Артикул: 3027518
ISBN: 9781593073305
Автор: Миура Кэнтаро

Between Two Evils
As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village.Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one?Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle-blower - or an instigator?As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr Ainsworths last days, they uncover yet more secrets and more suspects. But this isnt the only case thats demanding their attention - a violent criminal has been released on a technicality and the police force know he will strike again: the only question is who will be his first victim...

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Raven books
Артикул: 2825897
ISBN: 9781408886410
Страницы: 471

Big Little Lies
The number one bestseller Big Little Lies is now a HBO series starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Alexander Skarsgard and Shailene Woodey ** 'Let me ask you a question. Would you like a series that has everything? Good. Because it is, emphatically, HERE' The Guardian 'Depth, class and a sense of humour' The Times 'Artful and arch, a compelling and sad satire' Vanity Fair Perfect family, perfect house, perfect life; Jane, Madeline and Celeste have it all ...or do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control. From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband's Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. Jane hasn't lived anywhere for longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic coastal town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane feels as if she finally belongs. She finds friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste, two women with seemingly perfect lives - and their own secrets.But at the start of a new term, an incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground, causing a rift between them and other parents. Minor at first but escalating fast, until the whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful, and the truths blur into lies. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder ...'Brilliant, stand-out, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express 'A nuanced psychological study of the elements of motherly and matrimonial behaviour' The Sunday Times 'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense page-turning story ...a great read' Mail on Sunday 'Staggeringly brilliant ...literally unputdownable' Sophie Hannah 'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror 'Tolls a warning bell about the big little lies we tell to survive' Washington Post 'A fantastically nimble writer, so sure-footed that the book leaps between dark and light seamlessly' Entertainment Weekly

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Год: 2014
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 2586473
ISBN: 9780399587207
Автор: Moriarty Liane
Страницы: 482

Black Beauty. His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse
30 March 1820 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty.Anna Sewell was born on 30 March 1820 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793 1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 1884) was a successful author of children's books. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip and was largely educated at home.When she was twelve, the family moved to Stoke Newington where she attended school for the first time.Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school and severely injured her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, in the hope that the climate there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, for the rest of her life she could not stand without a crutch or walk for any length of time. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals.

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Серия: Palmyra Classics
Год: 2024
Производитель: RUGRAM_Пальмира
Артикул: 3033249
ISBN: 9785517107503
Автор: Sewell Anna
Страницы: 191

Blackbird
Olivia disappeared the night the blackbird died. It was New Years Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before fourteen year old Alex McCarthys sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister, within the previously safe walls of their subarctic Orkney village, Alex knows that dishevelled, sometimes intoxicated Detective Inspector Birkens is her best shot. Yet as they uncover the secrets behind Olivias last night, Alex starts to find things she may be better off never knowing...

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Год: 2017
Артикул: 2634081
ISBN: 9780008184889
Страницы: 288

Boon, The Mind of The Race, The Wild Asses of The Devil, and The Last Trump
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "Boon" is a work of literary satire. It is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book, but here Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear that of humanity's collective consciousness.

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Серия: Original м
Год: 2018
Производитель: RUGRAM
Артикул: 2705884
ISBN: 9785521082469
Автор: Уэллс Герберт Джордж

Bowlaway
Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford, Massachusetts - ever since she was discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery with nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person. She has no past to speak of, and her mysterious origin scandalises the townspeople, as does her choice to marry and start a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her.But Bertha is plucky and entrepreneurial, and the bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford s most defining landmark. As she changes the town forever, her singular spirit resonating through every board and brick and bone, an epic family saga unfolds, set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage Books
Артикул: 2811972
ISBN: 9780099526940
Автор: МакКракен Элизабет
Страницы: 374

Bright, Precious Days
It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes an unexpected reappearance..

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Год: 2017
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2612690
ISBN: 9781408876558
Автор: Макинерни Джей
Страницы: 397

Broken Verses
Fourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani refuses to believe she is dead and still dreams of her glorious return. Now grown up and living in Karachi, Aasmaani receives what could be the longed-for proof that her mother is still alive. As she comes closer to the truth she is also irresistibly drawn to Ed, her ally and sparring partner, and the only person who can understand the profound hurt - and the profound love - that drives her..
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2705166
ISBN: 9781526607799
Автор: Шамси Камила

Buddha Da
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first tells his family that he's taking up meditation at the Buddhist Centre in town, no one takes him seriously. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in his search for the spiritual his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz, and cracks begin to form in their previously happy family.With grace, humour and humility Anne Donovan's beloved debut tells the story of one man's search for a higher power. But in his search for meaning, Jimmy might be about to lose the thing that matters most..

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 2762185
ISBN: 9781786894007
Автор: Donovan Anne
Страницы: 330

Burning Midnight
Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn't pay much - Alex Holliday's stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers - but it helps him and his mum make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-coloured spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at maths, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement - and the more expensive the sphere. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. What they find will change more than just their lives . . . Because the entire world fights over spheres, but no one knows why they're here or what their powers are . . . until now..

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Год: 2016
Артикул: 2674913
ISBN: 9781509803569
Страницы: 308

Calming the storm
This book represents an author's collection. Touching, sad, and faith-filled poetry will help the readers to think deep over eternal, joyful, and beautiful matters. The people who came to God became the prototype characters of the poetry. They live, rejoice, suffer, and still remain human. The rhyme of the verses is correct, well-adjusted, thus reading is not only bringing pleasure, but also makes one think of many things: about life and death, good and evil, the faith and human values.

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Серия: Лондонская премия представляет писателя
Год: 2020
Производитель: Интернациональный Союз писателей
Артикул: 2785660
ISBN: 9785001532422
Автор: Штельман Олег
Страницы: 136

Can You Tolerate This?
InCan You Tolerate This?Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years, coming of age in a small town in the faraway yet familiar New Zealand, yearning for a larger and more creative life. As Young's perspective expands, a series of historical portraits - a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a French postman who built a stone fortress by hand, a generation of Japanese shut-ins - strike unexpected personal harmonies, as an unselfconscious childhood gives way to painful shyness in adolescence. As we watch Young fall in and out of love, undertake intense physical exercise that masks something deeper, and gradually find herself through her writing, a highly particular psyche comes into view: curious, tender and exacting in her observations of herself and the world around her.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2760541
ISBN: 9781526600394
Автор: Янг Эшли
Страницы: 248

Carnivalesque
To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn't.Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out rejoins his parents - leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks.And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their Irish coastal town..

Обложка: Мягкий переплёт

Год: 2017
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2653451
ISBN: 9781408881354
Страницы: 282

Cartes Postales from Greece (м) Hislop
Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to someone Ellie does not know, each signed with an initial: A.These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her. She decides she must see this country for herself.On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture, but also of a desire to live life to the full once more..
Год: 2016
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2612678
ISBN: 9781472241573
Автор: Хислоп Виктория
Страницы: 438

Casual Vacancy
A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Little, Brown Books
Артикул: 2382039
ISBN: 9780751552867
Автор: Роулинг Джоан Кэтлин

Checking Out
As one of the world s most established industries, the hotel sector has remained relatively unchanged and unchallenged for decades. Yet traditional hotels have recently come under increasing pressure on two major fronts: from disruptors in the sharing economy such as Airbnb, and by a rising wave of modern consumers who have become re-educated by social media and hotel comparison websites. Can this traditionally slow-moving sector reinvent itself or will it become increasingly marginalized? Is it time for traditional hotels to check out?Increasing numbers of hoteliers believe that traditional hotels are on the brink of a resurgence in popularity. Global hotel chains are catching up to modern trends - adding technologized curation and personalisation to their offerings. In Checking Out, Katherine Doggrell interviews key figures in the hotel industry and draws upon various case studies to explore the ways in which this traditionalist industry can remain relevant in the 21st century. The hotel "experience" has been redefined, as guests now value fast Wi-Fi and mobile check-ins over room service and mini-fridges.Checking Out is an engaging investigation into the unprecedented challenges that face the hotel sector in the digital era and the strategies that are being employed by its leaders and innovators.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 2825912
ISBN: 9781472968722
Страницы: 215

Chernobyl Prayer
A Chronicle of the Future.The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015. A new translation based on the revised text. On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget.

Серия: Modern Classics м
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2533587
ISBN: 9780241270530
Автор: Алексиевич Светлана Александровна

Chocolat
"Шоколад" - отличное средство для борьбы с осенней хандрой. Теплая, добрая, вселяющая надежду книга, где каждая страница пропитана запахом ванили и корицы. Читать ее - все равно что закутаться в плед и, потягивая горячий шоколад, наблюдать, как за окном идет дождь Что может расшевелить унылую жизнь маленького городка, где изо дня в день все идет по накатанной, и единственное развлечение - воскресная служба в церкви? Конечно, магия шоколада! И женщина, которая принесла с собой новые вкусы, запахи и надежды, и про которую поговаривают, что она колдунья. Но она просто любит жизнь и делает счастливыми всех вокруг.Текст романа на языке оригинала печатается с незначительными сокращениями и снабжен комментариями и словарем.

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Серия: Love story
Год: 2024
Производитель: КАРО
Артикул: 3027479
ISBN: 9785992516982
Автор: Харрис Джоанн
Страницы: 352

Circling the Sun, McLain, Paula
Paula McLain.Format Paperback | 432 pages.Dimensions 126 x 198mm.Publication date 14 Jul 2016.Publisher Little, Brown Book Group.Imprint Virago Press Ltd.Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom.Language English

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Год: 2017
Производитель: Little, Brown Books
Артикул: 2557930
ISBN: 9781844088300
Автор: McLain Paula

Class Trip
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYLittle Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination the child of an overbearing father. So, two weeks away on the class trip is already enough to fill him with dread. But when a child goes missing, Nicolas mind turns to gruesome possibilities, impelling him to take up the role of detective and edge closer to a truth more shocking than Nicolas worst fears. Translated by Linda Coverdale There are few great writers in France today, and Emmanuel Carrre is one of them Paris ReviewElegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage Books
Артикул: 2826705
ISBN: 9781784876159
Автор: Каррер Эммануэль
Страницы: 150

Cleopatra hunting
Я испорченная цивилизацией девушка, и здесь, в пустыне, мне скучно. Как послушный медицинский работник, усердно исполняю свой долг, потому что дала клятву Гиппократа и подписку секретному ведомству, которое обеспечило меня льготами на учебу в престижном учебном заведении ..Постепенно девушка втягивается в дурные компании, потому что любит развлечения, дорогие вещи и украшения. И скатывается в пучину, что заканчивается для нее трагически. Она навсегда остается в розовых песках безбрежной пустыни.

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Серия: Библиотека премии Набокова
Год: 2019
Производитель: Интернациональный Союз писателей
Артикул: 2748519
ISBN: 9785907042612
Автор: Изотов Анатолий Александрович
Страницы: 114

Cloud Atlas = Облачный атлас. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Intermediate
Облачный атлас : книга для чтения на английском языке. Нотариус, спасающий чернокожего раба от гибели, молодой музыкант, создающий лучшее произведение своей жизни, журналистка, ведущая опасное расследование, пожилой издатель, хитростью упрятанный в дом престарелых, клон, борющийся за свободу своих собратьев, дикарь-пастух, встретившийся с последними представителями цивилизованного сообщества. Разные страны, разные эпохи, однако читателю почему-то не даёт покоя ощущение дежавю. Дело в том, что шесть причудливо переплетающихся судеб - это история одной души, приходящей в этот мир снова и снова, чтобы исправить ошибки и изменить жизнь к лучшему.Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate.

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Серия: Abridged Bestseller
Год: 2018
Производитель: Антология
Артикул: 2643653
ISBN: 9785604057025
Автор: Митчелл Дэвид
Страницы: 224

Cold, Cold Bones
It all starts when Dr Temperance Brennan finds a box on her porch. Inside is a fresh human eyeball with GPS coordinates etched into it. They lead her to a macabre discovery in a Benedictine Monaste...

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Simon & Shuster)
Год: 2023
Производитель: Simon & Schuster
Артикул: 3027519
ISBN: 9781398524293
Автор: Райх Кэти
Страницы: 340

Confess / Признайся
At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.

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Год: 2015
Производитель: Simon & Schuster
Артикул: 2984407
ISBN: 9781471148590
Автор: Гувер Колин
Страницы: 308

Conrad & Eleanor
When Conrad fails to return home from a science conference, Eleanor guesses he may at last be reacting to her infidelity. Or has he finally tired of his stagnating job in transplant research? Eleanor's own scientific career has forged ahead, while Conrad played main carer to their children. The four children, now adult, fear for their father but seem to have little sympathy for their tough ambitious mother.Meanwhile, a long way from home, Conrad is alone, scared and on the run..
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2617526
ISBN: 9781782397939
Автор: Rogers James

Correction
After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfred s condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas.Bringing the old world of civic virtue and sexual inhibition into violent collision with the era of hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare and globalised greed, The Corrections confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of the American soul..
Год: 2011
Производитель: Harper Collins Publishers
Артикул: 2589698
ISBN: 9780007232444
Автор: Franzen Jonathan

Counting by 7s
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.

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Серия: Зарубежная литература (Bonnier)
Год: 2014
Производитель: Piccadilly Press
Артикул: 3027520
ISBN: 9781848123823
Автор: Слоун Холли Голдберг
Страницы: 354

Cross Fire
In the stunning follow-up to Exo, Earth s century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan Reyes tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the home planet: withdraw. Earth has proven too costly and unstable to maintain as a colony, so the aliens, along with a small selection of humans, begin to make plans to leave. As word of the withdrawal spreads through the galaxy, Earth suddenly becomes vulnerable to a takeover from other alien races. Invaders who do not seek to live in harmony with humans, but to ravage and destroy the planet for its resources..As a galactic invasion threatens, Donovan realizes that Sapience holds the key that could stop the pending war. Yet in order to save Earth, all species will have to work together, and Donovan might just have to make the ultimate sacrifice to convince them. But can one person save an entire planet from total extinction?
Год: 2019
Производитель: Scholastic
Артикул: 2755648
ISBN: 9781338139112
Автор: Lee Fonda
Страницы: 378

DORA: A HEADCASE
Ida has a secret: she is in love with her best friend. But any time she gets close to intimacy, Ida faints or loses her voice. She needs a shrink. Or so her philandering father thinks.Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, Siggy, Ida - and alter-ego Dora - hatch a plan to secretly film him. But when the film goes viral, Ida finds herself targeted by unethical hackers.Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study, retold and revamped through Dora's point-of-view. Yuknavitch's Dora is radical and unapologetic - you won't have met a character quite like her before.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 2783174
ISBN: 9781786893321
Автор: Yuknavitch Lidia
Страницы: 211

Dangerous Deception
SOME LOVES ARE MEANT TO BE. SOME LOVES ARE CURSED.AND SOME LOVES ARE DANGEROUS.After a disastrous car crash outside New York City, Ridley Duchannes Dark Caster, Siren, and bona fide bad girl has gone missing. Her wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus boyfriend, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, was driving, and when he comes to, Ridley is nowhere to be found. The only clue is the giant raven emblazoned on the hood of the truck that hit them, which can mean only one thing: Silas Ravenwood is back. And he has Ridley.Determined to find her, Link reunites with old friends John Breed and Liv Durand, his New York bandmates, and the mysterious Lennox Gates who has his own reasons for tracking down Ridley. Together they travel through the Caster Tunnels and the Deep South to New Orleans, where they uncover the truth about the infamous Ravenwood labs and exactly what Silas has been doing within those walls. By the time Link and his friends reach Ridley, she is no longer the Siren they know and love. She's something new. This time, love might not be enough to save them.In this sequel to Dangerous Creatures, the bestselling spin-off of the #1 New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures novels, coauthors KAMI GARCIA and MARGARET STOHL deliver an intoxicating blend of magic, suspense, and danger.

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Год: 2015
Производитель: Hachette Book Group
Артикул: 2971571
ISBN: 9780316383639
Автор: Stohl Margaret
Страницы: 293

Dark Queen Rising
London, 1471. The War of the Roses rages on . . .Edward of York has claimed the English throne and his Yorkist supporters gleefully slaughter their adversaries; there's no mercy for anyone who supported the Lancastrian cause.Margaret Beaufort - mother of Henry Tudor, the only hope for the House of Lancaster - knows her enemies are closing in. Desperate for help she turns to Christopher Urswicke for protection. But when ruthless scheming and pitiless killings are the only routes to survival, Urswicke will have to choose where his loyalties truly lie..

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Black Thorn
Артикул: 2762182
ISBN: 9781786894892
Автор: Доуэрти Пол
Страницы: 213

Dark Song
Two Carpathians find hope in the bond that ties their souls in this passionate novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Stolen from her home at a young age and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise is scared to show herself to anyone. Even though she has been rescued and is now safe within the Carpathian compound, she has lived in fear for so long she has no idea how to survive without it. She wants to answer the siren call of her lifemate--but the very thought terrifies her.Before he found Elisabeta, Ferro Arany was an ancient warrior without emotion. Now that his senses have come alive, he knows it will take more than kind words and soft touches to convince the fractured woman that they are partners, not master and prisoner. For now, he will give her his strength until she finds hers, allowing the steady rhythm of his heart to soothe Elisabeta's fragile soul.But even as she learns to stand on her own, the vampire who kept her captive is desperate to claim her again, threatening the song Elisabeta and Ferro are writing together.

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Год: 2020
Артикул: 2933709
ISBN: 9780593099810
Автор: Фихан Кристин
Страницы: 478

Darkness, Take My Hand
When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find bodies are piling up around them - seemingly unconnected with their case. And what's more all the clues point to an unlikely suspect - a serial killer who has been in prison for twenty years, so he can't be killing again, can he?As Angie and Patrick try to find out what kind of human being could perform such horrifying acts of rape, mutilation, torture and dismemberment, they discover that the killer's motive is disturbingly rooted in their own distant past. In a series of heart-stopping climaxes that grow ever more terrifying and bloody, the two work frantically with the Boston cops, the FBI, the local Mafia, and the folks from their old neighbourhood to unearth the killer before they become victims themselves.....................

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Год: 2006
Производитель: Bantam Books
Артикул: 2581206
ISBN: 9780553818215
Страницы: 512

Day
Day is a novel about the collisions of love within our days. Michael Cunningham crafts a glorious sentence and at the same time he tells an achingly compelling story that speaks precisely to the times we live in. And it all flows so damn gorgeously that at times you just want to suspend the sacred day itself and hold it close, never let it, or the characters, go. A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon Cunningham, the perennial master of rendering the quotidian with a profound and deeply considered eye for human frailty, returns with a book that exemplifies the hallmarks of his style: lush, erudite, voracious in its seeking, and, like a true poet, remakes the world in his descriptions, freshened with care, compassion, and tinged with radiant heat of grief. What a quietly stunning achievement Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece. Day shows all his extraordinary gifts of epic sweep and intricate detail, lyrical language and plain hard words, memory and imagination, love and hope and loss. It does what only great books can do. Read it and be changed Andrew Sean Greer, author of LessApril 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts and his secret Instagram life for company.April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality with what they ve learned, what they ve lost, and how they might go on.From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot ent...

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Год: 2024
Производитель: HarperCollinsPublishers
Артикул: 3035254
ISBN: 9780008637569
Автор: Каннингем Майкл
Страницы: 273

Days Of Wonder
Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for her - a day of wonder. However hard life gets, all Tom wants to do is make every moment magical for her.Now, as Hannah begins to spread her wings, the theatre comes under threat of closure and the two could lose one another. But maybe, just maybe, one final day of magic might just save them both..

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 2742198
ISBN: 9780751563306
Автор: Стюарт Кейт
Страницы: 468

Deacon King Kong
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICKDeacon King Kong is deeply felt, beautifully written and profoundly humane; McBrides ability to inhabit his characters foibled, all-too-human interiority helps transform a fine book into a great one The New York Times Book ReviewA hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the years best novels. The Washington Post From the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan HawkeThe year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the churchs baseball team. The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportscoats best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.DEACON KING KONG is a book about a community under threat, about the ways people pull together in an age when the old rules are being rewritten. It is very funny in places, and heartbreaking in others. From a prize-winning storyteller, this New York Times bestseller shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, and that the communities we build are fragile but vital. What Goodreads readers are saying-***** Deacon King Kong is one of those novels whose brilliance sneaks up on you. I havent been this pleasantly surprised by a book in a while.***** I do believe I just finished one of my all time favorite books. I loved every minute spent with Sportcoat and his community. A good old fashioned yarn shot through with truth, spirit, and humor. I LOVED it!***** This book was a balm for my soul, a portrait of a black church community circa 1969 with sweet characters (well, most of them), interconnections that stretch back decades, and a plot with more than one mystery at its heart.***** "Deacon" has the texture of folk lore and fable mixed with the unexpected rhythms of jazz and the noisy streets of late 1960s Brooklyn.***** The ending was one of those where you clutch your heart and want to hug the book (or your Kindle).

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Doubleday
Артикул: 2826709
ISBN: 9780857527660
Страницы: 370

Dear Edward
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor.Edward s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery-one that will lead him to the answers of some of life s most profound questions: When you ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life?Dear Edward is at once a transcendent coming-of-age story, a multidimensional portrait of an unforgettable cast of characters, and a breathtaking illustration of all the ways a broken heart learns to love again.

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Год: 2020
Производитель: The Dial Press
Артикул: 2811993
ISBN: 9780593133125
Автор: Наполитано Энн
Страницы: 341

Dear Mr. M
Mr. M is being watched. As a famous writer, he is no stranger to the limelight, although interest in his work has been dwindling of late. His print runs are smaller than they used to be, as are the crowds at his bookshop signings . . . Our narrator clearly takes a keen interest in M.'s work, and indeed in every aspect of his life. But what exactly are his intentions? And to what does Mr. M owe the honour of his undivided attention?Our narrator seems to be no stranger to murder, while his own story appears to bear more than a passing resemblance to the plot of Mr. M's most famous novel: a teacher has an affair with a student, only to be brutally murdered by the girl and her teenage boyfriend. The body is never found.That's the problem with fiction: in real life, bodies have an awkward habit of turning up. Mr. M has used some artistic licence, and our narrator is not pleased, not pleased at all. And just before he fades into obscurity, he's prepared to give Mr. M one last review. And it's unlikely to be a rave.

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Год: 2017
Производитель: Picador
Артикул: 2623831
ISBN: 9781447294702
Автор: Кох Герман
Страницы: 400

Deaths End
ОписаниеHalf a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay.Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.Спустя полвека после битвы Судного дня неустойчивое равновесие сил сдерживания Темного леса удерживает трисолярианских захватчиков на расстоянии.Земля наслаждается беспрецедентным процветанием благодаря вливанию трисолярианских знаний, и, поскольку человеческая наука развивается, а трисоляриане перенимают земную культуру, кажется, что две цивилизации могут мирно сосуществовать на равных без ужасной угрозы взаимно гарантированного уничтожения. Но мир сделал человечество самодовольным.

Серия: Зарубежная литература (Bloomsbury)
Год: 2017
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 3035805
ISBN: 9781784971656
Автор: Цысинь Лю
Страницы: 724

Desire
You ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you re destined for - what do you do? In Murakami s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.Selected from Haruki s Murakami s short story collections The Elephant Vanishes, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Men Without Women.

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Серия: Murakami, Haruki
Год: 2020
Производитель: Vintage Books
Артикул: 2825681
ISBN: 9781784872632
Автор: Мураками Харуки, Murakami Haruki
Страницы: 110

Devil Wears Prada
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job a million girls would die for. Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child. . ........ .. . .. .. .

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Год: 2003
Производитель: Harper Collins Publishers
Артикул: 2105316
ISBN: 9780307275554
Автор: Вайсбергер Лорен, Weisberger Lauren
Страницы: 432

Dietland
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to be noticed is to be judged. Or mocked. Or worse.But when a mysterious woman starts following her, Plum finds herself involved with an underground community of women who live life on their own terms. At the same time, a dangerous guerrilla group called "Jennifer" begins to terrorize a world that mistreats women. As Plum grapples with her personal struggles, she becomes entangled in a sinister plot, the consequences of which are explosive..
Год: 2019
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2705197
ISBN: 9781786496812
Автор: Уолкер Сараи

Dodgers. A Novel
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys--including East's hothead younger brother--to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become..Written in stark and unforgettable prose and featuring an array of surprising and memorable characters rendered with empathy and wit, Dodgers heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.

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Год: 2016
Производитель: Broadway Books
Артикул: 2586566
ISBN: 9781101903759
Автор: Beverly Bill

Don't Skip Out on Me
Meet Horace Hopper, a twenty-one-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, who works for Mr Reece and his wife, the nearest thing he's had to family in years.But Horace, half-white half-Paiute Indian, dreams of bigger things. Leaving behind the farm and its fragile stability, he heads South to re-invent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, painfully, the possibility emerges that his dreams might not just be the delusions of a lost soul. but at what cost, and what of those he's left behind?Exploring the fringes of contemporary America, Don't Skip Out on Me is an extraordinary work of compassion - a novel about the need for human connection and understanding - and essential reading, now more than ever.

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Год: 2019
Производитель: Faber & Faber
Артикул: 2724837
ISBN: 9780571301652
Автор: Влаутин Вилли
Страницы: 294

Dunbar
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wisdom of past decisions.Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Vintage Books
Артикул: 2682621
ISBN: 9781784701697
Автор: St Aubyn Edward
Страницы: 213

Dunkirk (м) Levine
THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE.In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300, 000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians involved in the nine-day skirmish has passed into legend. Now, the story Winston Churchill described as a 'miracle' is narrated by bestselling author Joshua Levine in its full, sweeping context, including new interviews with veterans and survivors.Told from the viewpoints of land, sea and air, Joshua Levine s Dunkirk is a dramatic account of a defeat that paved the way to ultimate victory and preserved liberty for generations to come.
Год: 2018
Производитель: ВБС Логистик
Артикул: 2612723
ISBN: 9780008227876

Eat Pray Love
Перед вами книга-бестселлер, которая была успешно экранизирована и завоевала любовь читателей во всем мире. Это автобиографическая и глубоко личная история про поиск и принятие себя, любовь к миру, путешествия и свободу.После тяжелого развода писательница из Нью-Йорка Элизабет решает целый год путешествовать по миру. Три страны ее длинного путешествия, Италия, Индия и Индонезия, каждая по-своему учат Лиз радоваться ежедневным мелочам и не бояться нового опыта. В попытках обрести прочную почву под ногами, она достигает гармонии с собой и встречает новую любовь.Роман печатается с незначительными сокращениями и снабжен комментариями и словарем.

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Серия: Love story
Год: 2024
Производитель: КАРО
Артикул: 3027482
ISBN: 9785992517156
Автор: Гилберт Элизабет
Страницы: 272

Escape Artist
Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run.Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig's daughter and someone who once saved his daughter's life. So when Zig realizes Nola is still alive, he's determined to find her. Yet as Zig digs into Nola's past, he learns that trouble follows Nola everywhere she goes.Together, Nola and Zig will either reveal a sleight of hand being played at the highest levels of power or die trying to uncover the US Army's most mysterious secret--a centuries-old conspiracy that traces back through history to the greatest escape artist of all: Harry Houdini.

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Год: 2018
Производитель: Hachette Book Group
Артикул: 2971582
ISBN: 9781538764862
Автор: Meltzer Brad
Страницы: 490

Evvie Drake Starts Over
'I guzzled it up' Pandora Sykes, The High Low ShowTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON THE TODAY SHOW'Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated' People'Effortlessly enjoyable . . . [a] pitch-perfect . . . adult love story that is as romantic as it is real' USA TodayIt's been a year since Evvie Drake's husband died, but she still can't leave the house. Her best friend Andy thinks it's because she's grieving, and she does nothing to make him think otherwise.Dean Tenney was once a sports star. Now he's a former sports star who has lost his ability to throw a ball better than anyone else, and he can't even explain why.When Dean moves into the apartment at the back of Evvie's house, the two make a deal: Dean won't ask about Evvie's dead husband, and Evvie won't ask about Dean's failed career.But as Dean and Evvie grow closer, could it be that these rules are the one thing in the way of them starting over?

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Год: 2020
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 2812347
ISBN: 9781473679276
Автор: Holmes Linda A
Страницы: 293

Exit West
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017.Finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018.An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world .......

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Год: 2017
Производитель: Penguin Books
Артикул: 2617455
ISBN: 9780241290095
Страницы: 229