The Awakening / The Resurrection
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Толстой ЛевЖанр:
Русская классика;Серия:
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
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Spark MurielЖанр:
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A reissue of the 1960 novel which revolves around Dougal Douglas, evil genius and charmer who turns an entire South London community on its head. Murial Spark is the author of more than 15 novels including 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' and 'Girls of Slender...
The Bastard of Istanbul
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Shafak ElifЖанр:
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Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse, all the Kazanci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women, among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disatstr. And when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge. Elif Shafak is one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She was born in 1971 and is the author of six novels, most recently The Saint of Incipient Insanities, The Gaze and The Flea Palace, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches at the...
The Battle of Life
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Dickens CharlesЖанр:
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The Bean Trees
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Barbara KingsolverЖанр:
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“THE BEAN TREES IS THE WORK OF A VISIONARY.”-Los Angeles Times“A LIVELY NOVEL… AN EASY BOOK TO ENJOY.”-The New Yorker“LOVELY, FUNNY, TOUCHING AND HUMANE.”-Kirkus Reviews“A SPIRITED, WARM BOOK, WRY AND AT THE SAME TIME REFRESHINGLY GUILELESS.”-Ella Leffland***Taylor Green becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they meet the proprietor of an auto-repair shop with a safe-house for Central American refugees upstairs and there she builds a life for herself and her...
The Best of All Possible Worlds
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Брэдбери РэйЖанр:
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2013-11-18Язык книги:
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Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Machineries of Joy (Механизмы радости) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100...
The Bishop and Other Stories
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Chekhov AntonЖанр:
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The Black Dwarf
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Scott WalterЖанр:
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The Black Prince
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НеизвестенЖанр:
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2013-11-29Язык книги:
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Iris Murdoch The Black Prince First published in 1973 To Ernesto de Marchi Contents Editor's Foreword Bradley Pearson's Foreword Bradley Pearson's Story Part One Part Two Part Three Postscript by Bradley Pearson Four Postscripts by Dramatis Personae Editor's Postscript Editor's Foreword I am in more than one way responsible for the work that follows. The author of it, my friend Bradley Pearson, has placed the arrangements for publication in my hands. In this humble mechanical sense it is through my agency that these pages now reach the public. I am also the «dear friend» (and such) who is referred to and at times addressed in the book. I am not however an actor in the drama which Pearson recounts. My friendship with Bradley Pearson...
The Black Prince
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Murdoch IrisЖанр:
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Iris Murdoch The Black Prince First published in 1973 To Ernesto de...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Картер АнджелаЖанр:
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The Blue Afternoon
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Boyd WilliamЖанр:
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Winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year AwardA turn-of-the-century love story, set in Manila, between an American woman and Filipino-Spanish mestizo by the popular storyteller William Boyd. It's a memorable tale, richly...
The Boarding House
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Joyce JamesЖанр:
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The Brentford Chainstore Massacre
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Rankin RobertЖанр:
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There is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr Stephen Malone. Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud, Dr Malone is cloning...
The bridge of San Luis Rey
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Wilder ThorntonЖанр:
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“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.”
The citizens of Peru crossed themselves and whispered prayers of thanks for their deliverance. But in the mind of Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnessed the catastrophe, burned the question, “Why did this happen to those five?”
As Brother Juniper’s investigations illuminate the possibility of an Intention to the disaster—involving the lives left behind as well as those lost on the bridge—the reader rediscovers the one “bridge” between the land of the living and the land of the dead that does not...
The Brief History of the Dead
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Brockmeier KevinЖанр:
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'Remember me when I'm gone'just took on a whole new meaning.The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the only newspaper in the City, with news from the other side; Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the cautionary words of God; and Marion and Phillip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage.On Earth, Laura Byrd is trapped by extreme weather in an Antarctic research station. She's alone and unable to contact the outside world: her radio is down and the power is failing. She's running out of supplies as quickly as she's running out of time.Kevin Brockmeier interweaves these two stories in a spellbinding...
The Bro Code
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Stinson BarneyЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
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Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom. For fans of 'How I Met Your...
The Brother Clerks; A Tale of New-Orleans.
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Таунсенд Мэри ЭшлиЖанр:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The Butcher Boy
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McCabe PatrickЖанр:
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2013-10-01Язык книги:
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE IRISH TIMES-AER LINGUS
LITERATURE PRIZE FOR FICTION
'BRILLIANT, UNIQUE. Patrick McCabe pushes your head through the book and you come out the other end gasping, admiring, and knowing that reading fiction will never be the same again. It's the best Irish novel I've read in years.' – Roddy Doyle, Author, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
'STUNNING… PART HUCK FINN, PART HOLDEN CAULFIELD, PART HANNIBAL LECTER.' – The New York Times Book Review
'AN ALMOST PERFECT NOVEL… A BECKETT MONOLOGUE WITH PLOT BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK… STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL.' – The Washington Post Book World
'BRILLIANT… Francie is a shrewd and amusing observer… his voice is mordant, colloquial and brash as a punch in the nose.' – Scott Turow
'A ROLLICKING NASTY...
The Caged Lion
Автор:
Йондж ШарлоттаЖанр:
Историческая проза;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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