Other Moons
Автор:
Quan HaЖанр:
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2021-02-17Язык книги:
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Other People's Houses
Автор:
Abbi WaxmanЖанр:
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2020-08-15Язык книги:
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**"Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful." --#1 *New York Times* bestselling author Emily Giffin And now the author of *The Garden of Small Beginnings* returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything.** At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man who is most definitely not her husband... **record scratch** As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse, Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this... After the shock of...
Other Worlds Than These
Автор:
Adams JohnЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now. Review “Anthologist Adams presents readers with a wide variety of alternate Earths, some only slightly askew and others completely unfamiliar. […] Adams’s selections are mirrors reflecting one other...
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
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Osamu DazaiЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Momotaro, Click-Clack Mountain, The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, The Stolen Wen, Urashima-san… The father reads these old tales to the children. Though he's shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories.Once upon a time, long, long ago…Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him.Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ('Grandmother and...
Our American Cousin
Автор:
Tom TaylorДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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Description
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene.
The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters,...
Our Baseball Club and How It Won the Championship
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Noah BrooksЖанр:
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2025-12-31Язык книги:
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Description
The time is the late 19th century. In the rural Illinois town of Catalpa, the burgeoning new national pastime of baseball has become the defining phenomenon of the local culture. Due to the sport’s growing popularity, the wealthy and influential among the residents of Catalpa sponsor their local team to compete against some of the most successful and famous teams of the state, even going so far as to pay out-of-town talent princely sums to play for Catalpa against the best teams in the state—a shocking and scandalous move that seems almost prophetic when viewed from the modern 21st-century professional sports landscape.
Understood to be the first novel ever written primarily about the game of baseball and published within a decade of...
Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
Автор:
Dworkin AndreaЖанр:
Публицистика;Серия:
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2013-12-04Язык книги:
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Our Gang
Автор:
Roth PhilipЖанр:
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2013-09-16Язык книги:
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A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting...
Our Kind of Traitor
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Carre JohnЖанр:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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The unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful of dirty money and dirtier politics. For nearly half a century, John le Carre's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again. Now, le Carre makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de-force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced asThe Little Drummer Girland as morally complex asThe Constant Gardener, Our Kind of Traitoris signature le Carre. Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua. But the charm begins...
Our Lady of Darkness
Автор:
Leiber FritzЖанр:
Ужасы и Мистика;Серия:
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2013-09-25Язык книги:
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Sometime during a three-year drunk in San Francisco, Franz Westen, a pulp author, bought two strange books. One was Megapolisomancy—a “science of cities”—by the black magician and socialite Thibaut de Castries; the other an early journal of Clark Ashton Smith, a writer of horror stories. As Westen tries to piece his life together, these books draw him to the ashes of a wealthy, brilliant and degenerate bohemian cult, and to a grotesque living world of technological curses.
One morning, while examining the city through binoculars, Franz glimpses a priest-like dancing figure on a desolate hill. Fascinated and vaguely horrified, he investigates. The hill is deserted but now he sees the faceless spectre across the city, in his own apartment! Paranoia creeps over Franz; he knows...
Our Lady of Darkness
Автор:
Tremayne PeterЖанр:
Исторические детективы;Серия:
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2013-12-05Язык книги:
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Our Last Chance (Heart 0f Hope Book 1)
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Ajme WilliamsЖанр:
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2020-09-07Язык книги:
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Our Last First Kiss KOBO
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Christie RidgwayЖанр:
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2020-08-15Язык книги:
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Our Last Season
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Harvey AratonЖанр:
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2021-09-01Язык книги:
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Our Little Secret
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Rachael StewartЖанр:
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Our Mutual Friend
Автор:
Dickens CharlesЖанр:
Классическая проза;Серия:
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2013-10-31Язык книги:
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Our Mutual Friend
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Charles DickensЖанр:
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2025-11-25Язык книги:
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318
Description
Our Mutual Friend is the last of Charles Dickens’ novels, published serially between 1864 and 1865. Like many of Dickens’ works, it addresses social concerns like how the poor and destitute are treated, but tempers these more serious themes with humor and satire.
The novel opens with the retrieval of the body of a drowned man from the Thames river—a body which is identified as that of John Harmon, heir to his father’s huge fortune. What happens to this fortune and to the other people named in the will make up a large part of the complex plot.
Though Our Mutual Friend wasn’t especially well regarded at the time of publication, its critical...
Description
Our Nig is an an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson, her only published work. It was written not for pleasure, but to financially support the lives of the author and her sick child. It was long considered to be the first novel published by an African-American woman in the United States, but recent research has put that title into question.
Frado, born to a white mother and black father, is abandoned by her parents at age six and left to the Bellmont family. Though the Bellmonts live in the northern United States, the matriarch of the family, Mrs. Bellmont, loathes her for her dark skin color. She forces Frado (nicknamed “Nig”) to do the chores of the family...
Our Season (Lifetime Love Series)
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Brooklyn TaylorЖанр:
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2021-09-01Язык книги:
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Our Wicked Lies
Автор:
Gledé KabongoЖанр:
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2021-10-07Язык книги:
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