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Знаменитый детектив Алекс Кросс решил отойти от дел и вернуться к частной практике психотерапевта. Но старый друг, детектив Сэмпсон, попросил его стать независимым консультантом по делу...
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Читать книгу Skipped Parts
Skipped Parts
Автор:
Sandlin Tim
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-17
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
86

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Newly arrived in the backwater town of GroVont, Wyoming, teenager Sam Callahan is initiated into adulthood when he embarks on a period of intense sexual experimentation with sassy, smart Maurey...
Читать книгу A Faraway Island
A Faraway Island
Автор:
Thor Annika
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-15
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
43

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Mildred L. Batchelder Award Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna -12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellie-are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. She’s happy with her foster family and soon favors the Swedish language over her native German. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who’s as cold and unforgiving as the...
Читать книгу A Good Year
A Good Year
Автор:
Mayle Peter
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-01
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
46

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From Publishers Weekly Mayle's breezy, uncomplicated fifth novel (Chasing Cezanne, etc.) and ninth book follows 30-something Max Skinner from a sabotaged financial career in London to his adoption of the Provencal lifestyle on an inherited vineyard in France. Max spent holidays at his Uncle Henry's vineyard as a child, so when he inherits the place, the prospect of returning is tempting; a generous 'bridging loan' from ex-brother-in-law Charlie seals the deal. The estate, Le Griffon, is in a dire state of disrepair and the wine cellar is filled with bottles of a dreadful-tasting swill, but it's nothing that vineyard caretaker Claude Roussel and prim housekeeper Madame Passepartout can't resolve. Max settles into his new life easily thanks to the attentions...
Читать книгу A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World
Автор:
Cunningham Michael
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-01
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
80

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From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise “their” child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today. The film adaptation of A Home at the End of the World premiered in...
Читать книгу A Ship Made of Paper
A Ship Made of Paper
Автор:
Spencer Scott
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-24
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
83

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No novelist alive knows the human heart better than Scott Spencer does. No one tells stories about human passion with greater urgency, insight, or sympathy. In A Ship Made of Paper, this artist of desire paints his most profound and compelling canvas yet. Daniel Emerson lives with Kate Ellis and is like a father to her daughter, Ruby. But he cannot control his desire for Iris Davenport, the African-American woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house and they begin a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race- blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. A Ship Made of Paper captures all the drama, nuance, and...
Читать книгу A Son of the Circus
A Son of the Circus
Автор:
Irving John
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-16
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
174

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A Hindi film star… an American missionary… twins separated at birth… a dwarf chauffeur… a serial killer… all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving’s characters transcend nationality. They are misfits—coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving’s most ambitious novel and a major publishing...
Читать книгу A Touch of Crimson
A Touch of Crimson
Автор:
Day Sylvia
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-01
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
65

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'Will rock readers witha stunning new world, a hot-blooded hero, and a strong, kick-ass heroine!' – Larissa IoneFIRST IN A NEW SERIES! CAN TRUE LOVE SURVIVE A WAR BETWEEN ANGELS, VAMPIRES, AND LYCANS?Adrian Mitchell is a powerful angel leading an elite Special Ops unit of Seraphim. His task is to punish the Fallen-angels who have become vampires-and command a restless pack of indentured lycans. But Adrian has suffered his own punishment for becoming involved with mortals-losing the woman he loves again and again. Now, after nearly two hundred years, he has found her-Shadoe-her soul once more inhabiting a new body, with no memory of him. And this time, he won't let her...
Читать книгу A Walk to Remember
A Walk to Remember
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-17
Язык книги:
English
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32

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There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart—and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks's sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story...
Читать книгу A Wild Sheep Chase
A Wild Sheep Chase
Автор:
Murakami Haruki
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-30
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
70

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ACCLAIM FOR Haruki Murakami “[A Wild Sheep Chase is] a bold new advance in international fiction…. Youthful, slangy, political, and allegorical.” —The New York Times “Murakami’s writing injects the rock ‘n’ roll of everyday language into the exquisite silences of Japanese literary prose.” —Harper’s Bazaar “[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.” —Newsday “Greatly entertaining…. Will remind readers of the first time they read Tom Robbins or … Thomas Pynchon.” —Chicago Tribune “Murakami captures a kind of isolation that is special in its beauty, and particular to our time…. His language speaks so directly to the mind that one remembers with gratitude what words are...
Читать книгу A Year In Provence
A Year In Provence
Автор:
Mayle Peter
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-01
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
44

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Amazon.com Review Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provencal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Cotes-du-Rhone and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provencal domesticity. Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant, Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. 'We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers,' he writes, 'looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of...
Читать книгу Adrift on the Nile
Adrift on the Nile
Автор:
Mahfouz Naguib
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-17
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
30

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A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sons and daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying to recreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night, however, art and reality collide — with unforeseen...
Читать книгу after the quake
after the quake
Автор:
Murakami Haruki
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
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28

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The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman. An electronics salesman who has been abruptly deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package—and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who has been raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may or may not be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. As haunting as dreams, as potent as...
Читать книгу After This
After This
Автор:
McDermott Alice
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-30
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
52

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OVER the course of her five previous novels, Alice McDermott has staked an impressive claim on a subject matter and a turf – Irish-American Catholic families congregated, for the most part, in New York City and its suburbs on Long Island. The Irish have, of course, long been a significant presence in American fiction, appearing well before the mass immigration of the late 19th century (think of 'Huckleberry Finn'), and the novels, notably, of William Kennedy attest to the subject's continuing strength. McDermott adds her own luster to this seemingly familiar community through her skill at evoking small, memorable incidents and her willingness to ignore certain narrative conventions. Most fictional family sagas contain a lot of what could be called plain reporting: answers to the...
Читать книгу Air (or Have Not Have)
Air (or Have Not Have)
Автор:
Ryman Geoff
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-30
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
111

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'Geoff Ryman's new novel is swift, smart and convincing. Air is a wonderful and frightening examination of old and new, and survival on the interface between'. – Greg Bear 'This is a liminal book: its characters are on the threshold of something new; their village is on the brink of change; the world is launching into a new way to connect; humanity, at the end of the novel, is on the cusp of evolution… its plot is exciting and suspenseful, its characters gripping, its wisdom lightly and gracefully offered, its language clear and beautiful. Like The Child Garden, Air is both humane and wise. This novel is such a village. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It becomes finer as I think back on it, and I look forward to rereading it. I only wish Ryman's work were more widely available...
Читать книгу Airport
Airport
Автор:
Hailey Arthur
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-08
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
114

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Читать книгу Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
Автор:
Mahfouz Naguib
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-16
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
29

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the 'heretic pharaoh,' or 'sun king,'-and the first known monotheistic ruler-whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death-including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife,...
Читать книгу Aleph
Aleph
Автор:
Coelho Paulo
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-16
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
48

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Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him. Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin...
Читать книгу Alice Munro's Best
Alice Munro's Best
Автор:
Munro Alice
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
128

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In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time…. Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.” This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls her “devoted international readership.” Long-time fans of her stories will enjoy meeting old favourites, where their new setting in this book may reveal new sides to what once seemed a familiar story; devoted followers may even dispute the exclusion of a specially-beloved story. Readers lucky enough to have found her recently will be delighted, as one masterpiece succeeds another. The 17 stories are carefully arranged in the order in which she wrote them, which allows us...
Читать книгу All the Names
All the Names
Автор:
Saramago Jose
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-09-25
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
45

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Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily preoccupations. In the evenings, and on weekends, he works on bringing up to date his clipping file of the famous, the rising stars, the notorious. But when one day he comes across the birth certificate of an anonymous young woman, he decides that this cannot have been mere chance, he has to discover more about her. After all, to know a name is not to know the person. Under the increasingly mystified eye of the Registrar, a godlike figure whose name is spoken only in whispers, the now obsessed Senhor Jose sets off, in every...
Читать книгу American Rust
American Rust
Автор:
Meyer Philipp
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-02
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
83

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EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible...