Edited by Michael R. Booth and Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. — Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1964. First printing 1960. — xii, 368 p. The book is composed of British, American, and Canadian stories. It is provided with a few lines of bibliographical information for each author, including the date and place of first publication of the story. Conrad Aiken. Mr. Arcularis,...
Ed. by Edward J. O'Brien. — Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. — XII, 870 p. During this one short generation American writing has evolved from the point at which it could only be described as extremely provincial English writing to the point where it has achieved dignity and substance as a rich literature in its own right. 1915. The Yellow Cat. Wilbur Daniel Steele. 1916....
Copper Canyon Press, 2022. — 71 p. “An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central practice of inhaling an immolated Bible. Smoking the Bible is an arresting collection of poems thick with feeling, shaped by Chris Abani's astounding...
Kingston, New York, 1885. — 256 p. Abbey's collected works, Poems of Henry Abbey , first appeared in 1879, published by D. Appleton. This book was republished — enlarged from 148 to 256 pages — at Abbey's expense in 1885.
Julianne's Summer Rules: Finish all art projects by August Survive summer job surrounded by cute boys Hit the beach every day Avoid the new neighbors (even though their son is hot!) When Julianne falls for Remi at a bonfire party, her summer is off to a perfect start. Sure, her obnoxious new neighbours are muscling her family off their beachfront property, but she has weeks of...
Reagan Arthur Books, 2012. — 304 pages. — ISBN: 0316097772 (ISBN13: 9780316097772). Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer...
New York: Penguin Books, 2020, — 194 р. — ISBN 978-014-3-134-930 The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate...
Dr. Frank Clevenger, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist, is eager to leave the world of the criminally insane behind-until he receives a chilling phone call. Close friend and former colleague North Anderson, now the Chief of Police on the exclusive island of Nantucket, is desperate for help in solving a shocking case: One of the infant twin daughters of billionaire Darwin Bishop...
Выходные данные не указаны 416 p. Andy Abramowitz lives in Center City Philadelphia with is wife and two daughters. He practices law by day and various artistic endeavors by night. Thank You, Goodnight Night, his first novel, is the product of frequent bouts of insomnia.
Atria Books, 2023. — 593 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9926-5 Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from...
Ecco, 2023. — 532 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-320726-4 Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her...
London: Penguin Books, 2001. — 240 p. — ISBN 9780141186900. Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love - and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new...
New York: Anchor Books, 2004. — 98 p. — ISBN-10: 1417672226; ISBN-13: 978-1417672226. Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This Collected Poems draws on his three collections of poetry, and includes seven previously...
New York, Anchor Books, 2014. — 96 p.— ISBN: 1-4000-7638-7 Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria 1930 . He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan.
99 pages.
Чинуа Ачебе (англ. Chinua Achebe, полное имя Альберт Чинуалумогу Ачебе; 1930 — 2013) — нигерийский прозаик, поэт и литературный критик.
Известен прежде всего своим первым романом Things Fall Apart (в русском переводе «Распад» или «И пришло разрушение»), который был опубликован в 1958 г. Этот роман на сегодняшний день является самой читаемой и переводимой книгой...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — 248 p. Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried...
A lushly romantic novel from the author of call me by your name.
Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am...
A Novel. — Faber & Faber. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0571356508; ISBN13: 9780571356508. A New York Times Bestseller In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary...
Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Alice Adams with Katrina Kenison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. - 426 p. Foreword. Introduction by Alice Adams. Rick Bass. The Legend of Pig-Eye. Charles Baxter. The Disappeared. Amy Bloom. Love is not a Pie. Kate Braverman. Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta. Robert Olen Butler. The Trip Back. Charles d'Ambrosio, Jr. The...
David Adams, 2012. — (Lacuna 3). — ASIN B0088HOY54 Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to." - Toralii Proverb Hundreds of years before the Toralii attacked Earth, destroying the cities of Beijing, Tehran and Sydney, before they developed the voidwarp technology and destroyed their homeworld, they warred amongst themselves. The hills of the occupied Kaater Mountains...
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning
of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery,
beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught
an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of chrysanthemums and
geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with scarlet oaks and yellow
maples. As a display of...
God's Debris is the first non-Dilbert, non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull. Imagine that you meet a very old man whoâ€you eventually realizeâ€knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of...
London: The Reprint Society, 1961. - 144 с. Отсканированный PDF Heart-warming autobiographical book about a European game warden and his wife, Joy Adamson, who adopt and raise a lioness cub in Kenya during the 1950s. The story is emotional, but the writing is matter-of-fact. The reader is provided with an intimate look into the activities of wildlife in that part of Africa, and...
Park Row Books, 2022. — 530 p. — ISBN-13: 978-036-97204-05 Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is...
Great Britain,London. Published in 2002 - 2008 in Anthology book of English literature. From The Edexcel Anthology for GCSE English (Literature) The focus of the short story is the contrasting experiences of young Africans, one male and one female, in the second half of the twentieth century in African society. The story focuses especially on the constraints that confine...
The War of the Roses tells the story of Jonathan and Barbara Rose, and their descent from a picturesque family life into a world of macabre self-destruction. The novel begins quietly, introducing us to Jonathan and Barbara as they are introduced to each other for the first time. Fast forward some years, and they are living the good life in a Washington, D.C. suburb. They have the...
Illinois: Northwestern University Press,.2000.—119p.—ISBN: 0-8101-6081-1 Ali Ahmad Said Esber (Arabic: علي أحمد سعيد إسبر, romanised: ʿAlī Aḥmad Saʿīd Aṣbar, born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis (Arabic: أدونيس, Adūnīs), is a Syrian poet, essayist and translator who is considered one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern era....
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 886 p.
Aeschylus ( c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy, critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences...
Книга содержит 87 басен Эзопа на английском языке (без параллельного перевода).
количество страниц: 89.
Некоторые из них:
The Cock and the Pearl.
The Wolf and the Lamb.
The Dog and the Shadow.
The Lion’s Share.
The Wolf and the Crane.
The Man and the Serpent.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
The Fox and the Crow.
The Sick LionThe.
Ass and the Lapdog.
The Lion and...
Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances Shewn in Designs by Randolph Caldecott from New Translations by Alfred Caldecott, M.A. London Macmillan and Co. 1883. Басни Эзопа на английском языке в пересказе А. Калдекотта, с многочисленными черно-белыми иллюстрациями. Художник Рэндольф Калдекотт иллюстрировал как басни Эзопа, так и современные ему остроумные примеры к басням. - The Fox...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.—168 p.—ISBN: 0-691-11745-4 There are nine poets in this book. Their dates of birth range from the mid-nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth. All are German-speaking. Their places of origin are from as far north as Bukowina and as far south as Carinthia. Their places of exile range from Sweden to South America. All...
390 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2000.
1958
James Agee's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death In The Family is the powerful, moving story of a universal human situation. It tells of a loving and closely-knit family-and of their great courage when tragedy changes senselessly and suddenly the lives of those who are left behind.
"Maturely and...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2015. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0399171611. Age Range: 12 and up A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So...
New York: NYRB Classics, 2018. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1681371898; ISBN13: 978-1681371894 — (New York Review Books Classics) The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird. Robert Aickman’s self-described “strange stories” are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not...
No publication info. Since his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has continued to grow among connoisseurs of the horror story. Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several ways, more lasting sense of disquiet. His lucid, finely tuned prose moves imperceptibly...
Delphi Classics. 2015. — 8036 p.
William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ainsworth briefly...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988. — 300 p. About themselves. Since earliest times this story told in songs, fairy tales, books, music and plays in various languages and dialects has really been about one and the same thing: the fate of humankind, different people, their work and dreams, their virtues and vices, struggle and wars, duty and conscience, the beauty of women and...
2014. One of Beirut’s most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, The Hakawati, with a heartrending novel that celebrates the singular life of an obsessive introvert, revealing Beirut’s beauties and horrors along the way. Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and...
St. Martin’s Press, 2022. — 589 р. — ISBN 9781250278562 Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived...
The Zoo Story, originally titled Peter and Jerry, is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written in 1958 and completed in just three weeks. The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness, miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a commercial world.
Initially the play was rejected by New York producers....
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider. Subsequent cast members included Henderson Forsythe, Eileen Fulton, Mercedes McCambridge,...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee. It examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. After a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey, as guests late one evening and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship. The play is in three acts, normally taking a little...
HarperTeen, 2018. — 437 p. — ISBN13: 9780062795250. Arthur is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his...
Balzer + Bray, 2018. — ISBN10: 9780062643803; ISBN13: 978-0062643803. In this sequel to the acclaimed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—now a major motion picture, Love, Simon—we follow Simon’s BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst. When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic....
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062348701; ISBN13: 978-0062348708. “Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can’t stop hugging this book.” —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "I have such a crush on this book! Not only is this one a must read, but it's a must re-read." —Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of...
Balzer + Bray, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0062348701; ISBN13: 978-0062348708. “Heart-fluttering, honest, and hilarious. I can’t stop hugging this book.” —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "I have such a crush on this book! Not only is this one a must read, but it's a must re-read." —Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of...
New York: Hyperion, 2003.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you’ve ever thought about the afterlife — and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure....
An old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson. (Audiobook) Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty...
Maggie Alderson (born 1959) is a London-born Australian author, magazine editor and fashion journalist. She is the former editor of ES, the Evening Standard magazine (British Society of Magazine Editors, Editor of the Year, Colour Supplements 1989) and British Elle magazines. In Australia, she was acting editor of Cleo and editor of Mode. The internationally bestselling Girls...
D. S. Brewer, 1979. — 222 p. Aldhelm, born c.640 in Wessex, and becoming abbot of Malmesbury and later bishop of Sherborne, was the first English man of letters; up to 1100, his prose writings were the most widely read of any Latin literature produced in Anglo-Saxon England. His surviving prose works include a long treatise 'De Virginitate', and a number of letters; these in...
Penguin Classics, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-0-143-10687-6. One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists in the British Expeditionary Army...
New York: Garrett Press, 1969. — 274 p. — (The American Short Story Series. Volume 34) Two bites at a cherry For bravery on the field of battle The Chevalier de Resseguier Goliath My cousin, the colonel A Christmas fantasy, with a moral Her dying words
New York: Garrett Press, 1969. — 274 p. — (The American Short Story Series. Volume 34) Two bites at a cherry For bravery on the field of battle The Chevalier de Resseguier Goliath My cousin, the colonel A Christmas fantasy, with a moral Her dying words
London: Puffin, 2003. — 226 p. I’m not sure how I can tell the real story of the Provencal girl I knew as Lelée, back in the 1950s. I know so much more about her now than I did when she literally burst from the sea under my dinghy, emerging like a samite thing from the blue lagoon of the Bay of Angels at Villefranche-sur-Mer. But, looking back on it, I suppose that an organised...
Project Gutenberg, 2006. "Ragged Dick" was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is now presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to...
The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her...
A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the rise of human civilization. Over the sands and the years, the...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. — 181 p. Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell...
Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through thirst,...
Isan, the novel s protagonist, is either Seth himself or a latter-day avatar. A desert-wandering seer and proponent of desert life, he settles for an extended stay in a fertile oasis. If Jack Frost, the personification of the arrival of winter, were to visit a tropical rain forest, the results might be similarly disastrous. Not surprisingly, since this is a novel by Ibrahim...
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." — The Philadelphia Inquirer.
When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author comparisons to some of the giants of twentieth-century modernism. The publication of Allen's equally ambitious second novel, Song of...
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era.
At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom.
Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to...
London: Sayyab Books, 2018. — 187 p. An Arabic-English Reader features a number of short stories written by prominent writers from various countries. Zakariyya Tamir (Syria), Ibrahim Darghuthy (Tunisia), Yousef Idrees (Egypt), Ahmed Al-Faqih (Libya), Ghasan Kanafani (Palestine), Zaid M. Damaj (Yemen), Layla Al-Uthman (Kuwait), Abdulhamid Al-Gharbawi (Morocco), Hasan Dabal...
Выходные данные не указаны. 202 pp. Dates on My Fingers : is a novel written by the Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, was published in Spanish (Dedos de dátiles, 2008), in Arabic (Tamr al-asabiÊ¿, 2009) and in English, 2014. The English translation was done by Luke Leafgren and was published by the American University Press in Cairo. The Arabic version was selected as one of...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2014. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 9774166442 / ISBN-13 978-9774166440. Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him...
Humphrey Davies (Translator). — New York University Press, 2015. — 636 p. — ISBN 13 9781479813292 Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq, alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his...
Humphrey Davies (Translator). — New York University Press, 2015. — 632 p. — ISBN 13 9781479800728. Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq, alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from...
Basque American Foundation, 1986. — 208 p. Эмпаранца Хосе Луис Альварес (Чильярдеги). Тайный дневник Летурии, роман (на англ. яз.) Translated from Basque by Maddi Alvarez Forcada, the original being "Leturiaren Egunkari Izkutua" (Leturia's Secret Diary). The novel "Leturia's Secret Diary" supposed a great qualitative change for the Basque literature, especially in matters of...
Basque American Foundation, 1986. — 208 p. Эмпаранца Хосе Луис Альварес (Чильярдеги). Тайный дневник Летурии, роман (на англ. яз.) Translated from Basque by Maddi Alvarez Forcada, the original being "Leturiaren Egunkari Izkutua" (Leturia's Secret Diary). The novel "Leturia's Secret Diary" supposed a great qualitative change for the Basque literature, especially in matters of...
Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack – apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a...
In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a life with dignity and respect. Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three days...
New Delhi: Amrit Booc Co, 1948. — 176 p. It helps the society what was the history about untouchables and how they have been isolated by the society and had been treated as slave and how to overcome the evil like casteism, racism, Discrimination and many more.
Longmans, Green and Co., 1921. — 334 (352) p. New impression. Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin, A.M., Ph.D. Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle (1820). William Austin - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man (1824). James Hall - The French Village (1829). Albert Pike - The Inroad Of The Nahajo (1833). Nathaniel Hawthorne - The White...
Celadon Books, 2023. — 528 р. — ISBN 9781250844248 On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. In this searing novel, Eden Perry’s death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were...
Motivation (Psychology) Businesswomen. New business enterprises. Success in business. New York : Portfolio/Penguin, Putnam, 2014 A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it." The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion-it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving....
Portfolio Hardcover, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 039916927X, ISBN13: 978-0399169274. The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion — it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and working a mediocre day job she’d taken for...
Primary Information, 2013. — 342 p. — ISBN: 978-0-985136437 First published by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first American anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany--through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term "concrete" from the art of his...
London: Wishart books, 1935. — 233 p. Untouchable is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand published in 1935. The novel established Anand as one of India's leading English authors. The book was inspired by his aunt's experience of being ostracized for sharing a meal with a Muslim woman. The plot of this book, Anand's first, revolves around the argument for eradicating the caste system. It...
ECW Press, 2005. — 339 p. — (A Novel). — ISBN 13 9781554907144. A comedian’s career is ended after a presidential assassination, and a journalist tries to track him down decades later, in this darkly humorous novel. In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian’s uncanny impression of the president made him a star. But when the genuine article died...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1955. — 272 p. The Man-Eater of Jowlagiri The Spotted Devil of Gummalapur The Striped Terror of Chamala Valley The Hosdurga-Holalkere Man-Eater The Rogue Elephant of Panapatti The Man-Eater of Segur The Man-Eater of Yemaydoddi The Killer of Jalahalli The Hermit of Devarayandurga Byra, the Poojaree The Tigers of Tagarthy
A Book Of Impressions From American Life In Tales And Poems: The dumb man. I want to know why. Seeds. The other woman (Audio). The egg. Unlighted lamps. Senility. The man in the brown coat. Brothers. The door of the trap. The new englander. War. Motherhood. Out of nowhere into nothing. The man with the trumpet. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Like Samuel Clemens, by whom, in...
A Book Of Impressions From American Life In Tales And Poems: The dumb man. I want to know why. Seeds. The other woman (Audio). The egg. Unlighted lamps. Senility. The man in the brown coat. Brothers. The door of the trap. The new englander. War. Motherhood. Out of nowhere into nothing. The man with the trumpet. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Like Samuel Clemens, by whom, in...
210 pages. Introduction by Irving Howe. Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson. The work is structured around the life of protagonist George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg as a young man....
Amulet Books, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-0176-2 Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time — when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers — making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies...
Amulet Books, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-0176-2 Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time — when not playing video games and avoiding Earl’s terrifying brothers — making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies...
Amulet Books, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1-4197-2078-3 From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award–winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow a quest to escape the law long enough to...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1250126061; ISBN13: 978-1250126061. An instant New York Times bestseller (May 2018) from the author of The Weekenders - a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations. When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her...
St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 1250126061; ISBN13: 978-1250126061. An instant New York Times bestseller (May 2018) from the author of The Weekenders - a delightful new novel about new love, old secrets, and the kind of friendship that transcends generations. When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her...
Random House, 2008. — ISBN10: 1588367517; ISBN13: 9781588367518. For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her...
London—New York: Cape Goliard Press, Grossman Publishers, 1969. — 40 p. Анхава Туомас. В темноте иди осторожно (на англ. яз.) Туомас Анхава (фин. Tuomas Anhava; 1927 — 2001) — финский поэт, переводчик, литературный критик. Представитель модернизма в поэзии, последователь Эзры Паунда и Томаса С. Элиота. Его стихи очень напоминают японскую и китайскую поэзию, которую Т. Анхава...
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller, 2015. — ASIN B015YVOT8I. An Englishwoman falls for a Russian wanted by Intelligence on both sides of the Iron Curtain in this classic tale of Cold War espionage As executive assistant to a senior diplomat at the UN, widow Judith Farrow spends most of her working hours handling classified information. When her boss insists she take some time...
Translation from the Japanese by Alison Watts. Hanover Square Press, 2023. — 351 р. — ISBN-13: 9780369742018 What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new...
University of California Press, 2007. - 474 p. - (Hellenistic culture and society 25).
The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios's epic Greek. This expanded...
Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize.
A twenty-five-thousand-copy bestseller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town design by American...
Biography. New York, Kensington Publishing Corp, 2004, 256 pages
A treat for every hip hop fan, this book presents a rare and indispensable look into the private life of the iconic Tupak Shakur, complete with original letters and poems.
Transworld Publishers, 2017. — ISBN: 978-085-7-52418-8. It’s not the journey that counts, but who is at your side Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where to. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved Satoru in the front of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why and Satoru won’t say. Set...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 884 p.
Aristophanes ( c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion , was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are used to define the...
Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics, Orchid Press, 1994. — 136 p.
Internet revised edition 2006.
Рапхепхат А. Круг жизни (на англ.яз.)
Аркатдам-кеунг Рапхепхат (1906-1932) - принц Таиланда, писатель. Роман "Круг жизни" был написан в 1929 г. Три года спустя, в возрасте 26 лет, писатель покончил жизнь самоубийством. Роман считается одним из главных произведений современной тайской...
Glasgow: W. Collins Son & Co, 1926. — 342 p.
The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s—the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism, and the spirit of rebellion of the "bright young things" of Mayfair. Iris Storm, femme fatale, races around London and Europe in her yellow Hispano-Suiza surrounded by romantic intrigue, but beneath the glamour...
London: William Heinemann, 1920. Drawings by Michel Sevier. — 178 (202) p.
A semi-autobiographical book by the author of the worldwide bestselling novel The Green Hat (1924). He adopted his pen name after its publication.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. — 297 (312) p.
A book of 4 short stories by the author of the bestseller The Green Hat.
The Romantic Lady – The story of a beautiful Italian woman who chooses her new husband by inviting a man home and forbidding him to ever see her again.
Fay Richmond – A man finds himself a frequent guest and friend in the house of the...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. — 128 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN 10: 0819570915; ISBN 13: 978-0819570918. Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play...
Picador, 2022. — 340 р. — ISBN-10: 000-860-8032 Our Wives Under The Sea is the haunting novel from Julia Armfiled, the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. But It...
Fourth Estate, 2024. — 449 р. — ISBN-10: 000-860-8032 From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else. It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long...
Picador, 2019. — 266 р. — ISBN-10: 000-860-8032 In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’....
London: Faber & Faber, 2015. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0571310699; ISBN13: 978-0571310692 When Simon Armitage burst on to the poetry scene in 1989 with his spectacular debut Zoom!, readers were introduced to an exceptional new talent who would reshape the landscape of contemporary poetry in the years to come. Now, twenty-five years on, Simon Armitage's reputation as one of the...
New York: Knopf, 2011. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 0307594831; ISBN13: 978-0307594839 A thrilling new collection from the hugely acclaimed British poet Simon Armitage. With its vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, and tall tales, this absurdist, unreal exploration of modern society brings us a chorus of unique and unforgettable voices. All are welcome at this twilit, visionary...
New York: Knopf (August, 2017. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 1524732427; ISBN13: 978-1524732424 In The Unaccompanied, Armitage gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as...
London: Faber & Faber, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0571298362; ISBN13: 978-0571298365 Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern-day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-winning Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home. In...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 475 р. — ISBN 9781250284204 Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it’s the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to...
Girlebooks, (no year). — 322 p. First published in 1921, Vera is a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both have recently lost someone close to them as the first chapter opens. They meet and at once believe they have found a soul mate in each other. As their relationship progresses we come to understand more of each character's past. Most importantly we...
Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014. — 306 p. — ISBN 978-1-935738-69-5. Grave Markings follows the tortured mental breakdown of Mark Michael Kilpatrick—an artist driven to purge visions of hell from his tainted mind by permanently working his ink into the skins of unwilling victims...the flesh of both the living and freshly dead. News reporter Roy Roberts finds himself drawn into an...
1997 Man Booker Prize winner.
"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely...
The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives. The book won the Booker Prize...
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 753 p. — ISBN: 9780241980774. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive...
Biography. Purple Inc Press ,2011, 350, EPUB
Diana Dors is a legend. Her fame has survived the adored fifties's celebrity to today's cult figure. She is arguably the biggest star the U.K. has produced, not only for her acclaimed body of work but for her generosity, incredible bravery, lack of airs and graces, her compassion, wit and intelligence.
From the age of eight Diana's...
Razorbill, 2007. — 304 p.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he...
Razorbill, 2017. — 336 p. “You can’t stop the future.” “You can’t rewind the past.” “The only way to learn the secret...is to press play. “Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier....
London: Avon Books, 2011. – 145 p. Another deliciously seasonal and heart-warming tale from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Chocolate Wishes. In the pretty Lancashire village of Middlemoss, Lizzy is on the verge of leaving her cheating husband, Tom, when tragedy strikes. Luckily she has welcome distraction in the Christmas Pudding Circle,...
New York: HarperCollins, 2010. – 181 p. Christmas has always been a sad time for a young widow Holly Brown, so when she's asked to look after a remote house on the Lancashire moors, the opportunity to hide herself away is irresistible — the perfect excuse to forget about the festivities. Sculptor, Jude Martland, is determined that this year there will be no Christmas after his...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit. Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is in charge of eight-year-old Emma Warner, the youngest member of the snooty Warner family. Emma is an evil genius who has gotten all five previous nannies fired, and she's the good news. Because then there's Emma's half brother, Graydon, who goes to college, yet always seems to be lurking around waiting to...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit.
Sixteen-year-old Adrienne Lewis is a nanny in the fabulous Warner penthouse high above Manhattan. Every day, Adrienne watches eight-year-old Emma after school and constantly tangles with Emma's beautiful but wicked teenage half sister, Cameron.
In the meantime, Adrienne's best friend, Liz Braun, has also gotten caught in the seductive web of...
HarperCollin Young Adult, chick lit. A secret just isn't juicy unless it's shared... Teen nannies Adrienne Lewis and Liz Braun finally have it all...or so they think. Adrienne is so over her ex-boyfriend, who dumped her for Cameron Warner. But it's Cameron's half brother who is hitting on Adrienne. Are his charming ways sincere? Liz's relationship with her boyfriend is going...
Glasgow: Bloodaxe Books Ltd,.2004.—498p. Poetry..."My hope is that having discovered a much fuller understanding and appreciation of contemporary poetry through Staying Alive, you will then want to go on to explore the full riches held in so many other books. Until you discovered Staying Alive, the problem was that you didn't know where to look, but after you've read and reread...
Doubleday, 2024. — 307 p. Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. In his sleepy Yorkshire town, ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off boredom and malaise. His only case is the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But Jackson soon uncovers a string of unsolved art thefts that lead him down a...
A novel. “To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten” Thomas Chandler. Story about understanding and true love.
Monarch, 2002. — 32 p. Atticus is a Canadian poet whose work has become popular via social media. His true identity is not disclosed. "It may strike you as the kind of poetry that might feel more at home in a greeting-card store than a library – but can 387,000 Instagram followers be wrong?"
NY: Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2001. — 71 p. Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the...
Random House, 1962. — 544 p. — ISBN: 0679724842. In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's...
New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1979. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0679724834. This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other...
New York: Random House, Vintage Books, 1979. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0679724834. This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other...
Routledge, 2017. — 110 p. Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the social and cultural life of Gaul and its environment. His often difficult and playful Latin is presented in English by the award winning poet Deborah Warren, enabling a new generation of students to use and understand the poems. With notes...
NLVI Publishers, 2006. — 192 p. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is a 2006 Dutch novel, written by Anonymous and published in Amsterdam by NLVI. It was called a "surprise dark-horse Williamsburg best seller" by New York Magazine, referring to the independent art, literature, and music scene in Brooklyn, New York. Purporting to be an autobiography, Diary of an Oxygen Thief begins with...
USA, NY: Riverhead Books. — 218 p. Tash Aw was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. He moved to England in his teens and now lives in London. This is his first novel. “Aw slices his first novel into three segments, wherein three characters dissect the nature of Johnny Lim, a controversial figure in 1940s Malaysia. Depending on the teller, Johnny was a Communist leader, an...
Marysue Rucci Books, 2023. — 615 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6971-8 For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. — 216 p. Айи Квеи Арма. Прекрасные еще не родились, роман (на англ. яз.) The novel tells the story of a nameless man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana. The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is...
Выходные данные не указаны. 146 pp. Even in the slaughterhouse of boyhood I was dimly aware that I should have some jolly, wink-eyed uncle or gramp with whom to share private jokes and hatch terrorist outrages against the state. But all I recall is Uncle Snapper, who liked to go shooting in the woods and had a theory about squirrels. ‘They always run round the other side of the...
First published as a serial in the newspaper El Paso del Norte, in October and November of 1915, then as a book published by the same newspaper, the novel «Los de abajo» has been translated into all the main languages of the world. Mariano Azuela's masterwork came out one hundred years after José Loaquín Fernández de Lazardi's «El Periquillo Sarniento» created the genre of the...
Atria Paperback, 2023. — 591 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-1511-1 Mother and daughter Charlie and Eva never sought social media fame, but when a stunning photo of Eva went viral, fame found them. Now, after more than two years documenting life on the road in their vintage Airstream trailer, the duo has temporarily settled on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Eva is happily finishing her...
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986. — 142 p. — ISBN-10: 5050015626; ISBN-13: 978-5050015624. The book is a collection of folk tales from the Baltic region. The Soviet Baltic republics, Latvia, Lithuania and Lstonia, are closely bound up with the sea. And the people who live there are what you would expect sea tolk to be, tall, tough and strong. This is a land of fishermen,...
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986. — 142 p. — ISBN-10: 5050015626; ISBN-13: 978-5050015624. The book is a collection of folk tales from the Baltic region. The Soviet Baltic republics, Latvia, Lithuania and Lstonia, are closely bound up with the sea. And the people who live there are what you would expect sea tolk to be, tall, tough and strong. This is a land of fishermen,...
Transl. by Annette Susannah Beveridge. — New Delhi: Oriental books, 1979 (reprint edition). — 810 p. Bāburnāma (Chagatai/Persian: بابر نامہ;´, literally: "Book of Babur" or "Letters of Babur"; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur....
Delphi Classics, 2020. — 246 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 100). — ASIN B085H6XTHQ. The fifth century Greek lyric poet Bacchylides was the nephew of Simonides of Ceos and the rival of Pindar. He was included by later Greeks in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, due to his ‘elegance’ and ‘polished’ style. The most notable features of his poetry are clarity in...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 208 p. — ISBN-10 1635579384; ISBN-13 978-1635579383. The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommended by BTS. Psychiatrist: So how can I help you? Me: I don’t know, I’m – what’s the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a...
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and...
Flatiron Books, 2021. — 740 p. — ISBN 978-1250-31952-4 There are husbands everywhere. In suits, in polo shirts, in khakis and cargo shorts, flip-flops, square-toes, loafers, and sneakers, in baseball caps, with thinning hair, and sleeves rolled up, with tufts of chest hair at the neckline, with soft-mound bellies atop braided belts, in craft brewery T-shirts, with toenails in...
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new...
Alison and Charlie, Claire and Ben seem like two picture-perfect couples. Alison and Charlie have a beautiful family and a home in the suburbs, while Claire and Ben's marriage revolves around their careers and city-based lives. Despite their differences, the two couples have remained close friends for ten years. But one terrifying moment in the dead of a New Jersey night will...
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) . With an Introduction by John Harrington Smith Los Angeles. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. University of California. 1950 In the first decade of the eighteenth century, with comedy in train to be altered out of recognition to please the reformers and the ladies, one of the two talented writers who attempted to keep the comic muse alive in...
HarperTeen, 2023. — 453 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-321459-0 Clara’s magic has always been wild. But it’s never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father’s chest. The only way to heal him is to cast an extremely difficult spell that requires perfect control. And the only person willing to help is her former best friend, Xavier, who’s grown from...
Grand Central Publishing, 2015. — 416 p. — (Amos Decker series). Amos Decker's life changed forever-twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field...
Macmillan, 2023. — 714 р. — ISBN 978-1-5290-6205-2 Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named...
Series: Will Robie Series (Book 3). Paperback: 464 pages. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 16, 2014). Language: English. ISBN10: 1455521183. ISBN13: 978-1455521180. The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain...
The novel portrays many themes that were taboo at the time of its release, including bisexuality, interracial couples and extramarital affairs. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is...
E-book, 2016. — 60 p. — ISBN13: 978-1532943423 Want to become amazing with yourself, and the Ladies? Well this book can get you there, quickly, through the real life and incredibly detailed seduction reports. The following is an INCREDIBLY valuable, unorganised mind-dump of seduction stories, old diary posts and epiphanies from author, dating coach, acupuncturist and internal...
New York: Grove Press, 2004. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0802141226; ISBN13: 978-0802141224 — (Grove Press Poetry) March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of a simple succession of individual, barely-linked poems. Craftsmanship defines this...
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1571314423; ISBN13: 978-1571314420. The Village on Horseback features mesmerizing new work from the author of Samedi the Deafness and The Way Through Doors, one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2009. This collection of new pieces by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend....
Delacorte, 2013. — 242 p. — ISBN: 0385741588 (ISBN13: 9780385741583). My friends and I are spending prom weekend at a remote wooded cabin on the Dead. The Dead River. I thought it was going to be just us. I was wrong. Nothing is what it seems in this creepy paranormal thriller by Cyn Balog.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. — 380 p. Forced by necessity into a life of piracy, Senlin and his crew struggle to survive aboard their stolen airship. Senlin’s search for his lost wife continues, even as her ghost hounds his every step. But the Tower of Babel proves to be as difficult to reenter as it was to escape. While searching for an unguarded port,...
Orbit, 2017. — 371 p. Mild-mannered headmaster, Thomas Senlin prefers his adventures to be safely contained within the pages of a book. So when he loses his new bride shortly after embarking on the honeymoon of their dreams, he is ill-prepared for the trouble that follows. To find her, Senlin must enter the Tower of Babel - a world of geniuses and tyrants, of menace and wonder,...
California: University of California Press,.1989.—254p.—ISBN: 0-520-06090-3 Bilingual (english-portugal) Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Flag Son was born in Recife, on 19 April 1886. He was a poet, literary critic and art, literature professor and Brazilian translator.
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2005 Man Booker Prize winner.
Published: Picador, 2005.
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met...
Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics, 2009. — 421 p. Баранг Марсель (ред.) Двадцать лучших романов Таиланда (на англ. яз.) Books in a Bind. Before the Novel. Legacies of the Past. Marie Who? The Birth of the Novel. The Pioneers. The Lost Generation. The Baby Boomers. Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat, The Circus of Life. Seeboorapha, Behind the Picture. Dorkmai Sot, Noblesse Oblige. K....
Bangkok: Thai Modern Classics, 1994. — 290 (491) p. Баранг Марсель (ред.) Антология тайского романа (на англ. яз.) Books in a bind. Before the novel. Legacies of the past. Marie who? The birth of the novel. The pioneers. The lost generation. The baby boomers. Arkartdamkeung Rapheephat, The circus of life. Seeboorapha, Behind the picture. Dorkmai Sot, A person of quality. K....
2008/2010 English Digital Edition The Elegance of the Hedgehog ( French: L'élégance du hérisson) is a novel by the French novelist and professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery . The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse. Paloma is the...
The Rosary is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but does not trust his love, as is known to be a great lover of beauty, and she – alas – is very plain. Just as she decides to trust him, she receives news that he has been blinded in a hunting accident. She wants to go visit him, but he will not receive her, as...
433 стр. From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit. Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen — contemplating a cache of 26 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the hairdresser's in Skipton — it's also a job of work. The quaint moorside...
A novel about stripping off layers of prejudice and lies, about the possibility of redemption, and laying bare the truth. It is also about coming to terms with the past, and about the fantasies people construct in order to protect their fragile inner selves.
NY: New Directions Publishing, 1937. — ISBN: 978-0-8112-1671-5. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and...
288 pages Published 2007 by Simon Pulse Нere are two sides to every breakup. This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation. Then Jordan dumps Courtney — for a girl he met on the Internet. It's too late to change...
Indianapolis: University of Indiana Press, 1996. — 224 p. — ISBN 10: 0252065162; ISBN 13: 978-0252065165 A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, "We Jews and Blacks" wrestles with problems...
CB Creative Books, 2012. — 352 p. The perfect farmhouse. The perfect couple. The perfect betrayal. Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy the perfect farmhouse in France, she reluctantly agrees, even though he continues commuting to London while she looks after their daughter and the builders. But France is not the idyll he promised,...
Penguin UK, 2016. — 320 p. Flora Banks is a girl with amnesia who is unable to create new memories for herself. She has to remind herself who she is and what she's doing every few hours. Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is. Then she kisses someone she shouldn't,...
Penguin Books, 2020. — 507 p. — ISBN: 978-0-241-34528-3 Timely and powerful; the new coming-of-age thriller from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks. One minute you're walking in the park, hiding from a party. Then you discover that the next nine months will probably be your last. Everyone's last. You realise that you happen to be alive at the time when your...
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to...
From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to...
A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way
As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and she decides to record the events of her life.
As Roseanne revisits her past, hiding the...
Зарубежное художественное произведение. Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London. - 108 с. The book consists of 17 chapters (Книга состоит из 17 глав)
Parthian, 2013. — 357 p.
Первый роман Стэна Барстоу «Разновидность любви» (Stan Barstow A Kind of Loving) появился в 1960 году и сразу привлек внимание читателей и критиков. Книга, описывающая жизнь среднего класса, повлияла не только на английскую литературу, но и на всю культурную жизнь того времени. В 1962 году был поставлен фильм с тем же названием. На русском языке роман...
Harper Collins Entertainment, 2009. — 182 p. — ISBN: 0-00-711005-7 Hello there, friend, and welcome to Bart Simpson's Guide to Life. If you didn't swipe this book, and it wasn't a gift, then we here at the Bart Simpson Foundation for Personal Enrichment must assume that you actually paid money for this merchandise. Therefore we must assume that you are a concerned and sensitive...
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It is summer, 1940. As Hitler’s armies turn mainland Europe into a mass graveyard, his feared Luftwaffe rain bombs on England. Meanwhile, amid the green hills of the Cotswolds, a nest of enemy aliens has been discovered: the Bruderhof, a Christian commune made up of German, Dutch, and Swiss refugees, and growing...
New York: Anchor, 1992. — 573 p. — ISBN10: 0385422202; ISBN13: 978-0385422208. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor is a postmodern metafictional story of a man who jumps overboard a modern replica of a medieval Arab ship and is rescued by sailors from the world of Sinbad the Sailor. Eventually he makes his way to "Baghdad, the City of Peace", and finds himself in the stories...
Ballantine Books, 2023. — 597 р. — ISBN 9781984820501 Kelly’s new life in Philadelphia has turned into a nightmare: She’s friendless and jobless, and the lockdown has her trapped in a tiny apartment with the man she gave up everything for, who’s just called off their wedding. The only bright spot is her newly rekindled friendship with her childhood friend Sabrina—now a...
Translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamili. Shambhala Publications, 1998. — 177 p. — ISBN 978-1-57062-716-3 Bashō rose long before dawn, but even at such an early hour, he knew the day would grow rosy bright. It was spring, 1689. In Ueno and Yanaka, cherry trees were in full blossom, and hundreds of families would soon be strolling under their branches, lovers walking and...
Transl. from the Japan.: Andrew Fitzsimons. — University of California Press, 2022. — xlvi, 424 p. — (World Literature in Translation). — ISBN 978-0520385580, 978-0520385597. This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō. Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese...
Translated from the Japanese with an introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa. — New York: Penguin Classics, 1970. — 167 p. This volume contains five travel sketches written, in later life, by Matsuo Basho (1644–94), the greatest of the Japanese haiku poets. Basho’s genius had already given new freedoms and energy to the strict haiku form of seventetm syllables, elevating it to a level...
Harper, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0062277359; ISBN13: 978-0062277350. The Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve a baffling puzzle in...
London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2015.
Качество: изначально электронное
Три короткие новеллы замечательного мастера жанра пасторальной жизни Англии середины 20 века. Написаны в разное время.
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Foreword by Lesley Pearsу
A Note from the Family
Dulcima
The Grass God
The Delicate Nature
Bonus Story: Old Lady
A Note on the Author
A dazzling collection of award-winning stories with the emotional punch, sharp wit, and disarming charm of Rebecca Lee, Karen Russell, Neil Smith, and Jessica Grant.
Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Step right up and prepare to be dazzled by this delightful debut from Claire Battershill, winner of the CBC Literary Award, co-winner of the Canadian Authors Association’s...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—527p.—ISBN: 0-226-03923-4 Laura Battiferri (1523–1589), also called Laura Battiferri Ammanati, was an Italian poet during the Renaissance period. She was born in Urbino, Italy as the illegitimate daughter of Giovanni Antonio Battiferri and Maddalena Coccapani of Carpi. She published two books of poetry: The First Book of Tuscan...
Blackstone, 2020. — 311 р. — ISBN 978-1-982627-13-3 It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning. The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice. There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window....
To create this tremendously affecting memoir, Jean-Dominique Bauby used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its short chapters, letter by letter. Two years ago, Bauby, then the 43-year-old editor-in-chief of Elle France, suffered a rare stroke to the brain stem; only his left eye and brain escaped damage. Rather than accept his "locked in"...
Spanning 1940s to 2020s America, a Pynchon-esque saga about rock music, art, politics, and the elusive nature of love. Meet everyman Moses Teumer, whose recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia has sent him in search of a donor. When he discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother, he must hunt down his birth parents and unspool the intertwined...
From the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Rea Award for the Short Story: a gorgeously rendered, passionate account of a relationship threatened by secrets, set against the backdrop of national tragedy.
When Natasha, a talented young artist working as a congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, an...
London: Atlas Press, 1996. — 159 p.
Байер Конрад. Шестое чувство (на англ. яз.)
К. Байер (1932-1964) — австрийский писатель, драматург и поэт, один из членов Венской группы.
Наибольшую известность ему принесли произведения "Голова Витуса Беринга" и "Шестое чувство". Его проза была лиричной, что вполне типично для стиля Венской группы, но тем не менее считалась новаторской и...
Scribner, 2023. — 569 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-5310-6 Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she...
When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its assessment of her characters' drift and narcissism, that she was instantly celebrated as a voice of her generation. Her name became an adjective: Beattiesque. Subtle, wry, and unnerving, she is a master observer...
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff , and The White Boy Shuffle , and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce . He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor . He lives in New York City. Winner of 2016 Booker Prize
PAUL BEATTY is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff , and The White Boy Shuffle , and two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce . He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African American Humor. He lives in New York City. Winner of 2016 Booker Prize
E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916. — 173 p. Evréinov, N. A merry death. — Evréinov, N. The beautiful despot. — Vízin, D. The choice of a tutor. — Chéhov, A. The wedding. — Chéhov, A. The jubilee. — Ukráinka, L. The Babylonian captivity. The plays selected for translation in this volume are, for the most part, modem. Von Vfzin alone belongs to an earlier date, that of the late...
NY: NYRB, 2018. — 400 p. Could you call Sybille Bedford a precursor of Knausgaard and Chris Kraus? Like them, she certainly did set the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw, her fourth and final novel, she does it with particular deliberation and artistry. “What I had in mind,” she was later to say, “was to build a novel...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1997. — 104 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN 10: 0819512219; ISBN 13: 978-0819512215 Candy Necklace ushers an intense new voice onto the field of American poetry. Lush and turbulent, the poems collected here expose the violence underlying all acts of union and creation, a violence for which poetry might be a redemptive language but in...
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the most influential romances of the medieval period, inspiring many artists, from story-tellers to painters to composers.
Thirty-one-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year. She can't remember when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real...
Aris & Phillips, 1980. — 104 p. — (Approaches to Arabic Literature 2.) Arabic text, based on the Istanbul MS, with translation and commentary of the 9th century writer's Risalat al-Qiyan . The Epistle, which ironically purports to be a defence of the practices of singing-girls and their masters, is a vivid account, touched with humour, of this aspect of the social habits of the...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1476725829; ISBN13: 978-1476725826. The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1476725829; ISBN13: 978-1476725826. The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — (Delphi Series Six Book 20). — ASIN B01COBONR8. The first English woman to earn her living by her writing, the Restoration author Aphra Behn broke cultural barriers, serving as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. This comprehensive eBook presents Behn’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and...
The book follows Octave, a successful copywriter that appears to have it all. Not only is his job going well, but he has surrounded himself with expensive material goods, beautiful women, and lots of cocaine. That easygoing life ends when he becomes disillusioned with his life and his job after a meeting with a client ends with him smearing the word "pigs" on the walls using his...
The book follows Octave, a successful copywriter that appears to have it all. Not only is his job going well, but he has surrounded himself with expensive material goods, beautiful women, and lots of cocaine. That easygoing life ends when he becomes disillusioned with his life and his job after a meeting with a client ends with him smearing the word "pigs" on the walls using his...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. — 233 p. She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train . It starts with a simple favor — an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another. When her best...
Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation — a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely.
W&N, 2005. 294 р. — ISBN10: 0297847821, ISBN13: 978-0297847823. Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary...
As soon as it appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie is himself for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers, and operators, compiling a record of choices that is-to say the least-eccentric.
Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the...
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory--even if it means traveling the globe, alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for...
Delphi Classic. 2013.
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.
Riverhead Books, 2020. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 0525536299; ISBN13: 978-0525536291. From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small,...
Riverhead Books, 2020. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 0525536299; ISBN13: 978-0525536291. From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small,...
New York; Chicago; London: The Neely Company, [1900]. — 76 p. A Bird in Lincoln’s Tomb Renewal Bird voices Light and Shade A Lament Eastern Offerings To an Editor on His Birthday Easter Morning Testimonies Flowers for Easteer Easter Gladness Sea and Shore A Song on a Slate Cricket's Song True and Untrue То а Роет Across the Sea November Rosebuds Anniversary: In Memoriam The...
New York; Chicago; London: The Neely Company, [1900]. — 76 p. A Bird in Lincoln’s Tomb Renewal Bird voices Light and Shade A Lament Eastern Offerings To an Editor on His Birthday Easter Morning Testimonies Flowers for Easteer Easter Gladness Sea and Shore A Song on a Slate Cricket's Song True and Untrue То а Роет Across the Sea November Rosebuds Anniversary: In Memoriam The...
HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2016. — 214 p. — ISBN: 0062002724, 1410490521. The nationally bestselling author of Delilah's Daughters and The Amen Sisters returns with a moving story about a single mother who discovers the woman she can be in one unforgettable summer. As a single mother, Destiny makes sacrifices for her children-including saying goodbye for the summer so they...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't...
Berkeley, CA: In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur, 2007. — 104 p. — ISBN-10 : 1933368243; ISBN-13 : 978-1933368249 Poetry. Jasper Bernes's magnificent and multi-layered first book, Starsdown , emerges as a record of Los Angeles as its physical space collapses into specters and marks, where "the sky is a swimming pool" and the signs and stars keep switching places. Beneath the...
Viking Juvenile 2013 — 166 стр. — ISBN13: 9780670786152
Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the...
USA: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., 2010. — 86 p. Берримэн Джон. 77 сновидческих песен (на англ. яз.) Old Pussy-cat if he won't eat, he don’t feel good into his tum’, old Pussy-cat. He wants to have eaten. Tremor, heaves, he sweaterings. He can’t. A dizzy swims of where is Henry at; ...somewhere streng verboten. How come he sleeps & sleeps and sleeps, waking like death:...
Print, 2013. — ISBN10: 1440329869; ISBN13: 978-1440329869. What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped...
Seattle: Amazon Publishing, 2012. — 232 p. — eISBN-13 9781477809235. Hi. I’m Radhika Mehta and I’m getting married this week. I work at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank. Thank you for reading my story. However, let me warn you: you may not like me too much. One, I make a lot of money. Two, I have an opinion about everything. Three, I have had a boyfriend before. Okay, maybe...
BookRix-Edition, 2010, язык: Английский, — 8 с. — 2014 слов. A Fictional Story on Earthquake Dedicated to the victims of HAITI. It was Monday, and the town school started as usual. Ms Rose Marie entered the class. She was a middle-aged lady, who taught children from grades five to eight. Her way of teaching was very unique. She explained every lesson with some live examples....
Berkeley, 2022. — 452 p. — ISBN 9781640090248 Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Два тома воспоминаний о военной и послевоенной жизни глазами ирландки живущей в фашисткой Германии. Издание включает два тома. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The Past is Myself is her...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Два тома воспоминаний о военной и послевоенной жизни глазами ирландки живущей в фашисткой Германии. Издание включает два тома. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The Past is Myself is her...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Два тома воспоминаний о военной и послевоенной жизни глазами ирландки живущей в фашисткой Германии. Издание включает два тома. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The Past is Myself is her...
Corgi, 2012. Omnibus edition Два тома воспоминаний о военной и послевоенной жизни глазами ирландки живущей в фашисткой Германии. Издание включает два тома. Christabel Bielenberg, an Englishwoman of Irish descent, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany as a German citizen under the horrors of Nazi rule and Allied bombings. The Past is Myself is her...
Dover Publications, 200. — 176 p. Ambrose Bierce wrote stories so dramatically different from those of his contemporaries that they hardly seem like they were written in the nineteenth century. These original and innovative tales, most of which appeared in the 1880s and 1890s, constitute 23 examples of his best and most characteristic short fiction: anti-war satires that...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 5406 p. — ASIN B00BNWVP5S For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present the complete works of master storyteller Ambrose Bierce. This comprehensive eBook is spiced with numerous illustrations, rare and forgotten texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Beautifully illustrated with images...
1899 Edition. The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot Two Kings An Officer and a Thug The Conscientious Official How Leisure Came The Moral Sentiment The Politicians The Thoughtful Warden The Treasury and the Arms The Christian Serpent The Broom of the Temple The Critics The Foolish Woman...
The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602, 2000, 404 p.
Devil's Dictionary (Словарь Дьявола) – это юмористический словарь, который содержит определения, которые являются сатирическими комментариями по предмету, который они определяют.
Penguin, 1996.
Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth.
John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Penguin, 1996.
Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth.
John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Penguin, 1996.
Righteous Gentile, first published in 1981, is the first book to tell the full story of Raoul Wallenberg's shining wartime exploits and shameful post-war incarceration. The author's conclusion: the Wallenberg file has been destroyed, and we may never learn the truth.
John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006
Penguin Group, 2008. — 130 p. A classroom hamster has to be ready for anything, but suddenly there are LOTS-LOTS-LOTS of big surprises in Humphrey's world. Some are exciting, like a new hamster ball. But some are scary, like a run-in with a cat and a new janitor who might be from another planet. But even with all that's going on, Humphrey finds time to help his classmates with...
Элизабет Бишоп (англ. Elizabeth Bishop, 8 февраля 1911, Вустер, Массачусетс — 6 октября 1979, Бостон) — американская поэтесса. Крайне немногословная лирика Бишоп, живущая, по её формуле, «искусством расставания» (стихотворение «One Art»), отличается предельной сдержанностью и внутренней силой, сознанием неизбывного одиночества и, вместе с тем, духовной свободы, чистотой и...
Da Capo Press. — ISBN10: 0306809907; ISBN13: 978-0306809903. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy...
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019. — 321 p. — ISBN: 0316310425. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time determined...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
London: An Hachette UK Company, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 1472218965; ISBN13: 9781472218964. Brand new novel from Jenny Blackhurst, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of How i lost you, which Clare Mackintosh called ‘utterly gripping’. If you don’t know who is walking through the door, how do you know if you should let them in? Perfect for fans of Lisa Hall’s The sister and Claire...
Роман. The sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. These are the words that have followed me always. This is the curse which has fallen on my life.
Reprobatio, Ltd., 2015. — 269 p. — ASIN B012EJJ7DK. Artemis Black's world is coming apart in the days leading up to Christmas. His relationship is on the rocks, he's struggling to make ends meet, he's gone days without sleep, and when he's called in to investigate a brutal murder at a big box store in Long Beach, he's at the end of his rope. Racing the clock to clear a young...
ISBN: 9781513282558. ISBN-10: 1513282557. Publisher: Mint Editions. Publication Date: May 21st, 2021. Pages: 388. Martín Rivas (1862) is a novel by Alberto Blest Gana. Regarded as the first Chilean novel, Martín Rivas is a powerful story of romance, class, and national unity from an author who served for decades as a diplomat and ambassador for Chile. Inspired by the social...
Toothy Chum Press, 2011. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-0615509341 (paperback), ISBN: 0615509347 (Kindle). Gird yourself for adventure on a massive scale! This is the riveting account of the first Fumu ascent. What is Fumu? It is the tallest mountain in the world, a fact long kept from the public. Join two pompous American climbers as they navigate the perils of their respective parent...
The Dial Press, 2021. — 508 p. — ISBN 9780593134849 On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespeare scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions...
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. — 288 p. — ISBN 10: 0060191218; ISBN 13: 978-0060191214. Robert Bly had many roles in his illustrious career. He was a chronicler and mentor of young poets, was a leader of the antiwar movement, founded the men's movement, and wrote the bestselling book Iron John, which brought the men's movement to the attention of the world....
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. — 288 p. — ISBN 10: 0060575867; ISBN 13: 978-0060575860 Robert Bly had always been amazingly prescient in his choice of poets to translate. The poetry he chose supplied qualities that were lacking from the literary culture of this country. For the first time Robert Bly's brilliant translations, from several languages, have been...
Coffee House Press, 2019. — 202 р. — ISBN-10: 1566895324. Taking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn, and in her cry generations of women's voices echo. Stories, both benign and traumatic,...
2021. — 280 p. Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives of twelve great adventurers―Alexander the Great, Casanova, Christopher Columbus, Mahomet, Lola Montez, Cagliostro (and Seraphina), Charles XII of Sweden, Napoleon I, Lucius Sergius Catiline, Napoleon III,...
Blaise Fortune, also known as Koumaïl, loves hearing the story of how he came to live with Gloria in the Republic of Georgia: Gloria was picking peaches in her father’s orchard when she heard a train derail. After running to the site of the accident, she found an injured woman who asked Gloria to take her baby. The woman, Gloria claims, was French, and the baby was Blaise. When...
Ill Will Editions, 2016. — 76 p. Shorter Poems . Poem (After Sappho). After Rimbaud. After Rimbaud (For the Administration). After Rimbaud. Letters . Letter on Poetics. Letter on Riots and Doubt. Letter on Specters. Letter on Silence. Essays . Comets & Barricades: Insurrectionary Imagination in Exile. Notes on Militant Poetics. Longer Poems . Poems After Katarina Gogou....
Commune Editions, 2019. — 125 p. — ISBN 9781934639283. Letter in Turmoil From Deep Darkness A Butcher’s Lullabye About the Weather What Teargas is For Black Cocaine (after Anita Berber) On Throwing Bricks On Being a Good Person “It Hurts to be Murdereed” “Thrash Me! Vitriol Georg Trakl’s Psalm We Are the Dead” The Ignoble Fate of Rock n Roll What if the Summer Never Ends The...
Foreword by Charles Simic. — Rochester, NY: BOA Editions Ltd., 1997. — 80 p. — ISBN-10: 1880238470; ISBN-13: 978-1880238479. The quality of passionate wisdom in the poetry of Laure-Anne Bosselaar astonishes and grips the reader. This poet confronts us, finally, with recognition of our universal responsibility for being. "Think of it," she says, "the worlds in this world," while...
History Press, 2013. — 155 p. ISBN: 1609499042 The story of the Mississippi Golden Gulf Coast can’t be told without a few tall tales–pirates, buried treasure, ghosts and colorful characters pepper its diverse past. From incredible stories of the pirate Jean Lafitte to iconic legends like Barq’s Root Beer, travel from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula and every nook and cranny in...
The Text Publishing Company, 2010. Isn’t it enough having your very own terminal disease, without your mother dying? Or your father dating your Art teacher? No wonder Sacha Thomas ends up in the lake that Saturday evening… But the real question is: how does he end up in love with Jewel Valentine? With the help of quirky teenage prodigies Little Al and True Grisham, Sacha and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. – 384 p. Toward the end of her life, Elizabeth Bowen claimed that "a story deals in the not-yet-thought-of but always possible." Playing with a range of circumstances broken engagements, encounters with ghosts, brushes with crime the stories in this collection demonstrate the virtuosity of technique that characterized all of Bowen's writing....
New York, Knopf, 1952. — ISBN: 0-385-72014-9.
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical...
"... the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls 'cabin fever.'... Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose, California, up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the...
Penguin Group, 2006. — ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7, 978-0-14-102342-7
Some journeys are best left unmade.
Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an...
Penguin Group, 2006. — ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7, ISBN: 978-0-14-102342-7. Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an...
Viking, 2022. — 456 p. — ISBN 9780593490440 While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks stateside, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative:...
Discover the surreal world of the Wraethworld in Kody Boye’s new dark fantasy novella.
Mary Matthews is a sweet little autistic girl living a very ordinary life until the fish girl appeared to her one night in her bedroom. The bizarre creature’s prophecies that Mary alone can save the fish girl’s world terrifies her.
The following day, Mary is on a fieldtrip with her special...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0547939418, 054793940X. In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved Best American Short Stories, guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius...modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on....
Publisher: University Press of America, 1989.— 237 p. Her Eyes was originally published in 1952 and is recognized by many scholars as Bozorg Alavi's finest novel. Alavi, a leading contemporary Persian writer and a champion of the Left, is well known for his political activism, which led to his imprisonment in Iran under the regime of Reza Shah. Her Eyes is the story of...
From Nâmehâ, a collection of nine stories. — 8 p.
Алеви Бозорг. Иренечка (на англ. яз.)
Bozorg Alavi’s Ireneczka, it should be clear, is deep in conversation with a famous episode of one of the great epic poems of Persian literature, the Haft Paykar of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 1209). The story is entitled “The Tale of the Princess of the Black Dome,” and revolves around a King who...
Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. Critic John Sutherland (1989) described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels".The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which was in literary fashion in the early 1860s.The plot was summarised by literary...
Girlebooks, (no year). — 640 p. First published in 1864, The Doctor's Wife uses the concept of the serialized sensation novel to create stories within stories within stories. A reworking of Madame Bovary, the heroine is Isabel Sleaford who is married to an adoring, if boring, physician. He does not share Isabel’s taste for literature, but she is content until she meets her...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 10091 p.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s first novel, Lady Audley’s Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a scandalous secret from her new husband and his family. The plot, which includes madness, bigamy, attempted murder, and...
HarperCollins, 2023. — 526 р. — ISBN: 9780008242602 James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to...
Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 18 Post Office Square. 1898.
From the Original Manuscript, with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts.
Printed under the direction of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by order of the General Court.
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8195-6943-1. Born in Barbados, Caribbean poet and scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sussex.
Очень сложно было найти эту книгу, когда после долгих месяцев поиска нашла, то решила поделиться, что бы у других не возникло таких проблем.
Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1920) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana....
Anchor, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN13: 978-0525564201 Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach),...
St. Martin’s Publishing, 2023. — 523 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-28439-6 From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 186 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0425272710. A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewal - and the powerful language of flowers. Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a...
Delacorte Books, 2005. The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don’t wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring...
Delacorte Books, 2003. The story continues the adventures of four best friends who own a magical pair of jeans that fit all of them, even though they are different sizes. With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their 16th summer.
Delacorte Books, 2001. Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them...
New York: Continuum International Publishing Group,.2003.—194p.—ISBN: 0-8264-1504-0 Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht ( 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre...
Ed. by John Willett, Ralph Manheim and Erich Fried. — London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1976. — 652 p. — ISBN: 413339203 Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific,...
Ed. by John Willett, Ralph Manheim and Erich Fried. — London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1976. — 652 p. — ISBN: 413339203 Widely celebrated as the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht was also, as George Steiner observed, “that very rare phenomenon, a great poet, for whom poetry is an almost everyday visitation and drawing of breath.” Hugely prolific,...
Ed. by Reinhold Grimm with the Collaboration of Caroline Molina y Vedia. — London: Continuum, 2003. — 180 p. — ISBN 0-8264-1504-0; ISBN 0-8264-1505-9 Bertolt Brecht-A Modern Classic? by Reinhold Grimm Poetry Prelude 0 Lust des Beginnens / On the Joy of Beginning. Translated by Humphrey Milnes From Bertolt Brecht's Domestic Breviary (1927) Von der Freundlichkeit der Welt / Of...
Translated by Mary Ann Caws. — Lincoln; London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. — 129 p. — (A French modernist library). Mad Love was written for Jacqueline Lamba, an artist, and the heroine of the night of the Sunflower, whose singular and mysterious beauty, whose intensity of character marks the address of its pages. In the name Aube, the daughter born of Andre Breton and...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. - 2003. - 800 c.
K-PAX.
K-PAX II - On A Beam of Light.
K-PAX III - The Worlds of prot.
Prot's Report.
When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient is unlike anyone psychiatrist Dr. Gene Brewer has met before. Clever, inscrutable and...
A novel. — New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. — 283 p. The Mtsterious Messages. The Great Adventure Begins. The Mysterious Island. The Painted Hall. The Golden Giants. In the Hands of the Enemy. The Horror of the Heights. Battle Royal. Bread and Salt. The Lake of Fire. Akon’s Decision. The Priest’s Plan. The Chance Passes. Ordeal by Fire. The Powder Plot. Martin Plays a...
A novel. — New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. — 283 p. The Mtsterious Messages. The Great Adventure Begins. The Mysterious Island. The Painted Hall. The Golden Giants. In the Hands of the Enemy. The Horror of the Heights. Battle Royal. Bread and Salt. The Lake of Fire. Akon’s Decision. The Priest’s Plan. The Chance Passes. Ordeal by Fire. The Powder Plot. Martin Plays a...
Movie Tie-In Edition. — Berkley, 2016. — 170 p. — ISBN10: 0399584692. — ISBN13: 9780399584695. First it was a media sensation. Then it became the №1 international bestseller A Long Way Home. Now it's Lion, the major motion picture starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, and Rooney Mara-nominated for six Academy Awards! This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a...
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1972 — 93 p. Edwin Brock (1927-1997) was a British poet. Brock published ten volumes of poetry from 1959 through his death in 1997. Two of Brock's poems In particular — Five Ways to Kill a Man (1972) and Song of the Battery Hen (1977) — have been heavily anthologized. Foreword. Invisibility is the art of survival. Notes. Index of...
New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1976 — 60 p. — ISBN 0-8112-0577-0. Edwin Brock (1927-1997) was a British poet. Brock published ten volumes of poetry from 1959 through his death in 1997. The Blocked Heart is the fourth collection by the British poet Edwin Brock to be published in the United States. Reading his most recent verse, one becomes increasingly aware...
Harper Muse, 2022. — 786 p. — ISBN 978-140-0234-202 What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World, her...
New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc., 2004. — 96 p. — ISBN-10 1400040833; ISBN-13 978-1400040834. With Trouble in Mind, her long-awaited third collection, Lucie Brock-Broido has written her most exceptional poems to date. There is a new clarity to her work, a disquieting transparency, even in the midst of the wild thickets of language for which she is known. A poet “at the border of...
Scribner, 2023. — 303 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-2489-8 In Melissa Broder’s astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow—for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a...
Reader Press, 2023. — 547 p. — ISBN 9781982198121 Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their...
New York: Simon Pulse, 2017. — 406 p. — ISBN: 9781481499187. Ryn has one unread text message on her phone. And it’s been there for almost a year. She hasn’t tried to read it. She can’t. She won’t. Because that one message is the last thing her best friend ever said to her before she died. But as Ryn finds herself trapped in the Denver International Airport on New Year’s Eve...
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.
This novel tells about hard woman's fate. The heroine went a long way from chambermaid to woman of the high world, who was not broken by circumstances.
Denver: [n.a.], 1920. — 64 p. Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (August 26, 1823 – January 9, 1903) was an American lawyer, politician from Illinois, and prominent Freemason. He was a lawyer and judge who served as a U.S. representative from Illinois from 1865–1869 and continued to practice law when he moved to Colorado in 1870 where he was appointed to compile the state's statutes....
Montlake Romance, 2016. — 300 p. After seven years of misery and abuse, it’s all over—Hannah O’Malley is officially divorced. Hallelujah. It’s like every Christmas in her life all rolled up into one glorious day. Not only does Hannah get to keep her grandmother’s spacious old house, but she has full custody of her sparky five-year-old daughter. All Hannah has to do now is put...
McClure Phillips & Co, 1902. — 357 p. The House with the Green Shutters is a novel by the Scottish writer George Douglas Brown, first published in 1901 by John MacQueen. Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie which is based on his native Ochiltree, it consciously violates the conventions of the sentimental kailyard school, and is sometimes quoted as...
Harper & Collins, 2021. — 514 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-309820-6 Suddenly in the spotlight, twenty-four-year-old Hannah Brown realized that she wasn’t sure what she wanted. After years of competing in beauty pageants, and then starring on The Bachelorette and Dancing with the Stars, she had become incredibly visible. There she was, in her early twenties, with millions around the...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 3960 p.
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 (mobile phone virsion 1749 p.), 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0393244816. Part One: The World We’re Creating. 1. Data as a By-product of Computing. 2. Data as Surveillance. 3. Analyzing Our Data. 4. The Business of Surveillance. 5. Government Surveillance and Control. 6. Consolidation of Institutional Control. Part Two: What’s at Stake. 7. Political Liberty...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 12344 p. John Buchan’s ‘shocker’ adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century and now, for the first time in publishing history, readers can explore the author’s complete fictional works in a single collection. This comprehensive eBook presents numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 12344 p. John Buchan’s ‘shocker’ adventure novels have entertained readers for over a century and now, for the first time in publishing history, readers can explore the author’s complete fictional works in a single collection. This comprehensive eBook presents numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus...
260 p. New York : Pocket Books, [1990?], 1958. 1932 Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg,...
From The Washington Post.
Reviewed by Judy Budnitz.
Does government-sanctioned suicide offer the same potential for satire as, say, the consumption of children? Possibly. One need only look to Kurt Vonnegut's story 'Welcome to the Monkey House,' with its 'Federal Ethical Suicide Parlors' staffed by Juno-esque hostesses in purple body stockings. Or the recent film 'Children...
Buckley uneasily combines elements of the satirical comic caper and the action drama in this tale of a billionaire's personal vendetta against drug lords.
Lisa Buffaloe Productions, L.L.C., 2010. The nightmares continue. Memories won’t heal. Nadia must make a choice. Nadia Minsky fled Israel to escape her past, but she can’t outrun her nightmares. The throbbing scars along her hip and stomach are cruel reminders of shattered dreams. Even though surgeons mended her body, her spirit still bleeds. Friends claim only God can heal...
Ночь свастики» — это футуристическая антиутопия, написанная Кэтрин Бурдекин и опубликованная ею под псевдонимом «Мюррей Константайн» в 1937 году. Действие новеллы разворачивается через семь веков после прихода к власти нацистов. В это время Гитлеру поклоняются как божеству. Хотя среди главных героев романа нет женщин, один из главных мотивов романа — это преследование женщин в...
There's No Sex in the City. Avon, 2009. English. Anti-romantic comedy. "The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself. Джемма Берджес - английская писательница, живущая в Лондоне.
There's No Sex in the City.
Avon, 2009. English.
Anti-romantic comedy.
"The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself.
Джемма Берджес - английская писательница, живущая в Лондоне.
There's No Sex in the City.
Avon, 2009. English.
Anti-romantic comedy.
"The Dating Detox" is a book that I enjoyed because on the one hand it's a hilarious chick-lit story that made me laugh a lot and on the other book it's about a woman who learns to trust into herself.
Джемма Берджес - английская писательница, живущая в Лондоне.
A Novel. — Simon & Schuster, 2016.— (A Holland Family Novel). — ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke—an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. - 400 c. - (A Holland Family Novel) - ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke—an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. - 400 c. - (A Holland Family Novel) - ISBN10: 1501107208; ISBN13: 978-1501107207. From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke—an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages. On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their...
Girlebooks, (no year). — 1465 p. First published in 1796, Burney's third novel revolves around the economic and matrimonial concerns of Camilla Tyrold and her close family. The story takes us through many hardships in the Tyrold family, mostly caused by misunderstandings, on the path to true love and solvency.
Girlebooks, (no year). — 1362 p. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, was Fanny Burney's second novel and was first published in 1782. It is the story of Cecilia Beverly, a young and beautiful heiress whose army of suitors is made up of gentlemen, scoundrels, and many who are not what they seem. Admired by Jane Austen and many other contemporaries, it is said that the title for...
Girlebooks, (no year). — 656 p. Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World was published in 1778. Evelina has been raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year. She then travels to London learns how to navigate the complex layers of 18th century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel of manners often satirizes...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 2149 p.
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his...
New York: J. C. Derby, 1855. — 1996 p. A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to sing in his country’s service, where shall he so properly look for patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 9010 p. — ASIN B01MFHWI8C. Explorer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat, Sir Richard Francis Burton is famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton's best-known achievements include a perilous journey to Mecca,...
Random. 2001. (1887) На английском языке. Этот перевод был опубликован в трех томах с 1884 года по 1887. Остальные сказки были, к сожалению, сожжены после смерти переводчика его вдовой, которой не понравилась сексуальная направленность рукописей. Введение: Byatt A.S. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These...
Random. 2001. (1887) На английском языке. Этот перевод был опубликован в трех томах с 1884 года по 1887. Остальные сказки были, к сожалению, сожжены после смерти переводчика его вдовой, которой не понравилась сексуальная направленность рукописей. Введение: Byatt A.S. Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021. — 596 p. — ISBN 978-0593-190418 In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline. Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True...
1993 Pulitzer Prize winner
Published: Perseus Books, 2012
Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living...
Delphi Classics. 2015. — 4912 p.
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian-era English author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of...
1872
308 pages
It may be readily understood that when once Europeans set foot upon this territory they were not slow to take advantage of its capabilities. Sheep and cattle were introduced, and bred with extreme rapidity; men took up their 50,000 or 100,000 acres of country, going inland one behind the other, till in a few years there was not an acre between the sea and the...
A thinly disguised account of Samuel Butler's own childhood and youth, The Way of All Flesh is a savagely funny indictment of nineteenth-century English values and beliefs. It chronicles several generations of the Pontifex family - especially Ernest, the awkward but likeable son of a remote and tyrannical clergyman father and a priggish mother. Destined to follow his father...
William Collins, 2018. — 356 p. — ISBN: 0008275955; ISBN13: 9780008275952. When Paris falls in love with legendary beauty Helen of Troy, the devastating effects of their affair on their families and fellow citizens are unimaginable. Battle lines are drawn, alliances are forged, and as the Greeks and Trojans march into battle, the resilience and humanity of all will be tested....
New York: Random House, 1990. — 555 p. A. S. Byatt has earned a unique reputation as a novelist who manages to combine not only passion and intellect but the life of the emotions with that of the mind. Thjs skill is shown at its triumphant best in Possession, a tour de force of wit and intelligence, romance and scholarship. Like John Fowles's The French Lieutenants Woman,...
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to...
Profile Books, 2017. — 310 p. — ISBN13: 9781781258620. Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost... In these wry and hilarious diaries,...
After an unsuccessful search for her dream job in architecture, Emma Mayson becomes a maid for an incredibly handsome, wealthy entrepreneur. But Russell Carrick is also a total workaholic who has lost his zest for life - or has he just misplaced it? Setting aside her feather duster and her inhibitions, Emma rekindles her employer's passion with a fantasy world of boundless...
Transl. by Evangelos Sachperoglou. — Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 238 p. — (Oxford World's Classics) — ISBN-10: 9780199555956; ISBN-13: 978-0199555956. "A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." E. M. Forster's famous description of C. P. Cavafy--the most widely known and best loved modern Greek...
Bronson (Michigan, USA): Silver Shamrock Publishing, 2020. — 512 p. As the clock’s pendulum steadily counts down towards the midnight hour, the growing scent of brimstone hangs heavy in the air. The universal symbol of all that is evil, the pentagram, or the inverted pentacle, has been carved in the hardwood floor. Its shape is often described as the goat of lust attacking the...
University of Manitoba Press, 2015. — 308 p. — ISBN10: 0887556825. ISBN13: 978-0887556821. The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This...
The Jewish Publication Society; Reprint edition, 2014. — 184 p. — ISBN10: 0827612095; ISBN13: 978-0827612099. Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of Talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites Talmudic...
The short-story.
Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987) was an American author. He wrote about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 542 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 84). — ISBN: 9781786563934. Callimachus of Cyrene, famed scholar of the Library of Alexandria, was among the most productive and influential poets of the Hellenistic age. A master of the short poetic form, Callimachus rejected epics modelled after Homer, setting a literary trend for miniaturistic detail. Delphi’s...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 222 p. — ISBN: 978-0-253-35463-1. Sana Camara is Associate Professor of French at Truman State University. The Mandinka griot, known locally as jali, sees himself as the keeper of values that are deeply rooted in the oral traditions of the Senegambian peoples, including the Fulani, the Soninke, and the Wolof. These peoples share a vast region...
Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2024. — 689 p. — ISBN 9780785232247 Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war—and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most.
Baker Books, 2012. After a childhood rampant with uncertainty, Lydia Pallas has carved out a perfect life for herself. She spends her days within sight of the bustling Boston Harbor, where her skill with languages has landed her an enviable position as a translator for the U.S. Navy. Lydia's talents bring her to the attention of Alexander Banebridge, a mysterious man in need of...
Baker Books, 2013. As owner of the 57th Illinois Watch Company, Mollie Knox's future looks bright until the night the legendary Great Chicago Fire destroys her beloved city. With her world crumbling around her, Mollie will do whatever it takes to rebuild in the aftermath of the devastating fire. Zack Kazmarek, an influential attorney for one of Chicago's finest department...
Forge Books, 2011. — 333 p. — ISBN10: 0765330342; ISBN13: 978-0765330345. A Novel for Humans (Book 1)―the #1 New York Times bestseller―is heading to the big screen! Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced...
Forge Books, 2011. — 333 p. — ISBN10: 0765330342; ISBN13: 978-0765330345. A Novel for Humans (Book 1)―the #1 New York Times bestseller―is heading to the big screen! Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced...
London: Printed for James Carpenter and Son, 1824. — 157 p. It has been frequently observed, that the memoirs of literary men are, in general, so devoid of extraordinary incident, that the relation of them is calculated more to instruct than to amuse. The Life of Camoens forms an exception to this remark. Its vicissitudes were so many and so various, as almost to encourage a...
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1877. — 458 p. The Lusiads is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's Aeneid. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. The ten...
Oxford: Jackson and Lister, 1778. — 752 p. The Lusiads is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's Aeneid. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. The ten...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,. 2008.—213p.—ISBN: 0-226-09286-0 Luís Vaz de Camões , sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns (e.g. by Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers), c. 1524 or 1525 – 20 June 1580), is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel,...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2011.—260p.—ISBN: 0-226-09205-4 Tommaso Campanella ( 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was a Dominican friar, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 572 р. — ISBN 9781250274977 Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But Madison has a secret that could destroy her career. Her troubled younger brother Danny has been arrested, and Conroy is the judge on his case. When Danny goes missing after accusing the judge of corruption, Madison’s quest for answers...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—74p.—ISBN: 0-226-09310-7 Campion Peter is assistant professor of English at Auburn University and editor of Literary Imagination. His first book of poems, Other People, was published in the Phoenix Poets series by the University of Chicago Press in 2005.
Illinois: Northwestern University Press,.2007.—431p.—ISBN: 0-8101-2029-1 Haroldo de Campos - Brazilian poet, translator and translation theorist, essayist versatile, powerful figure of the Latin American avant-garde
322 p. Although this novel by the author of the charming children's book Understood Betsy first appeared in 1924, it deals in an amazingly contemporary manner with the problems of a family in which both husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper and home-maker (a word that is in...
Dream of the Red Chamber (simplified Chinese: 红楼梦; traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; pinyin: Hóng Lóu Mèng; Wade–Giles: Hung Lou Meng), composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and is generally acknowledged to be a...
UK: Egg Box Publishing,.2009.—96p..—ISBN: 978-0-9559399-0-7 Vahni Capildeo , to her credit, clearly doesn't give a fig about fashion or prestige. Her poetry is utterly divorced from that unfortunately prevalent tendency to write poems where the words give way to an (imagined) applauding audience at the next prestigious poetry awards. Her poetry is sassy, sometimes scary; dark,...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize.
A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.
Summer 1918. The First World War...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize.
A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.
Summer 1918. The First World War...
Longlisted for the German Book Prize.
A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.
Summer 1918. The First World War...
Knopf, 2009. — 464 p. From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith (“A miracle...You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience”—Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present...
Henry Holt, 2019. — 288 p. From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past. Hunter’s Moon is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building...
Henry Holt, 2013. — 320 p. In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to...
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 406 p. — ISBN 9781982117450 A “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon’s shocking, thirty-year-old secret is about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford has done...
Play. — New York: Abrams Artists, 1999. — 22 p. Tormented by the memories of a past love, John comes to Connie, a prostitute, to get her to reenact certain scenes that have etched themselves in his mind and that have become the symbol for all that was ethereal and beautiful in his life. He makes her wear certain clothing. He applies make-up to her. He makes her say the lines, etc
Twenty-five years after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead, paralysing the city of Los Angeles, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture and sadistic murder. Philip Carlo's US bestseller The Night Stalker, based on three years of meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more chilling than anyone...
321 p; Hodder & Stoughton; Export; 1st edition (September 29, 2011)
Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordinary people who lived there over the centuries. One person particularly captured Fiona's...
MIRA; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0778309053; ISBN13: 978-0778309055. (Sullivan's Crossing - Book 5) #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother’s love. A summer rental, a new beginning… Hannah Russell’s carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When...
MIRA; Original edition, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0778309053; ISBN13: 978-0778309055. (Sullivan's Crossing - Book 5) #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr delivers an emotional and triumphant novel about the fierce power of a mother’s love. A summer rental, a new beginning… Hannah Russell’s carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When...
MIRA, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0778319679; ISBN13: 978-0778319672. #1 New York Times bestselling author brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures. In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s...
MIRA, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0778319679; ISBN13: 978-0778319672. #1 New York Times bestselling author brings together a poignant novel with a rich tapestry of characters. A moving story that will leave the reader laughing and crying, as two friends confront their pasts and move towards their futures. In the aftermath of her financier husband’s suicide, Emma Shay Compton’s...
[n.a.]: epubBooks, 2010. — 61 p. "Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society...
[n.a.]: epubBooks, 2010. — 61 p. "Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society...
New York: Random House, Inc.,2005.—266p.
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She...
Penguin Books, 1986. — 304 p. From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan. Sophi Fevvers—the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec—is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is...
London: Virago, 2003. - 200 c. Впервые книга опубликована в 1967 году. Отсканированный PDF One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers,...
London: Cox & Wyman Ltd., 1992. A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
Short stories and essays. — Edited by William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll. — Library of America, 2009. — 1019 p. — (Library of America Series, N° 195). — ISBN: 978-1-59853-046-9. DJVU Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be...
Short stories and essays. — Edited by William L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll. — Library of America, 2009. — 1019 p. — (Library of America Series, N° 195). — ISBN: 978-1-59853-046-9. PDF Raymond Carver’s spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and ’80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be...
Oberon Books, 2017. — 48 p. He's just your type. But hold on. He's about to tell you he's got HIV. How will you respond emotionally? Brush it aside and practice safe sex? Go on to a deeper relationship? Or do you walk away?
A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a...
A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it really a dream or a nightmare? When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve....
Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny. The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office....
Series: Nikki Heat (Book 5). Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages. Publisher: Kingswell; Reprint edition (September 30, 2014). Language: English. ISBN10: 0786891483. ISBN13: 978-0786891481. Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago.. For the...
Bartley Alexander, a construction engineer, is a middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his demanding American wife, and Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring British mistress. Alexander's relationship with Hilda erodes his sense of honor and eventually proves disastrous when a bridge he is constructing begins to collapse. Alexander's Bridge is an instructive, thought-provoking study of a...
459pp; Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004 1923 This stirring novel about World War I won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. In the lucid, unadorned prose that were her hallmark, Cather brings to life the simple Nebraska farm folk and their tranquil rural lifestyle, showing how the Great War, seemingly so far away on the Old Continent, eventually touches them all.
New York : New American Library, 1987. — 645 p. All the Rivers Run is an Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato, first published in 1958. It was adapted as a 1983 Australian television mini-series starring. All the Rivers Run follows the life of English girl, Philadelphia Gordon, from the time when she is shipwrecked and orphaned off the coast of Victoria in 1890. She spends...
New York : New American Library, 1987. — 645 p. All the Rivers Run is an Australian historical novel by Nancy Cato, first published in 1958. It was adapted as a 1983 Australian television mini-series starring. All the Rivers Run follows the life of English girl, Philadelphia Gordon, from the time when she is shipwrecked and orphaned off the coast of Victoria in 1890. She spends...
Epic novel about the New Zealand goldrus. Intricately crafted shaggy dog story. The stellar and planetary positions in this book have been determined astronomically. This is to say that we acknowledge the celestial phenomenon known as precession, by which motion the vernal equinox, the astrological equivalent of the Greenwich meridian, has come to shift. The vernal equinox...
Winner of 2013 Booker Prize
Epic novel about the New Zealand goldrus. Intricately crafted shaggy dog story.
The stellar and planetary positions in this book have been determined astronomically. This is to say that we acknowledge the celestial phenomenon known as precession, by which motion the vernal equinox, the astrological equivalent of the Greenwich meridian, has come...
Reagan Arthur, 2010. - 320 p.
A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their every...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. - 160 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Catullus’ life was akin to pulp fiction. In Julius Caesar’s Rome, he engages in a stormy affair with a consul’s wife. He writes her passionate poems of love, hate, and jealousy. The consul, a vehement opponent of Caesar, dies under suspicious circumstances. The merry widow romances numerous young...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. — 368 p. — ISBN-10: 0520253868; ISBN-13: 978-0520253865. Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2007.—288p.—ISBN: 978-0-19-921292-7 Poems in Greek and in English translation. Constantine P. Cavafy (also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes, April 29 , 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete...
Transl. by David R. Slavitt. — Edmonton, AB: AU Press, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1926836847; ISBN13: 978-1926836843 — (Mingling Voices) The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the ""sweet new style"" that emerged in...
Penguin Books Ltd (September 12, 2013) — 292 pages
Australian rock musician, lyricist and actor Cave's first novel is an innovative, if wildly idiosyncratic, tall tale satirizing religious fanaticism. Euchrid Eucrow, despised ungainly son of a trapper father and "slobstress" mother, grows up mute but divinely inspired during the 1940s and '50s in fundamentalist Ukulore, a rural...
A novel. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. — New Directions, 2006. — 464 p. — (New Directions paperbook, 1036). — ISBN: 978-0-8112-1654-8. Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey...
Alma Classics, 2017. — 480 p. — ISBN-13 978-1847492449. A major work by one of France’s most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol’s Band left off, Céline’s narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on...
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2024. — 144 p. — ISBN-13 9780811237338. In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this long-lost novel Céline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and...
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his...
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name...
The Pennsylvania State University, 2007. — 884 pages.
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes. The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote....
Penguin Group, 2016. — (Signet Classics). Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the...
Penguin Group, 2016. — (Signet Classics). Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the...
Speak, 2004. — ISBN10: 0142401455; ISBN13: 978-0142401453. Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love&150or to face questions...
Before the Storm is the first of two books about the Lockwood family. Their story is continued in Secrets She Left Behind. It’s often difficult for me to characterize my books, and Before the Storm is no exception. It’s part suspense, part mystery, and one hundred percent family drama. It’s about how far family members will go to protect one another. It’s about the choices people...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 2186 p. — ASIN B008PK3Y0K Sumptuous collection of gothic works. Featuring 14 of the most frightening tales ever told, the collection contains many whole novels, as well as other works charting the development of gothic literature, from Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic novel, to the crowning achievement of Stoker’s Dracula. Not for...
Contemporary prose. — 2011. — 222 pages.
The book describes a near-future world that, to a significant degree, already exists. This is a China in which a dictatorial Communist Party has guided the country safely through a global economic meltdown that has weakened the liberal democratic West but strengthened the appeal and prestige of an authoritarian Chinese model, enabling...
City of Ash': Megan Chance's novel of two 'frenemies' in the days before Seattle's Great Fire Seattle-area author Megan Chance's new novel, "City of Ash," set in the days leading up to Seattle's Great Fire, is about two "frenemies," the wife and mistress of the same man, joining forces against him. Chance reads at several Western Washington locations this month. книга на...
HarperCollins, 2007. — 929 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-125855-8. A best-seller dealing with the nexus between Mumbai underworld, films and politics. Recently a TV adaptation is being shown on Netflix India.
Ultimo Press, 2022. — 592 р. — ISBN 9781761150319 Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney – populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, an oasis of familiar delights – a beautiful garden, a busy kitchen and a bountiful recreation schedule. But this...
Ed. and transl. by Mary Ann Caws and Nancy Kline; intr. by Sandra Bermann; foreword by Marie-Claude Char. — Boston: Black Widow Press, 2011. — 558 p. — ISBN-10: 9780984264025; ISBN-13: 978-0984264025. Rene Char (1907-1988) was one of France's most respected 20th century poets. Part of the Surrealist group in the late 1920's-1930's, he gradually drifted away from the group....
Scholastic Press, 2021. — 567 р. — ISBN 978-1-338-67353-1 For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean "Mercury" Ellis. Merc gives...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 399 р. — ISBN: 978-1-63557-532-3 In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills- on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line-are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The...
William Morrow, 2012. — 288 p. Here at last is the sensational sequel to PAPILLON - the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm. Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charrière - nicknamed 'Papillon' - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charrière...
Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious...
William Morrow, 2012. — 544 p. Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 535 p. — ISBN: 0144000555; ISBN13: 9780144000555. Collection of major classic novels including Kapalkundala, Poison Tree, Indira, Krishnakantas Will, and Rajani.
Adyar, Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1939. — 110 p.
Чаттопадхьяя Хариндранат. Тёмный колодец, Стихотворения (на англ. яз.)
Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1898–1990) was a multi-talented personality as an Indian English poet, a dramatist, an actor, a musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He was the younger brother of Sarojini Naidu, the second...
London: Vintage, 1998. — 262 p. On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local...
Publication date: February 1, 1999 Pages: 224 ISBN: 0-671-02734-4 Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to...
Publication date: February 1, 1999 Pages: 224 ISBN: 0-671-02734-4 Standing on the fringes of life… offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to...
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but a deep-seated horror and dread accompany him through his self-destructive...
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never...
RosettaBooks, 2004. First published 1969. — 202 p.
During a writing career which spanned forty years, John Cheever won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life.
In Bullet Park ,...
RosettaBooks, 2004. First published 1977. — 172 p.
During a writing career spanning forty years, John Cheever won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. John Cheever among his eleven books was perhaps best known for his short stories dealing with upper middle class suburban life. Falconer is set in a...
Knopf, 1979. — 914 p. Goodbye, My Brother - The Common Cay - The Enormous Radio - O City of Broken Dreams - The Hartleys - The Sutton Place Story - The Summer Farmer - Torch Song - The Pot of Gold - Clancy in the Tower of Babel - Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor - The Season of Divorce - The Chaste Clarissa - The Cure - The Superintendent - The Children - The Sorrows of...
Delacorte Press, 2022. — 576 p. — ISBN 978-0593-42753-8 Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased—and not always true—divinations. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so-not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer—unless Violet does something about it. But when...
Europa, 2022. — 434 p. — ISBN 9781609457990 Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in the hope of finding acceptance as a young gay man. The novel begins a decade later, when Chen has just been released from prison for killing his boyfriend. He is about to return to his family’s village, a...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 440 p. Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 446 p. Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most...
Albany, OR: Books for the Ages, 1996, 1997.
(В файле 161 с.).
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality...
Rupa & Co, 2008. — 258 pages.
In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind's wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabilities and just wants to be with his friends. However,...
Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1998. — 128 p. Ким Джиха. Агония сердца, Избранные стихотворения (на англ. яз.) The First Part: The Ocher Road, etc. The Second Part: Cracking the Shell, etc. The Third Part: Five Thieves. Notes on the Poems. The Translators. Tags: Kim Chi-ha, Kim Chiha, Poems, Poetry, Heart's Agony, Korean, English, lyrics, literature, modern, download, e-book,...
Delacorte Press, 2023. — 457 p. — ISBN 9781984818591 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an...
Лондон,Transworld Publishers, 1998. - 528 с.
'Killing Floor' is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child.
Useful and easy reading.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1969. — 107 p. Ugly Perfomance of Self-Exposure — Chung Jen. Reportage. To live and Die for the Revolution. Only Heroes Can Quell Tigers and Leopards, And Wild Bears Never Daunt the Brave. New “Foolish Old Man” in the Wangwu Foothills Conqueting the Tidal Waves. Revolutionary Stories. Raising Seedling. Literary Criticism and Repudiation....
The Yangquan Women Writers Group,.2010.—98p.
Interesting poetry work modern Chinese poetesses Maggi Carstairs, Marguerite Carstairs, Wenjin, Lan, Qiu Tingyu, Guo Xiuying, Yang Huiqin,
Kongyunge, Han Yue, Wu Yan, Guo Guangshu and other
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 9 с. Чо Мён-хи. Река Нактонган (на англ. яз.) Чо Мен Хи (1894-1938) — корейский писатель, поэт. Один из создателей современной корейской литературы и идеолог Корейской федерации пролетарского искусства. Основатель жанра реалистической лирико-философской поэмы. За что получил прозвище "Корейский Маяковский". В 1922 году Чо Мен Хи организовал кружок...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 16 с. Чхве Юн. Под присмотром отца (на англ. яз.) Ch'oe Hyon-mu (born 1953), better known by her pen name Ch'oe Yun, is a South Korean writer and professor of French literature. Her writing merges the psychological impact of political/historical events, including the Kwangju massacre (1980) and the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee (1961–1979), with...
Penguin Books, 2021. — 371 p. — ISBN 978052550693 A bestselling and award-winning debut collection from one of South Korea's most prominent young writers. In crisp, unembellished prose, Eun-young Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange...
Henry Holt and Co., 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-1250309884. In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and...
Basic Books, 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0465011047 (ISBN13: 9780465011049) North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education." Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one...
Выходные данные не указаны. The Story of an Hour," is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as "The Dream of an Hour". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments at which the...
Выходные данные не указаны. Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But his father is unable to find work and grows violent, beating Mohamed's mother and killing his sick younger brother in a moment of mad rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of...
Frances, a Chinese-American student at an academically competitive school in San Francisco, has always had it drilled into her to be obedient to her mother and to be a straight-A student so that she can go to Med school. But is being a doctor what she wants? It has never even occurred to Frances to question her own feelings and desires until she accidentally winds up in speech...
A novel.
Choy does a fine job of orchestrating the narrative voices and showing how family patterns and themes operate in diverse, often unpredictable ways, in the individuals' lives. Within the three main stories, the stories of other characters are also embedded, and this is where Choy truly excels. His "secondary" characters are not secondary at all. The most notable of these...
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Cries from the Heart answers a specific hunger millions share - a longing for a personal connection to the divine. In times of crisis, all of us reach for someone,or something, greater than ourselves. Some call it prayer. Others just do it. For many, it’s often like talking to a wall. People are looking for assurance...
London: Pluto Press Ltd, 1983. — 111 p. — ISBN-10 1559360992; ISBN-13 978-1559360999. Cloud 9 is a two-act play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill. It was workshopped with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978 and premiered at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, on 14 February 1979. The two acts of the play form a contrapuntal structure. Act I is set in British...
NY: Theatre Communications Group Inc, 2008. —- 23 p. Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? is a 2006 political play with eight scenes by Caryl Churchill. It addresses the application of power by the United States mostly since the Vietnam war. Critics' responses to the play are divided.
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. — 261 p. — ISBN-13 978-1-4081-7749-5. Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart...
Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, mysterious girl he knew as Rebecca is none other than Raisa ana’Marianna, heir to...
Dzanc Books, 2019. — 250 р. — ISBN-13: 978-1945-814952; 2019 Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin...
Knopf, 1994. — 160 p. The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Based in part on Cisneros's own experience, the novel follows Esperanza over the span of one year in her life, as she...
Knopf, 1994. — 160 p. The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Based in part on Cisneros's own experience, the novel follows Esperanza over the span of one year in her life, as she...
Bloom Books, 2023. — 508 p. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. With two opposing goddesses playing mortals and vampires against one another, Isolde is uncertain who her allies are in the vampire stronghold of Revekka. Now, as politics in the Red...
Bantam, 2023. — 555 р. — ISBN 9780593496374 Sisters Ellie and Meg Christie share a love of books, reading, and their new roles as co-caretakers of the Book Chalet, their family’s historic bookshop tucked midway up a scenic Colorado mountain. But romance? That’s another story. Ellie and Meg joke that they’re in sisterly competition for worst relationships. So when their cousin...
Love and Other Things I'm Bad At: Rocky Road Trip and Sundae My Prince Will Come – Catherine Clarke (2011).
What’s a girl to do when there are two guys who seem like The One?
Just when Courtney has found the Best Boyfriend Ever (aptly named Grant Superior), she has to leave him to go to college, because apparently the universe doesn’t want her to be happy. Now that she’s three...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — 719 p. — ISBN 9780544147577 Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert; and a mysterious dealer...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2.
A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they?
Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York....
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2.
A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they?
Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York....
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. - 400 c. - ASIN: B0176M3RR2.
A fierce, feisty, and “wonderfully entertaining” (Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular girls who suddenly have their fantasies come true…or do they?
Best friends Evie, Krista, and Willow are just trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York....
Puffin, 2019. — 256 p. Mari Jones is desperate to be a real scientist, even though she's only eleven. So when she discovers a tiny dragon while fossil hunting on the beach, she's sure she can find a good scientific explanation - as long as she can keep it hidden long enough to study it. Unfortunately for Mari, this is one secret that doesn't want to be kept. And as she starts...
Puffin, 2019. — 256 p. Mari Jones is desperate to be a real scientist, even though she's only eleven. So when she discovers a tiny dragon while fossil hunting on the beach, she's sure she can find a good scientific explanation - as long as she can keep it hidden long enough to study it. Unfortunately for Mari, this is one secret that doesn't want to be kept. And as she starts...
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Sir Richard Devine, knight, shipbuilder, naval contractor, and millionaire, was the son of a Harwich boat carpenter. Early left an orphan with a sister to support, he soon reduced his sole aim in life to the accumulation of money. In the Harwich boat-shed, nearly fifty years before, he had contracted—in defiance of prophesied failure—to build the Hastings sloop of...
A Year in the Merde is a comic novel by Stephen Clarke first published in 2004 under the pen name Paul West. In later editions, the author's real identity was revealed. In France, the book title is God save la France. Paul West is in fact the first-person narrator, a 27-year-old Englishman, single and unattached, who is recruited by a French entrepreneur and given a one-year...
2006, Black Swan, London. In his second comedy of errors, Paul West continues to sabotage the entente cordiale. A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss’s mistress?...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centring on the relationship between these two men, the novel...
Gallery Books, 2013. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-1476741222. Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she’s wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there’s way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood’s newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees...
221pp, Wordsworth Editions Ltd (December 30, 2001) Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity. The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who...
Random House Publishing Group, 2016. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into...
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful...
Penguin, 2011. 352 pages.
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2008. — 501 p. A hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueler by the year. Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound...
Tor, 2014. — ISBN: 1447256239.
Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently.
Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already...
Random House Publishing Group, 2015. — 580 p. — ISBN 978-0812996913, 978-0812996920. The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of...
Random House Publishing Group, 2015. — 580 p. — ISBN 978-0812996913, 978-0812996920. The enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of...
Publisher: AmazonCrossing, 2007. – 151 p. J'aurais préféré vivre. Translator: Summer Robinson. When childhood friend Victoria rejects his love, Jeremy takes his life on his twentieth birthday. On his twenty-first birthday, he wakes to find Victoria holding his hand, blissfully in love with him. Jeremy can't remember the previous year, but he savors the miracle of waking up...
Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781618731517; ISBN13: 978-1618731517 The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to bring peace to their new home, and they have a plan for how to achieve it. They will tear Native families apart and provide re-education to those who do not understand why they should submit to their betters. Peace...
Poemhunter.com — The World's Poetry Archive, 2004. — 392 p. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He...
Диалог домашних питомцев - книга, написанная французской писательницей Колетт (1873-1954), классиком XX века. Язык английский. Книга была опубликована в 1904 году еще под фамилией ее первого мужa, Willy. С черно-белыми иллюстрациями. Sentimentalities On the Train Dinner is Late She is Ill The First Fire The Storm A Caller Рассказы Колетт о животных оцениваются диаметрально...
Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012. — 188 р. — ISBN: 978-1-405-52278-6.
Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students in his school into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and...
Penguin Books, 2009. 275 pages
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how...
William Morrow, 2021. New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rossi can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy....
HarperCollins, 2016. Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a...
Publisher: Aegypan (August 1, 2008) ISBN10: 1606647113 Horror chilled me to the marrow; for never before, I verily believe, had mortal eyes beheld so awful an apparition. Broad over the port bow, at an elevation of some forty degrees above the horizon, I beheld a great white-hot flaming mass, emitting a long trail of brilliant sparks, coming straight for the ship... That's the...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2008.—310p.—ISBN: 0-226-11400-7 Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. She developed an artistic friendship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, with whom she exchanged verse. The early death of her husband, in 1525, gave Colonna the opportunity to develop and maintain her...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2005.—231p.—ISBN: 0-226-11392-2 Vittoria Colonna (April 1492 – 25 February 1547), marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet. She developed an artistic friendship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, with whom she exchanged verse. The early death of her husband, in 1525, gave Colonna the opportunity to develop and maintain her...
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. — 361 c.
Arranged along national themes, the 181 poems in this unique anthology were expertly selected by the most esteemed Irish-American poet, professor and critic of his generation.
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Laurie Colwin’s story Mr. Parker is a wonderful and down to earth short story. The use of characters, the structure of the plot, and the style of the story makes it believable and interesting. Mr. Parker shows the physical and emotional effect of becoming an adult. In addition, it gives the idea that people should not be in a hurry to grow up because they will miss...
Chicago: National Union of Czechoslovak Protestants in America, 1942. — iii-vi, 170 p. The book is a satirical allegory. Considered a jewel of Baroque literature, it is one of the author's most important works. Comenius finished the first version in 1623, but he rewrote the book several times, changing its concept and form. The book remains the most widely read work of older...
USA:Tan Hinh Thuc Publishing,.2006 .—309p.—ISBN: 0-9778742-0-6. Bilingual We have managed to bring this anthology to publication only through the generous contributions of our readers, and we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support and dedication. With your continued help, we can look forward to many more future publications. Finally, we apologize for any...
Audire est operae pretium, prcedere recte Qui maechis non vultis.--HOR. Sat. i. 2, 37. - Metuat doti deprensa.--Ibid. The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed....
William Morrow Paperbacks 2013 — 430 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0062207517 The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina...
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 978-1501158018. In his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Work in Progress, Connor Franta shared his journey from small-town Midwestern boy to full-fledged Internet sensation. Exploring his past with humor and astounding insight, Connor reminded his fans of why they first fell in love with him on YouTube—and revealed to newcomers...
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and...
Perspective Publications, 1994. — 231 с. — ISBN: 0 9523583 0 I Сборник знакомит читателя с двенадцатью английскими рассказами 80-х - 90-х гг. В нем представлены писатели, получившие широкое международное признание, лауреаты престижных литературных премий: Джулиан Барнз, Уильям Бойд, А.С. Байатт, Грэм Свифт, Уильям Тревор, а также известные авторы молодого поколения. Рассказы...
In "Acres of Diamonds," Russell Conwell shows success is a spiritual idea--the result of spiritual principles. Though not a "get rich guide," Conwell's book shows how to find a fortune-if you know where to look. There are as many opportunities for success today as in Conwell's time, if not more so, because they are found first and foremost in one's own conscience. Through his...
Allen&Unwin, 1997. - 236 p. ISBN: 1-86448-315-6 On the surface it's funny, but the humour is wry. Kaz writes brilliant stuff and, if you want a real insight into Australia and the life style, it's here. There is a lot of deeper stuff in the book that is very accurate and mind stretching. Kaz Cooke (born 1962) is an Australian author and cartoonist. Her books include Real...
Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler’s luck. From the day he was born, his mother had known that Rory would be the one to make something of his life. At seven years old he was earning money from odd jobs and by fourteen, he was in full-time work. By the time he was nineteen, he had escaped the factory to become a rent-collector.Now, at twenty-three, ambition was...
New York: Humana Press, 1998. — 80 p. — ISBN 10: 0896036316; ISBN 13: 978-0896036314 David Cope's fifth book, Silences for Love, is framed in elegies, prophet Martin King to old friend Allen Ginsberg, opening with lights fading & flaring over Lake Superior, closing with one leaf in the hidden meadow. Here are the weary traveler & one-eyed boy, Gettysburg sundown, sighs over...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 11849 p. — ASIN B075SFW1GZ The English novelist and mystic Marie Corelli enjoyed an immensely successful career, her novels selling more copies than her popular contemporaries, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells and Rudyard Kipling. Her sensation, romance and fantasy novels were eagerly devoured by millions across the world and her admirers ranged from...
The Project Gutenberg, 2013. — 475 p. Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895) is possibly the oddest novel I’ve ever read. And that’s saying something. The plot concerns Geoffrey Tempest, a struggling novelist, who unexpectedly inherits £5 million from a distant relative. This stroke of good fortune coincides with a visit from Prince Lucio Raminez, who the reader soon...
The Project Gutenberg, 2013. — 475 p. Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895) is possibly the oddest novel I’ve ever read. And that’s saying something. The plot concerns Geoffrey Tempest, a struggling novelist, who unexpectedly inherits £5 million from a distant relative. This stroke of good fortune coincides with a visit from Prince Lucio Raminez, who the reader soon...
Beyond the Chocolate War (1985) is the sequel to the award-winning book The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. The sequel received an Honor List citation from the Horn Book Magazine in 1986.
The story continues a few months after The Chocolate War ends. As the school year draws to an end, many students look forward to leaving for the summer but Carter and Obie, leading members of...
It is the summer of 1938 when young Paul Moreaux discovers he can fade. First bewildered, then thrilled with the power of invisibility, Paul experiments. But his gift soon shows him shocking secrets and drives him toward a chilling act. Imagine what might happen if Holden Caufield stepped into H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, and you’ll have an idea how good Fade is...I was...
Ember, 2004. — 99 p. — ISBN: 978-0385731331. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for some tenderness—tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for...
Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But his defiant act turns into an all-tour war. Now the only question is: Who will survive? (Audiobook) Четырнадцатилетний Джерри Рено всего-то и сделал, что отказался продавать...
Atria Books, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1501121146; ISBN13: 978-1501121142. A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they...
Atria Books, 2016. - 368 c. - ISBN10: 1501121146; ISBN13: 978-1501121142. A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas asylum they...
New Directions, 2000. — 288 p. — ISBN-13 978-0811214377. First published in English in 1972 and long out of print, 62: A Model Kit is Julio Cortázar's brilliant, intricate blueprint for life in the so-called "City." As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out...
Pantheon Books, 1985. — 288 p. — ISBN-13 978-0394728810. A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams... A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim... Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including “Blow-Up,” which was the basis for...
Pantheon Books, 1987. — 576 p. — ISBN-13 978-0394752846. Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to...
"Casa Tomada" is a 1946 short story by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. It was originally published in Los anales de Buenos Aires, a literary magazine edited by Jorge Luis Borges, and later included in his volume of stories Bestiario.
Sex Under the Stars by Jane Green, Birthday Sex She’ll Never Forget by Jennifer Weiner, Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore by Meg Cabot. The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo—a tall order, but these ladies so delivered. The trio of tantalizing tales was such a hit that...
Sex Under the Stars by Jane Green,
Birthday Sex She’ll Never Forget by Jennifer Weiner,
Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore by Meg Cabot.
The world’s best-selling magazine for young women asked three best-selling authors to each write a story steamy enough for the pages of Cosmo—a tall order, but these ladies so delivered. The trio of tantalizing tales was such a hit that...
HarperPerennial, 2023. — 406 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-332414-5 Every family is complicated, and the Benedettos are no exception. A few years after a reality TV show skyrocketed them to pop-culture fame, the five twentysomething sisters are living together in their parents’ crumbling McMansion, nearly broke and teetering towards rock-bottom. Lilly, the sensible second-eldest sister,...
A novel. — New York: Crown Publishers, 1974. — 222 p. This stunning novel of the boy Hwesuhunu, captured in his native Africa by the sadistic slavers of the 1800s and shipped to America's deep South, shows what happens when a man's memories of lost freedom inflame him into revolt. "The African...is vastly superior to William Styron's 'Confessions of Nat Turner'. Courlander's...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. Language: English. In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language - English, the language spoken by those who had sent the Afrikaners to the world's first...
Cousin's best known hymn, "The Sands of Time are Sinking", is known and sung over the English-speaking world. It is also known as "Immanuel's Land", the phrase that is repeated at the end of each stanza. This poem was inspired by Samuel Rutherford's last words. It was first published in 1860s, with extracts from Rutherford's works, under the title: Last words of Reverend Samuel...
Methuen, 2012. A play. The play was first seen in the West End in 1941. Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward which takes its title from Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" ("Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! / Bird thou never wert"). The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to...
New York: Berkley, 2022. — ISBN 9780593336786; ISBN 9780593336793. Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender...
Baker Publishing Group, 2011. — 359 p. An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school. Caleb Bender and his neighbors are arrested for neglect, with the state ordering the children be placed in an institution. Among them are Caleb's teenage daughter, Rachel, and the boy she has her eye on, Jake Weaver. Romance blooms between...
Baker Publishing Group, 2012. — 352 p. More Danger, Adventure, Romance in Dale Cramer's Next Installment! Bandit troubles intensify as Caleb Bender's family tries to settle into their new life in 1920s Paradise Valley. When El Pantera kidnaps Rachel and leaves her brother, Aaron, for dead, Jake Weaver and the Mexican native Domingo pursue the bandit leader to his mountain...
Baker Publishing Group, 2012. — 346 p. — ISBN: 9781441260994. Unique Amish Historical from a Bestselling, Award-Winning Author Amish pacifism is sorely tested in the Paradise Valley settlement in the 1920s. When an army of bandits descends on them, the Amish are saved by the last-minute arrival of government troops. But they soon learn that soldiers can be as cruel as the...
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946. — 205 p. At the time of his death, Hart Crane had prepared for publication a volume to be called Key West: An Island Sheaf. This collection, with the poems as arranged by Crane, figures as Part Three of this volume. The Uncollected Poems were found in manuscript among the poet's papers, and were written for the most part in the...
London: Harper&Brothers, 1899. — 48 p. A "Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden" was written and illustrated with coloured pictures by Walter Crane. This charming little book tells of the hidden life and society of flowers, which are depicted as personifications of their chief qualities. For example the Dandelion is portrayed as a bold knight, and the Foxgloves as a happy and...
Scribner, 2023. — 637 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0083-0 In this powerful, visceral novel about love, sex, and the struggle for a better world, two men collaborate on a book in defense of homosexuality, then a crime—risking their old lives in the process. In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that what they call “inversion,” or...
Chicago: The University of Chicago press N.Y, 1963, 150 c. Nonfiction-бестселлер начала 1960-х гг. в необычном жанре пародийного литературоведения. Профессор филологии Frederick Crews от лица вымышленных учёных разбирает книгу о Винни-Пухе Милна с точки зрения марксизма, формализма, фрейдизма и прочих -измов. Самое забавное, что эта, ставшая классикой, книга предшествовала не...
New York: D.Appleton &Co, 1896. — 392 p. When Cleg Kelly was first published, William Wallace in the Academy declared it 'out of sight the ablest and richest story of gamin life that has appeared in our time - the story that recalls most readily Oliver Twist and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.' Set partly in Edinburgh, and through the eyes and adventures of a cheeky guttersnipe,...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 561 p. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0496-8 After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New York publishing world, Harper Cruz is broke, lonely, and desperate for a salary that won’t leave her scrambling to make rent each month. So when she stumbles across a job posting from an influencer offering triple her last paycheck, she automatically submits her résumé. Harper...
New York: Holiday House, 1999. — 216 p. — ISBN 0-8234-1512-0. Someone is watching Ashley. Someone is watching her very closely. The anonymous notes she has received prove it. Although 14-year-old Ashley appears to lead a dreary life attending school and caring for her disabled mother, she has one thrilling secret. The only person she's told about her other astonishing life is...
Harper Perennial, 2004. — ISBN10: 0380731061; ISBN13: 978-0380731060. A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been collected in one...
2007.
In a powerful debut novel that moves between the crowded streets of London and the desolate mountains of Iran, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and worlds away. On a rainy day in London the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently, with tragic consequences for her daughter, Sara, and her newly...
Barry Crump Associates, 1990. — 192 p. Barry Crump (15 May 1935 – 3 July 1996) was a New Zealand author . Originally published under the title GULF, after the Gulf of Carpentaria, Crocodile Country is a story of raw adventure in a by-gone era. Set in Northern Australia, it is an authentic account of the life of a croc-shooter in the sixties in this savage yet beautiful country,...
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union.
Gorky Park is the first book in a series which also includes Polar Star and Red Square which are set during the Soviet era. Four more books with the character Arkady Renko, which all take place after the fall of the Soviet Union, have been published. These are Havana Bay, set in communist...
Budapest: Angelusz & Gold, 2000. — 180 p. Чат Геза. Дневники (на англ. яз.) The Diary of Geza Csath. On the Illness and Death of Geza Csath. Chronology.
Gallery Books, 2013, ISBN: 1476702918, 336 pages. A writer and his demons. A woman and her desires. A wife and her revenge. Inspired by literature’s most haunting love triangle, award-winning author Lynn Cullen delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of Edgar Allan Poe, his mistress’s tantalizing confession, and his wife’s frightening obsession. in this intelligent, sexy, and...
This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming's Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the...
Flatiron Books, 2020. — 400 p. — ISBN13: 978-1250209764 Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows...
Flatiron Books, 2020. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1250209765; ISBN13: 978-1250209764. #1 New York Times Bestseller OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK “Extraordinary.” ―Stephen King “This book is not simply the great American novel; it’s the great novel of las Americas. It’s the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.” ―Sandra Cisneros También de este lado hay...
Introduction by Richard Curtis. Film Family Tree. Love Actually - The Screenplay. 'Christmas Is All Around' - The Lyrics. Deleted Scenes - The Ones That Didn't Make It. Behind the Scenes. Love Actually - The Quiz. Love Questionnaires. Some Strange Posters. Cast and Crew. And Finally. Unforgettable, ungettable, regrettable, ecstatic, exciting, unexpected, unwelcome,...
Trust your agent and God, in that order. That is Dave Bolt's First Law, and it ought to be engraved on the heart of every professional athlete seeking representation. Sure, we players' agents are fallible, but our judgment in money matters is infinitely superior to that of most athletes, believe me. Jimmy Quinn didn't believe me, and he paid through the nose. Jimmy was...
Trust your agent and God, in that order. That is Dave Bolt's First Law, and it ought to be engraved on the heart of every professional athlete seeking representation. Sure, we players' agents are fallible, but our judgment in money matters is infinitely superior to that of most athletes, believe me. Jimmy Quinn didn't believe me, and he paid through the nose. Jimmy was...
James Oliver Curwood was a pioneering figure in the action-adventure genre. Over the course of his career, he penned dozens of novels and stories that detailed the exploits of rugged outlaws and misfits who roamed the foreboding woods of northern Canada. In The Hunted Woman, a beautiful lass finds herself at the center of a raging feud.
Saga Press, 2023. — 389 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9673-8 When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house. The trials of home improvement, destructive insecurities, and...
Pushkin Press, 2023. — 304 p. He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming political advisor to Putin. After he resigns from this position, legends about him multiply, without anyone being able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, he tells his story to the narrator of this book... Welcome to the heart of...
London: Penguin, 2019. — 208 p. — (Penguin European Writers). — ISBN: 0241400732. In 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to cope with her loss, his despair slowly transforms to rage when he discovers that his father had a mistress. Bengt swears revenge on behalf of his mother's...
4th Estate, 2018. A utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated...
Essays. Graywolf Press, 2022. — 174 р. — ISBN 978-1-64445-211-0 In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from...
Pantheon, 2000. — 709 p. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo...
Pantheon, 2000. — 709 p. Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo...
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. — 740 p. House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski. The format and structure of the novel is unconventional, with unusual page layout and style, making it ergodic literature. It contains copious footnotes, many of which contain footnotes themselves, and some of which reference books that do not exist. Some...
London: The Harborough Publishing (ACE Books), 1958. - 189 с. Перевод с норвежского: F. N. Lyon. Отсканированный PDF Автор - друг писателя и путешественника Тура Хейердала, участник знаменитого путешествия на плоту Кон-Тики. В данной книге он пишет об обычаях и особенностях семейных и сексуальных отношений жителей Полинезии. Он рассматривает их через призму взгляда европейца...
London: John Lane, 1896. — XII + 147 p. «Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Luís de Camões. CXXIV Sonnets» is a compilation of sonnets by Dante Alighieri, famous Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His "Divine Comedy" is widely considered the greatest Italian literary work ever composed and a major contribution to world literature. This book of sonnets offers the reader a better...
Bantam Books, 2022. — 522 р. — ISBN 9780593497173 Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history; the ultimate destination for someone with something to hide. Perfect for Clare, then, who arrives utterly alone and yearning to reinvent herself. And what better place to conceal the secrets of her past than at the university in the...
Canada: D&M Publishers,.2009.—232p.—ISBN: 0-374-17429-6 Poetry. Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش, 13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of...
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2022. — 548 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-79706-3. A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters. From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone,...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN-10 1501171348; ISBN-13 978-1501171345. A “gripping” (Entertainment Weekly) mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 320 p. — ISBN-10 1501171348; ISBN-13 978-1501171345. A “gripping” (Entertainment Weekly) mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note...
694 стр.2003 A novel of Rembrandt's most secret seduction. Beautifully evocative and suspensful double time-scheme narrative about Rembrandt, love and art. In January, 1662, the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage, he must paint the Captain's portrait. For himself, he paints a portrait of the...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time. The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He...
London: V. Gollancz, 1962. — 320 p. The Rose o f Tibet is a story of adventure on the roof of the world, before and during the Chinese invasion. Charles Houston, a London artist, goes out to seek news of his brother, reported dead in Tibet. In India a Sherpa boy tells him of Europeans recently encountered in the mountains and the two set off for the forbidden monastery of...
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The first novel in Davies's celebrated "Deptford Trilogy" introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide.
Восставшие ангелы. Язык английский. Роман из Корнишской трилогии канадского писателя второй половины XX столетия. Действие происходит в университете, расположенном в Торонто, одном из крупнейших городов Канады. Главные герои - аспирантка Мария, два ее преподавателя-профессора, которые к ней неравнодушны, мать Марии - цыганка - и молодой миллионер, смерть дядюшки которого...
McClelland & Stewart, 2016. — 1577 p. Comprising The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, Samuel Marchbanks’ Almanack, and The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks
New York: Penguin Books, 2016. — xxxix, 996 p. — ISBN 9780143108320. About the Author Title page Copyright Dedication Foreword by Azar Nafisi Introduction A Note on the Illustrations The First Kings The Demon-King Zahhak The Story of Feraydun and his Three Sons The Story of Iraj The Vengeance of Manuchehr The Tale of Sam and the Simorgh The Tale of Zal and Rudabeh Rostam, the...
A romance of America’s nascent imperial power, Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune recounts the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and...
Douglas & McIntyre; Fourth Impression edition, 2007. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1553652673, ISBN13: 978-1553652670. Книга-отчет о работе палеонтолога Вейда Девиса. For more than 30 years, a renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him...
No publication info. 2012. Nineteen-year-old Cheyenne tries to portray the perfect life to mask the memories of her past. Walking in on her boyfriend with another woman her freshman year in college threatens that picture of perfection. Twenty-one-year-old Colt never wanted college and never expected to amount to anything, but when his mom's dying wish is for him to get his...
No publication info. 2012. Jaden Sinclair knows he'll never amount to anything... so why would he deserve a girl like Priscilla Mendoza? Since last summer, things have been screwed up between Jaden and Pris. He knows it's his fault, but that doesn't stop him from wanting to go a few rounds with her new boyfriend. He also knows he's the loser his dad calls him, but it doesn't...
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In the dead of night, Lily Waite and her 5-year-old son, Matthew, arrive at their new home on a council estate in East London; their only possessions, two suitcases and a bag of charred remains. Their past is a mystery, Matthew's father nowhere in evidence, and Lily resolute in her need for privacy. But Lily has to come to terms with the events that precipitated her...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 632 р. — ISBN 9781250283269 This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year...
He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily.
Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private...
No Longer Human (人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku) is a 1948 Japanese autobiogaphical novel by Osamu Dazai. It is considered Dazai's masterpiece and ranks as the second-best selling novel in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro.[1] The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in his preface to the English translation, is "Disqualified From Being Human". (The Italian...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
The surprise winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, DBC Pierre's debut novel, Vernon God Little, makes few apologies in its darkly comedic portrait of Martirio, Texas, a town reeling in the aftermath of a horrific school shooting. Fifteen-year-old Vernon Little narrates the first-person story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his diet-obsessed townsfolk. His...
Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there’s nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn’t belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.
Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She’s hiding something from Kidd—but could they ever be together anyway?
Devon is mean,...
Описание: Название: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby! Автор: Gerd de Ley. Издательство: Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited. Год: 2006. Страниц: 128. Формат: PDF. Язык: английский. В книге собраны сотни высказываний известных личностей о любви. Приводятся слова таких людей как: Уильям Шекспир, Марк Твен, Эйнштейн, Коко Шанель и др. Например, "How on earth are you ever going to....
What if saying hello to an old friend meant saying good-bye to life as you know it?
It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched her best friends walk out of her life. And through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them.
Pen, Cat, and Will met on their first day of college and formed...
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1990. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0-916418-76-6 Selene de Medeiros is an Afro-Indo-Brazilian poet, musician, and international performer born in Bahia, Brazil. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Bahia in music and drama. In Rio de Janeiro she specialized in linguistics. Ms. de Medeiros is the author of thirteen books. Most of her poems have been translated into...
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1990. — 74 p. — ISBN: 0-916418-76-6 Selene de Medeiros is an Afro-Indo-Brazilian poet, musician, and international performer born in Bahia, Brazil. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Bahia in music and drama. In Rio de Janeiro she specialized in linguistics. Ms. de Medeiros is the author of thirteen books. Most of her poems have been translated into...
"Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" were first published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, then released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey.
It is an autobiographical account about De Quincey's opium and alcohol addiction and its effect on his life.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Morrison. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — (Oxford World’s Classics). The titular essay in this volume of work by Thomas De Quincey centers on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on...
St. Martin's Press, 2007. - 295 c. - ISBN: 0312370830; ISBN13: 9780312370831. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's...
St. Martin's Press, 2007. - 295 c. - ISBN: 0312370830; ISBN13: 9780312370831. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2007. – 130 p. Language: English. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th...
The Blue Lagoon is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1908. The novel is the first of the Blue Lagoon trilogy, the second being The Garden of God (1923) and the third being The Gates of Morning (1925). The Blue Lagoon is the story of two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, stranded on a remote island with a beautiful lagoon. As children, they are...
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention & A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor & Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naОve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences &
In this stunning collection of short stories five of which are being published for the very first time...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 486 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 35). — ASIN B00DRNYOFE. Juvenal’s ‘Satires’ are a vital source for the study of Latin literature, offering a lurid, comic and fascinating window into the world of ancient Rome. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 480 р. — ISBN 9780525655121 Can we love the work of artists such as Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, or Picasso? Should we? Dederer explores the audience's relationship with artists from Michael Jackson to Virginia Woolf, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? Is male...
Here is the story "Without You" from the Del James book "The Language of Fear". This is the story that Guns N Roses made the video about and it explains what happened to the bride. As it's stated at the end of the video, "November Rain" is based on the short story "Without You" by Del James, available in James' 1995 book The Language of Fear. That short story would have an...
London: Grove Press, 1994. — 96 p. ISBN-10 : 0802131859 ISBN-13 : 978-0802131850 A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had all the freshness of Mr. Osborne’s Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity.” A Taste of Honey won Miss Delaney two national awards, the...
Delta, 1991. — 336 p.
Doors drummer Densmore, who had a love-hate relationship with lead singer Morrison, sympathetically chronicles the self-destructive Lizard King's rise and fall. Such is the mystique, the iconoclastic reverence, the enduring commercial success and marketability of Jim Morrison, enigmatic lead singer of the Doors, 19 years after his death, that Densmore,...
Take a journey into the world of China's most feared Empress. This true story was the first eyewitness account of the Imperial Court written by a Chinese aristocrat for Western readers. It provides an up-close personal view of the notorious Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi in the final years of her reign. Enhanced with rich imagery and additional historical notes, "Two Years in the...
Cambion, #1 Kindle Edition, Published August 7th 2011 by Wicked Truth Publishing. Everyone dreams of that first kiss. Of that magic moment when your lips finally meet those of that special person you’ve waited your whole life for. A little awkward, a little scary, a little hot and every bit amazing. We speculate that the whole world will shake and time will just stop. No one,...
Grove Press, 2006. - 333 p.
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York...
New York: Viking, 2009. — 142 p.
A coming-of-age novel by a best-seller author Sarah Dessen as brilliant and caprivating as her previous books: 'That Summer', 'Someone Like You', 'Dreamland'
Speak, 2004. — 345 p.
When it comes to relationships, Remy doesn't mess around. After all, she's learned all there is to know from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. But there's something about Dexter that seems to defy all of Remy's rules. He certainly doesn't seem like Mr. Right. For some reason, however, Remy just can't seem to shake him. Could it be...
Described as the most well-executed literary sex comedy of our time by Salon.com, and a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise to power in corporate America as down-and-out salesman Joe curtails sexual harassment in the office and increases productivity...
New Directions, 2019. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0811227839 (ISBN13: 9780811227834) For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill,...
Vintage Digital, 2011. Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the original Greek at 4 before moving on to Hebrew, Japanese, Old Norse,...
Pete Dexter is the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout and of God's Pocket, Deadwood, Brotherly Love, The Paperboy, and Train. He was born in Michigan and raised in Georgia, Illinois, and easter South Dakota. He lives on Puget Sound, Washington. Другие книги, написанные этим автором: Train. The Paperboy. Brotherly Love. Paris Trout. God's Pocket.
Riverhead Books, 2023. — 623 p. — ISBN: 9780593420331 Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws...
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p.
It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who...
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p.
It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who...
New York : Riverhead Books, 2008. — 339 p.
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It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for...
Riverhead Books, New York, 2007. — 354 p. ISBN: 1-4295-6057-6 Диас Жуно. Короткая и удивительная жизнь Оскара Уо Полуавтобиографический роман 2007 года, написанный американцем доминиканского происхождения Жуно Диасом, повествует о судьбе толстого и глубоко несчастного ребенка,переживающего процесс взросления в Нью-Джерси и безвременно погибающего в ранней юности. Произведение...
Delphi Classic. 2012.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.
While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the...
2nd printing – Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1960 – 770 p. Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson’s poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations. Here is the real Emily Dickinson – the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 170 p. Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was born at Langres in Champagne, the son of a master cutler who wanted him to follow a career in the Church. He attended the best Paris schools, took a degree in theology in 1735 but turned away from religion and tried his hand briefly at law before deciding to make his way as a translator and writer. In 1746, he...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 215 p. Denis Diderot (1713–1784) was born at Langres in Champagne, the son of a master cutler who wanted him to follow a career in the Church. He attended the best Paris schools, took a degree in theology in 1735 but turned away from religion and tried his hand briefly at law before deciding to make his way as a translator and writer. In 1746, he...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it...
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for...
Ballantine Books, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-0345525550 A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was...
Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1844. — 460 pp.
Свою литературную работу в её лучшей части Дизраэли сделал средством пропаганды своих социально-политических взглядов. Первый его социальный роман «Coningsby, or the New Generations» (1844) провозглашает идеалы «Молодой Англии» — объединение всех социальных слоев нации в лоне эстетизированной государственной церкви под отеческим...
Novel, Chicago: Belford, Clarke, and Co., 1881. 422 pp. 101 chapters.
It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death. Like most of Disraeli's novels, Endymion is a romance, although Disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859. This meant that the hero of the novel–Endymion Ferrars–had to be a Whig, rather than a Tory. The time period that...
Novel. London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, Farringdon Street. 1859. — 435 p.
Vivian Grey follows its eponymous hero from childhood through his attempt to succeed in the world of politics. The various systems of education through which Vivian Grey passes are analysed. The final system of education is experience, which proves the most instructive and the most shattering....
Sri Lanka, 2003. — 157 p. Диссанаяке Дайя. Отверженная богиня (на англ. яз.) The story is about three women, mother Prema, daughter Teja and granddaughter Mahima. The story is also about Woman. Prema is first under her father's domination, then under her husband and then her son. She is the daughter, the wife the house slave, the passive onlooker as life goes on around her. Teja...
Peliyagoda, Sri Lanka, 2004. — 70 p. Диссанаяке Дайя. Жажда (на англ. яз.) Daya Dissanayake (born March 8, 1947) is an award-winning bilingual Sri Lankan novelist, poet and blogger. His work spans nine novels in English, six novels in Sinhala and a collection of poems, and numerous articles in newspapers, journals and magazines. He is the author of the first e-novel in Asia, 'The...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Djian's five novels have won acclaim in Europe, and the present one was a bestseller later adapted into an offbeat film. It's not likely, however, that this tedious and melodramatic on-the-road novel of the most formless kind will have much impact here. The story revolves around the love affair between a drifter with an unpublished novel to his credit and a beautiful girl with...
Transl. and foreword by Charles Simic. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. — 112 p. — ISBN-10: 0691205965; ISBN-13: 978-0691205960. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of...
Book 1 of 4 in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series
Amid the flash and din of Boston's raucous Chinese New Year's celebration, an elderly man is shot while watching the parade from his window. Anthony Bradley, the son of an African-American judge, is standing across the street at the time and is immediately arrested for the crime.Michael Knight, a young lawyer who's going...
Transl. from the German by John E. Woods. — New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1983. — x, 640 p. — ISBN 0-88064-007-3; ISBN 0-88064-008-1 (pbk.). November 1918. The First World War is over, the battle is lost a and everywhere there is talk of revolution. Leaders of the German military have formed an uneasy alliance with the socialists who control the...
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk. In a...
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk. In a...
Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk. In a...
На диком-диком Западе жила дикая-дикая утка по имени Какша (Fup). Как она там очутилась и что из этого вышло, вы узнаете из мистически-хамского вестерна "Какша" (Fup).
У героев этой книги очень разносторонние интересы и богатая биография. Дедушка Джейк, например, любит сидеть на крыльце своего дома, потягивая крепкий алкогольный напиток "Шепот смерти". Двухметровый внук Джейка,...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 256 p. A collection of personal stories, lessons, song lyrics, and photos from the beloved British vlogger Dodie Clark, also known online as doddleoddle. When I feel like I'm going mad I write. A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when they'd happen, the world would...
Scribner, 2014. — 544 p. Language: English. The most acclaimed and beloved novel of 2014, over a half year on the New York Times bestseller list—hauntingly beautiful (The New York Times), incandescent, luminous, enthralling (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes...
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain, 2012. — 195 p. Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. Thinking she'll be able to relax and enjoy her beloved English countryside while...
Salt Lake City, Utah: Shadow Mountain, 2015. — 41 p. Philip Wyndham has never envied his older brother for being the heir to Edenbrooke. He would much rather carve out his own destiny than live under the constraints of that position. But when his older brother dies unexpectedly, Philip's life is turned upside down as duty requires him to give up the life he planned. Philip...
Grand Central, 2023. — 572 р. — ISBN 9781538723562. Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious...
Ed. with a preface by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn; afterwords by Ami1i Baraka and Jeremy P1ynne. — Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2012. — 1024 p. — (Writing, 34) — ISBN-10: 1847771262; ISBN-13: 978-1847771261. Edward Dorn's Collected Poems enables readers to experience for the first time the full scope of his poetry, from poems of the 1950s and 60s to his posthumous Chemo Sabe...
Before I Die / Пока я жива. Год выпуска: 2007 г. Автор: Jenny Downham / Дженни Даунхэм. Язык: Английский. Формат: PDF. Кол-во страниц: 296. Описание: Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the...
Short Stories Reader. Part I: News & Events. Сборник рассказов мировых писателей на английском языке. Данный сборник включает в себя рассказы таких великих писателей, как Оноре Де Бальзак, Артур Конан Дойл, Антон Павлович Чехов, Джозеф Конрад, Альфонс Доде, Чарльз Диккенс, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд. El Verdugo – Honore de Balzac La Grenadiere -...
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. — 472 p. A miscellany of poems, essays and short stories, many of the latter being supernatural or Gothic. Observations on the Writings and Genius of Lucretius with Specimens of a New Translation. The same concluded. On the Government of the Imagination ; on the Frenzy of Tasso and Collins. On the Tender Melancholy which usually follows the...
London: Avon, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0008320454 (ISBN13: 9780008320454). When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in the rural English countryside. She hadn’t seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship, and a chance to start again. But going through Elizabeth’s belongings unearths memories Caro would...
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. — 200 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-547-15258-5. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing...
London: Penguin Books, 2009. - 208 p. ISBN13: 978-0141035963. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing read.
London: Penguin Books, 2009. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-0141035963. A sweet and gentle comedic novel in which Mr Malik does ornithological battle for the hand, heart and rock and roll skills of the delectable Rose Mbwika. Funny, sweet, and humane, and more germane than you could possibly imagine, it's from the school of Alexander McCall Smith. A perfectly relaxing read.
Orchard Books, 2018. — 288 p. An emotionally charged story about the power of dreams, and how passion can turn to obsession. Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and...
Boston: Wisdom Publications,.199S.—217p.—ISBN: 0-86171-063-0 In Tibet, sacred texts, called pe-cha. arc traditionally regarded as the actual tcachin~ of the Buddha, and as such arc treated with reverence. Texts arc kept high above the ground and carefully wrapped in cloth covers, called pe-re, to protect them from dust and damage. Here, a brocade doth covers a book of daily...
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1929. — 676 p. It is only in recent years that in studying English in our universities we have thought of literature as a continuous process, like the growth of an organism, proceeding with change but without cessation until the culture of which it is a part ends and is forgotten. This curious incomprehension has been due, of course, to the...
Penguin Books, 1995. — 112 pages.
This anthology of romantic poetry contains poems on the subjects of the human spirit, time, love, art and beauty. It includes work by William Blake, John Clare, John Keats and William Wordsworth,Robert Burns , Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 7828 p. — ASIN B00D8Z7RSW. Dominating the literary life of Restoration England, Dryden produced a large oeuvre of poetry, plays, essays and translations that were without their equal, inspiring later critics to refer to his era simply as the ‘Age of Dryden’. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior...
Transl. from the Chinese: Watson Burton. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. — 173 p. The Chinese scholar William Hung, who wrote the definitive book in English on Du Fu’s life and poetry, gave it the unequivocal title Tu Fu: China’s greatest poet. Professor Stephen Owen of Harvard, the leading American authority on Chinese poetry of the Tang period, enthusiastically...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
This is one of the best pieces of classic literature ever written. It is not quite clear why hardly anyone has ever heard about in the United States. The novel, by Nobel Prize winning du Gard, is revered in Europe. It is not to be missed by any serious reader. Beware, though, that this is not the complete work. The English translation is divided in two volumes. This one, The...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially if...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially if...
Little A, 2016. - 152 c. - ISBN10: 1503933393; ISBN13: 978-1503933392. An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police—especially if...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons,, 2023. — 449 р. — ISBN 9780593532089 Sloan and Cherry. Cherry and Sloan. They met only a few days before masked men with machetes attacked the summer camp where they worked, a massacre that left the rest of their fellow counselors dead. Now, months later, the two are inseparable, their traumatic experience bonding them in ways no one else can understand....
Duggan was for many years in the 1930s and 1940s the best known poet in New Zealand, but recently has been almost unacknowledged and most of her work is now out of print. She is important in Catholic and New Zealand Irish writing. Her lyrical gift and her evocation of atmosphere was very popular at the time she was writing, so this volume serves as an example of that phase of...
Barbara Dunlop. A Secret Life.
As far as Joan Bateman is concerned, life as she's known it is over. For years she's lived with a dual identity. The people of Indigo know her simply as their neighbor, but to crime-mystery readers, she's the bestselling author Jules Burrell. But once her secret is leaked, the media, her fans and Anthony Verdun, her New York agent, all descend on...
MacAdam/Cage, 2001. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9673701-6-3. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching...
MacAdam/Cage, 2001. — 205 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9673701-6-3. Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching...
Киносценарий Маргерит Дюрас.
Hiroshima mon amour concerns a series of conversations (or one enormous conversation) over a 36-hour long period between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), referred to as She, and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as He. They have had a brief relationship, and are now separating. The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She prepares...
A novel by Marguerite Duras. Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (pronounced: [maʁ.ɡə.ʁit dy.ʁas]) (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a...
London: Warner Books, 1996. С фотографиями
Воспоминания сестры Джеральда Даррелла Марго. О ней он очень много писал в своей трилогии о Корфу.
Писателя часто спрашивали о судьбе его сестры. Теперь она сама рассказывает о себе.
Рукопись этой книги найдена на чердаке ее старого дома внуками. Предположительно книга была написана в середине 60х годов.
Margaret Durrell was born in...
Translated by Patrick Bowles In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle...
Translated by Patrick Bowles In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her. From its subtle...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2007.
It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep away from. This is the hilarious and touching real-life diary she kept during that fateful year - with characters like her evil friend Bethany,...
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages - 310. Everyone’s looking for true love, but few people seem willing to work at making it last. With separation and divorce so commonplace that most people see them as inevitable, it seems the very idea of marital commitment is fast becoming a foreign one. What’s gone wrong? On Good Friday 1907, in the German university town of...
Translated by Edgar Prestage. — London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1906. — 114 p. In this classic of Portuguese literature, Eça de Queirós's greatest incursion into the fantastic, a young nobleman falls in love with a married woman and is entrapped by her husband, but help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.
This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down's syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to...
Picador; Reprint edition 2007 — 249 стр. — ISBN: 978-0312425937.
Deborah Eisenberg is nearly unmatched in her mastery of the short-story form. Now, in her newest collection, she demonstrates once again her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, perfectly shaped studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luck in acquiring a luxurious...
Bantam Books, 2022. — 550 р. — ISBN 9780593156964 June 1940. France has fallen to the Nazis, and Britain may be next—but to many Americans, the war is something happening “over there.” Veronica Grace has just graduated from college; she and her mother, Violet, are looking for a fresh start in sunny Los Angeles. After a blunder cost her a prestigious career opportunity in New...
Delphi Classic. 2012 Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix...
2008 (на английском)
Perfect Chemistry is a touching story that demonstrates that love knows no boundaries, but that humanity knows far too many.
A modern tale of star-crossed lovers with a fresh urban twist. At Fairfield High School, on the outskirts of Chicago , everyone knows that south-siders mixing with north-siders can be explosive. So when Brittany Ellis and Alejandro...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0718081013; ISBN13: 978-0718081010. “Sara Ella’s debut novel is a stunning journey into a fascinating new world of reflections. Intricately plotted, the story is complex, but not difficult to follow. Eliyana is a strong heroine, yet also has a vulnerable side that readers will definitely identify with. The other characters are also...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. - 384 c. - ISBN10: 0718081013; ISBN13: 978-0718081010. “Sara Ella’s debut novel is a stunning journey into a fascinating new world of reflections. Intricately plotted, the story is complex, but not difficult to follow. Eliyana is a strong heroine, yet also has a vulnerable side that readers will definitely identify with. The other characters are also...
Weinstein Books, 2007. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1602860070. For decades the world has credited renowned explorer Sir Edmund Hillary with being the first person to reach the peak of Mount Everest. But was he? Evidence to the contrary arrives one day on the doorstep of Chris Elliott--an anonymous package that contains the diary of his Great Uncle Percy Brackett Elliott, an adventurer...
Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism. Time describes the novel as "a screed against models and celebrity. "
The book "The Informers" follows the lives of interconnected characters. Each chapter in this book of short stories has a different first person, or narrator. The characters involved with the narrators are often repeated through a few chapters while the secondary characters in one chapter could appear as the narrator in another.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 1190 р. — ISBN 9780593535608 Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep...
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. Winner of more awards for imaginative literature than any other living writer, he is the only scenarist ever to win the Writers Guild of America award three times for...
Invisible Man is a 1952 novel written by Ralph Ellison. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Transl. by] Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris; intr. and notes by jeffrey Carson. — Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. — 768 p. — ISBN-10: 0801880459; ISBN-13: 978-0801880452. In awarding Odysseus Elytis the 1979 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy praised him "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 6415 p. — (Delphi Poets Series Book 34). — ASIN B00EBXUMTG. Disseminating his genius through celebrated essays and the hundreds of public lectures he gave across the United States, Ralph Waldo Emerson led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century and was lionised as a champion of individualism and a staunch critic of the countervailing...
Barnes & Nobles, 2004. With an introduction and notes by Peter Norberg. From the Pages of Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Title Page. Copyright Page. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The World of Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Note on the Text. ESSAYS. Nature. Chapter I. Chapter II - Commodity. Chapter III - Beauty. Chapter IV - Language. Chapter V - Discipline. Chapter VI - Idealism....
NY: Riverhead Books, 2020. — 107 p. Эмези Акваэке. Смерть Вивека Оджи, роман (на англ. яз.) What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one...
Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980. — 316 pages. — ISBN: 0800871863. Silence is a novel of historical fiction by Japanese author Shusaku Endo. It is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution in the time of Kakure Kirishitan ("Hidden Christians") that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion. Written mostly in the form of a...
Delphi Classics, 2018. — 1275 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 88). — ISBN: 9781786564054. The father of Roman literature, Quintus Ennius (239–169 BC) was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity. Though later overshadowed by Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’, Ennius was revered by his contemporaries for producing the first true Latin epic poem. ‘The Annals’ covered Roman...
The Man Booker Prize . The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him – although that certainly helped – it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just...
Dalkey Archive Press, 2013. — 150 p. Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American...
Riverhead Books, 2016. — 250 p. A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to reverberate throughout modernity — a story unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet...
A Novel. — Translated by Megan McDowell. — London; New York: Hogarth, 2023. — 576 p. — ISBN 9780451495143. An imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a...
New York USA : Putnam and Sons.,1977. — 312 p
English. Opiates and Political Power in America. The Story of How the Drug Enforcement Administration Came to Be. This book is based on the view that the American president under ordinary circumstances reigns rather than rules over the government of the United States. To be sure, the president is nominally in command of the...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 120 S. — ISBN 978-151071-115-0, 978-151071-114-3. A search for meaning leads two men into the wilds of America in "a nonpareil road novel that winds up packing a real emotional punch" (T.C. Boyle, author of World's End). Disaffected surfer Luke Andersen doesn't see much point to life. Besides catching waves and driving part-time for a black car...
Usborne, 2012. — 256 p. Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be black-and-white, and needs to check her Facial Expressions Chart to understand emotions. So when Caitlin reads the...
Abrams, 2016. — 160 p. — ISBN: 9781419724428. The only tie-in book for USA's award-winning series MR. ROBOT, Elliot's journal--Red Wheelbarrow--is written by show creator Sam Esmail and show writer Amin Hammani. Before and during the events of season two, Elliot recorded his most private thoughts in this journal--and now you can hold this piece of the series in your hands....
Penguin Books (Viking Pr), Dec 1988. — 136 с. — ISBN: 0140079971 / 978-0140079975 A wonderfully funny tall story from Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Shepard's sharply observed account of a young boy who runs away from home and star light a virtuoso science fiction from Isaac Asimov, are some of the pleasures in store in this collection. It contains pieces by new young talents as well as...
Anchor, 1995. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 038542017X; ISBN13: 978-0385420174 The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre...
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. - 290 p. ISBN10: 0-85668-609-3 ISBN13: 9780856686092 Classical Texts. With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Richard Seaford. Greek Text Oxford University Press. Reproduced from the Oxford Classical Texts. Edition of Euripides Fabulae by James Diggle by permission of Oxford University Press. Euripides’s remarkable variety of...
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. - 290 p. ISBN10: 0-85668-609-3 ISBN13: 9780856686092 Classical Texts. With an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Richard Seaford. Greek Text Oxford University Press. Reproduced from the Oxford Classical Texts. Edition of Euripides Fabulae by James Diggle by permission of Oxford University Press. Euripides’s remarkable variety of...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 160 p. — (Greek Tragedy in New Translations). — ISBN: 0195125983 Transl. by Reginald Gibbons, introduction and notes by Charles Segal. Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — ASIN B018STI1UA. During the Hellenistic Age, the great tragedian Euripides became a cornerstone of ancient literary education, his plays exhibiting an iconoclastic, rationalising attitude toward both religious belief and the ancient myths that formed the traditional subject matter of Greek drama.. The Ancient Classics series provides Kindles with the...
Karachi: K. T. Shahani Educational Printing Press, 1944. — 308 p. Subtitled Being the Sorry Tale of Two American Soldiers in India , it begins with the word "dysentery". It is the fictional story of Private Joe Betz and Corporal Mordaunt Witherspoon, U.S. Army, late of Brooklyn, New York. Left behind to recover from illness in a hospital at one end of India during World War II,...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010. – 325 p. Tom Bedford lives alone in the wilds of Montana. Distanced from his own troubled past, he rarely sees his son, Danny, who is now deployed in Iraq. Tom hasn't always been so isolated. As a boy, his mother was a rising movie star in the glitzy, enchanted world of 1960s Hollywood. She fell in love with young Tom's onscreen cowboy...
New York: Dell, 2009. – 347 p. His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes...
A teenage girl and her horse get in an accident that leave them both with physical and emotional scars. The mother of the girl travels with the girl and the horse from New York to Montana for some help from a Horse Whisperer. This is a once in a lifetime experience for the teenage girl and her mother.
The Horse Whisperer was No.10 on the list of bestselling novels in the United...
New York, "Simon & Schuster", 2014, -368 p.
Richard Paul Evans’ novels are generally formulaic and cheesy… but I absolutely love them and can’t get enough! This is my 6th RPE book and it was just as good as all his others. As usual, the characters endure some kind of hardship to find hope.
In this story, we meet Elise Dutton, a broken woman with a secret past that eats at her...
New York, "Simon & Schuster", 2014, -368 p.
Richard Paul Evans’ novels are generally formulaic and cheesy… but I absolutely love them and can’t get enough! This is my 6th RPE book and it was just as good as all his others. As usual, the characters endure some kind of hardship to find hope.
In this story, we meet Elise Dutton, a broken woman with a secret past that eats at her...
Riverhead Books, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1594484341 (ISBN13: 9781594484346) What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers today? We see this...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2019. — 453 p. Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and...
Tor Books, 2010. — 478 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7653-2503-7. Издательство Tor Books и компания Visceral Games аннонсировали проект под названием Dead Space: Martyr, первый роман из запланированной серии книг, основанных на истории и сюжете игры Dead Space и ее сиквелов/приквелов. Dead Space: Martyr расскажет предысторию событий, описанных в играх, историю Церкви Унитологии, открытия и...
52 истории для девушек. Язык английский. СШA, 1912. - School and Home - Girlhood and Youth - Pluck, Peril, and Adventure - In the World of Faery - Romance in History School and Home - Gloria Dene's Schoolfellows by Nora Ryeman - My Year at School by Margaret Watson - The Silver Star by Nellie Holderness - Uncle Tone by Kate Godkin - A Night on a Road by Margaret Watson - The...
Dutton, 2022. — 959 p. — ISBN 978-059-318412-7 Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions. The characters of Small World connect in...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1995. — 340 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN10: 9783110145861, ASIN 3110145863. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN: 1444765884 A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. 'It's Mark Haddon meets Kurt Vonnegut' ( Observer ). 'An eccentric...
With Illustrations by Brian Robb. — Penguin Books Ltd, 1954. — 255 P. Introduction . The fable in greece before aesop. Aesop. Later history of the fable. The anonymous collections. Translation . A case for patience. Friend or foer. Sour grapes. Actions speak louder than words. Fools die for want of wisdom. Dead men tell no tales. Look before you leap. Cut off your tails to save...
Grand Central Publishing, 2023. — 666 р. — ISBN: 978-153-8741498 The Lion City has gone by many names and is famous for many things—its decadent street food, its world-class shopping, its lush gardens that burst with tropical blooms. But paradise is always hiding a snake. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering deals for her...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1913. — 144 p. Фэрлесс Майкл. Собор брата Хилариуса (на англ. яз.) The Seed. The Flower. The Fruit. Маргарет Фэрлесс Барбер (1869-1901) — английская христианская писательница, писавшая под псевдонимом Майкл Фэрлесс. Всю жизнь активно занималась благотворительностью. В последние годы, из-за ухудшения здоровья была прикована к постели и умерла в...
Liverpool—Dhaka: Antivirus Productions, 2015. — 80 p. Рай Фалгуни. Телевидение растленной души, стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Falguni Roy, or Ray (1945–1981) was an anti-establishment Bengali poet. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy (Haradhon Dhara), Utpal Kumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0399158928; ISBN13: 978-0399158926. A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. “A gripping, cleverly plotted...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0399158928; ISBN13: 978-0399158926. A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. “A gripping, cleverly plotted...
Harper Perennial, 2007. — 189 p.
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 629 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-2478-2 When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else—new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son’s new playgroup. The other...
Gallery Books, 2022. — 641 p. — ISBN 978-1-5011-9295-1 It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022. — 226 p. — ISBN 978-0593-41933-5 When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2002.—302p.—ISBN: 0-19-511561-9 The sonnet was one of the leading poetic forms of the Romantic period, and many of the best-known poems of the period are sonnets, including Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge." Most of the sonnets...
Pages: 2247 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Shorter 5th edition (2005) Quality: good: PDF Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology,...
Random House, Inc., New York. 2007. eISBN: 978-0-307-51255-0. Amerigo Vespucci, who gave his name to America, was a pimp in his youth and a magus in his maturity. This astonishing transformation was part of his relentless self-reinvention, from which sprang a dazzling succession of career moves and what the celebrity press now calls makeovers. From his late twenties or...
Europa Editions, 2006. — 139 p. Europa Editions; First American Edition edition, 2005. — 188 p. Europa Editions, 2016. — 400 p. Europa Editions, 2008. — 125 p. Europa Editions, 2016. — 176 p. Europa Editions, 2012. — 196 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 186 p. Europa Editions, 2013 — 194 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 213 p. Europa Editions, 2014 — 263 p. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous...
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.
The story begins in the 1950s,...
Penguin Classics, 1987. — 549 p. — ISBN: 0140432299 (ISBN13: 9780140432299) Amelia is a domestic novel taking place largely in London during 1733. It describes the hardships suffered by a young couple newly married. Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a dashing young army officer. The couple run away to London. In Book II, William is unjustly...
Penguin Classics, 1999. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0140433864 (ISBN13: 9780140433869) Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch...
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel. The novel, totaling 346,747 words, is divided into 18 smaller books, each preceded by a discursive chapter, often on topics...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
William Morrow, 2018. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0062678418, 13 978-0062678416. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing.” —Gillian Flynn “Unputdownable.” —Stephen King “A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware “Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade’s...
The Madonna of the Almonds’ by Marina Fiorato. The year is 1525. A gifted young artist, Bernardino Luini of the Da Vinci school, is commissioned to paint a religious fresco in the hills of Lombardy. His eye is caught by the beautiful Simonetta di Saronno, recently widowed by the Italian Wars. Captivated by her beauty and her sadness Bernardino paints her likeness, immortalizing...
Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2011. — ISBN10: 1849833648; ISBN13: 978-1849833646. ** In a new edition introduced by Stephen Fry ** `I don't think you can even call this a drug. This is just a response to the conditions we live in.' Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like `something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting'. Immersed...
This sequel to the bestselling Postcards from the Edge contains Carries Fishers trademark intelligence and wit that brought Postcards to the Hollywood movie screen When we left Suzanne Vale at the end of Carrie Fishers bestselling Postcards from the Edge she had survived drug abuse rehab and Hollywood celebrity The Best Awful takes Suzanne back to the edge with a new set of...
Welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: Ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are hunted by the governing Watch yet revered by the people, and the great energy that connects all seems to also be destroying all. The only hope for the world lies in Galen, a man of the old Order and a...
Language: English. Janet Fitch is a native of Los Angeles. White Oleander is her first novel, it was a #1 bestseller. Это книга о жестокой войне за духовную независимость, которую героиня объявляет собственной матери, о всепоглощающей ненависти и о побеждающей ее любви, о неразрывных узах, которые предопределяют помимо нашей воли нашу жизнь. Роман американской писательницы...
The Penguin Group Inc., 2012. — 581 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-57522-2. A transporting debut about family, friendship, first romance, and how to be true to one person you love without betraying another. "One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time." The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy,...
Dial Books, 2015. — 425 p. — ISBN: 0803741421 (ISBN13: 9780803741423) The romantic companion to My Life Next Door—great for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house. Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To...well, not date her little brother’s...
Dial Books, 2014. — 422 p. — ISBN: 0803739095 (ISBN13: 9780803739093) The eagerly anticipated follow-up to My Life Next Door is a magnetic, push-me-pull-me summer romance for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. Gwen Castle's Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her idyllic Nantucket-esque island this summer. He's a rich kid from across the...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present, and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically, others...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 63 p. A little girl discovers that eating ice cream from her grandfather's old ice-cream truck gives her the power to travel through time, in this brilliant, funny and heartwarming story from bestselling author Tom Fletcher.
New York: Anchor Books, 2000. — 307 p. The poets who appear in this volume form a varied tradition which has been responsible for much of the vitality of modem poetry, not only in France, but throughout the countries of the West. The revolution, or series of revolutions, in European poetry which took place between Baudelaire and Valery is a revolution which still continues, and...
Bantam, 2022. — 574 р. — ISBN 9780593496473 Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch hours after her family awoke to find her gone. Margot Davies was six at the time, the same age as January—and they were next-door neighbors. In the twenty years since, Margot has grown up, moved away, and become a big-city...
Isabella, Three Sailing Ships and a Con Man is a 1963 two-act play by Italian playwright Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. The play is considered "an attempt to demystify and debunk the traditional history-book image" of Christopher Columbus. Fo said: "I wanted to attack those Italian intellectuals who, with the centre-left and the Socialist Party in...
Love at first sight - based on the true story of one girl and her 'train man'... The note changed everything... One very ordinary day, Maya Flowers sees a new commuter board her train to London, and suddenly the day isn't ordinary at all. Maya knows immediately and irrevocably, that he is The One. But the beautiful man on the train always has his head in a book and never seems to...
The lives of masterpiece hunters, forgers and thieves. In the modern art world of intrigue and competition, rumours had long flourished about the existence of a lost masterpiece by Modigliani. Now, with the prize for uncovering the work higher than ever, a chase begins across Europe to see who can get the painting first.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—525p.—ISBN: 0-226-25678-2 Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto), (1555–1592) was a Venetian writer and poet. Besides the posthumously-published dialogue, Il merito delle donne (The Worth of Women, 1600) for which she is best known, she...
London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd., 1917. — 30 c. S. Gertrude Ford was an English poet, journalist, and suffragette, best known for her pacifist poems published during World War I. Little is known about her life. Born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, her birth date remains a mystery. It is believed that she was the sister of Cicely Ford (1876-1960) of Girton College, a social worker...
London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd., 1917. — 30 c. S. Gertrude Ford was an English poet, journalist, and suffragette, best known for her pacifist poems published during World War I. Little is known about her life. Born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, her birth date remains a mystery. It is believed that she was the sister of Cicely Ford (1876-1960) of Girton College, a social worker...
Delphi Classic. 2012
Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939), born Ford Hermann Hueffer , was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature.
Ford is now remembered for his publications The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End...
HarperTeen, 2010. — 290 p. — ASIN: B00HTKE6UE. Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year’s Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Never mind the bandages on his wrists, clearly this is all a huge mistake. Jeff is perfectly fine, perfectly normal—not like the other kids in the hospital with him. They’ve got problems. But a funny...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
Algonquin Books, 2016. - 352 c. - ASIN: B01B3VMD4U. Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein. A harried working mother who’s so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 256 p. — (Penguin Modern Classics). Third in order of publication, A Room with a View was in its conception the earliest of E.M. Forster’s six classic novels. Perhaps for this reason, it has a fresh, youthful quality all its own. In this brilliant piece of social comedy Forster is concerned with one of his favourite themes: the ‘undeveloped heart’ of the...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 256 p. — (Penguin Modern Classics). (Searchable PDF — a text layer is added to the image layer.) Third in order of publication, A Room with a View was in its conception the earliest of E.M. Forster’s six classic novels. Perhaps for this reason, it has a fresh, youthful quality all its own. In this brilliant piece of social comedy Forster is concerned with...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985.
Первое издание: 1947.
The Story of a Panic.
The Other Side of the Hedge.
The Celestial Omnibus.
Other Kingdom.
The Curate's Friend.
The Road from Colonus.
The Machine Stops.
The Point of It.
Mr Andrews.
Co-Ordination.
The Story of the Strength.
The Eternal Moment.
Dr Woolacott.
The Life to Come.
The Other Boat.
The Life...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985.
Первое издание: 1947.
Содержание:
The Story of a Panic.
The Other Side of the Hedge.
The Celestial Omnibus.
Other Kingdom.
The Curate's Friend.
The Road from Colonus.
The Machine Stops.
The Point of It.
Mr Andrews.
Co-Ordination.
The Story of the Strength.
The Eternal Moment.
Dr Woolacott.
The Life to Come.
The Other...
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1985.
Первое издание: 1947.
Содержание:
The Story of a Panic.
The Other Side of the Hedge.
The Celestial Omnibus.
Other Kingdom.
The Curate's Friend.
The Road from Colonus.
The Machine Stops.
The Point of It.
Mr Andrews.
Co-Ordination.
The Story of the Strength.
The Eternal Moment.
Dr Woolacott.
The Life to Come.
The Other...
Delphi Classic. 2013. Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the...
The prologue.
The y s ay i die d.
My heart stopped, and I was not breathing-in the eyes of the world I was really dead. Some say I was gone for three minutes, some say four; personally, I am beginning to think.
death is mostly a matter of opinion.
Being Juliet, I suppose I should have seen it coming. But I so wanted to believe that, this time around, it would not be the same...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. — (Harper Perennial : Fifty-Two Stories). Forty Stories is the first long-form work published under the aegis of Fifty-Two Stories, the short fiction blog of Harper Perennial. Since its inception in 2009, Fifty-Two Stories (www.fiftytwostories.com) has hosted work by writers both new and established, including Neil Gaiman, Louise Erdrich, Mary...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to fall...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to fall...
SULLY AND KLEINTEICH, 1913 - 232 p. This book contains more than one thousand facts, many of which are not generally known to the average person; but all of them are of interest to humankind, and a knowledge of many of them is essential. The author has used the simplest English, and has avoided, as far as possible, all technical or scientific terms. He has endeavored not to fall...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250237270; ISBN13: 978-1250237279. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans―a family with new...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250237270; ISBN13: 978-1250237279. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans―a family with new...
Delphi Classic. 2015. — 4621 p.
Anatole France ( born François-Anatole Thibault, 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the...
Doubleday, 2019. — 288 p. Launching an intelligent, perceptive new voice in fiction, Shelf Life is the exquisite, heart-wrenching story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms. Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiancé has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week. And so she...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.1998.—328p.—ISBN: 0-226-25987-0 Veronica Franco (1546–1591) was an Italian poet and courtesan in 16th-century Venice
William Morrow, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062390821; ISBN13: 978-0062390820. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son’s engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride’s father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose...
William Morrow, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062390821; ISBN13: 978-0062390820. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents to celebrate her son’s engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride’s father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker whose...
Fiction (художественная литература). - DK Publishing, 2001, 277 p.
Joy's just started high school and already her life's a mess. She can't seem to find a date who resembles a human being. Ever since her great-uncle Max moved into her family's tiny apartment, Joy has had to share a room with her little brother. Now Uncle Max has decided to play matchmaker and set her up with every...
2005. — 306 p. "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to...
New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. — 639 p. — ISBN: 978-1-250-11852-3. "It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how...
New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. — 639 p. — ISBN: 978-1-250-11852-3. "It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think." —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how...
Harper Perennial, 2000. — 208 p.
In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world...
Oxford: Faber and Faber, 2008 The Russian Interpreter is the story of a British academic based at Moscow University who becomes embroiled in an piece of minor espionage through no fault of his own. It’s funny, quirky and entertaining. Unlike most spy stories the focus is on character rather than plot but then Michael Frayn is not a writer of genre fiction but a literary novelist....
Harper, 2023. — 704 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-309112-2 Acclaimed, internationally bestselling author Caz Frear ratchets up the suspense in this outstanding standalone psychological thriller—a gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful home in town.
Two Volumes in One. — New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1929. — 320 p. Foreword The Piccaroon. Michael Scott (from Tom Cringle's Log). The Capture of Panama, 1671. John Esquemeling (from The Buccaneers of America). The Malay Proas. James Fenimore Cooper (from Afloat and Ashore). The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers. Samuel Purchas (from...
Two Volumes in One. — New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1929. — 320 p. Foreword The Piccaroon. Michael Scott (from Tom Cringle's Log). The Capture of Panama, 1671. John Esquemeling (from The Buccaneers of America). The Malay Proas. James Fenimore Cooper (from Afloat and Ashore). The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers. Samuel Purchas (from...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. — 241 p. Foreword. The Listener. Algernon Blackwood. Number 13. Montague Rhodes James. Joseph: A Story. Katherine Rickford. The Horla. Guy de Maupassant. The Beast with Five Fingers. William F. Harvey. Sister Maddelena. Ralph Adams Cram Thrawn Janet. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Yellow Cat. Wilbur Daniel Steele. Letter to Sura. Pliny the...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922. — 241 p. Foreword. The Listener. Algernon Blackwood. Number 13. Montague Rhodes James. Joseph: A Story. Katherine Rickford. The Horla. Guy de Maupassant. The Beast with Five Fingers. William F. Harvey. Sister Maddelena. Ralph Adams Cram Thrawn Janet. Robert Louis Stevenson. The Yellow Cat. Wilbur Daniel Steele. Letter to Sura. Pliny the...
Viking, 2024. — 795 р. — ISBN 9780593493434 It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a...
Penguin, 2004. — 288 p.
This book by Esther Freud consists of 42 chapters and has an intriguing plot as lives of two heroes of different periods are described simultaneously.
The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Poring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives. And alone in...
Anchor, 2005. — 432 pages. ISBN: 0307276902 Description At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was...
Published in September 22nd 2005 by Anchor (first published 2003); 432 pages. ISBN: 0307276902 Description At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his front teeth knocked out and his nose broken. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a...
Harper Muse, 2023. — 505 р. — ISBN: 978-1-40-024310-5 On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker’s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves—a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the next moment, Olivia resurfaces, joyously splashing. What would I do if she didn’t come up? Kate wonders. How would...
Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing...
Random House, 2022. — 381 p. — ISBN 978-05932-42971 The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, Omer Friedlander’s gorgeously immersive and imaginative stories take you to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling...
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel — awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called “The Fortress,” creating over her lifetime elaborate colorful diagrams and typescripts...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 671 p. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 57). — ASIN B019EQUUUA. The Roman civil officer Frontinus enjoyed a distinguished career, leaving behind his famous ‘Aqueducts of Rome’ treatise, offering an intriguing viewpoint of the workings of ancient Rome. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both...
Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions, 2004
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.[1] His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
Garden City, 1939, Halcyon House, 469 p.
First edition of this collection of Frost’s verse.
This collection includes all the poems published in North of Boston, New Hampshire and A Further Range , as well as selected poems from A Boy’s Will, Mountain Interval, West-Running Brook and in published in the 1930 Collected Poems . Frost’s introduction, The Figure a Poem Makes ,...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. — 648 p. This is the only comprehensive volume of Robert Frost's published verse; in it are the contents of all eleven of his individual books of poetry-from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism If It had been the onglnality It was mistaken for by Its young converts....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1914]. — 149 p. This book is a collection of poems by Robert Frost that were inspired by his life in rural New England. Contents The Pasture Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man The Mountain A Hundred Collars Home Burial The Black Cottage Blueberries A Servant to Servants After Apple-picking The Code The Generations of Men The Housekeeper...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 391 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8973-0 At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn’t have a lot going for him: he’s shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He’s also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra’s summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and...
Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra. Originally published in Spanish, copyright . 1975 by Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, S.A., Mexico. Translation by Margaret Sayers Peden copyright. 1976 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Afterword copyright. 1983 by Milan Kundera. First Dalkey Archive edition, 2003.
Rarely in the history of the contemporary novel has a writer singularly embodied a literary...
NY: NYRB Classics, 2009. — 200 p. Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the school, nature, nutrition, spiritual health and life itself. He joins the healing of the land to the process of purifying the human spirit and proposes a way of life and a way of farming in which such healing can take place. Call it “Zen and the Art of...
Toronto : Harlequin Books, 1974. — 191 p. Just as Paula had passed her nursing and midwifery finals, her fiance backed out of their engagement, and to try to recover from the blow she wanted to get away from everything. Accompanied by her loyal friend Rosalind, she joined the Tasmanian Tourist Nursing Service. Her efforts were rewarded, for, in that smiling apple-blossom...
New York: Atheneum, 1960. — 305 p. — ISBN10: 1125183306; ISBN13: 978-1125183304. Translated from German by Richard and Clara Winston René Fülöp-Miller, born Philip Müller (17 February 1891 – 17 May 1963) was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Caransebeş (in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and died...
Berkley books, 2016. — 313 p. — ISBN: 0425281388. The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini's Italy. Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country's Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose...
A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center.
In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most...
Random House, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-0399592300. Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the...
Introduction 2012 by Rick Moody. — First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012 J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions, that tremendous book which, in the twenty years since its publication, has come to be acknowledged as an American masterpiece. And J R is a book of comparable magnitude, substance, and humor—a rushing, raucous look at money and its...
First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012. The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural critique, which, even if Heller and Pynchon hadn't read it while composing Catch-22 and V., managed to anticipate the spirit of both”—The Recognitions is a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and...
School Survival: Keeping Your Cool at School.
Tina Gagliardi, Vicki F Panaccione.
ABDO, Jul 1, 2008 - 112 pages
School Survival features fictional narratives paired with firsthand advice from a licensed psychologist to help preteen and teen girls find new ways to face everyday challenges at school. Situations include handling test anxiety, dealing with bullies, and struggling...
Bantam Books, 2023. — 559 р. — ISBN 9780593598023 It should have been the perfect spring break: Five girlfriends. A remote winery on the Oregon coast. An infinite supply of delicious wine at their manicured fingertips. But then their center—beautiful, magnetic Vanessa Morales—vanished without a trace. Emily Fischer was perhaps the last person to see her alive. But now, years...
Simon & Schuster, 2009. — ISBN10: 1439148872. A trade paperback reissue of National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill's debut collection, Bad Behavior--powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. - Now a classic: Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first...
Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — 1049 p. The latest installment (#6) in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. Touches on the Internet abuse and other major issues of the present day. Proofread and formatted by the uploader.
Hachette UK, 2020. — 944 p. Book 5 in the Strike series. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
The Rugby Press, 2016. - 201 p. A Spring Morning. A World for Love. Address to Plenty. Approach of Spring, The. Autumn. Autumn Robin, The. Ballad. Crab Tree, The. Decay. December. Effusion. Gipsy Camp, The. Graves of Infants. Harvest Morning, The. Home Yearnings. I am! Yet what I am. June. Love. Love Lives beyond the Tomb. Meeting, The. Milton, To John. My Early Home. My Love,...
Condensation of the book by Paul Galilco. — Reader's digest condensed books : vol. 3, 1975. — p. 6-100. The inimitable Mrs. ’Arris is on the go again, this time to Moscow with her friend Violet Butterfield. In this hilarious and lighthearted adventure, Mrs. ’Arris gets into things right up to her neck. It all begins with a photograph of a pretty girl named Lisabeta and a sad...
Classic novel, originally published in 1958. In the United Kingdom, it was published as "Flowers for Mrs Harris". The plot revolves around Ada Harris, a London charwoman, who is so enchanted by her employer's couture wardrobe that she becomes determined to go to the House of Dior in Paris to purchase an evening gown of her own.
The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha.
A collection of stories, Harper, 1st ed., 2004, 144 pages
These six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their...
Novel, Harper,1st ed., 2002, 464 pages
One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty.
In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories...
Hodder & Stoughton, 2023. — 474 р. — ISBN 978 1 529 39930 1 Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is...
The third installment in the Old Filth trilogy, Last Friends will surprise and delight Gardam fans and appeal to new readers as it concludes a portrait of a marriage equal to any in the English language.
Of Edward Feathers, a.k.a. Old Filth, the New York Times wrote, “he belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters.” Filth, which stands for Failed in London Try Hong...
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an...
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden...
Farrar, Straus, Giroux. — 233 p. This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. This book is so truthful and honest, it has been banned from many school libraries and even publicly burned in...
Harper Collins, 2022. — 486 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-302235-5 It seems sometimes a charade that we continue celebrating in the face of relentless tragedy. How dare we? But then...what else is there to do? Betty’s mom needed new pants for her job. That was why Betty was at the mall with her mom and sister when the shooting started. Afterward, nothing is the same. There are no easy...
Oxford University Press, 1972. — 996 p. This is a new anthology and not a revision of the old Oxford Book of English Verse. Although it shares with its predecessor a great many poems, it brings the terminal date up to 1950 and selects over a wider range. The editor of the earlier Oxford Book of English Verse, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), was of his age in thinking that to...
Vintage Books Edition, 1989. — 110 p. John Gardner's philosophical fiction reveals his characters’ inner conflicts. Grendel, the first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions." Get another four tales of fantasy from a...
The Beach (1996) is a novel by Alex Garland about backpackers in Thailand. Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism.
A furiously intelligent first novel … a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers...
The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach".
The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is rumoured, a...
(Audiobook) The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach". The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is...
Doubleday, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN-10-038554734X. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant,...
Doubleday, 2022. — 400 p. — ISBN-10-038554734X. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant,...
Susan and Colin have been sent to their mother’s nurse for 6 months. The two children rapidly adjust to life in the country around Alderley Edge, but find an unusual interest in Susan’s “Tear”, a stone hanging from a bracelet passed to their mother by Bess Mossack, the nurse. They find that this stone has been the object of a prolonged search by both light and dark forces. Myths...
Susan and Colin have been sent to their mother’s nurse for 6 months. The two children rapidly adjust to life in the country around Alderley Edge, but find an unusual interest in Susan’s “Tear”, a stone hanging from a bracelet passed to their mother by Bess Mossack, the nurse. They find that this stone has been the object of a prolonged search by both light and dark forces. Myths...
Tracey Garvis-Graves, 2011. – 369 p. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having...
Geek High - 2
English.
Miranda Bloom's life has never been better. She finally has an almost-quasi-boyfriend, Dex McConnell, the star lacrosse player of Orange Cove High. But when holiday break rolls around, she jets off to visit her mother in London, and Dex suddenly seems to lose all interest in her. Then there's Henry, the very cute and very available British guy who...
At this school, everyone's a geek. And Miranda Bloom still can't fit in.Miranda is a math genius with divorced parents, an evil stepmother, and no boyfriend in sight. She can't even fit in with the other geeks at the Nottingham Independent School for high-IQ students, because they actually have useful talents. Miranda, on the other hand, is known as "The Human Calculator," which...
Geek High - 4
English.
Some people have to learn the hard way—don't mess with a geek.Miranda Bloom, girl genius, is totally psyched to start her junior year at Geek High. Too bad her boyfriend, lacrosse player Dex McConnell, is off to boarding school in Maine. Miranda thought she could count on her best friends, Finn and Charlie, to cheer her up, but they're caught up in their...
Geek High - 3 English. The third compulsively readable book in the smart and witty series about a high school for gifted students. Miranda Bloom has scored an adorable, lacrosse-playing boyfriend, Dex McConnell, and an awesomely easy summer job looking after a ten year old mini-genius, Amelia. This summer is going to be sweet. Then reality puts the brakes on everything. Though...
Canada, New Society Publishers, 2002. — 106 p. — ISBN: 0-86571-448-7
With over 70,000 copies of the first edition in print, this radical treatise on public education has been a New Society Publishers’ bestseller for 10 years. Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow...
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. — 241 p. All of the characters in this novel are purely fictional, and any apparent resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental. Many of the places in this novel are real, and the author has strived in those cases to make them as true to life as possible. For Holmes County, in particular, most of the descriptions and locations...
P.L. Gaus. — 205 p. All of the characters and events in this novel are purely fictional, and any apparent resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental. The rifle range in this story is loosely patterned after the famous Kelbly benchrest rifle range on farmland in Wayne County, Ohio, beside the Dalton-Fox Lake road. The author has strived to make descriptions of Amish...
Harper, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0062362593; ISBN13: 978-0062362599. The Instant New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I...
Harper, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0062362593; ISBN13: 978-0062362599. The Instant New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I...
David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back — until inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child.
With his pregnant wife and young daughter in tow, he sets out to explore the myth of Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell. But...
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine — until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a...
A novel inspired by the life and marriage of Charles Dickens.
At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, so the world may know that he loved me once. The incredible vulnerability and heartache evident beneath the surface of...
Dark Room Press, 2025. — 550 p. — ISBN 979-8-9918732-9-1 Everything Will Be Okay is a raw, unflinching exploration of addiction, mental illness, and the search for redemption set against California's opioid crisis. The story follows two men-Nick Wagner, a twenty- year-old battling addiction and the fallout from his recent incarceration, and Henry Foster, a disillusioned...
New Intellectual Press, 2009. — 600 p. What kind of people stand alone, armed only with their integrity against impossible odds? Kaleidoscope is the story of a billionaire aerospace entrepreneur alarmed by a cultural retreat to religious fundamentalism. He battles a powerful theocracy, intent on injecting its venom into the country that he loves. At the risk of his own life, he...
When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to...
Pocket Books, 2009. — 353 p.
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life—and her relationship with her...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 237 p. — ISBN: 978–1–137–30606–7 Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work. This series of...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 571 p. — (Delphi Poets Series Book 72). — ISBN: 9781786562142. One of the bestselling writers of the twentieth century, Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese American poet, artist and essayist. His literary works are romantic in outlook and are largely inspired by the works of Francis Marrash, Friedrich Nietzsche and William Blake. His writings are renowned for...
Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into...
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era!
Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. — 112 p. — ISBN 10: 037571085X; ISBN 13: 978-0375710858 More than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires , this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven , Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness,...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 4951 p. — (Delphi Series Eight Book 7). The Victorian theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas that would exact a major influence on the history of theatre. Such popular classics as ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’, ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘The Mikado’ conjured fanciful "topsy-turvy"...
Tin House Books, 2020. — 256 p. Set in the gothic wilds of Ireland, The Butchers' Blessing is a haunting and unforgettable thriller brimming with secrecy, tradition, and superstition. Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the...
Grand Central Publishing, 2016. — ISBN10: 1455595055; ISBN13: 978-1455595051. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan when Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by an...
1947-1997 Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. The chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0871139669 (ISBN13: 9780871139665) Chava Pressburger (Editor), Elena Lappin (Translator), Jonathan Safran Foer (Introduction) Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood...
Macmillan, 1982. — 441 p. Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his reputation as one of Europe's most important...
Transl. from the It.: Shaun Whiteside. — Pamela Dorman Books, 2010. — 271 p. — ISBN 978-1-101-19002-9. 978-0-670021482. A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country’s prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it...
1999. — 385 p. Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays is the first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre. Contributors include: Hanay Geiogamah — Body Indian William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. — The Independence of Eddie Rose LeAnne Howe and Roxy Gordon — Indian Radio Days Spiderwoman Theater (Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, Muriel...
Project Gutenberg. — 1889. The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers, documenting an inescapable world devoid of sentimentality...
Little, Brown and Company. — 432 p. ISBN13: 9780316075848 What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
Delacorte Press, 2016. - 416 c. - ISBN10: 1101934719; ISBN13: 978-1101934715. For fans of Girl, Interrupted, Thirteen Reasons Why, and All the Bright Places comes a novel Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything, calls "a haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page." Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s...
Ebook, 2012. — 195 p. Can he make her fall in love with him… again? When Pagan Moore proved worthy of Death’s devotion, he was given the gift of getting to keep her. But Dank was never promised that Pagan would keep him. When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other’s destiny. It’s time for Pagan’s soul to choose...
WIld Child Publishing, 2011. — 161 p. What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. Pagan Moore doesn't cheat Death, but instead, falls in love with him. Seventeen year old Pagan Moore has seen souls her entire life. Once she realized the strangers she often saw walking through walls were not visible to anyone else, she started ignoring them....
Kindle edition, 2012. — 94 p. Abbi Glines is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Rosemary Beach, Sea Breeze, Vincent Boys, Field Party and Existence series. "She was mine. I owned her soul…until Death stole her heart." LEIF is a novella from the Existence series. It is glimpses into Leif's point-of-view during both Existence and...
Kindle edition, 2012. — 213 p. You would think after helping save her boyfriend from an eternity in Hell that things would go back to normal. Well, as normal as life can be when you can see souls and your boyfriend is Death. But for Pagan Moore, things are just getting weirder. The high school quarterback and reigning heartthrob, Leif Montgomery, is missing. While the town is...
A novel Publisher: Faber and Faber, LTD; (2011) Language: English A burnout at thirty-five, months behind on his book, low on cash, and something of a loser, Eddie Spinola could use a shot in the arm. One day he randomly runs into Vernon, his ex-wife’s brother, and his ex-dealer. Now employed by a shadowy pharmaceutical company, Vernon has something that might help: a new...
Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way. When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 525 р. Amelia Lang's life is kind of a mess. She's stuck living at home with her narcissistic mother. Her tech bro ex-boyfriend deliberately sabotages her at work, and she gets fired after throwing a mug at his head (it's okay! She missed.) Then she has a major falling out with her best friend. So Amelia does what Amelia does best: She runs away. After...
Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other...
Soho Press, Inc., — 2020. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64129-119-4, 978-1-64129-120-0. From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what,...
Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788.
In contrast to the earlier work, the portrait in Egmont of the downfall of a man who trusts in the goodness of those around him appears.
Dover Publications, 2012. — 518 p. — ISBN0486174522 (ISBN13: 9780486174525) Best known today as the author of "Faust, " Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) first exploded into the public consciousness with "The Sorrows of Young Werther "when he was twenty-four."" He was already a respected poet by then; and in addition to these forms, he wrote travelogues, autobiographical...
Boston: MIT Press, 2009 — 156 p. — ISBN10: 0262013096; ISBN13: 978-0262013093. Introduction by Gordon L. Miller. The Metamorphosis of Plants , published in 1790, was Goethe’s first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend “the truth about the how of the organism.” Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of...
Delphi Classics, 2013. The Novels. The Sorrows Of Young Werther. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. Elective Affinities. Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years. The Short Stories. A Tale. The Good Women. The Plays. The Wayward Lover. The Fellow Culprits. Goetz Von Berlichingen. Clavigo. Egmont. The Brother And Sister. Stella. Iphigenia In Tauris. Torquato Tasso. Faust: Part One. The...
Tailor Institution, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1840. — 486 p. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840.[2] The books contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured...
Harper Teen, 2022. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-302484-7 Monique is a preacher’s daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can’t have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with...
Lee Goldberg. King City.
246 pages.
Published May 15th 2012 by Thomas & Mercer.
Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival.
Now...
From Publishers Weekly
In contrast to the utopian official literature of Communist China, the stories in this wide-ranging collection marshal wry humor, entangled sex, urban alienation, nasty village politics and frequent violence. Translated ably enough to keep up with the colloquial tone, most tales are told with straightforward familiarity, drawing readers into small...
Vintage Books USA, 2005. — 503 p. — ISBN: 1400096898 (ISBN13: 9781400096893) A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is...
In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold...
Published: Harbinger Books, 1962
Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in...
The historical material on Henry's reign is considerable insofar as battles, plots, wars, treaties and alliances are concerned. This play, while simplifying the political maneuvering - and combining a meeting of the French and English Kings in 1183 with a Royal Court held at Windsor the following year into a Christmas Court that never was - is based on the available data. The...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 246 p. The Vicar of Wakefield, novel by Oliver Goldsmith, published in two volumes in 1766. The story, a portrait of village life, is narrated by Dr. Primrose, the title character, whose family endures many trials—including the loss of most of their money, the seduction of one daughter, the destruction of their home by fire, and the vicar’s...
Hellgate Press, 2012. — 248 p. — ISBN: 1555717101; ISBN13: 9781555717100. Here is the long-overdue obituary for the unbridled greed glorified by Atlas Shrugged and the prophet of profit. In her story, Rand let free-marketers John Galt, Dagney Taggart, and their accomplices return triumphant from their strike to remake the world in the image of Godless self-interest. Now, on the...
Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 1999. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 0140290265; ISBN13: 9780140290264 From the title story of the aardvark and his poetic justice to the fears inspired by technology in the last days of the twentieth century, from the car hijackers who never quite get away with it to the politicians who do, the full spectrum of South Africa's subconscious fears, desires and...
Doubleday, 2014. — 322 p. A compelling memoir—"hilarious and heartbreaking" (The New York Times)—of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family in Ukraine fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border, leaving Ukraine with only ten...
William Morrow, 2023. — 534 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-326524-0 It’s been twenty-five years since the shocking disappearance of a female student and the distinguished Creative Writing professor who died while searching for her. The Briarwood College community has never forgotten the double tragedy. Now, the college President is bringing together faculty, donors, and alumni to honor...
Razorbill, 2023. — 476 p. — ISBN 9780593619506 Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives you a lifetime of access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors and guaranteed safety and security as Legacy Club members always look out for their own. That is, after you make it through a rigorous week of...
In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life.
Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon....
London; New York: Penguin Books, 1962. — 267 p. A World of Strangers is a 1958 novel by South African novelist and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The novel included mixed reviews, drawing criticism for its pedantic explanation of Gordimer's worldview. The novel was banned in South Africa for 12 years. The novel's main plot focuses on depicting the divisions and boundaries that...
Ebury Press , 2015. — 352 pages. Language: English ISBN10: 0091928508 ISBN13: 978-0091928506 It’s hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about – and everything you don’t even know you want to know about – isn't accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week, with just a few taps of our fingers. But that world once existed. And Dave Gorman remembers...
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 517 р. — ISBN 9781250825711 Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She can’t stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, longing for a time when things were more normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother’s handwriting arrives in the mail that reads Come and...
Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 636 р. — ISBNs: 978-0-316-16250-0 A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago...and now he's determined to have Signa for himself, no matter...
Fiction, Romance, Thriller
After being acquitted of murdering his high school girlfriend 15 years ago, a man returns to Miami. While there, he encounters another former girlfriend and discovers that they still share feelings for one another. But before the couple can rekindle their relationship, they must confront the past. Old high school friends -- connected to the events...
Saga Press, 2025. — 616 p. — ISBN-10: 1668075083 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of...
Last Orders is a quiet but dazzling novel about a group of men, friends since the Second World War, whose lives revolve around work, family, the racetrack, and their favorite pub. When one of them dies, the survivors drive his ashes from London to a seaside town where they will be scattered, compelling them to take stock in who they are today, who they were before, and the...
Book 2 of the 'Danzig Trilogy'. — Translated by Ralph Manheim. — First published in German under the title 'Katz und Maus'. 'Cat and Mouse' was the book Günter Grass wrote immediately after 'The Tin Drum', and it shares its setting with that earlier novel: Danzig during World War II. But while 'The Tin Drum' achieves its extraordinary cumulative effect through the sprawling and...
Random House, 1965. — 312 p.
Abigail was the last keeper of the house and the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now in the name of her family, she must take bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them but could not destroy them.
HellBound Books Publishing LLC, 2018. — 334 p. — ISBN: 1948318229, 978-1948318228. Prepare for an excursion into a gloomy world of shadows, where the days are never sunlit and blithe, and where the nights are wrapped in endless nightmares. No happy endings or silver linings are found in the clouds that fill these gray skies. But what you will find, gathered in one volume, are...
In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - co-creator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realising she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old...
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is...
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1958. — 276 p. — Memories of the people of the shore and the stories they told; sand and dunes and treasure, seabirds and creatures of the sea; and personal impressions of certain islands in African waters.
South African Beachcomber is a gripping book revealing the life and fascination of the beaches around South Africa, the pageant of this long...
Published by Hachette Digital. ISBN: 9780748129041. Copyright 2012 Matthew Dicks Little, Brown Book Group 100 Victoria Embankment London, EC4Y 0DY. www.hachette.co.uk - 254 p. Budo is Max's imaginary friend. But though only Max can see him, he is real. He and the other imaginary friends watch over their children until the day comes that the child stops imagining them. And then...
Putnam, 2002. — 320 p. — ISBN 10: 0399148353 ISBN 13 9780399148354. When Daniel, a young American man, falls in love with the enigmatic Katya, an enigmatic Soviet woman, their romance is complicated by the fall of the Soviet Union, the conflict between American and Russian culture, financial difficulties, isolation, and identity crises. A bittersweet love story set against the...
Putnam, 2002. — 320 p. — ISBN 10: 0399148353 ISBN 13 9780399148354. When Daniel, a young American man, falls in love with the enigmatic Katya, an enigmatic Soviet woman, their romance is complicated by the fall of the Soviet Union, the conflict between American and Russian culture, financial difficulties, isolation, and identity crises. A bittersweet love story set against the...
Rootstock Publishing, 2024. — 145 р. — ISBN: 978-1-57869-160-9 From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic while the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town. While in isolation, he observed a small town at its best: neighbors helping neighbors, the joys of...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 240 p. In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire.
Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316316121; ISBN13: 978-0316316125. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding...
Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316316121; ISBN13: 978-0316316125. A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review). Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding...
Are you willing to indulge into your wildest fantasy?
Bria had just one wish, one desperate desire, and the only place she would be able to have it come true would be at the annual Midnight Fantasies Masquerade Ball.
It would be interesting to see if, given enough money, the hosts truly granted everyone's wildest fantasy, as they promised, or if it was just meaningless hype....
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. That the subsequent Letters were written by a tender father, in a declining state of health, for the instruction of his daughters, and not intended for the Public, is a circumstance which will recommend them to everyone who considers them in the light of admonition and advice. In such domestic intercourse, no sacrifices are made to...
London: r T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1808. That the subsequent Letters were written by a tender father, in a declining state of health, for the instruction of his daughters, and not intended for the Public, is a circumstance which will recommend them to everyone who considers them in the light of admonition and advice. In such domestic intercourse, no sacrifices are made to...
London: Methuen, 1918. — 348 p. Meccania: The Super-State is a dystopian novel by Owen Gregory, first published in 1918. Most of the book describes the fictional country of "Meccania," a nation in Central Europe with obvious resemblances to Germany: Meccania is surrounded by "Francaria" (France), "Luniland" (Britain), "Lugrabia" (Austria) and Idiotica (Russia). Meccania is a...
London: Methuen, 1918. — 348 p. Meccania: The Super-State is a dystopian novel by Owen Gregory, first published in 1918. Most of the book describes the fictional country of "Meccania," a nation in Central Europe with obvious resemblances to Germany: Meccania is surrounded by "Francaria" (France), "Luniland" (Britain),"Lugrabia" (Austria) and Idiotica (Russia). Meccania is a...
Touchstone, 2009. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 1439101124; ISBN13: 978-1439101124. From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s. As the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate...
Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 670 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4711-8082-8 Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who stumbles into Selina's orbit one night and can never let her...
Delphi Classics. 2014. — 6005 p.
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his...
Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown. Picture the Dead
A ghost will find his way home.
Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiancé falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, but is...
Quercus, 2024. — 209 p. Dedication. The Man in Black. Articulation. Castles in the Air. Max Mephisto and the Disappearing Act. The Only Pebble on the Beach. St Lucy’s Day. The Red Handkerchief. Justice Jones and the Etherphone. The Farewell Boat. Harbinger: A Harbinder Kaur story. One Is Silver. The Village Church. Turning Traitor. Ruth’s First Christmas Tree. The Stranger by...
Doubleday, 2023. — 512 p. — ISBN 9780385548953 What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby...
Penguin, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9780718182953. An English translation of the Dutch bestseller. The book shows, inter alia, how the modern world treats its senior citizens. It ‘s a masterpiece of observation, replete with black humour and subdued pathos
London: Black Swan, 1994. - 239 с. Впервые роман издан в 1986. Форест Гамп, идиот с сертификатом. Что не мешает ему быть хорошим человеком. Книга заставлят и хохотать и плакать. По сюжету поставлен замечательный фильм с Томом Хенксом в роли Фореста. Язык книги интересен с точки зрения лингвистики - это попытка записи неграмотной речи американца с Юга США.
London: Black Swan, 1994. - 239 с. Впервые роман издан в 1986. Форест Гамп, идиот с сертификатом. Что не мешает ему быть хорошим человеком. Книга заставлят и хохотать и плакать. По сюжету поставлен замечательный фильм с Томом Хенксом в роли Фореста. Язык книги интересен с точки зрения лингвистики - это попытка записи неграмотной речи американца с Юга США.
London: Black Swan, 1995. - 227 с.
Продолжение приключений Фореста Гампа.Читатели и, особенно, зрители знают чем закончилась эпопея Фореста в первой книге (по которой был снят фильм). Но его рассказ не закончен.
London: Black Swan, 1995. - 227 с.
Продолжение приключений Фореста Гампа.Читатели и, особенно, зрители знают чем закончилась эпопея Фореста в первой книге (по которой был снят фильм). Но его рассказ не закончен.
George Grossmith 1847-1912 The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first ‘blog’; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who...
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of "Riding Lessons".
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night...
Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Post Office Box 2225 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225 a division of Workman Publishing 225 Varick Street New York, New York 10014 2006 by Sara Gruen. All Rights Reserved ISBN: 9781565125605 An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of...
Harper Via, 2020. — 93 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-298179-0 Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed...
2012, 38 p.
Edgar Guest began his career at the Detroit Free Press in 1895, where he first worked as a copyboy. He was soon promoted to police writer and later to exchange editor, and in 1904 he began writing verse for the Free Press under the heading "Chaff." Those columns evolved into an immensely popular daily feature entitled "Breakfast Table Chat," which, at the height of...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. — 600 p. — (Wesleyan Poetry Series) — ISBN-10: 0819567779; ISBN-13: 978-0819567772 One of the most notable members of the New York School―and its best-known woman―Barbara Guest began writing poetry in the 1950s in company that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. And from the beginning, her...
New York: Harper Collins, 2008. — 94 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-172228-8 My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is Paul Guest’s third book of poems, and already the young poet has amassed fans from among the greatest poetic stars of our time. Praise for the book comes from John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, and Mark Strand among others. Although much attention has been paid...
Claudia Guggenbühl - Mircea Eliade and Surendranath Dasgupta. (The History of their Encounter Dasgupta’s Life, his Philosophy and his Works on Yoga. A Comparative Analysis of Eliade’s Chapter on Patañjali’s "Yogasūtra" and Dasgupta’s "Yoga as Philosophy and Religion".) - Zürich, 2008 p. 234. This study is one of the products of a three-year-long scientific research project...
Anchor, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0307278409
Language: English
Category: Novel
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang - or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of...
Anchor, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0307278409
Language: English
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang - or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and...
Night Shade Books, 2016. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 1597808385, ISBN13: 978-1597808385. Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as “fairy tales” were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of all ages....
Oxford, UK: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2010. — 460 p. — ISBN-10: 1857547098; ISBN-13: 978-1857547092. Celebrating one of the most original poets of the early 20th century, this compilation features the work of England’s Ivor Gurney. Gurney’s verse—describing his experiences in World War I and his love of his native Gloucestershire’s countryside—underscores his vigorous, lyrical, and...
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986. – ISBN: 978-0-8262-0602-2. Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn, a University Professor at Lamar University, is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism. Dana Gioia, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, about the author wrote: "Gwynn is ingeniously funny and an effortless master of verse forms. No...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 144 p. — (The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany ). — ISBN: 9781501181825, ASIN 1501181823. New York Times bestseller The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Goodreads releases nominees for the best books of the year in genres like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, sci-fi and several others. Readers vote! From stand-up comedian, actress, and...
Vintage, 2007. — 474 p. ‘A painful funny humane novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident’ The Times Discover this brilliantly comic and moving bestselling novel by the award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his...
Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television screenplays. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 402 p. — (Delphi Poets Series Book 68). — ASIN B01N27KJ51. The collected works of Hafez, the fourteenth century poet of Shiraz, are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. The extraordinary popularity of Ḥafeẓ’ poetry in all Persian-speaking lands stems from his concise, often colloquial, yet musical language, free from artificial virtuosity. The...
Harper-Collins,.—129p.—ISBN: 978-0-06-178488-0 Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ; 1325/26–1389/90), was a Persian poet who "laud[ed] the joys of love and wine [but] also targeted religious hypocrisy." His collected works are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature and are to be...
Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by English Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to She. Chronologically, it is the final novel of the Ayesha and Allan Quatermain series.
1892. Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1892. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa (1875–82). It was illustrated by Charles H. M. Kerr.
New York: Nyrb/Poets, 2014. — 126 p. Хагивара Сакутаро. Кошачий город, Стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Howling at the Moon. Bamboo and Its Pathos. Sad Moonlit Night. Rotten Clam. Lonely Lust. Two Long Poems. Blue Cat . Illusory Bed. Melancholy Cherry. The Lonely Blue Cat. Appetite of Quiet Refinement. Will and Darkness. Sensuous Soul. Other Poems and Prose Poems . Cat Town.
Rutland, Vermont—Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1969. — 55 p. Хагивара Сакутаро. Лик на дне мира и другие стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Ai Ren. Bamboos. Blue Flame. Cafe of the Drunken Moon. Dawn. Death of a Frog. Death of an Alcoholic. Duel. Dwarf Landscape. Eggs. Elegant Appetite. Enchanten Graveyard. Face at the Bottom of the World. Fieldmouse. Green Flute....
Ace Books, 1999. — 230 p. The third volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is a direct sequal to the first volume, Forever War, and follows the lives of William Mandella and wife, and other war veterans, deciding to leave their dissatisfied lives on the planet Middle Finger, for the far future in the search of a better life.
St. Martin's Press, 1974. — 147 p. The first volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. Briefly, reading as a commentary on the Vietnam War, William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently attacked human colonists'...
Ace Books, 1974. — 290 p. The second volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is not a direct sequel to the first volume but takes place on a different future of Earth much closer to our own time. The main protagonist, Julian Class, is a physicist and a mechanic who operates a soldierboy, nearly invincible remote-controlled robots. An Alliance military fights...
Ed. by Lauren Groff. — New York: Library of America, 2019. — 373 p. — ISBN10: 1598536427; ISBN13: 978-1598536423 Lauren Groff invites a new generation of readers to rediscover the haunting stories of a neglected mid-century master A teenage girl in Connecticut driven to near delirium over her burgeoning sexuality. A twenty-something New Yorker transplanted to a small Virginia...
Vanguard Books, 2004. — 844 p. The 30th anniversary edition. With a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley on the writing of Roots . Widely known for the book and miniseries Roots as well as The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Alex Haley was a U.S. writer whose works of historical fiction and reportage depicted generations of African-American lives. One of the most...
Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016. — 376 p. — ISBN-10: 022641261X; ISBN-13: 978-0226412610. It’s 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory—a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the “Beef Bonanza” is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life...
Bold Strokes Books, 2006. — 205 p. “The Montana frontier of the 1860s might be dangerous, but only if you have something to lose. Dr. Vance Phelps lost everything in the War Between the States—her professional future, her place in Philadelphia society, and her faith in herself. She travels to New Hero, Montana with no hero of happiness and no desire for anything except...
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred...
Stories. — Harper, 2016. — 288 р. — ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is...
Harper, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is there?”—Alice...
Harper, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0062354701; ISBN13: 978-0062354709. In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. “What else is there?”—Alice...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176. An instant New York Times Bestseller “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.”...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176. An instant New York Times Bestseller “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.”...
Riverhead Books; 1st edition, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0735212171; ISBN13: 978-0735212176. An instant New York Times Bestseller “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” –Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.”...
Viking, 2016. — 183 p. — ISBN: 0451477537 "You will cheer for Amani the whole way as she escapes the bonds of oppression and finds her own power, and you will mark your calendar for the sequel."-Rae Carson, bestselling author of the Fire & Thorns trilogy Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that...
Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1955. — 224 p. Nancy Hamilton as a young child was diagnosed with Hemangioma which prevented her from walking and leading a normal life. Nancy's dream was to wear pretty red shoes, and she was finally able to wear them before she died, but never able to walk in them. A touching story about the power of a mother's love and faith,...
London: Samuel French Inc, 1942. — 118 p. — ISBN-10 0573605351; ISBN-13 978-0573605352. A Broadway hit first produced on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in 19th Century London. As the curtain rises, all appears the essence of Victorian tranquility. It is soon apparent however, that...
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1961. — 88 p. — ISBN-10 0573019894; ISBN-13 978-0573019890. For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Raglan. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice...
First published in 1958. A man inherits a plot of land in the mountains from his grandfather who was sure there was oil there. A hydroelectric station is going to be built not far from the plot and the landc will bed floooded. Will he find oil? Will he be able to prevent flooding the valley?
Simon & Schuster eBook, 2016. — 142 p. — ISBN: 1451660030. — Edited and translated Xin Liu Alice, Martisen Joel Satirical essays from China's most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han Han is the most influential (and provocative) young person in China, equally beloved and reviled for the satirical wit with...
Transl. by J. P. Seaton. — Boston; London: Shambala, 2009. — 152 p. — ISBN: 9781611806984. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T'ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and monastery...
Mulholland Books, 2023. — 557 р. — ISBN 978-0-316-52798-9 Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 787 p. — ISBN 9780735277014 Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and,...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1501178326; ISBN13: 978-1501178320. Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and...
Atria/Keywords Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1501178326; ISBN13: 978-1501178320. Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children’s verses to a sophisticated confessional style, Gabbie explores what it means to feel like a kid and...
Vintage, 2011. — 162 p. — ASIN B005U3Z5MA. "Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family...
William Morrow, 2022. — 518 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-295867-9 Frances Turner has a confession to make: her sister, Crosby, who has built her life on good luck and good looks, drives her crazy. The woman wakes up in the morning with perfect hair. Men flock to her. And she somehow managed to jump out of the frying pan and into fame, writing a blockbuster novel—and making a zillion...
An old man lies dying. Propped up in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As the clock repairer’s time winds down, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a...
218 pp; [Sydney, Australia] : Accessible Pub. Systems, 2008.; ISBN: 1458765970 9781458765970; From Publishers Weekly 2010 Starred Review. Harding's outstanding debut unfurls the history and final thoughts of a dying grandfather surrounded by his family in his New England home. George Washington Crosby repairs clocks for a living and on his deathbed revisits his turbulent...
London: Faber and Faber, 2013. — 498 p. This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday). The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the...
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. — 280 p. — ISBN-10 0571178359; ISBN-13 978-0571178353. Introduced by the author, this second volume contains work from the seventies and eighties which confirmed David Hare as 'one of the few major playwrights in our language' (New York Post): Fanshen, A Map of the World, Saigon, The Bay at Nice, The Secret Rapture.
London: Faber and Faber, 2008. — 480 p. — ISBN13: 978-0571241132 This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including "Skylight" (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), "Amy's View", "The Judas Kiss", and "My Zinc Bed"
2012. — ASIN B0082ORHUW. He slept with the Sheriff's wife. Could he pay the price? Newcomer Martin has been sleeping with Sheriff Potter's wife Jenny, and the law-man is none too pleased when he finds out. He offers the young man a choice: leave town, or join his household. Martin chooses the latter, only to find out that he's going to end up Sheriff Potter's bitch. This 3000 word...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 194 p. — ISBN: 1-502-83082-5 If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare. Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They...
London: Mulholland Books, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1473642191 (ISBN13: 9781473642195). Three women have been found dead in East Anglia. The police deny a connection. TV news reporter Frankie smells a story... Ava knows that the threat is real. She's been kidnapped by someone claiming to be the killer: a stranger who seems to know everything about her. As Frankie follows the case,...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2017. — 400 p. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the rugged landscape is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team building. At least that is what the corporate retreat website...
2018. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9781743549100. Three brothers, one death, a fenceline stretching to the horizon. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1444731459 (ISBN13: 9781444731453). Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what...
Tiny Reparations Books, 2022. — 485 p. — ISBN 978-059318-5346 An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2023. — 586 р. — ISBN 978-178-6695925 It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional wounds Sara would do anything to forget. But when Sara's father falls ill, she's forced to return home and face the...
London ; New York: John Lane, 1916. — 240 p. Харрисон К. У. Малайская магия (на англ. яз.). Pawang Helai. The Place of Death. Romance is Dead. The Hallucinations of Mat Palembang. Without Benefit. The Room of the Captain. Ah Heng. The Sinking of the Schooner. Exceedingly Venomous. The Malay Servant. The Bullock-Cart Driver. The Shoal of the Skull. Malacca. A Beri-Beri Hospital....
James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 456 p. — ASIN B00JYH6N9C The master storyteller of pioneering life in California, Bret Harte created a diverse body of works, achieving critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic. This comprehensive eBook presents Harte’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative...
For the first time, the complete short fiction of L.P. Hartley is included in one volume. A novelist whose work has been acclaimed for its consistent quality, he also produced a number of masterly executed short stories. Those stories, written under the collection titles of The Travelling Grave , The White Wand , Two for the River , and Mrs. Carteret Receives are in this...
Leslie Poles Hartley, an English novelist and the son of a solicitor was educated at Oxford's College and for more than twenty years he was a fiction viewer for magazines. He wrote many novels and made a good contribution to English fiction. According to his novels films were casted. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator.
Vayne populates his garden with statues of gods,...
Leslie Poles Hartley, an English novelist and the son of a solicitor was educated at Oxford's College and for more than twenty years he was a fiction viewer for magazines. He wrote many novels and made a good contribution to English fiction. According to his novels films were casted. Hartley was a highly skilled narrator and we can see that in his literary work "W.S."
The main...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. — 411 p. A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial...
14 Japanese rhythms. — San Francisco: Author's Edition, 1916. — 40 p. Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born in 1867 in Japan to a Japanese woman, Osada, and Carl Herman Oscar Hartmann, a German government and business official. Since his mother died a few months later, the young Hartmann was sent to Hamburg, Germany, with his brother Tanu, to be raised by his paternal grandmother...
The ghost story comes alive in a spellbinding first novel. Viola Hatherley was a writer of ghost stories in the 1890s whose work lies forgotten until her great-grandson, as a young boy in Mawson, Australia, learns how to open the secret drawer in his mother's room. There he finds a manuscript, and from the moment his mother catches him in the act, Gerard Freeman's life is...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062421905; ISBN13: 978-0062421906. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh—a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda’s family is in...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062421905; ISBN13: 978-0062421906. Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi’s first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh—a preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obayda’s family is in...
Nan A. Talese, 2010. — ASIN B003829FSK Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
384 pages.
Language: English.
The Maude is outside.
It wants to come in.
It wants to sit on your chest.
The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ,...
Baltimore: Publish America,.2008.—253.—ISBN: 1-60563-123-X Poetry dedicated to the god. Iinspired by the scripture Hebrew 11:1, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.
Хайес Собиан. Девушка с зелеными глазами. Оригинал книги на английском языке.
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From the moment Katy sees Genevieve's beautiful face staring at her from a window, her life will never be the same. Wherever Katy turns, Genevieve is there - at school, with Katy's friends, and worst of all, in Katy's hot new boyfriend's life. But Genevieve has a menacing side, a...
Allen & Unwin, 2010. - 286 pages. Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could — from childhood ones to some very adult ones. Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to type — witty and whimsical, childish and charming, linguistic and logical, fair dinkum and funny,...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 573 р. — ISBN 9781250877079 Vivvy Bouchet was only ten when she saved a boy’s life by making an impossible prediction. She doesn’t want to explain it. A wunderkind scientist, she just wants to be left in peace to scan the desert Texas sky with her telescopes in one of the darkest places on earth. But when the boy she saved, now a Fort Worth cop, begs for...
Grove Press, New York, 1994. - 130 p.
Translated by D.P. Costello.
Хедаят С. Слепая сова (на англ.яз.)
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, "The Blind Owl" is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after losing...
Bashiri Working Papers on Central Asia and Iran: 1st edition 1974, 2nd 1984, 3rd 2013. — 104 p. Translated and commented by I. Bashiri. Хедаят С. Слепая сова (на англ. яз.) Sadeq Hedayat's Life. The Blind Owl. The Blind Owl: A Personal Note. The Message of The Blind Owl: An Analysis. Select Bibliography.
Sorayya Publishers, Minneapolis, Minn.: 1984. — 185 p. Translated by Iraj Bashiri, etc. Хедаят С. Слепая сова. Рассказы. Комментарии (на англ.яз.) The Blind Owl was originally published in a limited edition in Bombay, during Hedayat’s year-long stay there in 1937, stamped with Not for sale or publication in Iran. It first appeared in Tehran in 1941 (as a serial in the daily...
HarperCollins, 2009. — ISBN: 0060926864. At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to...
Dr Anita Heiss is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is a regular guest at writers' festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on Indigenous literature. She is a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation...
An international literary sensation about an arsonist on the loose in rural Norway and the young man haunted by the story. In 1970s Norway, an arsonist targets a small town for one long, terrifying month. One by one, buildings go up in flames. Suspicion spreads among the neighbors as they wonder if one of their own is responsible. But as the heat and panic rise, new life finds a...
Riverhead Books, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 0593329821; ISBN-13 978-0593329825. A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. “This house, this place, knows all my secrets.” It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of...
Riverhead Books, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 0593329821; ISBN-13 978-0593329825. A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. “This house, this place, knows all my secrets.” It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of...
Knopf Publishing Group, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0525521879 (ISBN13: 9780525521877). Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is smaller, more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (Audiobook) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (Audiobook) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (Audiobook) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
In this dead-on satire of online obsessions, a novelist with writer's block finds a new—and very lucrative—stream of income in a virtual world that appears to give him everything he lacks in the real world. (Audiobook) When Frank Dixon, a frustrated writer who has seen his career crash and burn, decides to dabble in online poker, he discovers he has a knack for winning. In this...
Play. — New York, Penguin classics, 1934. — 71 p. The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair....
Villard Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, New York, 2006. — 177 p.
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a satirical book written by Bobby Henderson that embodies the main beliefs of the parody religion the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism. It is Bobby's first religious tome.The Flying Spaghetti Monster was created by Bobby...
Publisher: James Henderson, 2012. – 147 p. Language: English. A fractured family’s dirty laundry is aired, soiled, stained, muddied, fumigated and declared a health hazard when their patriarch succumbs to barbecued neck bones laced with arsenic.
Hanover Square Press, 2023. — 296 р. — ISBN-13: 978-036-9736543 The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life. Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque...
At the end of the 13th century, the people of Scotland suffered cruelty under the heavy hand of their English ruler, Edward Longshanks. This stirring tale recounts their valiant struggle for freedom under the legendary leadership of William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Time has burnished the feats of these great Scots heroes to mythic proportions, but both were real people, and this...
RosettaBooks LLC, New York, 2002 — 228 p. — ISBN 0-7953-0812-4 The novel’s protagonist is Joe Buck, a naïve young Texan who decides to leave his dead-end job and find a grander, more glamorous life in New York City. The city, of course, turns out to be a much harder place to conquer than Joe expected, and he soon finds his dream compromised.
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
William Morrow, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0062659626; ISBN13: 978-0062659620. “Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love.” —Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2015. — 365 p. — ISBN: 0062386344; ISBN13: 9780062386342. With echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of the Witches of East End, Ellen Herrick’s debut novel spins an enchanting love story about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost anything is...
45th stereotype edition. — Brunswick : George Westermann, 1880. — 708 p. Select Specimens of the National Literature of England with Biographical and Critical Sketches. Poetry and Prose. The Elizabethan era Poets. Prose-writers The age of transition Poets Philosophical, historical and miscellaneous writers. From the reign of queen Anne till the year 1780 The wits of queen Anne's...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 404 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0587-3 Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later—long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the...
Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals.
Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with mice?...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 212 p.
Hesiod was a Greek poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded as the first written poet in the Western tradition to regard himself as individual persona with an active role to play in his subject. Ancient authors credited Hesiod and Homer with establishing...
New York: Oxford University Press,.2002.—217p.—ISBN: 0-19-514875-4 Kabir's poems have been sung and recited throughout North Indiaby learned pandits and illiterate villagers, by wandering ascetics and classical musicians—for 500 years. He is famed for his rough and powerful voice, his uncompromising challenge to individuals to shake off their delusions, their stiff orthodoxies...
Crooked Lane Books, 2022. — 612 p. — ISBN: 978-1-64385-021-4 Hillsborough, North Carolina is a town with a dark history that is bubbling to the surface. Twenty years ago, Laura’s friend’s family was slaughtered in their beds, and the sole survivor, Laura’s eight-year-old friend, was whisked away to distant relatives. That was the last time Laura ever saw her best friend. Twenty...
Файл содержит два текста (английский и русский).
There was silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension. My lady's blue eyes, staring across the desk into my lord's cool gray ones, dropped to the pile of bills under his hand. Her fair head was hung, and her nervous hands clasped one another tightly.
Историческая драма Хейвуда «Эдуард IV» (ок. 1600 г.), в противоположность «хроникам» Шекспира, повествует не столько об исторических судьбах страны и народа, сколько о вполне частных событиях, изложенных в назидательном и чувствительном стиле.
В пьесе рассказывается, как жена купца становится любовницей короля, раскаивается в своем опрометчивом поступке и, совершив ряд...
Avon, 2019. — 384 p. — ASIN: B07KWHP3CG A witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things—perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang! Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying,...
Novel. На английском языке
Лондон, начало прошлого века. Большая удача для молодой добропорядочной девушки из бедной семьи найти место няни в богатом доме. Именно за этим приезжают в столицу три девушки.
Berkley, 2023. — 804 р. — ISBN 9780593547601 A kid walks into your bookstore and… Guess what? He’s your son. The one you put up for adoption eighteen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise! And a huge surprise it is. It’s a huge surprise to his adoptive mother, Monica, who thought she had a close relationship with Matthew, her nearly adult son. But apparently,...
When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone...exactly unlike her renegade neighbor, Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe....
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2014. — 104 p. — ISBN-10: 1571314571; ISBN-13: 978-1571314574. From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as “transcendent” by Kevin Young and “steadily confident” by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or...
Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand published in 2001 about the thoroughbred race horse, Seabiscuit. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was adapted as a feature film in 2003. It has also been published under the title: Seabiscuit - The True Story Of 3 Men & a Race Horse. The author has been praised for her ability to...
New York: Random House, 2010. — 678 p. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1997. — 127 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 0819522430; ISBN-13: 978-0819522436. Loose Sugar is an alchemical manuscript disguised as a collection of poems, or vice versa. Either way, the primal materials of which this book is comprised — love, sex, adolescence, space-time, depression, post-colonialism, and sugar — are movingly and...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. — 120 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 0819571660; ISBN-13: 978-0819571663. Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman's previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditation and an ecopoetics; this time her subject is water: Taoist water, baptismal water, water from the muses' fountains, the...
Delacorte Press, 1975. — 122 p. — ISBN: 0-440-05919-4. A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
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Изгои — роман, написанный американской писательницей С. Е. Хинтон, впервые опубликованный в 1967 году. Писательница начала работу над ним в 15 лет и закончила в 18. Изгои (The Outsiders) — свидетельство о тяжелом времени в жизни четырнадцатилетнего подростка Понибоя Куртиса (Ponyboy Curtis). Это повествование о классовом неравенстве, братской любви, дружбе и взрослении,...
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2014. 127 pages.
ISBN: 9780811221511.
A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple's life in Tokyo
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. — 1185 p. — ISBN 9780544931886 Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And...
The Island by Victoria Hislop held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback chart for eight concecutive weeks and has sold one million copies. Victoria was the newcomer of the year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard & Judy Summer Read competition. The Island has been translated into over twenty languages.
On the brink of a life-changing...
University of California Press, 2018. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0520297245 (ISBN13: 9780520297241). In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a...
ISBN: 9780525244585, E. P. Dutton Winnie-the-Pooh is 'The Bear for all Ages', and now he's more fun than ever before. Join in The Tao of Pooh! Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear, and Pooh's Way, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient Chinese principles of...
Delphi Classics, 2021. — 1373 p. A German author of fantasy and Gothic horror, E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote original and spine-chilling tales that highly influenced nineteenth-century literature, confirming his status as one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. His story 'Das Fräulein von Scuder' is often cited as the first detective story and his novella 'The Nutcracker...
Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood, T. Cadell, 1829. — 379 p. The Devil's Elixirs is predominantly a first-person narrative related by the Capuchin monk Medardus. He is ignorant of his family history and what he knows about his childhood is based upon fragments of memory and a few events his mother has explained to him. Medardus cannot resist the devil's elixir, which has...
Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood, T. Cadell, 1829. — 339 p. The Devil's Elixirs is predominantly a first-person narrative related by the Capuchin monk Medardus. He is ignorant of his family history and what he knows about his childhood is based upon fragments of memory and a few events his mother has explained to him. Medardus cannot resist the devil's elixir, which has...
New York: Dover, 1967. — 470 p. This Dover edition is a new selection of ten stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The material has been reprinted without abridgment. Introduction (E. F. Bleiler). The Golden Flower Pot. Automata. A New Year’s Eve Adventure. Nutcracker and the King of Mice. The Sand-Man. Rath Krespel. Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men. The Mines of Falun. Signor...
New York: Dover, 1967. — 470 p. This Dover edition is a new selection of ten stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann. The material has been reprinted without abridgment. Introduction (E. F. Bleiler). The Golden Flower Pot. Automata. A New Year’s Eve Adventure. Nutcracker and the King of Mice. The Sand-Man. Rath Krespel. Tobias Martin, Master Cooper, and His Men. The Mines of Falun. Signor...
3d ed. — Transl. by David Constantine. — Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN-10: 1780374011; ISBN-13: 978-1780374017. Friedrich Hölderlin was one of Europe’s greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine’s...
Издательство: Counterpoint LLC, 2015. - 176 стр. ISBN: 1-61902-564-7.
This is a novel about the persistence of longing in which the twin lives of the title character blur and overlap. Bird puts her child on the bus for school and passes the day with her baby. Interwoven into the passage of the day are phone calls from a promiscuous, unmarried friend, and Bird’s recollection of...
Counterpoint, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN: 1619028468; ISBN13: 9781619028463. Noy Holland is one of America’s great writers, and each of her previous collections has been greeted with wide acclaim. Critics have praised her exquisite prose, her exuberant characters, and the exhilarating tension of her tales. Following the wonderful reception of her first novel, Bird, which...
Random House Value Publishing. ISBN13: 978-0-517-15826-5, ISBN: 0-517-15826-4. There was a time when the longest story in this book was known by the title of this book — for in a certain sense that story concerns the fabulous costume nature can construe from us when it has made up its mind to unravel us down to the last stitch of thread. But whenever Noy Holland went to read...
Noy Holland’s second collection of stories, What Begins with Bird , once again finds her pushing the boundaries of language and rhythm with her writing. Delving into family relationships, frequently with female protagonists, Holland’s writing develops a tension, both in the situations written of, and in the writing itself.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 1400040077; ISBN-13: 978-1400040070. In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs,...
2004 Man Booker Prize winner Published: Picador Books, 2004 In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions....
Ballantine Books, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525619240; ISBN13: 978-0525619246. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and...
Ballantine Books, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525619240; ISBN13: 978-0525619246. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and...
The doughnut is a thing of beauty.
A circle of fried doughy perfection.
A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps.
For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more.
Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 4600 p. — ASIN B00W8JC9B4. W.H.D. Rouse (Translator). Inspired by the bestselling Delphi Poets Series, this eBook features The World's Greatest Poems, with verses and extracts from poetical plays and seminal epic poems that have shaped the course of poetry over the centuries. From the earliest beginnings of Western literature in Homer's epics, to the...
Newly translated into English prose by T.E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia). — New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. — 327 p. Прозаический перевод Одиссеи Гомера на английский язык, выполненный историком Лоуренсом Аравийским.
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735220697; ISBN13: 978-0735220690. #1 New York TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life...
Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735220697; ISBN13: 978-0735220690. #1 New York TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
Holly. I hope you won't mind me buying you this. I think it's the sort of thing you'll like. Am I right? And I think it matches your eyes. This comes with best wishes from (and I know it's corny). A Friend.' And that was how it all started. Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works. She can't believe it - how romantic can you get? But when Holly finds...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession What would you do for the love of a good book? For John Charles Gilkey, the answer is: go to prison. Unrepentant book thief Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves, who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love—the love of...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the...
The Fisher family of Alluvia, New York, is coming undone. Evelyn spends her days tending to her husband, Henry — an acclaimed and reclusive novelist slowly losing his battle with Alzheimer’s. Their son, Benji, onetime star of an ’80s sitcom called Prodigy, sinks deeper into drunken obscurity, railing against the bit roles he’s forced to take in uncelebrated regional theater. His...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — ASIN B018OO8NDO Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus, now celebrated for being one of the greatest poets the world has ever known. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. - 206 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics).
The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent poet-translators of our own time, David R. Slavitt. Horace was one of the great poets of Rome’s Augustan age, benefiting (as did fellow poet Vergil) from the...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 670 p. — ISBN: 978-1-3985-1793-6 When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is falling in love, and the thought of spending a carefree summer with Gray is all...
Random House, 2015. A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure. It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his...
Simon & Schuster UK, 2017. — 205 p. — ASIN B06Y5SQ5GZ. Julie Houts has cultivated a devoted following as 'Instagram's favourite illustrator' (Vogue) by lampooning the conflicting messages and images women consume and share with the world every day. A collection of darkly comic illustrated essays, Literally Me chronicles the daily exploits of 'slightly antisocial heroines'...
The Book Guild Ltd., 2022. — 744 p. — ISBN 978-1915-3528-35 In March 1940 Laura boards a ship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with. He was out in Uganda, but has joined up to fight with the King's African Rifles. Will she succeed in her quest? Strong-willed and proudly independent, she has many...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — (Series Five Book 16). — ASIN B00THHJBLQ. William Dean Howells, the realist master known as "The Dean of American Letters", produced an enormous oeuvre of works that had a lasting influence on American literature. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Howells’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts...
A New Directions Classic, 1989. — 252 p.
First published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II. Ditie is called upon...
Peking: Foreign languages press, 1976. — 78 p. All Lu Hsun’s prose poems, twenty-three in all, are contained in this collection. Written between 1924 and 1926, they were compiled by the author into one volume entitled Wild Grass, which was first published in 1927 by the Peihsin Bookstore, Peking. This English translation has been made from the 1973 edition published by the...
New York: In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2003. — 64 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-934639 A thrilling introspective descent into the inferno of popular culture, where one's psychic life is a complex and troubling web of personal relations with spectacular icons. None of the postmodern snark, all of the nuanced horror of a world where there is nothing but fame, but fame itself has...
Piatkus, 2023. — 553 p. — ISBN 978-0-349-43636-4 Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything―a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away...
Berkley, 2022. — 504 p. — ISBN 9780593337028 Home is certainly not where Del’s heart is. After a local scandal led to her parents’ divorce and the rest of her family turned their backs on her, Del left her small town and cut off contact. Now, with both of her parents gone, a chance has arrived for Del to retaliate. Her uncle wants the one thing Del inherited: the family home....
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. — 272 p. — ISBN-10: 067972818X; ISBN-13: 978-0679728184. Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men...
Kensington, 2021. — 531 p. — ISBN: 978-149-673-624-6 As a child in Spain, Puri always knew her passion for chocolate was inherited from her father. But it’s not until his death that she learns of something else she’s inherited—a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador, a town nicknamed “París Chiquito.” Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope for a new life after the...
Canelo, 2016. — 500 p. — ISBN13: 9781910859636. From the author of the timeless classic Roses Have Thorns, don’t miss this heart-stopping, sweeping saga, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs, Rita Bradshaw and Diney Costeloe. She’s faced danger – but can she survive to win her freedom? As the daughter of a disgraced British army officer and a Hungarian countess, Eve Courtney is born...
Canelo, 2016. — 816 p. — ISBN13: 9781910859360. A brilliant, deeply moving saga of one woman’s search for love and hope in the shadow of the Great War. Perfect for readers of Kitty Neale or Margaret Dickinson Lady Helena Girvan was born into privilege, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, assured of a life of safety and comfort. Then war descends. Volunteering as an auxiliary...
This inspiring book tells the story of a young Belgian girl, gifted and strong-willed, who became a nun; the story of a life dedicated to the care of the sick, and of her personal struggle to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse.
She faced the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing the insane; and spent long, arduous years in the Congo. She...
Boston - Toronto: Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1956. — 339 p.
This inspiring book tells the story of a young Belgian girl, gifted and strong-willed, who became a nun; the story of a life dedicated to the care of the sick, and of her personal struggle to reconcile the demands of her Order with her pride as a nurse.
She faced the heart-breaking and terrifying task of nursing...
Penguin, 1986. - 305 p.
Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction.
The Man Booker Prize 1985
Harper/Collins/Publishers, 2023. — 744 р. — ISBN: 978-000-8530037 It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Luke Ryder’s murder has never been solved. Guy Howard’s mother and two half-sisters were in the house at the time of the...
New York: Harper Collins, 2013. — 220 p. — ISBN: 9780061758126 One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years — due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female...
Macmillan, 2004. 384 pages
What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, which spans twenty-five years, follows the growing involvement between his family and...
Biography, Christopher Hutchins Ltd, 2014, 370 pages. Even before Lady Diana Spencer married into the most revered family on earth, she had her suspicions that the kith and kin of Prince Charles were not all they seemed-to-be. No sooner had she become the Princess of Wales and moved into Kensington Palace than her fears were confirmed: the House of Windsor constituted a flawed...
Atria Books, 2022. — 515 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8875-7 It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She’s...
Penguin Books, 2013. — ISBN10: 9780143123200; ISBN13: 978-0143123200. This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own. An...
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of
New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or
not the world is a beautiful place.
Chapters:
Wings
The Cellar King
Jordy's Hometown
Defenseless
Out in the Beautiful World
Jingle Bells
Joy
eISBN: 978-0-375-89142-7
[1. Homeless...
Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), written while Ibsen was in Rome and Amalfi, Italy, was conceived at a time of revolution in Europe. Charged with the fever of the 1848 European revolutions, a new modern perspective was emerging in the literary and dramatic world, challenging the romantic tradition. It is Ibsen who can be credited for mastering and popularizing the realist drama...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 13944 p.
Henrik Johan Ibsen ( 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler,...
New York: Scribner 1923. — 546 p.
Pillars of Society.
A Doll's House.
Ghosts.
The Wild Duck.
Rosmersholm.
The Lady from the Sea.
Hedda Gabler.
The Master Builder.
Lilttle Eylof.
John Gabriel Borkman.
When We Dead Awaken.
Lagos, Nigeria: Socialist Stories, 1982. — 217 p. Иньяйи Фестус. Контракт, роман (на англ. яз.) Festus Inyayi (born 1947) is a Nigerian marxist writer. He has written several radical, realist novels about Nigeria. In the 1980's he was active in a progressive academic staff union, eventually becoming its president. Detained several times for his activism during the military...
Lagos, Nigeria: Socialist Stories, 1979. — 308 p. Иньяйи Фестус. Насилие, роман (на англ. яз.) Festus Inyayi (born 1947) is a Nigerian marxist writer. He has written several radical, realist novels about Nigeria. In the 1980's he was active in a progressive academic staff union, eventually becoming its president. Detained several times for his activism during the military...
Vintage Books, 2023. — 434 р. — ISBN 9780593315705 Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts. Irby got a lot of weird emails about Carrie Bradshaw, and not only is there diarrhea to...
Translation by Rollo Ogden. — New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. — 340 p. The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love. The first hurdle is...
Reminiscent of Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of 20th-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope.
Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged Englishman who is a professor at a Los Angeles university.
The Berlin Stories is a book consisting of two novellas by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1945. The two novellas are set in Berlin between 1930 and 1933, just as Adolf Hitler was moving into power. Berlin is portrayed by Isherwood during this transition period of cafes and quaint avenues, grotesque nightlife and...
HarperCollins, 1997. — 1048 p. At times pious, at times profane but always unashamedly honest, "The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood" provide an inside look at the life and times of one of the most celebrated writers of the century. Chronicling Isherwood's life from 1939, when he emigrated to the United States, until 1960, these entries cover some of the most turbulent years of...
Harper, 2012. — 928 p. Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of his life when he wrote Kathleen and Frank, his first intensely personal book, Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 intimately and wittily records Isherwood's immersion in the 1970s art scene in Los Angeles, New...
HarperCollins, 2010. — 800 p. This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the...
Translated by Tamae K. Prindle. — Syllabic Press, 2010. — 142 p. At the turn of the twentieth-century, Ishikawa Takuboku took Japan's ancient, highly formal poetic tradition and turned it to the purposes of an impassioned sensibility in a rapidly modernizing world. Beginning with poems rich in childhood sorrow and wonder, he progressed in his short life to a poetry of searing...
Translated by Sanford Goldstein and Seishi Shinoda. — Tuttle Publishing, 2000. — 279 p. The novella Romaji Diary represents the first instance of a Japanese writer using romaji (roman script) to tell stories in a way that could not be told in kana or kanji. Sad Toys is a collection of 194 Tanka, the traditional 31 syllable poems that are evocative of Japan's misty past and its...
Translated by Carl Sesar. — Kodansha International, 1966. — 168 p. All of the poems in this volume have been selected from Takuboku’s tanka, short poems of thirty-one syllables set in lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables. They have been arranged in three sections, poems contained in the two collections Ichiaku no Suna (“A Handful of Sand”) and Kanashiki Gangu (“Sad Toys”), which...
Play. — New York: Abrams Artists, 2012. — 75 p. Venus in Fur is a two-person play by David Ives set in modern New York City. The play had its premiere off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company in 2010 and on Broadway in 2011. Venus in Fur opened off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company on January 13, 2010. The play was originally set to close on February 21, 2010, and was...
Delacorte Press, 2022. — 460 р. — ISBN 9780593704899 Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there...
Pamela Dorman Book/Viking, 2023. — 522 р. — ISBN 978-0593-490709 Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the...
Penguin, 1951. Hangsaman is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediately present. "Natalie Waite who was seventeen years old but who felt that she had been truly conscious only since she was about fifteen lived in an odd corner of a world of sound and sight, past the daily voices of her father and mother and their incomprehensible...
New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1894. — 131 p. (in the file). The Pied Piper. Hereafterthis. The Golden Ball. My Own Self. Black Bull of Norroway. Yallery Brown. Three Feathers. Sir Gammer Vans. Tom Hickathrift. The Hedley Kow. Gobborn Seer. Lawkamercyme. Tattercoats. The Wee Bannock. Johnny Gloke. Coat o' Clay. The Three Cows. The Blinded Giant. Scrapefoot. The Pedlar of...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — ASIN B01M00ZGXR Master of the short story and teller of hilarious nautical misadventures, W. W. Jacobs is most famous for his seminal supernatural story ‘The Monkey's Paw’. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Jacobs’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and informative introductions. Beautifully illustrated with...
The fourth book in the Karen Vail series. Norwood Press, 2011, - 466 pages. National Bestselling Author Alan Jacobson brings back renowned FBI Profiler Karen Vail in an intelligent thriller that bridges time and space. When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered in San Francisco, Vail heads west to team up with SFPD Inspector Lance Burden and her former task...
2010 Man Booker Prize winner.
Published: Bloomsbury.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor...
New York : Wiley, 1990. — x, 243 p. Toponyms are not always recognizable as such. For example, who would expect the word hooker, meaning "prostitute," to come from the name of an old section of New York City where women of the night once plied their trade? Or, who would guess that a sleazy group of words, including sleazy, sleazo, sleazemonger and sleazebucket were derived from...
HarperCollins, 2022. — 517 р. — ISBN 978 1 4607 1365 5 Diana Forsyth is in the midst of planning the Big Party, a combined celebration of her husband Will's 60th and their 30th wedding anniversary. The whole family is flying in and unbeknownst to Will, Diana is planning a Big Surprise. But then she finds a torn scrap of paper hidden inside the folds of one of his cashmere...
The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2011. — 558 p. When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Lost Hearts" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, originally published in 1895. It was later collected in his 1904 book Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much older cousin, Mr Abney, at a remote country mansion, Aswarby Hall, in Lincolnshire. His...
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next...
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on...
Akashic Books, 2005. — ISBN: 1888451823. This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, Marlon James reveals his unique narrative command that will firmly establish his place as one of today's freshest, most...
Riverhead Books, 2009. - 448 p.
A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 6345 p. — (Series Four Book 2). — ASIN B00EK1V5PO. M. R. James entirely redefined the ghost story for the modern reader. Abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors, he chose instead realistic contemporary settings, whilst blending his esoteric interest in antiquarian subjects to fashion his own inimitable tales of horror. This is...
2013. "Count Magnus" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, first published in 1904. It was included in his first collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
Portland (Oregon, USA): Dark Regions Press, 2015. — 414 p. — ISBN 978-1-62641-111-1. Featuring stories from Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Molly Tanzer, Lois H. Gresh, Nancy Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Bear, Gemma Files and many more fully color illustrated by Daniele Serra, Dreams from the Witch House highlights some of the very best women writers of weird fiction and...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 656 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8917-4 After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all...
Dial Books, 2014. — 371 p. — ISBN13: 9780803734968. "We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick,...
White Oleander by Janet Fitch is a bildungsroman novel consisting of 481 pages. It was first published in New York City by Back Bay Books in April, 1999. There are 32 chapters in this novel that narrate the story of our young protagonist Astrid, who ends up becoming an orphan after her mother murders an ex-boyfriend with whom she had fallen in love with, after being dumped...
An inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe.
From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable — yet hopelessly earnest — narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer.
From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 296 p. — (Phoenix Fiction). — ISBN10: 0226393755; ISBN13: 978-0226393759. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming...
It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When...
William Morroy, 2022. — 293 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-289000-9 When university student Ludwik meets Janusz at a summer agricultural camp, he is fascinated yet wary of this handsome, carefree stranger. But a chance meeting by the river soon becomes an intense, exhilarating, and all-consuming affair. After their camp duties are fulfilled, the pair spend a dreamlike few weeks in the...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet...
Washington Square Press, 2017. — 401 p. — ISBN: 1501161938. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her...
Washington Square Press, 2017. — 401 p. — ISBN: 1501161938. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband...
Uncanny is the fourth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1988. The stories On the Bottom Good Tip for Ghosts frozen Stiff UFD Сracking Up Greensleeves Mousechap Spaghetti Pig-out Know All
Uncovered is the eighth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1995. For Ever A deliberately humourless melancholic drama about a terminally-ill boy who wants nothing more than to see snow. His non-verbal brother is obsessed with toilet paper and honey and says nothing but "Aargh". Could this obsession be linked to...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. — ISBN 9781408830062. A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a...
London: Odhams, 1922. - 256 c. Приключенческий роман. Отсканированный PDF. Из введения к книге: Edgar Jepson’s new novel "A PRINCE IN PETROGRAD" is the first romance of the Bolshevist Terror. It tells of a retired stockbroker who comes to Petrograd at its reddest in search of a missing son-in-law, and is driven into hiding by the Terrorists, discovers a safe lair, and issues...
London: Odhams, 1922. - 256 c. Приключенческий роман. Отсканированный PDF. Из введения к книге: Edgar Jepson’s new novel "A PRINCE IN PETROGRAD" is the first romance of the Bolshevist Terror. It tells of a retired stockbroker who comes to Petrograd at its reddest in search of a missing son-in-law, and is driven into hiding by the Terrorists, discovers a safe lair, and issues...
No publication info. Lisa Jewell’s novel, Then She Was Gone, follows Laurel Mack in her search for answers regarding her daughter Ellie’s disappearance. Jewell gradually unfolds the details of the past and looks inside the mind of a psychopath who kidnapped Ellie, while chronicling the steps Laurel must take to heal from sorrow that has consumed her.
Рут Пра́вер Джа́бвала (англ. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; 7 мая 1927, Кёльн — 3 апреля 2013, Манхэттен, Нью-Йорк) — английская и американская писательница, киносценарист. Лауреат Букеровской премии и двукратный лауреат премии «Оскар» за лучший адаптированный сценарий. Единственный человек в мире, получивший и «Оскара», и «Букера».
Родилась в Кельне, в еврейской семье выходцев из Польши....
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize.
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince...
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize.
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts — Creative Writing. Department of English; College of Liberal Arts; The Graduate College; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2016. — 70 p. The title of my thesis is The Skinny House, a phrase which indicates: 1) The body of a human or other animal, 2) A coffin or grave, and 3) A residence in...
Doubleday, 2023. — 325 р. — ISBN 978-0-385-54869-4. When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a...
Viking, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 110198161X; ISBN13: 978-1101981610. Instant New bestseller As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing...Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking...
Viking, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 110198161X; ISBN13: 978-1101981610. Instant New bestseller As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing...Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking...
If the people who came to town had wanted Bible readings, we’d have given ’em that. But nobody ever asked for Bible readings. They wanted booze, broads, and gambling, so that’s what we gave ’em. — Murray Fredericks. About the author Nelson Johnson, whose family’s presence in Atlantic County predates the founding of Atlantic City, is a lifelong resident of Hammonton, New Jersey....
Axminster, Devon: Uniformbooks, 2011. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 1910010049; ISBN-13: 978-1910010044. The Observer Ronald Johnson described The Book of the Green Man as his “attempt, as a brash American, to make new the traditional British long seasonal poem.” This Poundian endeavor to “make it new” stemmed from a visit that he and fellow poet Jonathan Williams made to the United...
Delphi Classics. 2013
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 13460 p. — (Series Four Book 5). — ASIN B00F8HMM88. The celebrated Dr. Johnson made a lasting contribution to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer and lexicographer. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Samuel Johnson, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi...
IDW Publishing, 2010. — 113 p. The USG Ishimura, the most famous of the Planetcracker class starships, is flung from orbit around Aegis VII after the disastrous events of Dead Space. It is lost somewhere in deep space, and both the Government and a powerful religious sect called "Church of Unitology" believe it may still hold the Red Marker, believed to be an alien artifact...
The Borough Press, 2022. — 619 p. — ISBN: 978-000-836-143-3 A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth. Robert Reid moved his family to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, driven by hope, craving safety and community, and hiding a terrible secret. But despite his best efforts to fit in, Robert is always seen as an outsider. And as the legendary and...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. — 110 p. — (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 109) — ISBN-10: 0691167680; ISBN-13: 978-0691167688. Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as "a snappy, entertaining book," and led the San Francisco Chronicle to call him "a new and exciting...
Penguin Random Books, 2022. — 380 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-94911-8 In a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four friends seek shelter in an abandoned hunting lodge. Miles from help, and knowing they will die out in the cold, they break in, hoping to wait out the storm until morning. But nothing can prepare them for what's inside... With no other option, they are forced to spend a long and...
Minotaur Books, 2022. — 576 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-79374-4 Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of...
N.-Y.: Hesperus Press, 2014. - 480p.
The incredible true story of two WWI POWs who used amateur magic to convince their captors that they were in touch with the spirit world
Captured during World War I, Lieutenant E. H. Jones, a Welsh officer in the Indian Army, and Lieutenant C. W. Hill, an Australian serving in the R.A.F., were prisoners of war at the Yozgad prison camp in...
432 pages; Publisher: Amistad (May 25, 2004)
2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man...
Amistad, 2004. — 432 p. One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never...
Laurinburg, NC: St Andrews College Press, 2008. — 69 p. — ISBN: 978-1599481388. St. Andrews College Press of Laurinburg has just released The Birds of Djakarta , a new collection of poems by Wilmington author Jean Jones. The title poem includes an oblique reference to the author’s Indonesian ancestry. A longtime Wilmington resident, Jones graduated from the University of North...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. — 320 р. — ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass,...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 304 c. - (Book 1) - ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 304 c. - (Book 1) - ISBN10: 1250083826; ISBN13: 978-1250083821. About the book: Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Hard Rules, the smoldering, scorching first novel in the explosively sexy new Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. How bad do you want it? The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral...
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 405 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-80196-8 In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her―who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa’s beauty, the...
Algonquin Books; Oprah's Book Club edition, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781616208776; ISBN13: 978-1616208776. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by...
Algonquin Books; Oprah's Book Club edition, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781616208776; ISBN13: 978-1616208776. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by...
Lake Union Publishing, 2017. Told in alternating tales at once haunting and redemptive, A Tangled Mercy is a quintessentially American epic rooted in heartbreaking true events examining the harrowing depths of human brutality and betrayal, and our enduring hope for freedom and forgiveness. After the sudden death of her troubled mother, struggling Harvard grad student Kate...
David C. Cook, 2008. In a time when cross burnings and men in white hoods appeared to be a thing of the past, a small town confronts a kind of hate it thought had long since died out… Shelby Lenoir Maynard, nicknamed Turtle, has never much trusted girls her own age, spending her days instead with her brother and his pack of friends. But when a mysterious Sri Lankan girl of...
The Anarchist Library, 2021. — 120 p. The Sisters. An Encounter. Araby. Eveline. After the Race. Two Gallants. The Boarding House. A Little Cloud. Counterparts. Clay. A Painful Case. Ivy Day in the Committee Room. A Mother. Grace. The Dead.
Transworld, 2012. — 283 p. When Harold Fry leaves home one morning to post a letter, with his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else’s life.
Doubleday, 1992. — 524 p. "This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris. "An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times.
NY.: NYRB, 2000. — 209 p. In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the...
Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1841500305; ISBN13: 978-1841500300. The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental...
Waltenberg is a riveting novel of espionage and a major work of literature.
The Hotel Waldhaus in the Swiss mountain village of Waltenberg is central to the action of this epic novel, which takes in Europe from the First World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Waltenberg tells the story of the love between Hans Kappler, a German novelist, and Lena Hotspur, an American...
Nightfire Book, 2023. — 661 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-86702-5 Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She’s been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she’ll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the...
New York: Ecco, 2010. — 592 p. — ISBN10: 0061583243; ISBN13: 978-0061583247. Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry offers a selection of the finest international poetry from the 20th century in the best English translations available. Providing in many cases the first and only English language translations...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-94687-4, 978-0-307-94686-7. From Chekhov to Maugham to William Carlos Williams, doctors have long given voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this rich tradition with a collection of fiction and nonfiction by today’s most beloved physician-writers, including: Abraham...
Titan, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-1789091489, 978-1789091496. From the greatest names in fantasy and horror comes an anthology of stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Join Alice as she is thrown into the whirlwind of Wonderland, in an anthology that bends the traditional notions of Lewis Carroll's classic novel. Contributors include the bestselling M.R. Carey,...
Hogarth, 2023. — 240 р. — ISBN-10 0593595459 "Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night." In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day...
Hogarth, 2019. — 98 р. — ISBN-10: 0593595459 Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s The White Book is a meditation on color, as well as an attempt to make sense of her older sister’s death, who died in her mother’s arms just a few hours after she was born. In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister,...
Hogarth, 2025. — 317 р. — ISBN-10: 0593595459 One winter morning, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon to visit her at a hospital in Seoul. Inseon has injured herself in an accident, and she begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet - a white bird called Ama. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She must...
Berkley, 2023. — 566 р. — ISBN 9780593547724 Dorothy “Dee” Gale is searching for a place to belong. After their globe-trotting mother’s death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, where Dee attends graduate school. But when Dee’s relationship with a faculty member, a bestselling novelist, ends in heartbreak and humiliation, she’s caught in a...
Translated by Kirsten Lodge. — Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. — 141 p. A Gothic Soul is not a novel in the usual sense of the word: it is a diary of emotions and moods, of the undulating play of the spiritual world, an account of stories of the soul , of everything that agitates the inner self beneath the waves of nuances, fragrances, and tremors with which the real world...
Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. — 83 p. Карасек Йиржи. Готическая душа (на англ. яз.) A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are unique to the Czech movement while alluding creatively and ironically to Joris-Karl Huysman's Against Nature, the novella is set in Prague, which is portrayed as a dead city, a city peopled by...
Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 2015. — 83 p. Карасек Йиржи. Готическая душа (на англ. яз.) A Gothic Soul is the most acclaimed work of Czech Decadent prose. Expressing concerns that are unique to the Czech movement while alluding creatively and ironically to Joris-Karl Huysman's Against Nature, the novella is set in Prague, which is portrayed as a dead city, a city peopled by...
Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafka-esque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.
Bjorn is a compulsive, exacting bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works-a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399183736; ISBN13: 978-0399183737. (A Mitford Novel - Book 14) #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0399183736; ISBN13: 978-0399183737. (A Mitford Novel - Book 14) #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a...
Sort of Books, 2022. — 368 p. Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize A searing, mordantly funny, state-of-the- nation satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the Beira Lake and he has no...
Hyperion, 1999. — 240 p. Laura Kasischke's first novel, SUSPICIOUS RIVER, was hailed as "extremely powerful" (The Los Angeles Times) and "amazing...beautifully written" (The Boston Globe). Now Kasischke follows up her auspicious debut with mesmerizing story of youthful passion and loss of innocence. When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not...
США, Avon Printing, 1996, 324 стр.
A novel about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher in a New York City high school and deals with the gritty realities of her colleagues and students; it was based on Kaufman's own teaching experiences.
A novel about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher in a New York City high school and deals with the gritty realities of her colleagues and students; it was based on Kaufman's own teaching experiences.
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017. — 256 p. Rupi Kaur is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of two collections of poetry. She started drawing at the age of five when her mother handed her a paintbrush and said—draw your heart out. Rupi views her life as an exploration of that artistic journey. after completing her degree in rhetoric studies she published her...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018. — 123 p. — ISBN10: 1449486797, 13 978-1449486792. From Rupi Kaur, the №1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 256 p. — ISBN-10 1035032406; ISBN-13 : 978-1035032402. The heart-warming Before Your Memory Fades, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? On the hillside of...
Europa, 2022. — 290 p. — ISBN 9781609457006 Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices...
Europa Editions, 2020. — 448 p. — ISBN 9780525510338. Translators: Bett Sam, Boyd David. Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is...
Jackie Kay's story My Daughter, The Fox gives the reader an unusual view of the mother/child relationship. As the title suggests, the narrator's daughter isn't human, but the feelings generated between mother and daughter are universal and so the scene is set for the paradox to be played out.
My Daughter, The Fox is the first in a series of four kits written by school and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8041-5107-8. Jonathan Brand, a graduate student in anthropology, has decided to do his fieldwork in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. But, despite his Harvard training, he can barely understand, let alone "study," the culture he encounters. From his struggles with the local cuisine to his affair with...
1994, ISBN: 0679746048, 192 pages.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles - as...
No publication info. 1960. Translated from the Greek by Peter A. Bien. This was the Last Temptation which came in the space of a lightning flash to trouble the Savior's last moments. But all at once Christ shook his head violently, opened his eyes, and saw. No, he was not a traitor, glory be to God! He was not a deserter. He had accomplished the mission which the Lord had...
No publication info. 1960. Translated from the Greek by Peter A. Bien. This was the Last Temptation which came in the space of a lightning flash to trouble the Savior's last moments. But all at once Christ shook his head violently, opened his eyes, and saw. No, he was not a traitor, glory be to God! He was not a deserter. He had accomplished the mission which the Lord had...
No publication info. 1960. Translated from the Greek by Peter A. Bien. This was the Last Temptation which came in the space of a lightning flash to trouble the Savior's last moments. But all at once Christ shook his head violently, opened his eyes, and saw. No, he was not a traitor, glory be to God! He was not a deserter. He had accomplished the mission which the Lord had...
Scribner; First Edition edition, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1982106980; ISBN13: 978-1982106980. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of...
Scribner; First Edition edition, 2019. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1982106980; ISBN13: 978-1982106980. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of...
Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1986. — 60 Pages. ISBN10: 0-207-15297-7 What dictionary definitions fail to point out is that hugging feels good and that, among its many benefits, a hug can dispel loneliness, overcome fear, help curb appetite and even slow down aging. With a cheerful mix of whimsy and seriousness, Kathleen Keating provides in this collection a small armoury of...
1988. — 66 Pages. ISBN10: 0-207-15297-7 We have learned to speak to each other in many ways – with words, gestures, actions, postures, looks, and touch. The 'Little Book of Hugs' shows how one form of touching – the giving and receiving of warm, supportive hugs – promotes health and well-being. In the 'Second Little Book of Hugs' discover a new dimension of hug therapy: hugs...
Faber & Faber, 2000. — 224 p. From the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind - to sleep with another man - Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile relationships. In 'House Calls', Cordelia wakes on the last day ofthe twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her...
Faber & Faber, 2010. — 89 p. A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.
Grosset & Dunlap, 1961. — 85 p. The Mystery at Lilac Inn is the fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1930 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter of the 1930 edition. The story involves Nancy Drew helping her friend Emily Crandall find out who stole her heirloom jewels. Emily's guardian, Mrs. Jane...
Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history — and storytelling — on its head.
Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarrative’s novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to...
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1986. — x, 420 p. “A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life... Keillor’s great strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary.” —J. D. Brown, Chicago Tribune
New York: University of New York Press,.2008.—379.—ISBN: 978-0-7914-7685-7 What is so unique about Hebrew poetry? Why would a poetry reader be interested in a selection of Israeli poets? Partially, at least, such questions remain rhetorical: Israel has always elicited great curiosity and polarized emotions, and it is safe to assume that its poetry would as well. Poetry, W. H....
Gallery books, 2021. — 622 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-7165-0 When it’s announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year’s most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 698 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-7172-8 Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that...
An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker and Guardian-shortlisted author of Pigeon English.
John Lock has come to India to meet his destiny: a destiny dressed in a white karate suit and sporting an impressive moustache. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England: decades wasted in a...
Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's athame knife, kills ghosts. In Thunder Bay, Anna, forever 16, drips blood on her white dress from throat slit in 1958, and rips apart anyone who enters her house - except Cas. He makes new friends - high school queen Carmel, jock Will, admiring nerd Thomas and Tom's voodoo grandpa Morfran - to fight this demon
Sidney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. – 184 p. Language: English. Winner of the Booker Prize, Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler’s Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story. It was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. In the shadow of...
Sceptre, 2009. — 436 p.
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man...
Sceptre, 1982. In 1980 I visited a luggage store in Beverly Hills, California, and inquired the prices of briefcases. The store belonged to Leopold Pfefferberg, a Schindler survivor. It was beneath Pfefferberg’s shelves of imported Italian leather goods that I first heard of Oskar Schindler, the German bon vivant, speculator, charmer, and sign of contradiction, and of his...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Language: English. Thirty-seven-year-old American journalist Sally Goodchild quite literally married her hero. Both foreign correspondents, both on assignment in Cairo, they quickly fell in love and settled into domestic life in London. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and his hometown was an uneasy one—as she found both to be...
London: Arrow Books, 2002. Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara, an independent, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked Jack Malone, a U.S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, a man...
Beth Kephart "Undercover"
288 pages, National Book Award nominee Beth Kephart's first young adult novel is a stunning debut.Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila—a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a cutting...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2014. — 432 p.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply...
Piper Kerman.Orange is the New Black:My Year in a Women’s Prison.
Biographiy & Memoir - Spiegel & Grau,2011 - 137p.
With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 and published in 1962. The novel was adapted into a 1975 film, which won five Academy Awards.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from...
738 pages published by Penguin Books Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. While 1962's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was arguably the more famous of the two novels, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum opus. The story involves an Oregon family of loggers who cut and procure trees for a local mill in opposition of...
Grove Press, 2022. — 649 p. — ISBN 978-0-8021-5976-2 In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. The three boys are an inseparable trio, but conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin,...
Second Edition. — Tehran: Amir· Kabir, 1961. — 171 р. In this book, Rubayat by Omar Khayam are presented in two languages, in the original language - Persian and their translation into English.
Canongate, 2019. — 604 p. — ISBN 978 1 78689 375 8 Bridie Devine—female detective extraordinaire—is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar child whose reputed supernatural powers have captured the unwanted attention of collectors trading curiosities in this age of...
William Morrow, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN: 006236958X (ISBN13: 9780062369581). From the critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II—a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small...
William Morrow, 2013. — 434 p. — ISBN: 006222106X (ISBN13: 9780062221063). Michael Crichton meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this powerful debut novel in which a man, frozen in the Arctic ice for more than a century, awakens in the present day. Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the...
William Morrow, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0062369547 (ISBN13: 9780062369543). From the author of the acclaimed The Curiosity comes a compelling and moving story of compassion, courage, and redemption Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing...
New York: In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur, 2008. — 121 p. — ISBN-10: 1934639001; ISBN-13: 978-1934639009. "Kylie Minogue, more than muse, is K. K.'s aesthetic m.o., his ammo. Around her name and image, he circulates the particles of his own uncanny idiom, which is unlike anything in contemporary American poetry. Killian works every instrument in the band; he sneaks up behind...
New York: In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur, 2008. — 121 p. — ISBN-10: 1934639001; ISBN-13: 978-1934639009. "Kylie Minogue, more than muse, is K. K.'s aesthetic m.o., his ammo. Around her name and image, he circulates the particles of his own uncanny idiom, which is unlike anything in contemporary American poetry. Killian works every instrument in the band; he sneaks up behind...
Hogarth, 2023. — 575 р. — ISBN 9780593448205 “We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which...
Japan: Autumn Press, 1974. — 113 p. Ким Джиха. Стенания народа и другие стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Excerpts from Conversations with Kim Chi Ha. The Yell ow Dust Road. The Sea. The Road to Seoul. April Blood. Parting. Hunger. The Sun. No Return. Blue Suit. Five Bandits. Groundless Rumors. Cry of the People. Excerpts from Kim Chi Ha's Statement before the Military Tribunal.
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 10 с. Ким Джи-ха. Пять заговорщиков (на англ. яз.) Ким Джиха или Ким Джи Ха (кор. 김지하?, 金芝河?), настоящее имя Ким Ёнъиль, р. 1941) — корейский поэт, драматург и мыслитель. Псевдоним Ким Джиха предположительно происходит от 地下, "подпольный". Считается первым современным южнокорейским поэтом, получившим широкое международное признание. Стихи начал писать...
Translated by Jaihiun Kim. — Revised and enlarged edition. — Seoul: Pan Korea Book Corporation, 1975. — 175 p. A bilingual edition. Kim Sowol (1902–1934) was a Korean poet famous for his contributions to early modern Korean poetry. Throughout his life he wrote his beautifully poignant poetry in a style reminiscent of traditional Korean folk songs and consequently became known...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 21 с. Ким Дон-ни. Легенды красной земли (на англ. яз.) Kim Tong-ni (1913-1995) was a Korean writer. Kim’s work deals with traditional and native Korean themes from a 20th-century perspective . As a right-wing writer and advocate of “pure literature,” Kim Dongri produced a series of critical essays opposing ideological literature, including The True...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 9 с. Ким Вон Иль. Душа тьмы (на англ. яз.) Ким Вон Иль (род. 1942) — корейский писатель. Литературный дебют писателя произошел в 1966 г. с публикации рассказа "Алжир, 1961". однако известность писателю принес рассказ "Душа тьмы" (Одууме хон), увидевший свет в 1973 г. Рассказ "Душа тьмы", как и многие другие работы писатели, посвящён теме...
Выходные данные не указаны. The badly splintered commissioners court of a remote Texas border county declares its independence from both Texas and the United States... and is then immediately formally recognized by nearly 60 foreign nations. The resulting tension and conflict that follows between the state of Texas and the federal government — as well as with the newly created...
New York: St Martin's Press, 1995. — 349 p. The second book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now...
New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. — 299 p. The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from Palestine. She leaves in their protection an...
University Of Minnesota Press, 2013. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0816689814; ISBN13: 978-0816689811. Winner of the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year and the Aboriginal Fiction Book of the Year—a collection of twenty short stories told in Thomas King's classic, wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice.
Bantam Books, 1993. — 469 p. — ASIN B01N07LF3Z. Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His many books include the novels Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; two short story collections, One Good Story, That One (Minnesota, 2013) and A Short History of Indians in Canada (Minnesota, 2013);...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — 14576 p. — (Series Four Book 10). The much revered priest, university professor, historian and novelist, Charles Kingsley produced a diverse body of works. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Charles Kingsley, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the...
The first edition of this book is dated 1851. The edition used is dated 1851. The publisher was George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London (NY EP Dutton) The number of pages is 395.
A long book--nineteen hours--full of adventure and tense situations. I was a bit disappointed to find that the Pirate was a Greek who preyed mostly upon Italian, Greek and Turkish vessels in the Eastern...
With an Introduction, Notes and Glossary by James Kinsley. — Oxford University Press, 1958. — 192 p. — (Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series). Dunbar was a court makar. His poetic inheritance was the courtly tradition of medieval France and England ; his professional concern was with the personalities and humours of the court of James IV, King of Scots. The study of his poetry...
A bestseller in the author’s native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.
Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young...
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society - a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their...
The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask....
William Morrow Paperbacks 2013 - 356 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0061950728 Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be. Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to aging out out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only...
Harvill Secker, International Edition, 2015. — 419 p. Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself – or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing. All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer, his life takes a darker turn. Drinking causes him...
Novel, Fiction, Children's literature. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Chicago, USA. The John C. Winston Company, 1940. 248-p. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of...
[n.a.]: Published by the author, 2009. — 128 p. Bill Knott, originally known as Saint Giraud, was born in Carson City, Michigan. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston. He first received recognition with The Naomi Poems published in 1968. He published this work under the pseudonym Saint Geraud (a figure who, it was claimed, lived from 1940 to 1966). Poet...
Publisher: Books For Library Press, New York, 1902 (First Publication), 1969 (Reprint). 456 pages. Language: English. A compilation of witty, facetious, and satirical verse selected from the writings of British and American poets. Index of Authors: Adams, Charles Follen Leedle Yawcob Strauss Aldrich, Henry Reasons For Drinking Aytoun, William Edmondstoune The Biter Bit Ballard,...
Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happened between them at school one summer during the early years of World War II is the subject of A Separate Peace. A great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the dark forces that brood over the tortured world of...
Bantam Books, 1984. Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence...
Hogarth; Reprint edition, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0385346859; ISBN13: 978-0385346856. Now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny "A European Gone Girl." —The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon, the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the...
Hogarth; Reprint edition, 2013. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0385346859; ISBN13: 978-0385346856. Now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny "A European Gone Girl." —The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon, the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the...
New York: Bantam Books, 1941, - 77 p. Koestler's best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. The novel is set in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the...
Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2004 — 442 p. — ISBN 9780887272493 Translated and annotated by Laurel Rasplica Rodd with Mary Catherine Henkenius. Including a study of Chinese influences on the Kokinshū prefaces by John Timothy Wixted, and an annotated translation of the Chinese preface by Leonard Grzanka. This edition of Kokinshū ( Kokin Wakashū , Collection of Japanese Poems of...
India: Pras,.2001.—62p.
Poetry. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (Marathi: अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर) (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets. His first book of English poetry, Jejuri, is a collection 31 poems pertaining...
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1992. — 68 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 0819512026; ISBN-13: 978-0819512029. Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the community,...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. — 68 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 0819563290; ISBN-13: 978-0819563298. Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa delivers a powerful meditation on American, and particularly African American, life in the wake of Vietnam. Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef...
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl...
Risking sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Love love is more than simply being open to experiencing the anguish of another person's suffering. It is the willingness to live with the helpless knowing that we...
NY: Publishers Group West groveatlantic.com, 2018. — 152 p. Корнелиуссен Нивиак. Последняя ночь в Нууке, роман (на англ. яз.) Нивиак Корнелиуссен (р. 1990, Нуук) — гренландская писательница. Пишет на гренландском языке и сама переводит свои тексты на датский язык. В первом романе Корнелиуссен "Последняя ночь в Нууке" (в оригинале HOMO sapienne) описывается жизнь гренландской...
NY: Publishers Group West groveatlantic.com, 2018. — 152 p. Корнелиуссен Нивиак. Последняя ночь в Нууке, роман (на англ. яз.) Нивиак Корнелиуссен (р. 1990, Нуук) — гренландская писательница. Пишет на гренландском языке и сама переводит свои тексты на датский язык. В первом романе Корнелиуссен "Последняя ночь в Нууке" (в оригинале HOMO sapienne) описывается жизнь гренландской...
Revell, 2022. — 590 p. — ISBN 978-1-4934-3887-7 Liliana Vela hates the term victim. She's not a victim, she's a fighter. Stubborn and strong with a quiet elegance, she's determined to take back her life after escaping the clutches of human traffickers in her poor Mexican village. But she can't stay safely over the border in America--unless the man who aided in her rescue is...
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of...
John Wiley & Sons, 2009. — 224 p. Praise for The Smart Investor's Money Machine "Kraft writes in a style that is easy to read with attention to a large audience of investors and retirees (current and soon-to-be) that may have avoided some financial market opportunities because of perceived complexities. Bill makes clear sense of investor and retirement income possibilities....
Anchor Books, 2018. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-0525562733 (ebook). The gripping articles in Classic Krakauer, originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian, display the singular investigative reporting that made Jon Krakauer famous—and show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects...
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.
Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was asked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death. His name...
In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.
Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was asked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death. His name...
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was...
London: BRENTANO'S LTD, 1928. - 166 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод Olga Vitali, Vera Brooke. Краснов Пётр. Амазонка пустыни. Роман о быте казаков в горах Алатау принадлежит перу генерала Петра Краснова. Первоначально роман был опубликован в 1922 году под названием "У подножья Божьего трона". Он протекает на фоне величественной панорамы гор и пустынь Центральной Азии. Как...
London: BRENTANO'S LTD, 1928. - 166 с. На английском языке. Перевод Olga Vitali, Vera Brooke. Краснов Пётр. Амазонка пустыни. Отсканированный 600dpi PDF. Роман о быте казаков в горах Алатау принадлежит перу генерала Петра Краснова. Первоначально роман был опубликован в 1922 году под названием "У подножья Божьего трона". Он протекает на фоне величественной панорамы гор и пустынь...
London: BRENTANO'S LTD, 1928. - 166 с. На английском языке. Перевод Olga Vitali, Vera Brooke. Краснов Пётр. Амазонка пустыни. Скан 600dpi Роман о быте казаков в горах Алатау принадлежит перу генерала Петра Краснова. Первоначально роман был опубликован в 1922 году под названием "У подножья Божьего трона". Он протекает на фоне величественной панорамы гор и пустынь Центральной...
Berkley, 2023. — 486 р. — ISBN 9780593337820 Seven months ago, Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers were strangers, until their fateful stay at the Lucent Springs Hotel. An earthquake and a fire partially destroyed the hotel, but the women have no memory of their time there. Now close friends, the three women co-host a podcast called the Lost Night Files, where they...
Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own — dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic — where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness.
In...
What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all — ladies, actresses, housemaids — in his memories and dreams. From the bustling streets of Budapest to small provincial towns where...
A compelling, haunting novel about a man experiencing gaps in time, and the pain of living inside an anxious mind. Felix wakes up one day to find he has a girlfriend he doesn’t recognize. He finds a novel, with his name on the cover, that he doesn’t remember writing. He’s been losing time since university. Sometimes these gaps are minutes, sometimes months. But now he begins...
William Morrow, 2023. — 336 p. — ISBN 10 000853277X; ISBN 13 9780008532772. White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling...
HarperCollins, 2022. — 500 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-302142-6, 978-0-06-302144-0. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford...
HarperCollins, 2022. — 500 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-302142-6, 978-0-06-302144-0. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford...
New York : SZ/Press, 1984. — 18 p. — ISBN-10: 0930125010; ISBN-13: 9780930125011. Frank Kuenstler (1928–1996) was a New York poet and filmmaker. His work appeared in The Nation, the Village Voice, Film Culture, and in such anthologies as Mixed Voices and America: A Prophecy. Lens first appeared in Film Culture No. 33 (Summer 1964). He taught at the School of Visual Arts, edited...
New York : SZ/Press, 1984. — 18 p. — ISBN-10: 0930125010; ISBN-13: 9780930125011. Frank Kuenstler (1928–1996) was a New York poet and filmmaker. His work appeared in The Nation, the Village Voice, Film Culture, and in such anthologies as Mixed Voices and America: A Prophecy. Lens first appeared in Film Culture No. 33 (Summer 1964). He taught at the School of Visual Arts, edited...
Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood—boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed both at work and at home. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Jamal is a successful psychoanalyst haunted by his first love and a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. Looking back to his coming of age in the 1970s forms a vivid backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later, as he and his friends face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Like "The Buddha of Suburbia",...
Scribner, 2018. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the...
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1904. — 588 p. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things , often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi.
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more...
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — 487 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-303146-3 Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth—another female casualty of China’s controversial One Child Policy. But with her...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1101981083; ISBN13: 978-1101981085. From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1101981083; ISBN13: 978-1101981085. From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular...
New York: Franklin Watts Incorporated, 1964. — 30 p. This is the delightful account of what the Sun was able to achieve with warmth and gentleness that the North Wind in all its strength and fury could not do. Bold illustrations by Brian Wildsmith bring La Fontaine's fable to life.
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 129 с. Ла Гума Алекс. Скитания в ночи, и другие рассказы (на англ. яз.) Алекс Ла Гума (1925-1985) — южноафриканский писатель и общественный деятель, сын коммуниста, борца за права цветного населения страны Джеймса Ла Гумы. Творческое наследие писателя включает в себя рассказы и повести, наиболее известным из которых является произведение "Скитания...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 399 p. FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, a member of a prominent French aristocratic family, was born in Paris in 1613. He was married at the age of 14 and took part in his first military campaign the following year. For the next quarter of a century he participated actively in military life, supporting the interests of the hereditary French...
2014. — 109 p. Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. Her...
Penguin Classics, 2007. — 418 p. — 0140449574 (ISBN13: 9780140449570) Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former lovers, who embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded...
Come back, my dear Vicomte, come back; what are you doing, what can you be doing with an old aunt, whose whole property is settled on you? Set off at once; I have need of you. I have an excellent idea, and I should like to confide its execution to you. (page 15) I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the...
Speak, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 978-0142422946. Just out of high school, Emi Price is a talented young set designer already beginning to thrive in the L.A. film scene. But her artistic eye has failed her in one key area: helping her to design a love life that’s more than make-believe. Then she finds a mysterious letter at an estate sale, and it sends her chasing down the loose...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-0142422939. You go through life thinking there’s so much you need...Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even...
Lake Union Publishing, 2014. — 486 p. In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, ruled Čachtice Castle in the hinterlands of Slovakia. During bizarre nightly rites, she tortured and killed the young women she had taken on as servants. A devil, a demon, the terror of Royal Hungary—she bathed in their blood to preserve her own youth. 400 years later,...
Lake Union Publishing, 2012. — 513 p. Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak… In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to...
Lake Union Publishing, 2013. — 416 p. Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultanone of the most powerful women in Ottoman history and unlike any other woman in the...
Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 444 p. In a sweeping story straight out of Russian history, Tsar Alexander I and a courageous girl named Nadezhda Durova join forces against Napoleon. It’s 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother’s footsteps. She’s a horsewoman, not a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in St. Petersburg...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 325 р. — ISBN 9780593536339 In “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker’s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family’s immigrant past. In “P’s Parties,” a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend’s yearly birthday...
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. — 504 p. — ISBN-10: 0520324811; ISBN-13: 978-0520324817. The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics of both the Beat and the Surrealist movements in the United States. First...
Wildside Press, 2014. — 687 p. — ASIN: B00KDX35S8 "The Harold Lamb Megapack" presents 18 classic tales by one of the greatest adventure fiction writers of all time. Lamb inspired countless other authors, including Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian) with his historically accurate tales of exotic lands and peoples, from Cossacks to Arabs and Turks. Included are:...
1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas, finding — rather unexpectedly — that he is a born sailor, equally at home with the randy pleasures of the port and the...
Penguin Group Inc., 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-18634-3. Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with...
Bantam Books, 2023. — 523 р. — ISBN 9780345531858 One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot. So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to...
London, New York, Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1898. — 424 p. The Arabian Nights Entertainments Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang; generously Illustrated By Rene Bull and H.J. Ford. Andrew Lang is best known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. The twelve fairy tale books he edited contain stories from around the world, collected from various...
After the edition of Longmans, Green and Co, 1918 (1898). The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898) Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang; generously Illustrated By Rene Bull and H. J. Ford. Andrew Lang is best known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. The twelve fairy tale books he edited contain stories from around the world, collected from various...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 671 p. — ASIN B008BW91H2. As well as editing the famous Fairy Books, Andrew Lang created a diverse oeuvre of short story collections, novels, poetry and a scholarly corpus of essays and non-fiction books. This Delphi edition offers a comprehensive range of Lang’s prolific works, with thousands of beautiful illustrations, as well as the usual bonus...
Published: 1898
language: English
wordcount: 111,078 / 296 pg
genres: Fantasy, Banned Books, Fiction and Literature
A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade, a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, the King, to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights,...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN13: 978-1449487768. "Your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to--it's the first one who breaks it." Sad Girls is the much anticipated debut novel from international best-selling author Lang Leav. A beautifully written and emotionally charged coming of age story, where young love, dark secrets, and tragedy...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1449489892 This completely original collection of poetry and prose will not only delight her avid fans but is sure to capture the imagination of a whole new audience. With the turn of every page, Sea of Strangers invites you to go beyond love and loss to explore themes of self-discovery and empowerment as you navigate...
Random House, 2022. — 1259 p. Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift. Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever. Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs. Anastasia develops a strange kind of magic shared...
Gallery Books, 2021. — 508 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-7131-5 Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome that her father won in a poker game. Failing out of school, picking up shifts at a local diner, she’s left fending for herself in a town where she’s never quite felt at home. When she “borrows” her neighbor’s car to perform at an open mic night,...
Brooklyne, NY: Out & Out Books, 1981. — 110 p. — ISBN-10: 0918314070; ISBN-13: 978-0918314079. The appearance of this book raises the question-what is a “lesbian poetry anthology”? Some expect only love poetry ; others, a collection of poems specifically about our oppression as lesbians. Instead, we have put together a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian...
Brooklyne, NY: Out & Out Books, 1981. — 110 p. — ISBN-10: 0918314070; ISBN-13: 978-0918314079. The appearance of this book raises the question-what is a “lesbian poetry anthology”? Some expect only love poetry ; others, a collection of poems specifically about our oppression as lesbians. Instead, we have put together a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. — 248 p. — ISBN-10 : 9780879512170; ISBN-13 : 978-0879512170. Philip Larkin's second novel was first published in 1947. This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the uncommon and unmistakable distinction of its writing.
London: Faber & Faber, 1983. — 315 p. — ISBN10: 0571131204; ISBN13: 978-0571131204 The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit,...
Foreword by Louise Glück. — Yale: Yale University Press, 2011. — 96 p. — (Yale Series of Younger Poets) — ISBN-10 : 0300169205; ISBN-13 : 978-0300169201 Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from...
Ill. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. — Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 2018. — 44 p. — ISBN 9781512408881 (eb PDF) A powerful story told through linked poems which raise questions of race and identity in an honest and tangible way for younger readers. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other...and they're not sure...
Gallic Books, 2023. — 245 p. In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought. 250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume's telescope in a property he's sold....
Gallic Books, 2016. — 232 p. The arrival of a letter delayed by 33 years sparks off a quest that leads both on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and right to the heart of France today. Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a...
Pushkin Press, 2035. — 176 p. Nathalia Guitry is an enigma that psychotherapist Doctor Faber can't solve. A photographer unable to work since witnessing a murder, she seems impervious to his usual techniques. He hasn't been able to stop thinking about her since she walked into his consulting room. Desperate to break through her façade, he proposes something unusual: she'll...
Gallery Books, 2019. — 416 p. — ISBN13: 978-1501128035. Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than...
Haas, 1986. — 224 p. This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's...
Penguin, 2000. — 704 p. 'I am not much of a hero-worshipper, but I could have followed T.E. Lawrence over the edge of the world.' John Buchan Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. 'Seven...
Tauris Parke, 2016. — 240 p. In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent treatment, and a very real measure of happiness, to those...
Flatiron Books, 2015. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1250077004. In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid and...
Flatiron Books, 2015. — 210 p. — ISBN: 978-1250077004.
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
As Jenny says:
"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an excuse to be stupid...
St.Martin's Press, 2013.
In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming her in part after his deceased wife, Lisa, the great...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 8491 p.
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost...
Shambhala, 2004. — 336 p. — ISBN 1-59030-006-8, 978-1-59030-006-0, 978-0-8348-2563-5. Le Guin is stimulating company. A profoundly creative and prolific fiction writer who has won a half-dozen major awards and enticed readers to science fiction who otherwise might not have ventured into that fantastic terrain, she is also a forthright, incisive, and funny essayist. In her...
Shambhala, 2004. — 252 p. — ISBN 1-59030-006-8, 978-1-59030-006-0, 978-0-8348-2563-5. Le Guin is stimulating company. A profoundly creative and prolific fiction writer who has won a half-dozen major awards and enticed readers to science fiction who otherwise might not have ventured into that fantastic terrain, she is also a forthright, incisive, and funny essayist. In her...
Novel. — Translated from French. — Other Press, 2021. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with...
New York & London: Harper and Brothers, 1912. — 278 p. Homer Lea (November 17, 1876 – November 1, 1912) was an American adventurer, author and geopolitical strategist. He is today best known for his involvement with Chinese reform and revolutionary movements in the early twentieth century and as a close advisor to Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 Chinese Republican revolution...
New York & London: Harper and Brothers, 1909. — 398 p. Homer Lea (November 17, 1876 – November 1, 1912) was an American adventurer, author and geopolitical strategist. He is today best known for his involvement with Chinese reform and revolutionary movements in the early twentieth century and as a close advisor to Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 Chinese Republican revolution...
New York: McClure, 1908. — 354 p. Homer Lea (November 17, 1876 – November 1, 1912) was an American adventurer, author and geopolitical strategist. He is today best known for his involvement with Chinese reform and revolutionary movements in the early twentieth century and as a close advisor to Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 Chinese Republican revolution that overthrew the Qing...
New Canadian Library. First published 1912. A funny series of essays. Although published in 1910, some of these are as funny and fresh now as they were back then.Leacock's stories, first published in magazines in Canada and the United States and later in novel form, became extremely popular around the world. It was said in 1911 that more people had heard of Stephen Leacock than...
Penguin, 2007.
The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue—a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to...
Penguin, 2007.
The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue—a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to...
Penguin, 2007.
The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue—a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to...
Penguin Group USA. — ISBN: 9781594480706. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that plague his family, neighbors, and loved ones on the ground. But he can't stay in the air forever. Only months before his 60th birthday, a culmination of family crises finally...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2015. — 9 p.
Ли Хёсок. Гранат (на англ. яз.)
Ли Хёсок (1907-1942) — корейский писатель. Псевдоним —- Гасан.
В 1930 г. закончил Императорский университет Кэйдзё по отделению английской литературы. Литературный дебют состоялся в 1928 произведением о социальном неравенстве "Город и Призрак". На начальном этапе творчество было...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 16 p.
Ли Хёсок. Больная роза (на англ. яз.)
“The Sick Rose,” published in Samcheonli munhak (Three Thousand Li of Literature) in 1938, is the first of two short stories that Lee Hyoseok names using the title of a poem in English. This one, of course, is named after a poem by William Blake. The other is “Leaves of...
London: World Books, 1970. - 254 c.
Скан 600dpi
In the mid-1930s, the nineteen year-old Lee sets out on foot from his Gloucestershire home, with a tin of biscuits and a violin, on his way to London via a hundred mile detour to the coast as I’d never yet seen the sea. Two years later he is fortuitously rescued off the coast of southern Spain by the Royal Navy trawling the...
London: World Books, 1970. - 254 c.
Скан 600dpi.
In the mid-1930s, the nineteen year-old Lee sets out on foot from his Gloucestershire home, with a tin of biscuits and a violin, on his way to London via a hundred mile detour to the coast as I’d never yet seen the sea. Two years later he is fortuitously rescued off the coast of southern Spain by the Royal Navy trawling the...
A novel. Orion Books, 2003 Queenie Todd is evacuated to a small town on the Welsh coast with two others when the war begins. At first, the girls have a wonderful time until something happens, so terrifying, that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Maureen Lee’s award-winning novels have earned her many fans. Maureen was born in Bootle and now lives in Colchester.
Zaffre, 2019. — 337 p. The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a 2019 novel by Christy Lefteri. It deals with the plight of refugees from Aleppo in Syria to Europe during the Syrian Civil War. While a work of fiction, it is based on the author's experience over two summers volunteering in Athens at a refugee center. The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband...
Scribner, 2016. — 744 p. — (The Best American Poetry series). — ISBN10: 150112756X. — ISBN13: 978-1501127564. The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues-guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Best American Poetry series...
The Oxford Book of American Poetry. (англ. яз.)
Chosen and Edited by David Lehman.
Associate Editor John Brehm.
Oxford, University Press, 2006.
Антология американской поэзии в оригинале. В том числе: Сильвия Плат, Эзра Паунд, Генри Лонгфелло, Эдгар Аллан По, Т. С. Элиот.
Anne Bradstreet (C. 1612-1672).
Philip Freneau (1752-1832).
Phillis Wheatley (C. 1753-1784).
Joel...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault,...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault,...
New York: HarperCollins, 2024. — 400 p. — ISBN 9780063413863. "This powerful, heart-wrenching novel follows a young Polish Jew through his incredible journey to escape the Nazis. Reuven's story typifies that of millions of others experiencing the horrors and deprivations suffered by Jews in WWII and those who tried to help them. And yet, it is also an ultimately uplifting and...
Castle by J. Robert Lennon is a mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence.
In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.” So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennon’s gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Unforthcoming, formal, and more than a little defensive in his encounters...
Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared “unsettlingly brilliant”.
Astudent’s suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd — and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair of identical twins aren’t identical at all — or even related. A man finds his own...
The first substantial collection of short fiction from “a writer with enough electricity to light up the country” (Ann Patchett)
“I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal,” observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J....
A comedy on the world of comics featuring Tim Mix, a struggling artist. Opportunity knocks when Mix's father dies and Mix is offered to take over the father's successful, syndicated cartoon. Question is will the son match his father's sense of humor, part of the cartoon's popularity being that it pokes fun at the oddball Mix family. By the author of The Light of Falling Stars.
Gloss Publishing, 2014. — 369 p. From New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny. Mikki and Crush have crossed paths twice before, but they've never met. Their first encounter changed Mikki's life forever, but their second meeting left them both scarred from a violent attack. Three years after the attack, Mikki and Crush both...
London: Granta Books, 2011. — 192 p. — ISBN-10: 1847086918; ISBN-13: 978-1847086914. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 304 p. From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the New Right Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of...
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without body. Everybody is afraid of him - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers. But who has actually seen him?
London: Joseph, 1973. — 397 p. All Doris Lessing's stories and short novels are being collected in four volumes. This first volume comprises her collection of African stories entitled This Was The Old Chief’s Country, together with three of the short novels Tom Five, the book which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954.
London: Joseph, 1973. — 331 p. All Doris Lessing’s stories and short novels are being collected in four volumes. This second volume of African stories contains four from the collection A Man and Two Women, eight from The Habit of Loving, five from African Stories and two from a collection entitled The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories.
The Golden Notebook (1962) is a novel by Doris Lessing. It, like the two books that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature called Lessing's "inner space fiction"; her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. It contains powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism and the...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Doubleday, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 0385539908; ISBN13: 978-0385539906. The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from...
Sceptre, 1995. — 368 p. Where the Heart Is follows the lives of Novalee Nation, Willy Jack Pickens, and their daughter Americus Nation for a period of seven years in the 1980s and early 1990s. Above all, the book is detailing of the tribulations of lower income and foster children in the United States. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in December 1998. A 2000...
Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1991. — 320 p. Bernard Levin leads us along New York’s most famous street, describing with a sharp eye and caustic wit the people and sights which litter its path from Washington Square to Harlem. In what other street could you encounter sword-swallowing unicyclists and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; a bag lady in Central Park one minute and...
Language: English Genre: Young adult novel Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication date: September 2003 Pages: 192pp ISBN: 0-375-82400-6 Boy Meets Boy is a young adult novel by David Levithan, published in 2003. It is set in a gay-friendly small town in America, and describes a few weeks in the lives of a group of high school students. As the title suggests, the...
Text Publishing Melbourne Australia, 2011. – 224 p. There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it-you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even...
1871. Cattle-dealer Solomon Meijer has made a reputation for himself as one of the few honest Jews in Endingen, a rare Swiss town in which Jews are allowed to reside. He leads a largely untroubled life, rewarded by his work and comforted at home by his wife and two daughters. But all of this is set to end when he answers a knock at the door in the middle of the night. On the...
New York: New York’ Review Books classics, 2003. — 313 p. The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: “It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter... On the contrary...Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the...
Harcourt, 1926. — 459 p. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a physician and researcher who dedicates himself to the pursuit of scientific truth even in the face of personal tragedy, corruption and greed. Voted "Exceptional Recording" by Talking Books magazine. As the son and grandson of physicians, Sinclair Lewis had a store of experiences and imparted knowledge to draw upon...
Edited by John Hersey Library of America This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, Inc., 1919. — 385 p. Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to...
Freeditorial. — 393 p. It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s...
Penguin, 2006. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda...
Penguin, 2006. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda...
Penguin, 2006. Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.' Sisters Vera and Nadezhda...
London: Fig Tree, 2012.
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit.
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0399589104; ISBN13: 978-0399589102 Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 422 p. — ISBN: 978-0-374-60635-0 Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised―the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged backwater town, they’d built a private...
New York: Random House, 2019. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 198481737X; ISBN13: 978-1984817372 Winner of the Pen/Jean Stein Award; Longlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award; Named one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of the Year by Time and One of the Best Books of the Year by Parul Seghal, The New York Times . The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to...
Simon and Schuster, 2003. — 403 p.
The 1st book from Gemma Doyle.
A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy — jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she...
Vintage Books, 2004. Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. It was runner up for the 1994 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Einstein's Dreams was also the March 1998 selection for National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Book Club. A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a...
Milkweed Editions, 2022. — 199 p. — ISBN 978-163-9550-494 “I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. — 128 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 0819569597; ISBN-13: 978-0819569595. How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? Seven Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of field guide to the arts, wherein distinctions between various aesthetic disciplines are...
New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1965. — 128 p. With meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment, here is an inimitable classic that guides us to find a space for contemplation and creativity in our own lives. Drawing inspiration from the the shells on the shore, Lindbergh's musings on the shape of a woman's life will bring new...
Vintage, 1998. Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, its plot focuses on a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who inexplicably vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic. It also explores the outlying effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The novel was...
London: Penguin Books, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN 0141977051. Väinö Linna (1920-1992) was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. He shot to immediate literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (Unknown Soldiers), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star). There they stood, bumbling into lines...
Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN-13 978-1471185090. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control - even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an...
Simon & Schuster Children's UK, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 978-1471185090 Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control - even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an...
Avid Liss’s bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting–America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for...
Tinder Press, 2023. — 444 р. — ISBN: 978 1 4722 8802 8 Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore....
First Edition. — Delacorte Press, 2014. — 87 p. — ISBN: 978-0385741262. Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up A New York Times Bestseller "Haunting, sophisticated...a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents."-Wall Street Journal "A rich, stunning summer mystery with a sharp twist that will leave you dying to talk about...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. — 160 p. — ISBN 978-0-224-01892-0. Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was an English well-known poet. Well-quoted poem by Logue was "Come to the Edge", which is often attributed to Guillaume Apollinaire, but is in fact only dedicated to him. «His last major work was an long-term project to render Homer's Iliad into a modernist idiom. Go, little book,...
NY: The Penguin Group, 2012. — 189 p.
A darkly compelling mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction.
The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Now seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say good-bye at last. Instead, she's lured into the trees, where she finds strange and dangerous...
Delphi Classic. 2012. — 2414 p.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
Lang: en, 112 p.
The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841....
If any American fictional character of the twentieth century seems likely to be immortal, it is Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde who knew that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Outrageous, charming, and unforgettable, she's been portrayed on stage and screen by Carol Channing and Marilyn Monroe and has become the archetype of the footloose,...
Dramatic Publishing, 1996. — 40 р. — ISBN10: 0871297256, ISBN13: 978-0871297259. Cast 5w. Set in a tiny sewing factory in East L.A., this is the outrageously funny story of five full-figured Mexican-American women who are racing to meet nearly impossible production deadlines in order to keep their tiny factory from going under. And while they work, hiding from the INS...
Library of Congress, United States of America. Published 1895 by The Rodgers company in Philadelphia. 'All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Ditty On a Girdle Love alters not At the Church Gate Britain's Ida Romeo and Juliet To Celia Why so Wan and Pale? A...
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015. — 584 p. — ISBN10: 077662315X; ISBN13: 978-0776623153. The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently...
Harmondsworth, 1974, Penguin Modern Classics, 185 р.
Ultramarine, the first published novel by Malcolm Lowry, tells the story of a young man's disillusioned coming of age at sea. Much of the raw material for the novel comes from notebooks Lowry kept during his own stint as a deckhand. Dana Hilliot, the young Lowryesque hero, faces the contempt of many of his fellow seamen, who...
London Penguin Books, 2000, 352 p.
Роман выдающегося английского писателя 20 столетия Малькольма Лаури (1909 -1957). Критики называли этот роман пронзительным пророчеством и одновременно романом загадкой. Любимый роман известного английского актера и писателя Стивена Фрая.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976. — 120 p. This collection of ten essays written by Lu Xun (1881-1956) in 1926 was first published in September 1928 by the Wei Ming Society, Peking, as one of the "New Writings of the Wei Ming Society" series edited by the author himself. The English translation of Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk is based on the 1973 edition published by the...
Hutchinson of London, 1964. — 255 p. Лубис Мохтар. Сумерки в Джакарте, роман (на англ. яз.) Mochtar Lubis (1922 – 2004) was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist. His novel Senja di Jakarta (Twilight in Jakarta in English) was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. Senja di Jakarta has been seen as drawing a parallel of 1950s Indonesia. The corruption,...
London: William Heinemann Ltd; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. — 638 p. — (The Loeb Classical Library). Though Lucan wrote much during his short life, only one work has survived, but this was held to be his masterpeace. It is an epic poem in ten hooks, describing the contest between Caesar and the Senate. The work was still unfinished when the author died. For the...
NY: Random House, Inc, 1995. — 48 p. — ISBN-10 : 0822212706, ISBN-13 : 978-0822212706. The Women is a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce. The cast includes women only. The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 657 performances with an all-female cast....
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 327 p. — (Oxford World's Classics). The late-Victorian Gothic was a revival of the Gothic form that in a few short years produced some of the most enduring characters of the genre: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray (1891), H. G. Wells’s Dr Moreau (1896), and Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula (1897). The...
Knopf, 2019. — 400 p. From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity. A mother and father set out with their two children, a boy and a girl,...
Формат HTML — набор станиц сайта. Ло Гуаньчжун. Троецарствие Полный английский перевод с комментариями Роман «Троецарствие», написанный в XIV веке, создан на основе летописи и народных сказаний, повествующих о событиях III века, когда Китай распался на три царства, которые вели между собой непрерывные войны. Главные герои романа – богатыри, борцы за справедливость, – до сих пор...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0804843937. — ISBN13: 978-0804843935 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0804843945. — ISBN13: 978-0804843942 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Tuttle Publishing, 2014. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0804843953. — ISBN13: 978-0804843959 The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty, when China broke into three competing kingdoms and over half...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. — 80 p. — ISBN-10: 0618386246; ISBN-13: 978-0618386249. The Cradle Place is a collection from Thomas Lux, a self-described "recovering surrealist" and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. These fifty-two poems bring to full life the "refreshing iconoclasms" Rita Dove so admired in Lux's earlier work. His voice is plainspoken but moody,...
Ричард Лидеккер (англ. Richard Lydekker; 25 июля 1849 — 16 апреля 1915) — английский натуралист, геолог и автор многочисленных книг по естественной истории. Лидеккер родился в Лондоне, в 1872 году в Тринити-колледже прослушал курс естественных наук (англ.). В 1874 году он начал работу в Геологической Службе Индии (англ.), где и начал исследования палеозоологии позвоночных Северной...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. — 297 p. ’’The Flight of the Shadow’’ is a novel written by George Macdonald. Macdonald was a prolific author, and while under-appreciated by the public of the time, is now considered a favourite of many within the literary world. This novel provides the opportunity to read one the author's less 'fantastical' works. ’’The Flight of the...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 5085 p.
Arthur Machen ( 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best [horror story]...
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how...
New York: Norton and Company, 1979. — 1794 p. —ISBN: 0-393-95036-0 Literature of Western Culture through the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Ancient World. Masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Masterpieces of the Renaissance . A selection of literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages. The world literature selections presented...
New York: Norton and Company, 1979. — 1794 p. — ISBN: 0-393-95036-0 Literature of Western Culture through the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Ancient World. Masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Masterpieces of the Renaissance . A selection of literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages. The world literature selections presented...
New York USA: Norton and Company,.1979.—2236p.—ISBN: 0-393-96142-7 English. Volume II. Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Enlightenment. Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry. Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations. A selection of literature containing only works written...
New York USA: Norton and Company,.1979.—2236p.—ISBN: 0-393-96142-7 English. Volume II. Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance. Masterpieces of the Enlightenment. Masterpieces of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Naturalism, and the New Poetry. Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Explorations. A selection of literature containing only works written...
Oxford. 1998 (1995). На английском языке. Из серии "Oxford World Classics" Еще один "взрослый" перевод сказок из Тысячи Одной Ночи. No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities...
At the age of fifty-seven, after nearly four decades in Hollywood, Academy-Award-winning actress and entertainer Shirley MacLaine is still moving us to laughter and tears in major film roles, still high-kicking on stage in live performances - and still searching for the truth within herself. In this, her most intimate memoir yet, she examines with courage and candor her feelings...
You can see absolutely no one in the audience. It is alienatingly black. Then you realize it is all up to you. You are a performer. The long years were worth it. The miraculous magic of expression overrides everything. Once again you realize you are everything you are aware of. You are part of the audience. They are part of you. You and they are one expressing talent. The talent...
At last Shirley MacLaine reveals the secrets of her intimate journey of transformation. In three international bestsellers, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, and It's All in the Playing, multi-talented Shirley MacLaine described her own ongoing spiritual journey in search of inner harmony and self-transcendence. Now this celebrated actress, social activist, and outspoken...
The fifth volume in one of the most extraordinary personal odysseys of the twentieth century. Don't Fall Off the Mountain, You Can Get There From Here, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light and now the most intimate and compelling book of all, It's All in the Playing. Oscar-winning actress, social activist, singular entertainer, best-selling author Shirley MacLaine has the courage...
Harlequin, 2013. Sheriff Eric Oakes didn't know the first thing about babies, and now he had to prove himself worthy of raising his twin nieces. Taking care of those little girls was one thing, but taking on the woman who controlled their fate was another thing entirely!
London: Oberon Books, 2011. — 70 p. — ISBN13: 978-1849431453 In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather, and political unrest, a young couple wants to have a child but are running out of time. If they over think it, they'll never do it. But if they rush, it could be a disaster. DUNCAN MACMILLAN is formerly Writer in Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal...
Islamabad: Leaf Publications, 2010. — 345 p. — ISBN 978-969-8384-11-1. Most of the poems introduced in this book were translated into English and published in 1970 in Moscow, at “Progress” publishers. Some others have recently been translated. Unfortunately, due to the limited availability of English translations of Azerbaijani poetry, many of the poems of our much-admired and...
PageTurner, 2005.
88 p.
"Fast-paced, attention-grabbing, comical!" That's how Fallen Angel Reviews describes the work of humorist Larry Maddock. Now from the same years when he was writing the hilarious misadventures of that time-traveling symbiot Webley and his sidekick Hannibal Fortune, come nine serio-comic capers only Larry Maddock, Webley and Hannibal's creator, and the...
Catapult, 2023. — 394 р. — ISBN: 978-1-64622-150-9 On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two...
Language: English. Hardcover: 352 pages. Publisher: Dey Street Books (June 23, 2015). ISBN10: 0062372106. ISBN13: 978-0062372109. The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion—and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key—from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef’s former #1 girlfriend and star of The...
Sex» — первая книга американской певицы Мадонны. Издание на английском языке впервые было опубликовано в 1992 г. В книге 128 страниц. Героиня книги – Дита, рассказывает о своих сексуальных фантазиях. Дита – альтер эго Мадонны, появилась под впечатлением образа актрисы немого кино (30 годы) Диты Парло. Дита пишет о своих желаниях, фантазиях, размышляет о сексе. Большинство...
London, Egmont UK Limited. - 1991.
At 17, Rose has resigned herself to the fact that she is the ugly duckling, the academic one who always seems to be in the shadow of her beautiful sister. But this year, the summer of 1943, things are going to be very different.
"Goodnight Mister Tom" (also "Good Night, Mr.Tom") is a 1981 novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy named William Beech who is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II, and put into the care of an elderly reclusive man named Tom Oakley.
Penguin Books, 2016. — ISBN10: 9780143109273; ISBN13: 978-0143109273. For readers of Mohsin Hamid, Dave Eggers, Arundhati Roy, and Teju Cole, The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope. When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up...
New York: Arcade, 2014. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1611458781; ISBN13: 978-1611458787 Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero's Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the call of duty at the Battle of Stalingrad, Ivan is...
New York: Arcade, 2014. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1611458781; ISBN13: 978-1611458787 Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, A Hero's Daughter portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the call of duty at the Battle of Stalingrad, Ivan is...
Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First edition, 1997. Edited and introduced by Robert Giroux. — 639 p.
Bernard Malamud (1914-86) is considered a modern master of the short story, ranked with Chekhov and Isaac Babel. The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud brings together all of Malamud's published stories--from the classic early story "The Magic Barrel," in which he...
335 p. 22 cm.; Farrar.
1967
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel...
Intr. by Jhumpa Lahiri. — New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. — 240 p. —ISBN10: 0374525862; ISBN13: 978-0374525866 — (FSG Classics) Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish...
Translator: Florence Crewe-Jones. — 1878. — 229 p.
"Nobody's Boy," published in France under the title "Sans Famille," has become justly famous as one of the supreme juvenile stories of the world.
In the midst of its early popularity, it was crowned by the Academy as one of the masterpieces of French literature. A few years later, it was followed by "En Famille," which is...
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. — 316 p. 'Nobody's girl', published in France under the title 'En famille', follows 'Nobody's boy' as a companion juvenile story, and takes place with it as one of the supreme juvenile stories of the world.
New York: Random House, 1954. — 250 p. La Voie Royale is a novel by André Malraux published in 1930 by Grasset editions, having received the first Interallie Prize in history the same year, reissued in 1934 by J. Ferenczi et Fils with original woodwinds by Claude-René Martin. The plot takes place in Southeast Asia during colonial times. The characters go on an expedition in the...
New York: International Publishers, 1957. — 350 p.
Albert Maltz's (1908-1985) highly dramatic autobiographical novel (1957; Russian translation, 1958), written while in self-imposed exile in Mexico and based on his own nine-month incarceration in a Federal prison camp. A flatly realistic portrayal of the lives of prisoners in a Washington, D.C. jail, it voices Maltz’s plea for...
New York: Vintage Books, 1954 — 238 p. Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that ''a story must tell itself,'' highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1947. — 342 p. Translator's preface Chapter one Chapter two Chapter three Chapter four Chapter five Chapter six Chapter seven Chapter eight Chapter nine
Yale: Yale University,.2001.—97p.—ISBN: 0-300-08998-8 The opening lines of Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions give us an idea of what to expect from this vivid collection. Authority, daring, a language of color and sure movement, first of all, and a high style of great speed and resource that can range, without apparent change of step, from irony and farce to clear lyrical elegy,...
A novel. — New York Review Books, 2010. — 924 p. — (NYRB Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-59017-331-2. FoW 4-6: The Levant Trilogy The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning’s focus is...
A novel. — New York Review Books, 2014. — 584 p. — (NYRB Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-59017-721-1. FoW 1-3: The Balkan Trilogy It’s the spring of 1941 and the German army’s eastward march appears unstoppable. In the Egyptian desert, the young officer Simon Boulderstone, twenty years old and wet behind the ears, waits in dreadful anticipation of his first experience of combat. The...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 3092 p. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of writers such as...
Katherine Mansfield Society, 2017. — 4 p. In “Widowed” by Katherine Mansfield we have the theme of love, loss, acceptance, happiness, freedom and simplicity. Taken from her “The Collected Stories” collection (1923) the reader realises from the beginning of the story that Mansfield may be exploring the theme of love.
HarperPerennial, 2007. 1094 p.
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and...
The prevalent trend of classifying Manto’s work into a) stories of Partition and b) stories of prostitutes forcibly enlists the writer to perform a dramatic dressing-down of society. But neither Partition nor prostitution gave birth to the genius of Saadat Hasan Manto. They only furnished him with an occasion to reveal the truth of the human condition.
My Name Is Radha is a...
Algonquin Books, 2019. — 339 p. Set within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a run for another life. On the far side the view was nothing but ridgelines, the craggy silhouettes rising up against the night sky like the body of some dormant god. Jodi felt her breath go tight in her chest. This road went only one...
An ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to protect it. And only one man can unearth it &
Ex-SAS operative Ben Hope is living a peaceful life in rural France until a phone call from an old army comrade turns his world upside down. Eminent Egyptologist Morgan Paxton has been brutally murdered while working on the mysterious...
An ancient murder! A clandestine society! A conspiracy that will end in death &Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by the beautiful Leigh Llewellyn world famous opera star and Ben`s first love to investigate her brother`s mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states that Oliver died whilst...
Ben Hope was an elite soldier before his troubles forced him to quit the army. Now he`s using his skills to rescue kidnapped children. But when Ben is approached by a millionaire businessman to trace an ancient lost manuscript whose secret could save a dying girl, he finds himself embarking on the strangest mission of his life. With fiendish codes to crack and dangerous enemies in...
Sometimes trouble just follows a man! An electrifying and utterly gripping must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Sam Bourne and Ludlum`s Bourne series.
When ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up his life rescuing kidnap victims and return to the Theology studies he abandoned years before, he should have known that fate would decide differently. When his old professor begs him...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—507p.—ISBN: 0-226-50548-0 Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights in Italy late Middle Ages. She is best known for her writing The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2009.—230p.—ISBN: 0-226-50545-6 Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was an Italian poet, author, and an advocate of women's rights in Italy late Middle Ages. She is best known for her writing The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men.
Harlequin Books, 2009. — 176 p.
Every emergency doctor dreaded recognising someone in Casualty – even cool-headed consultant James Morrell. But he was doubly shocked when the unconscious patient he was asked to treat was instantly familiar. It was his ex-wife!
Virago, 2015. — 306 p. The classic memoir of Africa, aviation, and adventure—the inspiration for Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun and “a bloody wonderful book” (Ernest Hemingway). Beryl Markham’s life story is a true epic. Not only did she set records and break barriers as a pilot, she shattered societal expectations, threw herself into torrid love affairs, survived desperate...
Kindle Edition. - 2017. - 299 pages. - (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 3). - ASIN B06XCDQDDC. The billionaire founder of an Internet empire is dead. No one can explain what killed him. Another tech industry titan is missing. No one can explain how he disappeared. The FBI assigns David and Martin Yerxa to investigate. But father and son are outside their comfort zone among the...
Kindle Edition. - 2017. - 299 pages. - (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 3). - ASIN B06XCDQDDC. The billionaire founder of an Internet empire is dead. No one can explain what killed him. Another tech industry titan is missing. No one can explain how he disappeared. The FBI assigns David and Martin Yerxa to investigate. But father and son are outside their comfort zone among the...
Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2015. — 277 p. — (David and Martin Yerxa. Book 2). No two madmen are alike... Fourteen-year-old Carson Affeldt wakes in a subterranean room. He has vague recollections of a man in a forest, but everything else about his abduction is hazy. As he looks at his new surroundings, he can't make sense of what he sees. What Carson doesn't know: Three boys...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 1921 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-2311-6 From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is...
New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0143104950; ISBN13: 978-0143104957. Though best known for his plays - and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist - Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works - from...
London: Oxford. 1910. — 680 p. This book collected plays — Tamburlane, Doctor Fauatus, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Dido, The Massacre of Paris, Hero and Leander, also Lyric Poems, Ovid's Elegies, Sir John Davies Epigrams and The First Book of Lukan. Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and...
Legend Press, 2023. — 433 p. — ISBN 9781915643681 Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses—and is banished forever from Paradise. Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already...
NY: NYRB, 2010. — 116 p. In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In...
Hogarth 2013 — 438 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0770436407 A National Book Awards Longlist Selection A New York Times and Washington Post bestseller A story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Two doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this...
Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer, novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag...
The Phantom Ship (1839) is a Gothic novel by Frederick Marryat which explores the legend of the Flying Dutchman and, in one chapter, features a werewolf.
The legend of the Flying Dutchman forms the background to the story and makes regular appearances throughout the novel, while Marryat adds many other supernatural details. He introduces as the heroine, Amine, the daughter of one...
Ware : Wordsworth Editions, 1997. — 429 p. While no collection of limericks can claim to be 'complete', The Wordsworth Book of Limericks contains an astonishing collection of over 1,800 verses - all of them comical, and a great number so far from cleanliness as to verge on the obscene. This is not a book for the prurient, but it will give enormous pleasure to all who relish the...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Sky Pony Press, 2016. - 312 c. - ISBN10: 1510703489; ISBN13: 978-1510703483. Some secrets are better left at the bottom of the ocean. Sixteen-year-old Bridey Corkill longs to leave her small island and see the world; the farther from the sea, the better. When Bridey was young, she witnessed something lure her granddad off a cliff and into a watery grave with a smile on his...
Atria Books, 2023. — 625 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1369-4 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971:...
Выходные данные не указаны. 685 pp. I’m not sure that I can claim to have taken my place in the human alphabet, even as its honorary twenty-seventh letter. I’m more like a specialised piece of punctuation, a cedilla, umlaut or pilcrow, hard to track down on the keyboard of a computer or typewriter. Pilcrow is the prettiest of the bunch, assessed purely as a word. And at least it...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914. — 224 p. Мартиндейл К. К. Сумеречные воды (на англ. яз.) Pervigilium. A Cup of Water. The Palimpsest. The Golden Myth. Two and Two Make Five. The Master-Song. A Good-Friday Spell. Regeneration.
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 446 p. — ASIN B00IXLKQF2 Andrew Marvell was a leading metaphysical poet, whose technical genius and scathing wit firmly establish him as a leading literary figure of the seventeenth century. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Marvell’s complete poetical works,...
Pkj, 2019. — 352 p. At seventeen, Tyler Bruce is hot – a hot mess. His girlfriend is a knockout, his reputation untouchable, parties are nothing without him. Even his car is unreal. But inside Tyler is in ruins – and he'll stop at nothing to keep that a secret. Then one summer Eden comes to stay. She's upfront, sharp and far more enticing than a stepsister should be. She also...
A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER.
Zachary Mason’s brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer’s classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative...
In the beginning there was Lucette, who is the mother to three children — Sammy, a gentle giant, almost blind, but a genius with locks; Corinne, a flighty beauty who cannot keep a job; and the child, an afterthought, who strives to make sense of her fractured Egyptian — Jewish immigrant family. Lucette's children would like a kinder, warmer home, but what they have is a...
Penguin Books, 2007. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9780385340434. Life in Gaddafi's Libya seen through the eyes of a boy who is forced to experience it all, cruelty and betrayal.
"I want to live my own life"
But Olivia's bid for independance was swiftly rejected. Richard replied with the hard assurance of a successful businessman. "I've paid for your upbringing,Olivia, and everything you possess. I expect to collect the dividends from my investment"
Olivia gazed at him in disbelief. She was his stepsister, the only person he truly loved. She had...
Paperback, Mills & Boon #858, 189 pages.
Published January 4th 1974 by Mills & Boon.
Patrick had warned her: "If you marry me there's no going back. If you decide you don't like Venezuela, I doubt if I could ever bear to let you go. Our marriage is a contract, and our commitment to that marriage can be based on nothing less than a lifetime."
But that was before he knew that...
Independent Legions Publishing, 2017. — 222 р. — ISBN: 978-88-99569-37-2 Beautiful, haunting, and grotesque, The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales offers stories reminiscent of traditional Japanese folktales alongside contemporary horror fiction. Matsuura’s unique voice, in its poignancy and lightheartedness, is unforgettable.From the Introduction by Bram Stoker Award Winner...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. — 288 p. — ISBN-10: 0618350071; ISBN-13: 978-0618350070. When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and...
Publisher: unknown. – 78 p. Language: English. Maupassant's second novel, Bel Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened ''Bel Ami'' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — ASIN B00DSDV0CI The works of Guy de Maupassant, the undisputed master of the short story, are still among the most widely read masterpieces of French literature today. This comprehensive eBook presents Maupassant’s complete novels, stories, poetry and non-fiction, with numerous illustrations, introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material....
Katherine Tegen Books, 2018. — 448 p. — ISBN13: 978-0062338068. New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded...
London: Picador, 2017. — 273 p. — ISBN13: 978-1509880003; ISBN10: 1509880003. This book selects from twenty years of Glyn Maxwell’s poetry, and provides a concise introduction to one of the most imaginatively gifted poets of the age. Maxwell’s is perhaps the most immediately recognizable voice in British poetry: wry, wise, compellingly rhythmic, and everywhere carrying a sense...
Atria Books, 2023. — 439 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0802-7 Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin. The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and...
A book from a bestselling author.
A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It's believed a curse was unleashed by the theft—yet the career-making story it offers the ambitious journalist seems a godsend. It also leads her to a passionate love affair...
Misque Press, 2010. Tara Maya’s previously published short stories, most of them no longer available in print, are gathered together here for the first time. A number of the tales are short shorts or flash fiction, including the poignant, "Ghosts on Red Strings, " and the biting alternate history, "Best of All Possible Worlds. " Longer stories and two novelettes round out the...
Riverhead Books, 2020. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 073521672X; ISBN13: 978-0735216723. From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses...
Riverhead Books, 2020. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 073521672X; ISBN13: 978-0735216723. From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses...
Harper Perennial, 2005. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-112186-9. Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper -- and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant -- her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she...
Макколл Смит Александр. Друзья, любовники, шоколад (Pantheon Books, 2005. 272 с. анг.яз) About the Book In this second novel in the Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel Dalhousie’s niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat’s delicatessen – a task to which the redoubtable moral philosopher proves...
Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative prizes in the world. Its title comes from the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The plot of the book revolves around two central...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
The story is well known. In May 2007, Kate and Gerry McCann and their three children went on holiday to a resort in Portugal, along with several friends and their children. The first few days of the holiday passed uneventfully, with the children spending most of their days in the kids club while the parents had tennis lessons and relaxed. In the evenings, the parents all got in...
Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2022. — 292 р. — ISBN 978-030-7269-003 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about her brother,...
Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off...
The first novel written by Booker finalist Tom McCarthy—acclaimed author of Remainder and C—Men in Space is set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism. It follows an oddball cast—dissolute bohemians, political refugees, a football referee, a disorientated police agent, and a stranded astronaut—as they chase a stolen painting from Sofia to Prague and...
"A stunningly strange book about the rarest of fictional subjects: happiness." – Jonathan Lethem
"One of the great English novels of the past ten years." – Zadie Smith
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Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, Remainder’s hero spends his...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2012. – 121 p. Language: English. A mesmerizing debut about a young girl whose steadfast belief and imagination bring everything she once held dear into treacherous balance. In Grace McCleen’s harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten-year-old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes...
An astonishing PUSH novel about pain, release, and recovery from an amazing new author.Fifteen-year-old Callie isn’t speaking to anybody, not even to her therapist at Sea Pines, the residential treatment facility where her parents and doctor sent her after discovering that she cuts herself. As her story unfolds, Callie reluctantly become involved with the other guests at Sea Pines...
Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. — 109 p. — ISBN10: 081957712X; ISBN13: 978-0819577122. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 112 p. — ISBN10: 1472155823; ISBN13: 978-1472155825. In The Gilded Auction Block, the acclaimed poet Shane McCrae considers the present moment in America on its own terms as well as for what it says about the American project and Americans themselves. In the book's four sections, McCrae alternately responds directly to Donald Trump...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 320 p. — ISBN13 9781982185824. A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. — 934 р. — ISBN-10: 059-332070 Six women - mothers, daughters, sisters - gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 485 р. — ISBN 9780593320709. Six women - mothers, daughters, sisters - gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart....
Play. — New York, Collins classics, 2003. — 104 p. The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities...
Thomas & Mercer, 2023. — 515 p. — ISBN-13: 978-166-25-11615 After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess...
Raven Books, 2023. — 443 р. — ISBN: 978-1-5266-6622-2 An isolated hunt club. A raging storm. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. When private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of...
McDougall, Christopher. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf, p304, ISBN: 0-307-26630-3. In Born to Run, McDougall tracks down members of the reclusive Tarahumara Indian tribe in the Mexican Copper Canyons. After being repeatedly injured as a runner himself, McDougall marvels at the tribe's ability to run ultra...
Vintage Books, 1998. About 254 pages
From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness.
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls...
Penguin Random House, 2022. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-473-58519-5 'Let there be no more of this clucking and wheedling. Oh Pa, are you sure? Or: Oh Francis, is this really a good idea? Let me be clear. I am always sure, and it is always a good idea.' An old man is sleeping fitfully. It's too hot. The air is thick with Spanish Jasmine floating in from his overgrown garden. And he's...
Crooked Lane Books, 2024. — 490 р. — ISBN: 978-1-63910-816-9 A YouTubing cruiser couple sails the world living their best lives—until one of them goes missing and their whole world capsizes, in this captivating psychological thriller perfect for fans of Something in the Water and Saint X. Sawyer Stone III and Dani Fox, a young couple who spend their time circumnavigating the...
Copyright 2013 by Gail McHugh, 266 c. Посвящается женщинам, которые еще должны услышать свой внутренний голос, найти силы и храбрость. Не позволяйте им лишать вас того, с чем вы были рождены. Верните это. Как же выжить, когда сердце разбито, абсолютно разорвано в клочья, когда пульс замедляется? Ты…сломлена. Как двигаться дальше, если каждый вдох неизменно приносит боль? Жизнь...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press; First Edition,1994. — 256 p. — ISBN-10: 081951211X; ISBN-13: 978-0819512119. McHugh brings poems from four previous volumes together with a significant amount of new work. She artfully entwines the prosaic with the empyrean, twisting mundane images into verbal feasts, letting language flow through her hands rather than shaping it to...
London: G. Robertson, 1894. — vii, 307 p. George McIver's "Neuroomia: A New Continent" tells the imaginary voyage of Captain Montague Periwinkle from Australia to Antarctica, where a technologically advanced lost civilisation is discovered at the South Pole. Chapter VIII, "Visions of Another World," describes another utopian society on Mars. McIver was born in Scotland but...
London: G. Robertson, 1894. — vii, 307 p. George McIver's "Neuroomia: A New Continent" tells the imaginary voyage of Captain Montague Periwinkle from Australia to Antarctica, where a technologically advanced lost civilisation is discovered at the South Pole. Chapter VIII, "Visions of Another World," describes another utopian society on Mars. McIver was born in Scotland but...
Atria Books, 2023. — 482 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1113-3 Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her. She quickly falls into old...
Random House Publishing, 2011. 336 pages Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and...
(2002). Английский оригинальный текст. (Audiobook) Никола Краус и Эмма Маклафлин (обе род. 1974) - американские писательницы, познакомились друг с другом, когда учились в университете и работали нянями. Современная Мэри Поппинс, 20-летняя студентка устраивается работать няней и таким образом попадает в мир богатых и наблюдает его изнутри. WANTED: One young woman to take care of...
(2002). Английский оригинальный текст. (Audiobook) Никола Краус и Эмма Маклафлин (обе род. 1974) - американские писательницы, познакомились друг с другом, когда учились в университете и работали нянями. Современная Мэри Поппинс, 20-летняя студентка устраивается работать няней и таким образом попадает в мир богатых и наблюдает его изнутри. WANTED: One young woman to take care of...
(2002). Английский оригинальный текст. (Audiobook) Никола Краус и Эмма Маклафлин (обе род. 1974) - американские писательницы, познакомились друг с другом, когда учились в университете и работали нянями. Современная Мэри Поппинс, 20-летняя студентка устраивается работать няней и таким образом попадает в мир богатых и наблюдает его изнутри. WANTED: One young woman to take care of...
Scout Press, 2023. — 515 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1908-5 Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison’s estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days...
Delacorte Press for Young Readers, 2020. — 377 p. — ISBN: 0525707964; ISBN13: 9780525707967. The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller everyone is talking about, One of Us Is Lying! There's a new mystery to solve at Bayview High, and there's a whole new set of rules. Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this. A ton of copycat gossip apps have...
Delacorte Press, 2019. — 329 p. — ISBN: 1524714720; ISBN13: 9781524714727. Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The...
2013, 240 p. If you are looking to get married and you are not, there is most likely a very good reason: you. Hey, you’re certainly not a bad person! You just haven’t yet become the woman you need to be in order to have the partnership you want. That’s where this book comes in. Based on her wildly popular Huffington Post article, Tracy McMillan’s Why You’re Not Married...Yet...
A short novel. 2000, 144 pages. Boone’s Lick presents an unadorned look at a Missouri family in the years just after the Civil War. This is not a story of slick gunfighters, wealthy farmers, or cattle barons. Rather it is the tale of the Cecil family. The Cecil’s are your typical mule-riding, cow chip-cooking, baby-birthing folk. The stalwarts who inhabited that tenuous space...
A novel. Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 novel by Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of the central characters' lives between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. The second novel in the...
Simon & Schuster, 1986. — 858 p. Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2019. — 421 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1250316776. Literary Awards: Goodreads Choice Award for Romance and for Debut Novel (2019), Alex Award (2020). What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic,...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2019. — 421 p. — ISBN13: 978-1250316776. Literary Awards: Goodreads Choice Award for Romance and for Debut Novel (2019), Alex Award (2020). What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic,...
The classic story of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor comes alive with vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Greg Hildebrandt. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the jolly Fellowship of the Greenwood with these rollicking tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief. Lively episodes introduce each of the famous merry men and other colorful...
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying The Dastard ’s Guide To Fame And Forture (The Bastard ’s Guide To Fame And Fortune). Отрывок с 1-ой до 29 страницы, также некоторые иллюстрации. Подборка подробных цитат из The Admen и The Big Ball of Wax. Язык: английский Качество: изначально качество электронных книг форматов HTML, PDF, DOC.
Mysterious Press, 2022. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61316-318-4 In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. —312 p.— ISBN: 0-226-80854-8. Lucrezia Tornabuoni (22 June 1427[1] – 25 March 1482) was a writer and influential political adviser. Connected by birth to two of the most powerful families in 15th-century Italy.
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2002. — 266 p. — ISBN 81-260-1174-2. The Promised Hand (Vevishaal), an immensely popular Gujarati novel to this day, first appeared in weekly instalments in the newspaper Phoolchhab and was published in book form in 1938. Two small town merchant families pledge to marry their children Sukhlal and Sushila to each other when the two come of age. Before...
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. — 61 p. — ISBN-10: 0821416111; ISBN-13: 978-0821416112. In Joshua Mehigan's award-winning poetry, one encounters a lucid, resolute vision driven by an amazing facility with the metrical line. Most of the poems in The Optimist unapologetically employ traditional poetic technique, and, in each of these, Mehigan stretches the fabric of living...
Jewish Publication Society, 1994. — 140 p. — ISBN 9780827605282; ISBN10 0827605285. Two Jewish children, Benedict and Elvira, are suddenly orphaned after a pogrom in twelfth-century Yorkshire, England, shatters their contented and comfortable lives. Alone in a hostile world, they set out for Oxford, where they have relatives. Along the way they meet Robin Hood and his men in...
Grand Central, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN: 9781455559497. When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict...
William Morrow, 2022. — 432 p. — ISBN-10 0062892401; ISBN-13 978-0062892409. (Escape Artist, 2) What’s the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He’s led a charmed life—he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered—and then...
William Morrow, 2022. — 432 p. — ISBN-10 0062892401; ISBN-13 978-0062892409. (Escape Artist, 2) What’s the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He’s led a charmed life—he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered—and then...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0385350594, 978-0385350600. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a...
New York : Cassell Publishing Company, 1890. — iv, 291 p. It was fortunate for Jennie that the classification of the two races under the Virginia law, was not enforced against the whites in the negro schools, as under it she would have been excluded from the black school as a white. The law regards all people from one-quarter up to full negro blood as black, all with less than...
Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. "Carmen" is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous...
Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG, 2010. — 65 p. — ISBN: 9956-578-02-9. Reign of the Quisling-Rodents is, at once, a lament and a call to resistance couched in modern prose-poetry. It is a volume in two parts; the first entitled “Treasons of Malversation” seeks to uncover a society at the brink of socio-economic autoannihilation through the nefarious human phenomena of egoism and...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
Atria Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1501131346; ISBN13: 978-1501131349. A provocative new novel by bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers about the seemingly blind love of a wife for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall. Phoebe recognizes fire in Jake Pierce’s belly from the moment they meet as...
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021. — 360 p. — ISBN 10 1250304458; ISBN 13 9781250304452. Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the...
Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir) is an American author of romance and thriller novels, including nearly 50 best selling books with more than 70 million copies in print. Her USA Today and New York Times best selling books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series.
Four classic holiday tales from beloved, "New...
New York Times, 2005. — 179 p. Rosie Gardener and Vickie Winters were best friends, closer than sisters. Partners in a successful mail-order company, both women lived comfortably in lush Savannah, Georgia. Svelte and single Vickie only wanted the best for her friend - and she couldn't stay quiet when Rosie, overweight and unable to see her own worth, fell under the spell of...
Mira Books, 1980. — 117 р. Не адаптированный текст. Suitcase? Check. Boarding pass? Check. Meeting sexy stranger upon arrival? Destination: trouble. Cathy Bissette thought she had left everything behind - the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart - for a quiet three-month getaway on the shores of North Carolina. But the moment Jared Parsons sailed the lavish...
New York Publishing, 2006. — 318 p. The fifth in the Revenge of the Sisterhood series. Isabelle Flanders had everything: her own architectural firm, her fiance Bobby, a life she deserved. Until Rosemary Hershey came and stole it all. Took her reputation, her clients, her man, and even framed her for drunk driving, killing three innocent people in the process. The loyal...
New York: Macmillan, 1948. — 384 p. This collection of tales is set against the background of the South Pacific, the endless ocean, the coral specks called islands, the coconut palms, the reefs, the lagoons, the jungles, and the full moon rising against the volcanoes.The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an admiral's staff take him up and down the islands. He...
Penguin Books, 1986. Actually, the book consist of the three books by George Mikes: - How to Be an Alien - How to Be an Inimitable - How to Be an Decadent Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley
Penguin Books, 1986. Actually, the book consist of the three books by George Mikes: - How to Be an Alien - How to Be an Inimitable - How to Be an Decadent Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley
How to be an Alien (1946) was the second book by George Mikes and is the most famous of the 44 he wrote. It is a classic of British humour and by its 32nd impression in 1966 had sold over 300,000 copies. It pokes gentle fun at the English and their relationship with foreigners, "alien" meaning in this context any non-English person. The book is characterised by much humour,...
Sofia: Foreign Languages Press, 1961. — 41 p.
Милев Гео. Сентябрь (на англ. яз.)
Geo Milev (1895-1925) is a Bulgarian poet affiliated with Expressionism, journalist, and translator.
"September" is his most famous poem, which was published in the magazine "Пламък" (Flame) in 1924. It describes the brutal suppression of the Bulgarian uprising of September 1923 against the...
Pure by Andrew Miller is a story set in Paris in 1785, pestilence and revolution are in the air. The problem? The cemetery, Les Innocents, in the centre of Paris is full, it stinks and it's poisoning Paris. The task - to empty the cemetery and to make it pure.
A story about destruction - destruction of much more than the church of Saint Innocents and its graveyard. It tackles the...
Pure by Andrew Miller is a story set in Paris in 1785, pestilence and revolution are in the air. The problem? The cemetery, Les Innocents, in the centre of Paris is full, it stinks and it's poisoning Paris. The task - to empty the cemetery and to make it pure.
A story about destruction - destruction of much more than the church of Saint Innocents and its graveyard. It tackles the...
Harper/Collins, 2022. — 434 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-299983-2 Jump tells Larry Miller’s journey from the violent streets of West Philly in the 1960s to the highest echelons of American sports and industry. Miller wound up in jail more than once, especially as a teenager. But he immersed himself in the educational opportunities, eventually took advantage of a Pennsylvania state...
Ecco; First Edition, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN-10 0062060619; ISBN-13: 978-0062060617. "Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of...
"Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring...
1997 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Published: 1996.
Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters-one a dreamlike shadow, the other a worldly business partner. As the eponymous Martin's vision becomes bolder and bolder...
Spike Milligan is a British poet who wrote verse, considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. His poetry has been described by comedian Stephen Fry as "absolutely immortal - greatly in the tradition of Lear". His most famous poem, On the Ning Nang Nong, was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998 in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poets including Lewis...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 158 p. Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England to the Lewisham Polytechnic. Always something of a playboy, he then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first...
Mil Millington. Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. This is an extremely funny book, which talks about differences between a man and a woman. The author also has a paper book with the same title, but nothing in the book has ever appeared online, so they are completely different. Юмористическая проза. Небольшие зарисовки, рассказывающие о об отношениях мужчины и...
New York: Ecco, 2001. — 800 p. — ISBN10: 006019667X; ISBN13: 978-0060196677 New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates the exceptional career of Czeslaw Milosz, from his first work, written when he was twenty, to his newest poems, published for the first time in English in this volume. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Czeslaw Milosz is a master of...
Krakow Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie Kraków,.1996.—461p.—ISBN: 83-08-02593-5 Czesław Miłosz ( 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of twenty "naïve" poems. Following the war, he served as Polish cultural attaché in Paris and Washington, D.C., then in 1951 defected to the...
Anchor Books, 2006 — 320 p.
Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously...
Viking Adult, 2014. — 928 р. A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese Oracle and book of wisdom. Pose a question, then toss three coins (or cast your yarrow stalks) to access the time-honored wisdom of the I Ching. The I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the West, for answers to fundamental questions about the world and...
William Heinemann, 2005. — 549 p. Wu Ming is a collective of five authors founded in 2000. The members were formerly associated with the Luther Blissett Project, and four of them wrote the international best-selling novel Q. The novel is set in Italy, former Yugoslavia, Britain and the US during the year 1954. It has been translated into several languages. All of the editions...
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The instant New York Times bestseller is “astonishing…In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime” (Vanity Fair).
In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early...
Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002. — 263 p. —ISBN: 0-292-75260-1. Bilingual. Gabriela Mistral ( 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. She was the first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she did in 1945 "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful...
New York, RosettaBooks, LLC, 2004. — 716 p. — ISBN 0-7953-3080-4. The book exposes the changes in Indian society from independence in 1947 to the Emergency called by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Mistry was generally critical of Indira Gandhi in the book. She, however, is never referred to by name by any of the characters, and is instead called simply "the Prime...
Без выходных данных. «Унесённые ветром» (англ. Gone with the wind) — роман американской писательницы Маргарет Митчелл, события которого происходят в южных штатах США в 1860-х годах, во время (и после) гражданской войны. Роман вышел 30 июня 1936 года и стал одним из самых знаменитых бестселлеров американской литературы.
London: Oberon Books, 2006. — 133 p. Long ago, in the days to come, Hamelin was a small town with a large market on the edge of the River Weser. During the day the town was cheerful enough. But as darkness fell each night, the streets and alleys and drainpipes and cellars were invaded by an army of horrible, hairy rats. Rats! They tought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the...
Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every...
Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1937. The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The novel depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every...
Berkeley—Los Angeles—London: University of California Press, 2007. — 249 p. Миядзава Кэндзи. Избранное (на англ. яз.) Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji, 1896 – 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout...
14 year-old Rachel and her witchy family are back. Miri, Rachel's sister, is busy zapping up ways to save the world. But the luscious love spell that she finally persuades Miri to cast doesn't have quite the intended effect - now Raf, Rachel's one true love, hates her, and the Prom is about to cancelled because of a herd of cows.
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 552 p. — ISBN13: 978-1611454277. This is a historical novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. It chronicles the lives of one Chinese family through the second half of the twentieth century, as seen by a noble and generous landowner, who had been killed and reincarnated as various farm animals in rural China. It is...
Ballantine Books, 2020. — 238 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-25472-3 Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur. Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be seen...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. Translated by Richard Willbur Two classical plays of Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in which the entertaining character of Sganarelle appears - in The School for Husbands as a guardian, and in Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold as a duped and jealous husband. Introductions by Richard Wilbur. While these ludicrous farces should really be seen...
A story of a woman that is sent to China to appraise a large "just found" collection of porcelain - and the people she meets while there. Lots of interesting historical facts built into the story. Quick moving and interesting.
A novel of searing intelligence and startling originality, Lost in Translation heralds the debut of a unique new voice on the literary landscape. Nicole Mones creates an unforgettable story of love and desire, of family ties and human conflict, and of one woman's struggle to lose herself in a foreign land--only to discover her home, her heart, herself.
Viking, 2020. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 052542976X; ISBN13: 978-0525429760. “An extraordinary novel...a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press “A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The...
Viking, 2020. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 052542976X; ISBN13: 978-0525429760. “An extraordinary novel...a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press “A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The...
Penguin Books 2003 — 199 pages — ISBN13: 9780142001745
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free....
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1942. — 305 p. — Translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley. — Fiction. This volume presents a partial English translation of the Chinese classic Journey to the West (Xi You Ji), traditionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en. Arthur Waley’s adaptation, titled Monkey: A Folk Novel of China, introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most beloved works...
Gallery Books, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 150112546X; ISBN13: 978-1501125461. New York Times Bestseller! (The Beach House Book 4) Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather...
Gallery Books, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 150112546X; ISBN13: 978-1501125461. New York Times Bestseller! (The Beach House Book 4) Bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to her beloved Isle of Palms to tell the poignant, charming story of two women, one summer, and one very special beach house. When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather...
84 страницы.
Книга полностью на английском языке, включает в себя копии страниц дневника великой Монро, эксклюзивные фотографии, стихи и многое другое.
Gallery Books, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1501193295; ISBN13: 978-1501193293. (The Beach House) Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of...
Gallery Books, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 1501193295; ISBN13: 978-1501193293. (The Beach House) Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of...
New York: Gallery Books, 2020. — 579 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-4695-5 It’s been sixteen years since Caretta “Cara” Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile,...
New York: Knopf, 1978. — 512 р. This is a novel about the Battle of the North Atlantic—and one of the finest works of fiction to come out of World War II... The Cruel Sea is a tremendous revelation of the most protracted, the crudest, and perhaps the most heroic battle of World War II, written with loving, detailed knowledge of the sea, and absolute authority.
Simon & Schuster, 2008. — 700 p. It is over twenty years since beautiful, headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin slipped away from her family home to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and intrigue. Now she is married to a rich and powerful man and has two children. All around her people are disappearing, although she and her family seem safe. But she is about to embark on a...
Random House, 2013. — 300 p. If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia’s most important...
Minotaur Books, 2022. — 532 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-62343-0 As July 4, 1928 approaches, Sheriff Lily Ross and her family look forward to the opening of an amusement park in a nearby town, created by Chalmer Fitzpatrick―a veteran and lumber mill owner. When Lily is alerted to the possible drowning of a girl, she goes to investigate, and discovers schisms going back several...
Heribert Juliá and Humbert Herrera are opposites: the one can no longer paint, and doesn't much care, the other wants to create the sculpture to end all sculptures, the film of all films, the exhibit of all exhibitions. One couldn't care less about his mistress, the other swoops in. A fun-house mirror through which Monzó examines the creative process.
Penguin, 2007. — 480 p.
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry (in an earlier 1963 edition Modern Poetry from Africa), is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations. The...
Moore Alan. Jerusalem Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016. — 1266 p. — ISBN 978-1-63149-134-4. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is...
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016. — 1266 p. — ISBN 978-1-63149-134-4. In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled...
Salt Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1907773177, ISBN13: 978-1907773174. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 "The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the...
Harper Perennial, 1996. — 554 p. Sam Hunter has spent twenty years escaping his past. Now it has caught up to him in the weirdest of all possible ways. As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone - until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a...
New York: William Morrow, 2004. — 694 p. Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes...
Spike, 1999. — 527 p. Autumn in the sleepy California town of Pine Cove is turned upside down by the arrival of a Mississippi Delta blues musician, a huge sea serpent drawn to the sound of the steel guitar, the explosion of a tanker truck at a gas station, and a mysterious trailer that shows up in the local trailer park.
New York: William Morrow, 2004. — 370 p. Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. 'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are...
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"A Story-Teller's Holiday" 1918. This work contains the story later re-published in the collection Celibate Lives, 1927, as the short story "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" which was made into a 2011 movie, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close.
"Celibate Lives London" 1927. This collection and his previous work A Story-Teller's Holiday both...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0525540679; ISBN13: 978-0525540670. AN INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER! A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at...
Riverhead Books, 2019. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0525540679; ISBN13: 978-0525540670. AN INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER! A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing. In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at...
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. — 752 p. The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor...
Knopf, 2014. — ISBN13: 978-0307594136. These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In “Debarking,” a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 311 p. — ISBN: 0-226-53669-6. Olimpia Fulvia Morata (1526 – 26 October 1555) was an Italian classical scholar. She was born in Ferrara to Fulvio Pellegrino Morato and a certain Lucrezia (possibly Gozi). Her father, who had been tutor to the young princes of the ducal house of Este, was on intimate terms with the most learned men...
Edited by George M. Logan and Robert M. Adams. — Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 340 p. — (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). — ISBN: 978-0521403184. This is a fully revised edition of what is already one of the most successful volumes in the entire series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. This revision incorporates...
1516.
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Henry VIII., the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the virtues that become a great monarch, having some differences of no small consequence with Charles the most serene Prince of Castile, sent me into Flanders, as his ambassador, for treating and composing matters between them. I was colleague and companion to that incomparable man Cuthbert...
Del Rey, 2023. — 618 р. — ISBN 9780593355367 Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new...
Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. — 502 p. — ISBN 9781636280424 Selected and Last Poems, Frederick Morgan reworks and amplifies, in his extraordinary poetic range, the fundamental human themes that preoccupied him—love, death, pain, the nature and transcendence of the Self. In interweaving his many themes, he recaptures the past, the confrontation with the external world of...
Translated from the Welsh with an Afterword and Notes by Christopher Meredith. — Bridgend, Wales: Siren, 2005. — 239 p. — ISBN 1-85411-393-3. Морган Михангел. Мэлог, роман (на англ. яз.) This novel tells the story of the dull life of unemployed academic Dr. Jones and how it changes forever when he sees a young man naked on a building top, threatening to jump to his death....
Cymru: Gwasg Gomer, 1996. — 112 p. (in Welsh) M. Morgan is considered to be one of Wales's leading Welsh language novelists. His work often reflects Welsh academia and the crisis of Welsh culture and many actual figures are easily recognised in some of his works. Pen - Dim ond Gonestrwydd. Ymyl - Claddu Wncwl Jimi. Cynffon - Cariad Sy'n Aros yn Unig.
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This book recounts the adventures of a horse as he moves from life on a farm into the battles of World War I, the story of a friendship lasting through the toughest of tests.
Through the eyes of the war horse, Joey, Michael Morpurgo tells this moving and powerful story of survival on the Western Front.
His novels have been adapted for film and stage (including, Kensuke's...
Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its leaders. He returns home to Alabama to try to write a memoir about his time in the cultural whirlwind, but the words fail...
Tuttle Publishing, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-4805315248 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1462920808 (ebook). Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide range of style and subject matter—offering a revealing picture of modern...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — (Delphi Series Six Book 21). — ASIN B01CYUMKSS. Arthur Morrison wrote pioneering realistic narratives about working-class life in London's East End. He is also celebrated for his exciting mystery stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, who served as a natural successor to Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive eBook presents Morrison’s complete...
Morrison saw poetry as an art form used to push the boundaries of convention and of reality. The concerts of the Doors were infamous for Jim's wild Dionysian use of poetry to incite his audience into a state of reckless abandonment and transcendence. More than the power of words to uplift people and to change their lives, he also saw poetry as a means of continuing tradition,...
Written from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother, Marcel is a striking debut novel describing the vivid history of a family in a Flemish village. The mysterious death of Marcel, the family favourite, has always haunted the young boy. With the help of his schoolteacher, he starts to discover the secrets of Marcel’s ‘black’ past. The story of his...
My Fellow Skin is a beautiful, affectionate novel told from the point of view of an impressionable young boy. The novel opens before the boy can talk, and we follow Anton’s first, tentative steps on the path to adulthood. He gradually begins to grasp an understanding of time and death, and when he goes to school he falls in love for the first time — not with the schoolgirls his...
A wonderful, balanced novel about how the remains of the past reverberate in the present, Shutterspeed sensitively and delicately describes the powerful emotions which lie just beneath the surface of the unruffled sheen of village life. Joris’ father died young, and his mother moved to Spain, so he has lived with his aunt and uncle since early childhood. He is quiet and...
While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house before the war, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable horror. But it is also where she meets Matthew again, a British Army photographer who...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 383 p. — ISBN: 1681776162; ISBN13: 9781681776163. December 1348. With the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and go to Hell. But as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation...
Touchstone, 2009. — 342 p. The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 791 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8177-2 Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come...
"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, sexual preferences, drug use, cutting, and tattoos — and why she kissed her brother on the lips in public. And yet mysteries remain: What was really going on in her brief, impulsive...
2018. — 608 p. Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.
Atria Books, 2018. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 9781451649390; ISBN13: 978-1451649390. A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House—the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadow across generations, set in England from the 1860s until the present day. My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the...
The Distant Hours is the third novel by Australian author Kate Morton.
Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year...
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee)
Aka "The Shifting Fog"
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a...
Perennial, 2008. — ISBN10: 0061375403; ISBN13: 978-0061375408. Collects the correspondence of the six Mitford sisters--Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah--to shed light on their private lives and the broader British aristocracy, offering vivid insights into such factors as their career and lifestyle choices, the impact of World War II on their political beliefs,...
ICU Comparative Culture, No.46, 2014. — pp. 185-203. Мотодзиро Кадзии. Поэт Мрака: Четыре перевода и комментарий (на англ. яз.) Blue Sky. The Story of the Bamboo Water Pipe. Underneath the Cherry Trees. A Picture Scroll of Darkness.
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perry, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape. Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearful. They lived apart in the house that Daddy built for...
Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 459 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1508-7 Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid’s death is deemed a...
Anjali Bose is 'Miss New India.' Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali's prospects don't look great. But her ambition and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and...
Bharati Mukherjee's work illuminates a new world of people in migration that has transformed the meaning of "America." Now in a Grove paperback edition, The Middleman and Other Stories is a dazzling display of the vision of this important modern writer. An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a...
London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. — 314 p. Мукерджи Нил. Жизнь других, роман (на англ. яз.) Neel Mukherjee (born 1970) is an Indian writer writing in English. The novel "The Lives of the Others" (2014) is set in 1967 Calcutta and follows the life of a family fractured by extremist political activism. The book deals with the chasm between generations, and is set against a backdrop...
Portland, Oregon: Tin House, 2023. — 631 р. — ISBN 978-195-3534705 After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she...
Nairobi : Longman, 1979. — 206 p. A stunning novel of adolescent discovery set at the end of colonial rule in Kenya. Delivered from the hands of his cruel and bigoted father, Kituku leaves home to complete his formal education in Kyambe Primary: a Dickensian establishment dedicated to the fostering of prejudice, sadism and ignorance. However, outside school in the company of...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — (Series Six Book 17). — ASIN B01BIGLCTM. Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name writer ‘Saki’, was a master of the short story, whose witty, mischievous and macabre tales satirised Edwardian society and culture. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Saki’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts,...
London, Wordsworth Classics - 410 p.- 1990 (first published 1909). The theme of these stories is irregularity, "wrong notes" and sometimes misbehaviour within a conventional social setting. Each story is about four pages long. H.H.Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916) is popularly known as " Saki ". His first book was "The Rise of the Russian Empire" (1900).
Blackstone Publishing, 2020. — 525 р. — ISBN 978-1-982605-26-1 Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they'd be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures...
Vintage, 1995. — ISBN10: 0679753796; ISBN13: 978-0679753797. Dance,Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs. As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual...
A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one...
A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one...
In small-town suburban Australia, three young men from three different ethnic backgrounds — one Samoan, one Macedonian, one not sure — are ready to make their mark. Solomon is all charisma, authority, and charm, a failed basketball player down for the moment but surely not out. His half-brother, Jimmy, bounces along in his wake, underestimated, waiting for his chance to announce...
Soho Teen, 2023. — 607 р. — ISBN 978-1-64129-420-1 Best friends Loli Crawford and Ryan Pope have earned their nickname, the “Bonnie and Clyde of Woolridge High.” From illegal snack swapping in kindergarten to reckless car surfing in high school, they have been causing trouble in their uptight California town forever. But everyone knows that the mischief starts with Loli; when...
New York, 2002. — 700 p. The Snow of the Admiral. Ilona Comes with the Rain. Un Bel Morir. The Tramp Steamer's Last Port of Call. Amirbar. Abdul Bashur, Dreamer of Ships. Triptych on Sea and Land.
Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides - First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey - The Lady with the Little Dog aby Anton Chekhov - Love by Grace Paley - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner - The Dead byJ ames Joyce - Dirty Wedding by Denis Johnson - Natasha by David Bezmozgis - Some Other, Some Otto by Deborah Eisenberg - The Hitchhiking Game by Milan Kundera - Lovers and...
Michael Cunningham, Francine Prose, Aimee Bender, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, and more than thirty other extraordinary writers celebrate fairy tales in this thrilling new volume. Inspire by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" and "The Little Match Girl" to Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella" to the Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" and...
Allison & Busby Limited, 2018. — 356 p. — ISBN: 9780749022471. A well-known pair of private detectives set out to solve a crime committed way back in 1963 leading them to the chaotic world of post-war Europe.
Picador, 2009. — 280 p. — ISBN13 9780374114190 For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world. Aden, Yemen, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies unexpectedly and he finds...
Penguin Books, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN 9780241990353. Shortlisted for the booker prize . Based on a true event, an intimate and harrowing novel about the last man in Cardiff to be sentenced to death In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first,...
London: Viking, 2021. — 843 p. — ISBN 03e72b38-13d8-4bf2-b467-403208e6e8cf. Shortlisted for the booker prize . Based on a true event, an intimate and harrowing novel about the last man in Cardiff to be sentenced to death In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper...
Simon & Schuster, 2014. — 342 p. — ISBN13 9781471115318 The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of the acclaimed Orange-longlisted Black Mamba Boy. It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast...
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in...
Azar Nafisi(Persian: آذر نفیسی ), born ca. 1947, is an Iranian academic and bestselling writer who has resided in the United States since 1997 when she emigrated from Iran. Her field is English language literature. Nafisi's 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has been translated into 32 languages. It was on the New York Times Bestseller list for 117 weeks, and...
2014, EISBN: 1612306349, ASIN: B009R5FURC, 95 pages. When she took off on her epic flight around the world on June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart had already earned her place in twentieth-century history. She was the first woman (and second person) to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean. She set more than a dozen records in the hazardous early days of aviation: She was the first pilot to...
2018. — 176 p. Through a series of letters, author Rania Naim examines past and present relationships. If you are moving on from any kind of relationship, this book is your new best friend. In each letter, Rania speaks directly to those who shaped her life with both heartbreak and joy. This is a book about healing, grieving, gratitude and moving forward, even if the letters you...
2001, Vintage, 281 р. Данный файл является чисто электронной версией книги.
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some...
Vintage, 2001. — 281 р. The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize «V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
Winner of 1971 Booker Prize
«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New...
Файл содержит краткое описание идей книги по главам. Приблизительное время чтения 20 минут. For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again. It’s how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the world. But now,...
The Dial Press, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 198485478X; ISBN13: 978-1984854780. New York TIMES BESTSELLER • #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy “A...
The Dial Press, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 198485478X; ISBN13: 978-1984854780. New York TIMES BESTSELLER • #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy “A...
The Dial Press, 2023. — 728 р. — ISBN 9780593243749 William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are...
New York: In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2011. — 80 p. — ISBN 978-1-934639-10-8 Vivek Narayanan's poems remind me of a thriving port city, where diverse tongues are spoken, their registers varying from a priestly classical to a piratical demotic. Narayanan founds his poetic universe on a sophisticated understanding of bricolage: with a keen eye on the uses of friction,...
New York Times Ten Best Books of 2012 Riveting…The Patriarch is a book hard to put down. – Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review The Penguin Press, New York, 2012 - 896p. ISBN: 1594203768 In this magisterial new work The Patriarch, the celebrated historian David Nasaw tells the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous...
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. — 492 p. — ISBN 1-56663-703-1. Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry. He later became a favorite on radio and at lecture platforms around...
New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1941. — 368 p. Frederic Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry. Morris Bishop (1893-1973) wrote: Free from flashiness, free from...
Botchan (坊っちゃん) is a novel written by Natsume Sōseki in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan, read by most Japanese during their childhood. The central theme of the story is morality.The story is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher being transferred to Matsuyama, which sets the stage for this novel. Natsume was born in Tokyo, and...
Translated by Ineko Sato. — Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1941. — 283 p. The Sensei and I. My Parents and I. The Sensei and His Last Letter. About Sōseki Natsume and Kokoro .
Black Coat Press, 2011. Enemy Force (1903) is a ground-breaking, surrealistic novel about a poet who is locked in a lunatic asylum and who mysteriously becomes possessed by an "Enemy Force," possibly an alien being from a hellish planet orbiting the star Aldebaran. Both tragic and satirical, emotional and visionary, it is considered by many scholars to be a forgotten...
Toshkent, Yoshlar nashriyoti uyi, 2018. — 196 b. — ISBN 978-9943-5219-2-6 Tarjimonlar: Garri Dik, Nosir Qambarov, Tursunxo'ja Mahmudxo‘jayev. Our preliminary translation and publication of «The Language of the Birds» is Alisher Nava'i's premiere for the English world. It is our hope that a Nava'i series will follow and that the Western world's understanding of Central Asia and...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Nazrul Institute, 1994. — 60 p. Translation from Bangla: Kabir Chowdhury. Назрул Ислам. Тайна, роман (на англ. яз.) Назрул Ислам (1899 — 1976) — бенгальский поэт, музыкант, революционер и философ. Один из первых бенгальских поэтов, кто в своих произведениях выступал против угнетения и ортодоксальности. За свою поэзию и активную национально-освободительную...
SUNY Press, 2008. - 387 p. "The Mountain Men" celebrates the brave men and women who explored, trapped, and traded across the Old West during the early decades of the nineteenth century. From the Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake, the Yellowstone River to Spanish California, their moving and inspiring stories are deftly told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt. It...
SUNY Press, 2008. - 126 p.
"The Twilight of the Sioux" is essential reading for understanding the unforgettable world and majestic sweep of events and people in "Black Elk Speaks". The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of settlers in the American West; the valiant resistance by the Native peoples...
Kindle Edition. — 112 p. — (Chicagoland Vampires №10.5). In this thrilling new novella from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill, vampire Merit bites off more than she bargained for when she takes a trip to a secluded Colorado town filled with feuding supernaturals. Merit and Ethan are in desperate need of some alone time, far from the worries of Cadogan House, but...
Independently published. — 2018. — 179 p. — ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's logging...
Independently published. - 2018. - 179 pages. - ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's...
Independently published. - 2018. - 179 pages. - ISBN10: 1723908754, ISBN13: 978-1723908750. Lily is a teen girl in Central Pennsylvania. She and her little autistic brother have big problems. Their mother has fallen for a man who is pure evil. They meet a Native American man, Iron Joe, who takes them through a time portal, where they find peace and happiness in the 1900's...
Translated by W.S.Merwin. — London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. — 70 p. — ISBN: 224 61725 7. I have gone marking the atlas of your body with crosses of fire. My mouth went across: a spider, trying to hide. In you, behind you, timid, driven by thirst. Stories to tell you on the shore of evening, sad and gentle doll, so that you will not be sad. A swan, a tree, something far away and...
Boston: Beacon Press,.1993.—245p.—ISBN: 0-8070-6489-0 Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973). He derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda.[2] Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16,...
Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. Everything that’s happening to us—yes, everything—is to be regarded as a lark. See? This is my last word. This. Is. Going. To. Be. A. Lark.” It’s 1919, and Jane Quested and her cousin Lucilla are pulled suddenly from school by their guardian, who sets them up in a cottage on the fringes of London and informs them (by letter, since he’s already fled) that...
As tense as a thriller, as vivid as an undercover documentary, a brilliant first novel from Argentina takes readers right into the streets and slums of Buenos Aires as one young man fights for his life. In Buenos Aires the economy has collapsed and people are protesting on the streets. But in the barrio, life goes on — the slums of the city are ruled by gangs, drugs, and guns....
ISBN: 978-0-7636-3931-0 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Candlewick Press Серия: Chaos Walking Series Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee — whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or...
Pan Books, 2011. — 418 p. — ISBN: 978-0-330-51497-2. Summary: When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled...
P.H. Newby's seventeenth novel Something To Answer For was assured of a place in literary history when it won the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.
It was 1956 and Townrow was in Port Said - of these two facts he is reasonably certain. He had been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend Elie Khoury. She is convinced Elie was murdered, but nobody seems to agree with her. What...
Опубликовано в издании: A Collection of Essays and Tracts in Theology. — Boston, Cambridge, 1823. — 182 p. Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and most influential...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735224293; ISBN13: 978-0735224292. The instant New York Times bestseller! Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Must-Read Book for Fall * Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selection * #1 Library Reads Pick * September IndieNext Pick “I am loving Little Fires Everywhere. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year.”—John Green "I read Little Fires...
Penguin Press, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0735224293; ISBN13: 978-0735224292. The instant New York Times bestseller! Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Must-Read Book for Fall * Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Selection * #1 Library Reads Pick * September IndieNext Pick “I am loving Little Fires Everywhere. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year.”—John Green "I read Little Fires...
St Petersburg, 1994. — ISBN: 5-88143-010-7. Instead of an introduction: a warning St. Petersburg; Petersburgers Zamorochki Luba Ushakova A short guide to the St Petersburg hangover Walking on Nevsky Prospect Encounters Drunken walks More encounters A conversation Bulgakov's zamorochki A poetic use of eau-de-Cologne Koktebel Podarki: the Podarok Principles The new St Petersburg
2015. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0385755880. An exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground—it's unclear who saves whom. And when the unlikely pair teams up on a class project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, they...
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2016. — 400 p. — ISBN13: 978-0385755924. A New York Times Bestseller. From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone—and love someone—for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s...
Spiegel & Grau, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0399588175; ISBN13: 978-0399588174. The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor...
Spiegel & Grau, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0399588175; ISBN13: 978-0399588174. The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor...
Calgary: University of Press,.2006.—81p.—ISBN: 1-55238-226-5 Since 1972, Charles Noble has been publishing poetry in a modest Canadian literary underground. A few of the titles that have emerged are Doubt’s Boots (U of C Press), hearth wild post cardiac banff (Thistledown Press), and Wormwood, Vermouth, Warphistory (Thistledown Press), which won the 1996 Writers Guild of...
Routledge, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN 13: 978-07656-27346 More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology presents translations of sixteen stories by Japanese women writers spanning more than a century. It complements our earlier collection, Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction (1991), itself an enlarged edition of Stories by Con-temporary Japanese Women...
St. Martin's Press, 2009. — ASIN B00GX3X56E. In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country’s corrupt and autocratic leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial—involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing witnesses...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. — 152 p. Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother’s presence already fading. And perhaps, had she not found the small stash of letters,...
2016. — 463 p. Paris, 1888. Foot-soldiers in the shadowy army of ‘scrubs’ that come down out of the mountains every winter to sweep the capital’s chimneys, thirteen-year-old Séraphin and his younger sister, Sophie, are on the run. Fleeing their brutal master, they take shelter in an abandoned mansion, but quickly realize that they are not alone... Thus begins a journey into a...
2016. — 463 p. Paris, 1888. Foot-soldiers in the shadowy army of ‘scrubs’ that come down out of the mountains every winter to sweep the capital’s chimneys, thirteen-year-old Séraphin and his younger sister, Sophie, are on the run. Fleeing their brutal master, they take shelter in an abandoned mansion, but quickly realize that they are not alone... Thus begins a journey into a...
Harcourt, 1998. — 149 p. Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside -- cows, moths, field mice, cold weather -- is a life-threatening danger for the Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and learn...
New York: Mc.Pherson,.1988.—53p.—ISBN: 0-914232-90-8 Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism. Hardenberg's professional work and university background, namely his study of mineralogy and management of salt mines in Saxony, was often ignored by his...
Hyperion Books, 2008. — 146 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4013-0337-2 Myanmar novelist in her first work translated into English, gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of a gay, transvestite spirit medium caught up in a midlife crisis amid the currents of an annual summer Buddhist festival. A full array of pilgrims, along with their attendant pickpockets, musicians and peddlers, gather...
I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no. Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2019. — 499 p. A heart-breaking story about a Nigerian Poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves. Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young Poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a...
Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. — 239 p. — ISBN10: 156478181X; ISBN13: 978-1564781819. In a 1938 letter to a literary agent, Flann O'Brien described his first novel as "a very queer affair, unbearably queer perhaps." The book in question was At Swim-Two-Birds--and if we take queer to mean diabolically eccentric, then truer words were never spoken. The author, whose real name was...
Fourth Estate, 2015. — 208 p. Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and...
Mariner, 2009. — 253 p. In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the...
Scribner, 2022. — 578 р. — ISBN 978-1-3985-0611-4. When Gozie and Obianuju meet in August 1978, it is nothing short of fate. He is the perfect man: charismatic, handsome, Christian, and – most importantly – Igbo. He reminds her of her beloved Uncle Ikenna, her mother’s brother who disappeared fighting in the Civil War that devastated Nigeria less than a decade before. It is...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 381 р. — ISBN 9780593535714 Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city,...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. — 234 p. — eISBN: 978-0-385-34941-3. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Title Page. Copyright. Dedication. Thursday - 15 July 1976. Highbury,...
London: Tinder Press, 2013. – eISBN 978-0-7553-8683-3
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.
It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's...
New York: Vintage Books, 1982. — xii, 242 p.
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate...
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. — viii, 442 p.
Three novels (Butterfield 8, Pal Joey, Hope of Heaven) and twenty short stories (Where's the Game? — The King of the Desert — Radio — Can You Carry Me? — The Magical Numbers — The Doctor's Son — Trouble in 1949 — Price's Always Open — Days — Are We Leaving Tomorrow? — Lunch Tuesday — Sidesaddle —...
Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Publications, 1964. — 24 p. Окигбо Кристофер. Пределы, собрание стихотворений (на англ. яз.) Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932–1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p.
English (original)
Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p.
English (original)
Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Tor.com, 2016. — 384 p.
English (original)
Series: The Centenal Cycle (Book 1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-080706892-2 This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver’s work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet’s work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems-a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver’s work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her...
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 0807068853; ISBN-13: 978-0807068854. The Truro Bear and Other Adventures , a companion volume to Owls and Other Fantasies and Blue Iris , brings together ten new poems, thirty-five of Oliver's classic poems, and two essays all about mammals, insects, and reptiles. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes,...
Dzanc Books, 2024. — 265 р. — ISBN-10: 195-053-9954 With Lance Olsen’s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring’s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger...
Lincoln: Bison Books; University of Nebraska Press, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0803245777; ISBN13: 978-0803245778 A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen’s writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over time. Collected here for the first time are several of Olsen’s...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. — 609 p. — ISBN-10: 0520212312; ISBN-13: 978-0520212312. A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson (1910-1970) has helped define the postmodern sensibility. His poetry is marked by an almost limitless range of interest and extraordinary depth of feeling. Olson's themes are among the largest conceivable:...
Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983. — 479 p. — ISBN: 0520055950 NB! Электронная публикация. Пагинация сохранена по бумажному изданию 1983 г., опущены Preface, Introduction, etc. Educated at Wesleyan and Harvard Universities and the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, Charles Olson had a distinguished career in academia and politics before becoming...
New York: Atria Paperback, 2023. — 507 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0194-3 Liv Latimer grew up on TV. As the star of the popular teen drama Girl on the Verge, Liv spent her adolescence on the screen trying to be as picture perfect as her character in real life. But after the death of her father and the betrayal of her on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend Ransom Joel, Liv...
Seattle: Lake Union Publishing, 2019. — 300 р. Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972. — 380 p. This book has been compiled to provide a representative selection of mid-twentieth century American drama. The first play. Long Day's Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), dates back to 1941. The Autumn Garden, by Lillian Hellman (b. 1905), was written a decade later. Orpheus Descending, by Tennessee Williams (b. 1911),...
Yale University Press, 1989. — 176 p. — ISBN: 0300046014. Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play Long Day's Journey into Night, written in 1940 and released in 1956 after the playwright's death, is now available in a newly designed edition. The restoration of several previously missing lines of dialogue and stage direction, recently discovered by scholars, makes this...
Knopf;, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525520376; ISBN13: 978-0525520375. “This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book—a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.” —Omar El Akkad, author of...
Knopf, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0525520376; ISBN13: 978-0525520375. “This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book—a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.” —Omar El Akkad, author of...
First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro and Batman.
Planet eBook, 2008. — 343 p. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro, Superman and Batman. The play was produced and adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. It first opened on 15...
Genoa: Cideb, 1994. — 216 p. — ISBN-10 : 057132276X, ISBN-13 : 978-0571322763 Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison. The supporting...
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2015. — 81 p. — ASIN: B00YGDJW9W. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? CHARLIE: “I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me.” NICK: “Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in...
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago.
In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by...
He made promises to give support and respect. He chose a group of men to be brothers, and created bonds as strong as blood ties. What happens when the oaths he swore as a teenager are resurrected a decade later? Lee Sutton is working his way through his PhD at a new college, his old life left behind years ago. He's become independent, solitary and driven toward impending success....
Detective Shane Mullin is used to domestic investigations. So when Janet Brint hires him to tail her husband, City Councilor Daniel, he doesn't think much of it. Everyone has something to hide, and Janet thinks Daniel's problem is drugs.
It's not drug abuse that has Daniel hiding out, though. As Shane follows Daniel about, he realizes the politician is having lots of sex. Gay sex...
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this bestselling and critically acclaimed new work by "one of Israel's most gifted and prolific authors" (Helen Epstein, The Forward) is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history. It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the...
Random House, 2013. — 117 p. — ISBN-13 9780099521020. Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this “hilarious and profound...slyly philosophical novel” (Booklist).In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, with an extended glimpse inside the mind of a celebrated, unnamed Author.On a stiflingly hot night, the...
Viking Adult 2013 — 558 стр. — ISBN13: 9780670026630 Ruth Ozeki's third novel, shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2013. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A...
Viking, 2013. “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived...
London, Penguin Books, 2004. — 146. Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in her parents' farm in Idaho since she ran away when she was fifteen. Now, twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter - and now a struggling single mother of three - is returning home, desperate to win back the love of her ailing father and to confront her best friend and her conflicted past. Still spirited...
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale was a wealthy...
Cambribge; London, 1861. — 352 p. Собраны лучшие песни и лирические поэмы на английском языке. Представлены своими лучшими, заботливо отобранными стихами все лирические английские поэты, публиковавшиеся до 1861 г.
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250056187; ISBN13: 978-1250056184. When Byrd Whalen returns to her family’s ancestral home to uncover secrets threatening to destroy a legacy she holds dear, she gets more than she bargained for. Over the course of one harrowing weekend, the dark haunted histories of the Amore women reveal themselves, leading Byrd to question...
Book for learning English (Intermediate).
Three Is a Lucky Number Margery Allingham.
Full Circle Sue Grafton.
How's Your Mother? Simon Brett.
At the Old Swimming Hole Sara Paretsky.
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind Patricia Highsmith.
Woodrow Wilson s Tie Patricia Highsmith.
The Absence of Emily Jack Ritchie.
The Inside Story Colin Dexter.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — 199p. — ISBN: 978-0-9893607-0-8 What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe? Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
Such a Pretty Little Picture - Too Bad - Mr. Durant - A Certain Lady - The Wonderful Old Gentleman - Dialogue at Three in the Morning - The Last Tea - Oh! He’s Charming! - Travelogue - Little Curtis - The Sexes - Arrangement in Black and White - A Telephone Call - A Terrible Day Tomorrow - Just a Little One - The Mantle of Whistler - The Garter - New York to Detroit - Big...
AuthorHouse, 2013. — 80 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4918-1830-5, 978-1-4918-1829-9. Within these pages rest the sordid thoughts of an old soul who finds peace in the darkest corners of the world. You will find few uplifting words in this book and little to inspire, soothe or even help you cope. What you will find within these pages are poems that express the darkness many fear yet others...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2008.—136p.—ISBN: 0-226-64792-7 Elise Partridge was born in Philadelphia and educated at Harvard and Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and at Boston University and the University of British Columbia. Her poems have appeared in American, Canadian, and Irish journals, including Poetry, the New Yorker, the New Republic, the...
John Calder, 1984. — 231 p. — ISBN 0714538892. Poetry by the Italian author and noted filmmaker. Poems are shown side-by-side in Italian and English translation. Translated by Norman McAfee with Luciano Martinengo.
Berkeley: Double Dance Press, 1980. — 139 p. Пазолини Пьер Паоло. Божественный мимезис. Поэзия в форме розы (на англ. яз.) The Divine Mimesis: I publish these pages today as a "document", but also to spite my "enemies": in fact, offering them another reason to despise me, I offer them another reason to go to Hell. Faded iconography: these pages want to have the logic, better...
2005 "Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the...
RL: Ages 8 and up; Mass Market Paperback: 208 pp; HarperTeen (December 28, 2004); ISBN10: 0060734019 Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class. He's been practising all summer and he's sure he's going to win. But when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Not only does Leslie not look or act like any of the girls in...
Hardcover, 329 pages.
Published December 7th 2010 by Ace Hardcover (first published October 25th 2010).
ISBN.
0441019579 (ISBN13: 9780441019571).
edition language.
English.
literary awards.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2011).
Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to...
Novell. "Plausible, taut, this survival story is a spellbinding account." —Kirkus (starred review) Thoughts of his parents' divorce fill Brian Robeson's head as he flies in a single-engine plane to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. When the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies, Brian must somehow land the plane by himself and then, left with only the clothes...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate's breasts as if they're on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that...
Transl. by Sidney Shapiro. — [Peking]: [The Theatre], 1953. — 22 p. — (Supplement to «China reconstructs» No. 6, 1953) A play in one act, written collectively by the Peking people's art theatre.
Transl. by Sidney Shapiro. — [Peking]: [The Theatre], 1953. — 22 p. — (Supplement to «China reconstructs» No. 6, 1953) A play in one act, written collectively by the Peking people's art theatre.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0547491166; ISBN13: 978-0547491165. Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0547491166; ISBN13: 978-0547491165. Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their...
London: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.—272 p.—ISBN: 1-59158-222-9 In using the term “drawing stories”, I am referring to those stories in which the teller (or an assistant) actually draws a figure or figures while narrating the story. I do not refer to stories in which the figures or pictures are drawn in advance, and the teller then points to them while narrating. We do not know...
Walker, 2014. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1406352578 (ISBN13: 9781406352573) They were born worlds apart, the wolf from the Far North and the boy from Yellow Africa. Now all that separates them is a cage at the zoo. The wolf has lost much on his journey, including an eye and his beloved pack. But when he finally consents to trust the strange, still little boy who has been watching him ―...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2022. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5248-8139-9 When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things—your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way back home. Returning with her newest poetry book, beloved...
Mariner books, 2022. — 407 p. — ISBN: 978-0-328-54420-9 The night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective. Jack became a shell of a man; his promising career as a biologist crumbling...
New York: Schocken Books, 1975. — 159 p. Introduction by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg 7 Berl the Tailor 20 The Magician 25 Thou Shalt Not Covet 29 The Hermit and the Bear 34 If Not Higher 38 Three Gifts 41 The Shabbes-Goy 49 A Pinch of Snuff 58 Motl Prince 65 Bontsha the Silent 70 Joy Beyond Measure 78 Between Two Peaks 83 Ne'ilah in Gehenna 96 Devotion Without End 103 A...
New York: Schocken Books, 1975. — 159 p. Introduction by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg 7 Berl the Tailor 20 The Magician 25 Thou Shalt Not Covet 29 The Hermit and the Bear 34 If Not Higher 38 Three Gifts 41 The Shabbes-Goy 49 A Pinch of Snuff 58 Motl Prince 65 Bontsha the Silent 70 Joy Beyond Measure 78 Between Two Peaks 83 Ne'ilah in Gehenna 96 Devotion Without End 103 A...
First published 1899 by Small & Maynard, Boston, MA., 21 p. (no other information available). "The Yellow Wallpaper" tells the story of a young woman’s gradual descent into psychosis. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is often cited as an early feminist work that predates a woman’s right to vote in the United States. The author was involved in first-wave feminism, and her other works...
AuthorHouse, 2011. — ISBN10: 1456747592; ISBN13: 978-1456747596. Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient...
AuthorHouse, 2013. — ASIN B0170L1K0K. Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient and mysterious farmhouse....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. — 184 p. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This...
Penguin Books, 2007. — ISBN: 978-0143112129. "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story, we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon, political radicalism and juvenile crushisms. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of...
Lisbon Portugal: Monteiro,.1918.—32p.
Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa ( June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and...
UK: Shearsman Books Ltd,.2009.—196p.—ISBN: 978-1-905700-25-7 Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa ( June 13, 1888 – November 30, 1935), was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He...
Неадаптированная книга на английском языке, 217 страниц
another of the journals of Mrs. Amelia Peabody Emerson, Egyptologist, adventurer, wife, and mother. Editing her prose is no easy task, for the original text contains some misinformation, a great deal of repetition, and certain omissions. In order to repair the latter fault, the Editor has, as before, inserted sections from...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. — 624 p. — ISBN: 0374518653, 9780374518653. The Collected Stories of Colette beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our...
London: Pushkin Press, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9781782273325 If the job market hadn’t been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town. As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings – the drone of...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1982113170; ISBN13: 978-1982113179 Longlisted for the National Book Award in fiction. When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case...
Knopf, 2019. — 272 p. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined...Thrilling" --Simon...
Hardcover: 277 pages Publisher: Jonathan Cape; First American Edition edition (2 Aug 2007) Language English ISBN10: 0224081314 ISBN13: 978-0224081313 Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 2.8 x 22.4 cm Gods Behaving Badly is a novel by the British author Marie Phillips. It was first published by Johnathan Cape in 2007. Set in London, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of Mount Olympus...
The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling novel of race, violence, and identity.
The year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims, a fugitive slave and a brilliant musician, has escaped to Philadelphia, where he lives by his wits and earns money performing on the...
Ubu Classics,.2004.—41p.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso ( 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.
New York: LCT Publishing, 2018. — 180 p. Blake Pierce is author of the bestselling RILEY PAGE mystery series, which includes fifteen books (and counting). In “The Perfect Wife,” masters candidate in forensic psychology Jessie Hunt and her investment banker husband, Kyle Voss, leave their downtown Los Angeles apartment for a McMansion in the Orange County community of Westport...
Published: 1987.
One of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read.
The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people-mothers and daughters, husband and lovers-inspired with real values. The Shell Seekers centers on Penelope Keeling-a woman...
The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Orion Publishing Co, 2016. - 248 c. - ISBN10: 057509723X; ISBN13: 978-0575097230. I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 215 p. Pindar lived in the Boeotian city of Thebes, about 40 miles northwest of Athens. Born in 518 BC (he died some time after 446) and a contemporary of the tragedian Aeschylus, he lived during the Persian Wars and subsequent growth of the Athenian empire, and was ranked in antiquity as Greece’s greatest lyric poet. What we know about him is...
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2019. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 978-1984855459 In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life—those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic...
Gardners Books, 1996. — 240 p. The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The Caretaker. The Caretaker It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama. The Collection This...
The New World Order was first performed on 19 July 1991 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London. Des and Lionel stand and discuss what they are going do with the prisoner who sits blindfolded on a chair before them. They taunt the'silent victim with speculatory chit-chat that intimates the torture that is to follow. Lionel breaks down in tears because he loves his job so much,...
Bantam Press, 1991. — 417 p. In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter...
One of the most important & influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerfully moving & penetrating examination of how we live, a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation, an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest,...
One of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live...and a breathtaking meditation on how to live better. Here is the book that transformed a generation: an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across...
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books - but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one,...
Продолжение книги "Я четвертый".
Number 4 is no longer alone. Escaping Paradise with little more than their lives John, Six, and Sam are now on the run. Hunted as fugitive terrorists by the FBI…and hunted as an ancient enemy by the Mogadorians death could be around any corner. With John and Six fighting together the charm that keeps all but the next number safe has been broken....
The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and the shock of having a son they have never met. Grieving, yet compelled, they begin a search that will tear two families apart.
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells--dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress.
From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells--dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress
Plath Sylvia Collected poems. - Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. - New York, 1981. - p. 351.
The complete edition, which contains a numbered sequence of the 224 poems written after 1956 together with a further 50 poems chosen from her pre-1956 work, is to bring Sylvia Plath's poetry together in one volume, including the various uncollected and unpublished pieces, and to set...
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under-maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experiece as going to the movies....
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior...
HarperCollins, 2015. — 288 p. — ISBN 9780062444479. A realistic and emotional look at a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. “It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA Today The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther...
Delphi Classics. 2014.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger , was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
Catapult, 2023. — 468 р. — ISBN: 978-1-64622-048-9 When faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious? Portia’s...
New York: State University of New York Press,.2009.—223p.—ISBN: 978-0-7914-9391-5 The Sattasaê, or The Seven Hundred, is an anthology of short poems about love and marriage in the villages of the Indian countryside. The selection is attributed to the Satavahana king Hala, who reigned briefly in the first century AD in what is now the state of Maharashtra. The poems are indeed...
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 86 p. — ISBN-10: 022610365X; ISBN-13: 978-0226103655. Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing — even lurid—hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today’s...
Doubleday, 2008. — 206 p. — ISBN: 0385523823 (ISBN13: 9780385523820) In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of...
New York: Doubleday, 2011. — 261 p. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters...
Doubleday, 2016. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0385541295 (ISBN13: 9780385541299) It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several...
New York: Dial Press, 1970. — 182 p. Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia—Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall—are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old...
308 pp; Macmillan (May 17, 1917) 1918 1916. Poole worked as a journalist campaigning for social reforms including an end to child labor. On the outbreak of the First World War he worked as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post. His Family won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. His Family, a portrait of a New York family, begins: He was thinking of the...
Delphi Classics, 2013. Собрание произведений выдающегося поэта 18 столетия. The Poetry Collections. Early Poems. Pastorals. Windsor Forest. An Essay On Criticism. Poems, 1708–17. The Rape Of The Lock. Eloisa To Abelard. Poems: 1718–27. The Curll Miscellanies. Poems Suggested By Gulliver. Later Poems. Epigrams And Epitaphs. An Essay On Man. Moral Essays. Satires. The Dunciad....
Delphi Classics, 2013. Собрание произведений выдающегося поэта 18 столетия. The Poetry Collections. Early Poems. Pastorals. Windsor Forest. An Essay On Criticism. Poems, 1708–17. The Rape Of The Lock. Eloisa To Abelard. Poems: 1718–27. The Curll Miscellanies. Poems Suggested By Gulliver. Later Poems. Epigrams And Epitaphs. An Essay On Man. Moral Essays. Satires. The Dunciad....
Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 2008. — 64 p. — ISBN 978-1-55022-818-2 Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco. Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A poetry that gleefully articulates the possibilities of a 21st century...
The title character is named Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna, but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game," an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from her...
Faber and Faber, 2019. — 210 p. Lanny is the second novel by Max Porter, published in March 2019. It is a missing-boy story, set in an English village within commuting distance of London. The book was described by Tim Smith-Laing in The Telegraph as being "between novella, long poem, and grief memoir", and by John Boyne in The Irish Times as "experimental fiction". It is named...
352 с. Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit is the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and the Academy Award winning 2010 version starring Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name...
Europa, 2020. — 336 p. — ISBN 9781609456252 It is the summer of 1955. The body of Danny Masters is found by three of his friends in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. Alexander, one of the three friends that found Danny and the sole heir to Richmond Hall, has always been unpredictable but lately he has grown elusive, his...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316274046; ISBN13: 978-0316274043. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0316274046; ISBN13: 978-0316274043. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society. Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins...
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle...
Оригинал книги Тима Пауэрса "On Stranger Tides".
Аннотация: 1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccaneer soon learns to...
Annette Prehn Kjeld Fredens Play Your Brain. Adopt a Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career. First published in 2011 by Marshall Cavendish Business. 241 P. Introduction Setting the tone. Thoughts Tuning your mind for success. Values Appreciating the core of interplay. Body Mastering your physical instrument. Perception Directing your interpretations. Vision Rehearsing...
A tale of love, heroism and resistance set against the stunning backdrop of 1930s Florence, In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a sweeping portrait of a city under siege. The novel is told through the eyes, letters and journals of Esmond Lowndes, who comes to Italy a lonely young man in the shadow of his politician father. On the cobbles of Florence’s many-storied...
A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seem to offer everything they have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart.
Grand Central Publishing, 2018. — 242 p. — (Agent Pendergast series). — ISBN10: 1455536946, 13 978-1455536948. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 From Book... When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure....
Delacorte Press, 2023. — 419 р. — ISBN 9780593481509 Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich—or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley—social media influencers with millions of followers—have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens. They’ll make posts and videos for their channels and report every second of their...
Writing as Harry Brandt, Richard Price has adopts a transparent pseudonym for this heart-stopping thriller about a rogue NYPD detective dragged back into the past by a murder in the present.
'Every cop has a personal ‘White’: a criminal who got away with murder — or worse — and was able to slip back into life, leaving the victim’s family still seeking justice, the cop plagued
by...
Atria Books, 2021. — 468 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8105-5 Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the...
A novel. Published September 18th 2018 by Balzer + Bray (US). 30 chapters. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of Pride and Prejudice, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street.
Пьеса на английском и русском языках. — М.: Менеджер, 1997. — 208 с. Пьеса известного английского драматурга Джона Бойнтона Пристли "Time and the Conways" ("Время и семья Конвей") хорошо известна российскому читателю. Острый сюжет, оригинальные сценические приемы, философское проникновение в психологию героев, блестящий разговорный английский язык, параллельный русский текст пьесы...
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1937. — 460 p. It is a social panorama of the city of London, seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, at No. 8, Angel Pavement. Their lives are changed after the arrival of a mysterious Mr Golspie, who assures the future of their veneer-and-inlay company through imports from the Baltic. The story has as backdrop...
A novel based on the major motion picture. Adapted by James Ponti Based on the screenplay written by Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard From a screenstory by Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin Executive producers Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, John August, Jordan Mechner, Patrick McCormick, Eric McLeod Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Directed by Mike Newell Disney Press, New York, 2010 ISBN:...
A novel. W.W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 585 p. — ISBN-13 978-0393541274 Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. And now, his support is the one thing she can rely on: her job search has yielded nothing, and her devotion to her work has just cost her her boyfriend, Ben. Yet shortly before...
William Morrow, 2022. — 621 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-321801-7 It’s 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock ‘n’ roll. After her mother’s death, Faun, a naïve college dropout, grabs her Polaroid and hops a Greyhound to Los Angeles. In the City of Angels, she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. To make their reunion even...
Oxford University Press, 2010. – 547 p.
V. S. Pritchett has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.
Masters such as, Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, James Joyce, and V. S....
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890. — 255 p. Edna Dean Proctor (1829-1923) was an American writer and poet. Although she occasionally wrote short sketches and stories, poetry was her field. Proctor was characterized as a master of pathos. Her first small volume of verse was published by Hurd & Houghton in 1867. Then came two years of foreign travel, an outcome of...
Ballantine Books, 2022. — 523 p. — ISBN 978-059-335-616-6 Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by...
Ballantine Books, 2022. — 523 p. — ISBN 978-059-335-616-6 Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by...
Monique Proulx’s work might best be described as curiously flawed fiction filled with prose of inflated exuberance. Wildlives, her new novel, is no exception. With each new chapter we are gradually introduced to a densely packed landscape of contradictions (variously described either as an abyss or a paradise), as well as a wide array of its inhabitants, whose foreboding present...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 6345 p. — ASIN B007R78SSK. Marcel Proust is regarded by many as the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This comprehensive eBook offers Proust's complete fictional works, with rare texts, beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. Please use Calibre if you open this file on the computer (I'm not sure...
First published in French 1913. — 1,280 pages.
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say ‘I’m going to sleep.’ And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and...
1919.
783 pages.
My mother, when it was a question of our having M. de Norpois to dinner for the first time, having expressed her regret that Professor Cottard was away from home, and that she herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the old Ambassador, my father replied that so eminent a guest, so distinguished a...
2008. — ASIN B00213KFZE. It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant threat. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of bizarro flash fiction, containing ridiculous characters and...
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1915. — 402 p. Пшибышевский Станислав. Хомо сапиенс (на англ. яз.) Homo Sapiens is a trilogy. The novels were originally published in German as Über Bord (1896, "Overboard"), Unterwegs (1895, "By the Way") and Im Malstrom (1895, "In the Maelstrom"). It deals with the question of deviance and sexuality, and is counted among Przybyszewski's most...
Seattle, Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 466 p. — ISBN: 1522639292 (ISBN13: 9781522639299). When Althea Leary abandons her nine-year-old son, Jasper, he’s left on his uncle’s farm with nothing but a change of clothes and a Bible. It’s 1952, and Jasper isn’t allowed to ask questions or make a fuss. He’s lucky to even have a home and must keep his mouth shut and his ears open to...
Seattle, Thomas & Mercer, 2015. — 470 p. — ISBN: 1477820876 (ISBN13: 9781477820872). It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (Audiobook) "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (Audiobook) "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (Audiobook) "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this...
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. (Audiobook) "Pullinger is equally unerring at conveying the subtle cruelties of power relationships and the incremental dawnings of love and affection. Coupled with this is an almost painterly ability to depict an Egypt alternately parched and sumptuous – both literally and metaphorically." I couldn't stop reading this...
Picador, 2015. - 272 p. - ISBN10: 125006662X A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes...
Fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. — 352 p. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. — 352 p. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
1883. 395 pages. The shaft flew straight; the archer fell forward with a cry, and lay on his face upon the ground, his arrows rattling about him from out of his quiver, the gray goose shaft wet with his; heart’s blood. Then, before the others could gather their wits about them, Robin Hood was gone into the depths of the Greenwood. Some started after him, but not with much...
New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999. — 202 p. — ISBN: 0-609-80536-3. In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter...
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it – and themselves – afloat.
Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained...
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers begins in a dusty bookshop. What follows is an abduction, heated political debate, glimpses into strangers’ homes, and travel around the globe. It’s a novel of curious personalities, mystery, and lots of books: volumes that the characters collect, covet, steal.
Tooly Zylberberg, owner of a bookshop in the Welsh countryside, spends most of her life...
Delphi Classic. 2013. — 2856 p.
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique "the explained supernatural", the final revelation of...
Без выходных данных. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances is been a study machine with one goal. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. Then Frances meets Aled, and for the first time she's unafraid to be herself. So when the fragile trust between them is broken, Frances is caught...
Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in her anger management class. Grace, a single working mother, can barely find a moment’s rest. Jane, a high-profile real estate agent, is struggling in the recession. Kit, in her fifties, has had it with her taunting older brothers. And Leah, a young mother of two,...
In the sequel to the acclaimed The Girl of Fire and Thorns, a seventeen-year-old princess turned war queen faces sorcery, adventure, untold power, and romance as she fulfills her epic destiny.
Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply...
Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will. Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a...
Atria, 2016. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1476749078; ISBN13: 978-1476749075. In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—“a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne” (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and...
Other Press, 2010 — 96 p.
Атик Рахими - Земля и зола (земля и пепел)
خاک و خاکستر - عتیق رحیمی
Книга на английском языке афганского писателя Атика Рахими. Роман был написана во Франции (написан на персидском языке, фр. пер. 2000), по которому позже снял фильм, получивший признание критики и публики.
1981 год, идут военные действия. По дороге идут двое: дед и его пятилетний...
London: Hutchinson International Authors, 1947. — 128 p. Радж Ананд Мулк. Неприкасаемый, роман (на англ. яз.) Мулк Радж Ананд (англ. Mulk Raj Anand, 1905 — 2004) — индийский англоязычный писатель, известный своим изображением жизни бедных каст в традиционном индийском обществе. Один из пионеров англоязычной индийской прозы, он был одним из первых писателей Индии, получивших...
Scholastic, 2012. — 64 p. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah, was forced to amputate his own arm to survive. Level 3 (Intermediate): For students with 3+ years of English – CEF Stage B1. 1500 headwords (story: up to 10,000 words)
Clarion Books, 2022. — 721 p. — ISBN 978-0-358-72301-1. Vira, Ronak, Kaleb, and Riya may be siblings, but they've never been close or even liked each other that much. Torn apart by the different paths their lives have taken, only one thing can bring them back together: the search for the Ivory Key, a thing of legend that will lead the way to a new source of magic. Magic is...
The story, of English origin, has little tradition of being read in Belgium, but is becoming more known because of the tourists it attracts to Antwerp. There is a small statue of Nello and Patrasche at the Kapellestraat in the Antwerp suburb of Hoboken, and a commemorative plaque in front of the Antwerp Cathedral donated by Toyota. The story is widely read in Japan, and has been...
Tuttle Publishing, 1991. Edogawa Rampo, a pseudonym for Tarō Hirai, was one of the giants of Japanese crime fiction in the early-to-mid twentieth century. His name is a phonetic rendering of the name Edgar Allan Poe paying tribute to an author he admired and while his work is certainly original, you only have to dip into these stories to see that they shared a flair for the...
2nd Ed. — Broadview Press, 2009. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 1551119773, 13 978-1551119779. Concert of Voices combines poetry, fiction, drama, and essays in an anthology of world literature in English. This second edition preserves the first edition's breadth and its balance of established and less widely known authors, while including a large selection of exciting new material....
Graywolfe Press, 2014. — 169 p. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer...
Random House Children's Books, 2019. — 304 p. Told with humor and heart, The Boy at the Back of the Class offers a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn't always make sense. There used to be an empty chair at the back of Mrs. Khan's classroom, but on the third Tuesday of the school year a new kid...
513 p. ; 20 cm. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001. 1939 A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet
Harlequin, 2013. Dashing bachelor prince Sharif Asad Al Farid swept onto the Desert Rose ranch, his eyes as fierce as the Texas heat. Although he'd come to meet his newfound relatives, it was their lovely ranch hand who attracted his attention. Olivia Smith's beguiling innocence and sassy attitude enraptured him. Matrimony wasn't on Sharif's mind -- until the press caught them...
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1901. — 310 p. The five McAlisters were gathered in the dining-room, one rainy night in late August. In view of the respective dimensions of the family circle and the family income, ser vants were few in the McAlister household, and division of labor was the order of the day Old Susan had cleared away the table and brought in the lamp; then she...
William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2023. — 581 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-325224-0 After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a writer-in-residence, he’s convinced that his bad luck has finally taken a...
Lake Union Publishing, 2020. — 326 p. — ISBN-10: 1542006589. An Amazon Charts bestseller. A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she watches helplessly as those she loves...
Published in 2001. An electrifying psychological thriller about a mother and daughter pushed to their limits. Shelley and her mom have been menaced long enough. Excused from high school where a trio of bullies nearly killed her, and still reeling from her parents' humiliating divorce, Shelley has retreated with her mother to the quiet of Honeysuckle Cottage in the countryside....
BookRix-Edition, 2008. — 11 с. — 2552 слова.
The dead guy lying face up in a pool of blood on my kitchen linoleum sure brought the high desert chill into the room. Guess I could be thankful for three things. One, I didn’t know the guy. Two, it was late afternoon, not midnight. Things always seem worse at night. And, three, I’m not prone to panic. I wouldn’t be much of a cop if I...
G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reissue edition, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 052554190X; ISBN13: 978-0525541905. AN INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her...
G.P. Putnam's Sons; Reissue edition, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 052554190X; ISBN13: 978-0525541905. AN INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her...
London: Alexander Gardner,1894. — XXI + 264 p. Combining a devout love for his homeland and a fierce dedication to the Celtic lilt and dialect, Robert Reid (Rob Wanlock) hypnotizes audiences with his vivid descriptions of the heathers and moors of Scotland in his seminal work, «Poems, Songs, and Sonnets». Compared to his contemporaries, Andrew Lang and Austin Dobson, Reid...
Ballantine Books, 2022. — 644 р. — ISBN 978-059-31586-85 Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly...
Ballantine Books, 2019. — 355 p. — ISBN: 1524798622 (ISBN13: 9781524798628) Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six: The band's album Aurora came to define the rock 'n' roll era of the late seventies, and an entire generation of girls wanted to grow up to be Daisy. But no one knows the reason behind the group's split on the night of their final concert at Chicago Stadium on July...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-4443-1. "A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere." —Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies,...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 425 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5011-4443-1. "A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere." —Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Until May 1987, fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin of Wetbridge, New Jersey, is a nerd, but a decidedly happy nerd. Afternoons are spent with his buddies,...
Amazon. - 2015. - ASIN B00ROMI6M6. - 135 pages. The new town and new school has more to offer Clara then just a high school diploma as it comes to light that a murder four years ago in a bathroom stall has gone unsolved. Can Clara solve a murder others have failed to solve? Can she stop a killer before he tries again?
Amazon. - 2015. - ASIN B00ROMI6M6. - 135 pages. The new town and new school has more to offer Clara then just a high school diploma as it comes to light that a murder four years ago in a bathroom stall has gone unsolved. Can Clara solve a murder others have failed to solve? Can she stop a killer before he tries again?
Spiegel & Grau, 2023. — 396 р. — ISBN 978-1-954118-46-1 In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the...
Reading level: Ages 13 and up Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: HarperTeen (April 24, 2007) Language: English ISBN10: 0060853867 ISBN13: 978-0060853860 On the rack of romance. And also in the oven of luuurve. Woe is Georgia: Dave the Laugh has declared his love for her (at least she thinks he was talking about her), and she has finally given Masimo an ultimatum to be her one and...
Boston: Black Sparrow Press, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN-10 1574232150; ISBN-13 978-1574232158. These poems, covering sixty years of a free woman’s song, are Naomi Replansky’s hymns to the struggle for justice and equality and to the enduring beauty of life in our dangerous world. Here at long last is the new and collected work by a writer hailed by George Oppen as “one of the most...
Did you ever wonder what happens deep within a Psychiatric Hospital — where average people who go violently insane are suddenly swept away? Where their fate is decided by a valiant corps of young doctors and nurses — and by other staff who may be worse off than the patients. No doctor has ever before dared to tell the amazing and horrifying - yet sometimes tender and...
The Pemberly Variations by Abigail Reynolds is a series of novels exploring the roads not taken by Jane Austen in Pride & Prejudice. Be that as it may, Elizabeth saw Darcy go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business. The tragedy of that fateful moment at the Lambton Inn is one...
A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist. "Romance fans will be carried along by the smallest beat between Cassie and Calder." - Booklist. Marine biologist Cassie Boulton has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab on Cape Cod. Proud, aloof Calder Westing III is the scion of a famous political family, while Cassie’s success is hard-won in spite of a...
Published in 1999 by HarperCollins (first published 1971); 541 pages. ISBN: 0006513905. Description In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God and Chance was God . There was a man sent by Chance, whose name was Luke . And Chance was made flesh . and he dwelt among us, full of chaos, and falsehood and whim. - from The Book of the DieSo begins this 1970s classic of sex,...
W.W.Norton, 1996. — 176 р. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 1216 p. — ISBN-10: 0393285111; ISBN-13: 978-0393285116. The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. — 72 p. — ISBN-10: 0393308316; ISBN-13: 978-0393308310. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry. An Atlas of the Difficult World A...
Tall, blond, and willowy, this twenty-two-year-old seems to have everything going for her—she’s rich and gorgeous, a talented singer, and has just returned to her Park Avenue penthouse after a year studying in Paris. But since her mother’s tragic death years ago, her father, an extremely successful financier, has been her only family—and if she’s being honest, her only true friend.
Copyright 2007 by Plough Publishing House. Pages - 81. PDF. Peter Riedemann (1506-1556) wrote this confession as a 23-year-old while imprisoned in Austria on account of his faith. At the time, the Anabaptists were being drowned, beheaded, and burned at the stake as heretics by the thousand for their commitment to baptism of believers, economic sharing, nonviolence, and the...
BookRix-Edition, 2008. — 18 с. — 9929 слов.
Big Derek paced back and forth. His legs were growing numb. His wife Lynn came in the room several times over the last hour stealing glances at their son and begging him to please sit down. He was a man that always used his hands when he was stressed but he didn’t want to, no he could not leave his son’s side. So his feet just seemed to...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. — 206 p. The kid hangs up his stocking. Is there a Santa Claus? The Crogans' Christmas in the snowshed. The old town. His Christmas gift. The snow babies' Christmas. Jack's sermon. Merry Christmas in the tenements. What the Christmas sun saw in the tennements. Nibsy's Christmas. The little dollar's Christmas journey. Little Will's message....
Black Cat, 2023. — 300 р. — ISBN 978-0-8021-6041-6 In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning...
HarperCollins, 2023. — 461 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-327249-1 Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note...
Series: In Death (Book 40). Hardcover: 416 pages. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition first Printing edition (February 10, 2015). Language: English. ISBN10: 0399170871. ISBN13: 978-0399170874. Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She—and her billionaire husband—are getting accustomed to being objects of attention,...
Leisure Books, 1989. — ISBN10: 0843928816 ISBN13: 978-0843928815. Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fifth book in the Blade series was published in 1989. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the Endworld series, and David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years...
Published: Pocket Books, 1961. The Carpetbaggers. Jonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. When his father died, Jonas swore to possess them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could master. Her sizzling sensuality might inflame and enthrall millions, but her personal boudoir was no Hollywood fantasy. She consumed...
A novel. — New York: Bantam Books, 2003. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-553-89792-0. Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and...
Griffin, 1997. Shantaram is a novel influenced by real events in the life of the author, Australian Gregory David Roberts. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19-year imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in broad daylight,...
Scribe Publications, 2003. Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
Scribe Publications. — 1258 p.
Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
Picador Australia, 2015. The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of...
Penguin, 2002. — 252 p. Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious,...
Повесть Моргана Робертсона, "Тщетность, или Крушение Титана" 1898 года выпуска. Книга известна тем, что ее сюжет и корабль, описываемый в ней, были сильно похожи на события 1912 года - крушение Титаника. Для людей с продвинутым уровнем английского языка. 39 страниц
An international sensation— with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries— Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation— with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries— Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation— with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries— Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
An international sensation— with more than 1 million copies sold in Germany, and rights snapped up in 26 countries— Wetlands is the sexually and anatomically explicit novel that is changing the conversation about female identity and sexuality around the world. Helen Memel is an outspoken, contradictory eighteen-year-old, whose childlike stubbornness is offset by a precocious...
The Man Booker Prize The 1993 Booker Prize-winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1987. — 82 p. — ISBN 0-935724-13-3. Part carnival, part war, the clamor of the world is loud in these works, submitted by a rigorous and passionate intellect to the clarities which only language can yield from details this fast and dense. Philosopher-harlequin, the poet speaks plainly, having just now invented the line. What other writer can give us...
Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1987. — 82 p. — ISBN 0-935724-13-3. Part carnival, part war, the clamor of the world is loud in these works, submitted by a rigorous and passionate intellect to the clarities which only language can yield from details this fast and dense. Philosopher-harlequin, the poet speaks plainly, having just now invented the line. What other writer can give us...
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels." — Gabriel García Marquez
"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances. . an almost voluptuous vulnerability." — Natasha Wimmer, The Nation
"It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. — 350 p. Wine of Fury is one of the very few Russian stories written by non -Russians that carry well defined plots through historical incidents in such fashion as to make the reader feel that the incidents are true and not coined for the occasion. Francois Villon might have been King of France for a day, such act being the result of a jestful...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. — 350 p. Wine of Fury is one of the very few Russian stories written by non -Russians that carry well defined plots through historical incidents in such fashion as to make the reader feel that the incidents are true and not coined for the occasion. Francois Villon might have been King of France for a day, such act being the result of a jestful...
Independently published, 2019. — 145 p. — ISBN10: 1097421821; ISBN13: 978-1097421824. This full-color selection of Nicola Rogers’ works sparkles with beautiful and delicate magic. It is a kaleidoscope of everyday and philosophical aspects of life, which provides a glimpse into a hidden world of a rare sensitivity and charm, enhanced by the vibrant paintings of the upcoming...
Marcial was everything Carsten had wished for; handsome, kind, young, industrious and willing to be helpful. A Spanish "little Elf." A dream come true for the rich man. His only drawback? The ravenous Platypus living with him, the Georgian mobster determined to make Marcial his newest boy-friend, and Pelayo, his meddle-some childhood friend. For the hyper-rational middle aged...
(Guntram de Lisle 02 or noncanon novel). What would have happened if Constantin Repin had seduced Guntram first? Could a naive boy be happy with a Russian gangster? Could Konrad von Lintorff allow his greatest to enemy to live in bliss? A parallel universe to the novel "The Substitute."
(Guntram de Lisle 01). "I understand this is all new to an inexperienced youth like yourself. I was half expecting your denial, but I'm willing to wait, that you become my lover. I will provide, take care and see that no harm falls upon you, as long as you respect me and behave according to your status. As I said, you are the most adorable thing that had caught my attention in...
11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons NOT to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it’s actually very funny. This decidedly absurd inventory of misery is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthdays (like 21, 25, 30, 40, and, well, anything after 40),...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024 - 464 p. It is an exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family ― but especially love ― from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties ― successful, competent, and u. But in the wake of their father’s death,...
Faber & Faber, 2018. (Audio) Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and...
Hogarth; Later Printing edition, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1984822179; ISBN13: 978-1984822178. NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • New York TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE...
Hogarth; Later Printing edition, 2019. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1984822179; ISBN13: 978-1984822178. NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • New York TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE...
Tempus Pub Ltd, 2001
Wales is a Celtic country and the Celts have always treasured oral learning and recitation. Indeed they have a passion for committing facts to memory rather than relying on the written word. So it is no surprise, as we can see from Anne Ross' study, that Welsh folklore and story-telling is so rich and varied. In addition to examining the part played by the...
Cousin's best known hymn, "The Sands of Time are Sinking", is known and sung over the English-speaking world. It is also known as "Immanuel's Land", the phrase that is repeated at the end of each stanza. This poem was inspired by Samuel Rutherford's last words. It was first published in 1860s, with extracts from Rutherford's works, under the title: Last words of Reverend Samuel...
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 745 р. — ISBN 9781250857453 Two weeks have passed since Iris Winnow returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, and the city of Oath continues to dwell in a state of disbelief and ignorance. When Iris and Attie are given another chance to report on Dacre’s movements, they both take the...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 1949 p. — ASIN B009K43KH2. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical and fictional works of Christina Rossetti, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. Please use Calibre if you open this file on the computer (I'm not sure...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. — ISBN: 978–0–19–280715–1. Oxford World’s Classics Series. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Simon Humphries. This edition contains Rossetti's strongest and most distinctive work: poetry (including 'Goblin Market', 'The Prince's Progress', and the sonnet sequence 'Monna Innominata'), stories (including the complete text of Maude),...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. — 220 pages, ISBN: 978-1463754372. With few muscles to flex, I have had a wealth of time to flex my mind. When I was courting Mona, trying to convince her that I would be a good spouse despite my disability, fate conspired with me: it kept giving her signs that I was the right man. Like magic, the good omens accumulated,...
Eric Muller has been trying to hack the girlfriend problem for half his life. As a teenage geek, he discovered his gift for programming computers-but his attempts to understand women only confirm that he's better at writing code than connecting with human beings. Brilliant, neurotic, and lonely, Eric spends high school in the solitary glow of a screen.
By his early twenties,...
New Directions, 2015. — 278 p. The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of...
Peter Owen Publishers, 2011.— 176 p. Long out of print in English, this dizzying hybrid of novel, essay, and polemic has less to do with religion than with what Roth sees as the disintegrating moral fabric of the modern world Written while Roth was in exile from Germany and his native Austria following the rise of Nazism, this work was composed in cafés across free Europe after...
Norton, 2000. — 169 p. Every few decades a book is published that shapes Jewish consciousness. One thinks of Wiesel's Night or Levi's Survival in Auschwitz. But in 1927, years before these works were written, Joseph Roth (1894-1939) composed The Wandering Jews. In these stunning dispatches written when Roth was a correspondent in Berlin during the whirlwind period of Weimar...
Harper/Collins, 2022. — 544 p. — ISBN 978-0-358-16409-8. What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid...
Lake Union, 2023. — 443 р. — ISBN-13: 9781662507434 1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cliff’s edge is going unheard by town patriarch Cort Roland―that is, until a terrible storm brings an unlikely ally into Swan’s life. But is it too late for the...
Dutton, 2011. — 323 p. — ISBN13: 9780525951988. Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can't seem to tell her husband about her anxieties over starting a...
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR AND PARK is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.
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St. Martin's Press, 2013. — 483 p. A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love. Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan.. But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving....
MacMillan Childrens Books, 2019. — 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-1509896899. The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of...
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2017. — 753 p. — ISBN: 9780241980774. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive...
Series: The Chase Brides, Book 6. Style: Humorous historical romance. Former Title: The Baron’s Heiress Bride. Length: 95,000 words (about 380 standard pages). Bonus Material: Author’s Note, preview of next book, link to giveaway. PG-rated Content: Kisses only, no love scenes! Series: The Chase Brides, Book 6. Style: Humorous historical romance. Former Title: The Baron’s...
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press: 1989. — 69 p. — (The Iowa Poetry Prize) — ISBN: 9780877452362. In this refreshing volume, Mary Ruefle establishes herself as an independent voice in contemporary poetry. With an impeccable eye for metaphor and, as the volume's title suggest, an immovable stance in the world, she emerges as a poet of powerful sensibility. A sense of wonder...
Freeditorial. — 94 p. Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt blocked as a novelist after writing his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of Pedro Páramo in 1961 that opened his way to the composition of his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Moreover, García Márquez claimed that he "could recite the whole book, forwards and backward....
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 144947425X; ISBN13: 978-1-4494-7425-6, 978-1-4494-7866-7. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2015. — 204 p. — ISBN10: 144947425X; ISBN13: 978-1-4494-7425-6, 978-1-4494-7866-7. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2018. — 345 p. — ASIN B06WLJ3QXN, ISBN: 1629144878, 1510729003. I’m a gust on the sea, I’m a footfall of a wave, I’m a roar of the sea … I’m a hawk on a cliff, I’m a tear of sunlight, I’m a cry of love, I’m a boar in rage … I’m the god who kindles fire in your head Who makes smooth the mountain’s stones? Who can count the ages of the moon? Who finds the...
William Morrow, 2020. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 006294150X; ISBN13: 978-0062941503. A most anticipated book by The New York Times • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Marie Claire • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Bustle • Newsweek • New York Post • Esquire • Real Simple • The Sunday Times • The Guardian Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve...
William Morrow, 2020. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 006294150X; ISBN13: 978-0062941503. INSTANT New York TIMES BESTSELLER A most anticipated book by The New York Times • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Marie Claire • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Bustle • Newsweek • New York Post • Esquire • Real Simple • The Sunday Times • The Guardian Exploring the psychological dynamics of the...
Knopf, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1101947748; ISBN13: 978-1101947746. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different...
Knopf, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1101947748; ISBN13: 978-1101947746. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different...
495 pages; Publisher: Vintage; ISBN: 0307275132; Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has...
Harlequin Enterprises, 2022. — 532 p. — ISBN: 978-186-726-1551 Leelo has spent her entire life on Endla, coexisting with the bloodthirsty Forest and respecting the poisonous lake that protects her island from outsiders who seek to destroy it. But as much as Leelo cares for her community, she struggles to accept that her younger brother will be exiled by his next birthday,...
Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with dramas set in motion by loneliness and displacement and revealing stories of passion and desire where less astute observers might fail to detect the humanity that roils beneath the surface. Sometimes these dramas are found in ordinary, mundane...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 396 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-1259-8 Amy jumps at the opportunity when she’s offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. The assignment is for the friendly and welcoming Carroll family, whose stunning house is situated on a stretch of remote and rugged coastline overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It’s the perfect chance for Amy to escape the suffocating city...
Ginninderra Press,.1992.—48p.
Wadih Saadeh is an Australian-Lebanese poet. He has published 12 poetry books. Wadih Sa'adah was born in the village of Shabtin, in northern Lebanon. In his own words he describes it as "a place were the people, fields, trees, rocks, birds and animals were one family. Nature was part of our being. The soil and the people were one. I grew up among...
Delphi Classics, 2019. — 383 p. — (Delphi Poets Series Book 84). — ISBN: 9781788779715. Saadi is one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature. His best-known work of poetry is the ‘Bustan’ (The Orchard), composed entirely in epic metre and consisting of stories illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims, as well as offering reflections on the...
Cambridge MA, USA: Da Capo Press, 2011. - 273 p. - ISBN: 0306819449 From the NBCC Award winning author of "My Father's Paradise": a book of true stories about ordinary people brought together by the strange romantic workings of New Yorks landscape. A Note on Method Green: Central Park Collision: the Street Navigation: Grand Central Terminal Freestanding: Liberty Enlichtening...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Dig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner or just under your feet! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a...
HarperCollins, 2011. — 396 p. — ISBN: 9781443406840. A novel on the troubled days of Argentina and a film, “El secreto en sus ojos” based on the story was made and it won an award.
London: Michael Joseph, 1939. — 128 p. In her day, Vita Sackville-West was most famous, not for her poetry or love affairs, but for a gardening column that she wrote. Based on experiences at Sissinghurst, her fabulous house in Kent, she produces a fine eulogy to the English Countryside and a traditional way of life that has now disappeared.
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinism (Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage) is a novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade. Described as both pornographic and erotic, it was written in 1785. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate sexual gratification in...
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 1442408936; ISBN13: 978-1442408937. This Printz Honor Book is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) that distills lyrical truths about family and friendship. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When...
Simon & Schuster Books, 2012. — 359 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4424-0892-0, 978-1-4424-0894-4. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special...
Simon & Schuster Books, 2012. — 359 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4424-0892-0, 978-1-4424-0894-4. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special...
Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats — and how they scheme to conceal them — fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid,...
London: Putnam & Company, 1929. "This little book concerns the professional activities of one Lent Putt, a specialist in the simpler forms of sanitary engineering. Written in Lem's vernacular, it takes the form of an explanation of his methods to one of his customers. Lem, we gather, is an artist in his own way, with a knowledge of human nature which enables him, in his...
The History Press, 2023. — 190 p. Foreword This is treasure, what you have in your hands. A University of Life, all of itself. There’s a wily genius throughout these stories that tell us about how to live, to encounter challenge, even to bless. Chris Salisbury’s been a storyteller since Noah was a boy (or getting on for thirty years), and I’ve delighted in his tales in almost...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. — 198 p. Carl Sandburg moved to Chicago with his wife Lilian and one year-old daughter, Margaret in 1912 from Milwaukee. He worked first as a reporter for the Chicago Day Book from 1912-1917, then was hired to write for the Chicago Daily News in 1917. He also contributed occasional articles to the International Socialist Review, often...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. — 198 p. Carl Sandburg moved to Chicago with his wife Lilian and one year-old daughter, Margaret in 1912 from Milwaukee. He worked first as a reporter for the Chicago Day Book from 1912-1917, then was hired to write for the Chicago Daily News in 1917. He also contributed occasional articles to the International Socialist Review, often...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. — 444 p. Aksel Sandemose was a Danish-Norwegian writer whose works were mostly devoted to the theme of the repressions of society leading to violence. In his masterpiece, Sandemose portrays the fictional small Danish town of Jante, modelled upon his native town Nykøbing Mors in the 1930s where nobody was anonymous, a feature of life typical of...
Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company. — 87 p. Ли Сан (1910-1937) — корейский писатель. Печатался с 1934 (сюрреалистические стихи). В 1936 опубликовал повесть "Крылья". В психологических повестях "Летопись жизни", "Останки ребенка", "Утраченный рай" передал внутреннее состояние интеллигента, который в условиях колониальной Кореи видит выход из тяжелой жизни лишь в...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014 — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1107023599; ISBN13: 978-1107023598. Translated by Diane J. Rayor. Introduction by André Lardinois. Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is...
London : Harvill Press, 1997. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers on the doctor's wife, her husband, several of his patients, and assorted...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—492p.—ISBN: 0-226-73508-7 Margherita Sarrocchi (c.1560-1617) was born to a well-off family in Naples; after her father’s death, care of her education was undertaken by Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto, who placed her in the convent of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome. There she received a humanist education in classical languages, as...
The idea for these volumes of one-act scripts came from my many years of experience as a high school English teacher of minority students and Hispanic students taking English as a second language. While teaching these students, I discovered there were few resources in drama which I felt could provide them with role-playing motivational experiences about people and events of...
Razorbill, 2020. — 406 р. — ISBN 9780451478139 London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen-year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined, with doctors saying he won't make it through the night. In her desperation to keep him holding on, Alice...
Penguin Random House, 2021. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-1-473-59566-8 A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner café, the kitchen at dawn, Agnes tells...
Stranded in upstate New York with just seven days to go until Christmas, a lonesome boy comes up with an ingenious way to bring Christmas to the equally lonesome inhabitants of his small mountain community, all of whom were spending the winter far from home. Visiting each in turn, David befriends his neighbors and delights in hearing the Christmas stories they share with him,...
With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substance abuse. Sadly, his literary legacy has been overshadowed by the story of his tragic life. Among poets, Schwartz was a prototype for the...
OpenBooks Publishers, 2019. — 117 p. Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe , usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue , represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Würtemberg,...
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she...
Poisoned Pen Press, 2022. — 577 p. — ISBN 978-2021-037064 Bad things happen every day. No one knows this better than LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel. He also knows that bad things often go unpunished―all it takes is a glance at his dusty stack of cold cases to see that time is kind to sinners. A museum curator is found shot point-blank, his home torn apart. It's the sort of random...
Katherine Tegen Books, 2015. — 335 p. When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well be over. But when he meets Sadie and her friends - a group of eccentric troublemakers - he realises that maybe getting sick is just the beginning. That illness doesn't have to define you, and that falling in love is its own cure.
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 437 p. Arthur Schnitzler was born in 1862 into the Jewish professional bourgeoisie of Vienna and somewhat reluctantly followed his father, a distinguished laryngologist, into a medical career. After his father’s death in 1893, however, Schnitzler devoted himself largely to literature. Thanks to his love-tragedy Flirtations and his series of one-act...
Bethany House, 2022. — 521 р. — ISBN 978-1-4934-3732-0 Ambitious influencer Georgina Havoc and her designer beau Lance Broussard have been dubbed the next Chip and Joanna Gaines, but their happily-ever-after falls apart when Lance blindsides her with a "pause." The show must go on, so Georgina takes on the task of renovating a forgotten cottage in the tiny, tight-knit town of...
Summertown Publishing, 2009.
Timothy and Nicholas Aldridge are identical twins but their lives could not be more different. Whilst Timothy runs the family farm in the rural South West of England, Nicholas is a high-powered but exhausted advertising executive in London. When circumstances force Timothy to take his brother's place for the day will he be able to ensure that...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 480 p. In the year 1880, James Willard Schultz left the comfort of his home in St. Louis, bound for adventure in the Far West. Fired by the writings of Lewis and Clark’s "Journal", "The Oregon Trail", Fremont’s expeditions, Schultz travelled across the breadth of the American continent to see some of the land and the tribes of which they told. As a...
New York: Open Road Media, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1480438502; ISBN13: 9781480438507. A powerful and vibrant collection of stories offering an intimate look into the souls of unforgettable characters, confused and oppressed by the realities of their lives. Time passes relentlessly in the lives of the fragile characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt's outstanding...
New Directions, 1967. — 240 p. “Every point of view, every kind of knowledge and every kind of experience is limited and ignorant: nevertheless so far as l know, this volume seems to me to be as representative as it could be.―-Delmore Schwartz. When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959. Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the...
New York: Соrinth Books, 1961. — 264 p. A collection of 7 short stories and 2 Novellas, most first collected in 1961, late in his career (he passed away in 1966) These stores are an intellectual delight. In the Fabulous Twenty-dollar Bill, an author agonizes about putting dollars in a book gifted to someone as a test. In both an American Fair Tale and in the novella A Colossal...
Wildside Press, 2008. — 176 p. — ISBN 978-0-8095-7321-9. Felines and mysterious fantasy: it's a magical mix that appeals to the imaginations of cat lovers the world around. The first volume of this new anthology series includes colorful stories by authors Nancy Springer, Ann Marston, Jack Williamson, and Fred Chappell, among others -- plus classics by Fritz Leiber and H.P....
Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She's got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen in Parents. With her successful investment banker husband behind the wheel and her...
Instead of returning “home” when he retired, Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, and his wife Lily chose to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire.
Short Story. The Pieces of Silver is a story about the devastating effects of poverty, and the way in which one group of society can be ruthlessly exploited by another higher group
September 1st, 2009 October "Toby" Day is a former street kid and half-breed Daoine Sidhe who's practically made a career out of running away from things. She was raised in the Summerlands, last of the true fae realms, only to flee to the mortal world when she was a teenager, looking for a life she could call her own. For a while, it looked like she might even succeed. She...
Shambhala Publications, 2006. — 272 p.
In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shih Ching to the twentieth century....
Shambhala Publications, 2006. — 272 p.
In traditional Chinese culture, poetic artistry held a place that was unrivaled by any other single talent, and was a source of prestige and even of political power. In this rich collection, J. P. Seaton introduces the reader to the main styles of Chinese poetry and the major poets, from the classic Shih Ching to the twentieth century....
White Pine Press, 1995 - 200 p.
This anthology gathers over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry, from the earliest writing including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the Third Patriarch to the poetry of monks living in this century. Drawn together by the Zen thread, this ragged line of poet-hermits forms a profound lineage for many contemporary poets.
Pre-Tang
Tang
Sung...
Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange. . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit." — Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review "Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia,"...
Transl. by Jo Catling. — New York: Modern Library, 2015 — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0812979540; ISBN13: 978-0812979541 This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part critical essay, part memoir—Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own...
New York: Modern Library, 2013 — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0812981103; ISBN13: 978-0812981100. German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of Austerlitz, the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the first major collection of this literary master’s poems. Skillfully...
New York: Modern Library, 2003 — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0375756582; ISBN13: 978-0375756580. After Nature , W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and...
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz — having avoided all clues that might point to his origin — finds the past...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 141 p. David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing...
Random House, 2005. — 269 pages.
A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives.
This absorbing novel – with a storyline unlike anything Lisa See has written before – takes place in 19th century China when girls had their feet bound, then spent the...
Scribner, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1501154826; ISBN13: 978-1501154829. A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever...
Scribner, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1501154826; ISBN13: 978-1501154829. A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever...
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of Afghan...
This book is about four individuals who pursued The American Dream, and the results of their pursuit. They did not know the difference between the Vision in their hearts and the illusion of the American Dream. In pursuing the lie of illusion, they made it impossible to experience the truth of their Vision. As a result everything of value was lost.
Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nutures fantasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with girlfriend Marion and buddy Tyrone C. Love, plans his break into big-time drug dealing.
Hubert Selby, Jr
Requiem for a Dream
This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure—Faith in a Loving God
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000. — 288 p.
Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nutures fantasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with girlfriend Marion and buddy Tyrone C. Love, plans his break into big-time drug dealing.
Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture...
Penguin UK, 2014. — 160 p. Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Susheila Nasta. At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s...
Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette is the book that comes closest to matching Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'. It's the highly charged story of a high achieving child, her genius Microsoft star employee father and her reclusive award-winning mother Bernadette. The family trip to Antarctica may well be their undoing. This is a hilarious novel...
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of....
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,. 2005.—139p.—ISBN: I-89708-00-X Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer currently living in Toronto, Canada. Honours she has received include, among others, a Musgrave Gold Medal awarded in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions to literature.
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 244 с. Сепамла Сифо. Верхом на вихре (на англ. яз.) Sydney Sipho Sepamla (1932 - 9 January 2007) was a contemporary South African poet and novelist. Born in a township near Krugersdorp, Sipho Sepamla lived most of his life in Soweto. He studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College and published his first volume of poetry, "Hurry Up to It!", in 1975....
A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.
A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL. is finally out in paperback!
Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,.2006.—465p.—ISBN: 0-226-74878-2 Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator of Jewish heritage. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence.
Atria Books, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1982137444; ISBN13: 978-1982137441. A New York Times bestseller A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One...
Atria Books, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1982137444; ISBN13: 978-1982137441. A New York Times bestseller A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One...
Atria Books, 2022. — 272 p. — ISBN-10 1982166797; ISBN-13 978-1982166793. The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She...
Atria Books, 2022. — 272 p. — ISBN-10 1982166797; ISBN-13 978-1982166793. The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She...
Ranked 95 in the BBC's Big Read.
Published: 1954.
This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 9 с. Сын-хи Чо. Ричард МакБиф, пьеса (на англ. яз.) Cast of Characters: Richard McBeef - Step-father, 40. Sue - Mother, 40. John - Son, 13. Setting: Living-room, basement, car.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. — 622 p. From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. — 636 p. From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Anne Sexton (1928-1974), an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse, fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems...
Xix, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.; McKay 1975 This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in...
Dial Press, 2009. 290 pages. “I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man...
Drama / 3m, 2f / Comp. Int. The first stage success from the author of Equus and Amadeus, this taut family drama centers on a young German student who, coming to England to tutor the daughter of well-to-do family is drawn into the various individual dramas of these fractured, isolated people. "A powerful and absorbing drama." - New York Post
The play is set at a weekend cottage...
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. — ISBN: 0-671-02844-8. His takent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic - a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable - remaining vibrant and alive. Here now, newly discovered, are Tupac's most honest and intimate thoughts conveyed through the pure art of...
Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation...
[n.a.]: Argotist e-books, 2011. — 72 p. Don Share is an American poet. He is the former chief editor of Poetry magazine in Chicago. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. Share, who was named the editor-in-chief of Poetry in 2013, previously served there as Senior Editor. Earlier, he was Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University from 2000 until 2007.[3] He was...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 9 с. Шариати Али. Один, перед бесчисленным множеством нулей (на англ. яз.) ...Among the wolves, among the foxes, among the mice, which "rise up", which "stand", rise, stand, among the zeros, Like "1". Yes, Only "1" is a figure, It is the only unit figure, The number of stars, the universes, The earths and the heavens, The number of all the things in...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in 1983 in England. 174 pages. Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown, a bumbling British public schoolboy, has a penchant for taking the most innocent commands literally. His adventures whisk him to a French castle, where he commits murder and mayhem. British humor is rarely captured as effectively as this. Fry accomplishes an incredible range of accents...
250 p. A secret love which has a whole town talking... and a small boy very worried. Lydia Weekes is distraught at the break-up of her marriage. When her young son, Charlie, makes friends with the local doctor, Jean Markham, her life is turned upside down. Charlie tells his secrets to no one but the bees, but even he can't keep his mother's friendship to himself. The locals don't...
2013.
In 1977, Jack Sheffield was appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire and this collection contains six of his funny, heart-warming and semi-autobiographical novels. The books cover the length of his roller-coaster career at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, where he encountered such characters as Ruby, a 20-stone caretaker with an acute spelling...
Delphi Classics. 2012. — 2993 p.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew...
"Ода западному ветру" - произведение великого английского поэта-романтика Перси Биши Шелли (1792 - 1822). В данном варианте оно представлено на языке оригинала (на английском) и в переводе на русский язык (перевод Б. Л. Пастернака).
Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns — they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile...
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn’t come home after her school play, Jenny’s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken. As the months pass, the...
William Morrow, 2023. — 455 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-324358-3 PAXOS, GREECE The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman—the teenage daughter of the Greek...
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. — 378 p.
Уильям Шенстон - английский поэт. Автор многих од, баллад, элегий, песен и юмористических стихотворениий. Первый сборник его стихотворений издан в Оксфорде под заглавием "Poems upon Various Occasions" (1737). Стихи его отличаются звучностью, но однообразны и часто вычурны. В прозе его "Письма к друзьям" и "Опыты о людях и...
Alcove Press, 2023. — 455 р. — ISBN: 978-1-63910-154-2 Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus’s control and the constant watchful eye of...
Moscow : Foreign lang. publ. house, 1949. — 92 p. — (Библиотека иностранной литературы). 1770s London, where the aristocracy’s morals have plunged lower than the necklines on the women’s gowns. The vicious Lady Sneerwell enjoys ruining reputations for pleasure, and her latest target is the young bachelor Charles Surface — why should this pretentious little rake inherit his...
New York: Penguin Classics, 2000. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 0141183268; ISBN13: 978-0141183268 Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics. Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a...
Hailed as a perfect miracle, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is a suspenseful, inspiring story about second chances and the liberating power of love.
The tale begins with a young man narrowly surviving a car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death....
Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN: 1471130371, 704 pages.
Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company-The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most...
Park Row Books, 2021. — 237 p. An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, The Last Exiles is a searing portrait of a young couple in Pyongyang and their fight for love and freedom Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 35 p. Син Чхэ-хо. Небо мечты (на англ. яз.) Shin Chae-ho’s nationalist novella Dream Sky, written in 1916, reads like a cross between The Apocalypse of St. John and Pilgrim’s Progress. The first several lines depict the protagonist Hannom seeing a divine figure revealed in the heavens who announces the necessity of...
Vintage, 2012. — 272 p. — (Vintage Contemporaries). — ISBN10: 0307739511; ISBN13: 978-0307739513. When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they...
2007. 79 p. A tale of two people, Toono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them...
352 pages. Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (April 1, 2014). ISBN10: 1416993932. ISBN13: 978-1416993933. Family secrets cut to the bone in this mesmerizing debut novel about a teen whose drug-addicted brother is the prodigal son one time too many. There is a pecking order to every family. Seventeen-year old Clare is the overprotected baby; Peter is the typical,...
New York: Kensington Books, 2019. — 336 p. A powerful, action-packed novel that illustrates the long-buried secrets and unending costs of war - based on the true story of General Patton’s clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering...
1924. — 38 p. The novel is written by Armenian writer Alexander Shirvanzade. This is a sad love story fill with sorrow and pain. But also it is a love story about beauty and romance, and the main character of the novel, "the artist", can love the way no one can.
A home view. Making happiness for mamsie. Mamsie'S birthday. Trouble for the little brown house. More trouble. Hard days for polly. The cloud over the little brown house. Joel'S turn. Sunshine again. A threatened blow. Safe. New friends. Phronsie pays a debt of gratitude. A letter to jasper. Jolly days. Getting a christmas for the little ones. Christmas bells! Education ahead....
Penguin Books, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN: 045147984X; ISBN13: 9780451479846. Seventeen-year-old Megan Harper is about due for her next sweeping romance. It's inevitable—each of her relationships starts with the perfect guy and ends with him falling in love...with someone else. But instead of feeling sorry for herself, Megan focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theater, and...
Viking Books for Young Readers, 2019. — 362 p. — ISBN: 0451481097; ISBN13: 9780451481092. High school senior Cameron Bright’s reputation can be summed up in one word: bitch. It’s no surprise she’s queen bee at her private L.A. high school—she’s beautiful, talented, and notorious for her cutting and brutal honesty. So when she puts her foot in her mouth in front of her crush,...
Poems. Coffee House Press, 2023. — 214 р. — ISBN-13: 978-1566896597; 2023 Eleni Sikelianos, "a master of mixing genres" (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our past, present, and future, Sikelianos, one of our foremost practitioners of ecopoetic exploration, finds...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. — 80 p. — (Yale series of younger poets) — ISBN-10 : 0300107897; ISBN-13 : 978-0300107890 Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize. Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession...
Penguin, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9780143442301. A reprint of a 2008 novel based on a real story with the background of Indo-Pak conflict. Recently a fillm, “Raazi” has been produced with the same plot based on the book.
Publisher: Silhouette , 1990. – 139 p. Language: English. An omnibus of novels by Ann Major (Santa’s Special Miracle), Rita Rainville (Lights Out!), Lindsay McKenna (Always and Forever), Kathleen Creighton(The Mysterious Gift). All widowed Noreen Black's son wanted for Christmas was a daddy, but even Santa couldn't bring the man she loved into their family. Grant Hale's comforting...
NY: Open Road Integrated Media. — 395 p. Силлитоу Алан. Ключ от двери, роман (на англ. яз.) Key to the Door is a novel by English author Alan Sillitoe, first published in 1961. It is the story of a young man growing up in the grim backstreets of Nottingham, England in the 1940s. He attempts to find a way of shaking off the stifling working class expectations that are thrust...
Plume, 1992. — 192 p. To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with authority. You don't need to give Arthur more than one chance to do the Government or trick the foreman. And when the day's work is over, Arthur is off to the pubs, raring for adventure. He is a warrior of the bottle and the bedroom - his slogan is 'If it's...
Soho Teen, 2018. — 304 p. — ISBN13: 978-1616958732. "This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the...
HarperCollins, 2017. — 384 p. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. Set in a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, the novel follows teens Mateo and Rufus, who meet using...
HarperCollins, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10 0062457799. — ISBN13 978-0062457790. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. Set in a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, the novel...
New York Review of Books, 2013. - 572 p. Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization: a distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature, he was one of the first Westerners to expose the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Leys’s interests and expertise are not, however, confined to China: he also writes about European art, literature, history, and...
Sounds True, 2017. — 374 p. — ISBN 9781622037414 We spend countless hours training our dogs, but how often do we consider what they have to teach us? "Our canine companions aren't just our best friends," explains Tami Simon. "Sometimes they can also be carriers of a special medicine and the wisdom lessons we most need." The Dharma of Dogs shares the reflections of spiritual...
RTF - 100 pages. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (foreword by C.Banington) Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged...
Penguin, 2014. — 326 p. — ISBN13: 978-1405912792 An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love. Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 13 с. Син Чхэ Хо. Битва драконов (на англ. яз.) Shin Chae-ho (1880–1936) was a Korean independence activist, historian, anarchist, nationalist, and a founder of Korean ethnic nationalist historiography (민족 사학, minjok sahak; sometimes shortened to minjok). He is held in high esteem in both North and South Korea. Two of his works, A New Reading of...
Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.
The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn...
London: Hamish Hamilton (an inprint of Penguin Books), 2011. — 442 p. — ISBN10: 978-0-141-90262-3; ISBN13: 9780241144350. Ghost Milk is a chronicle of a city turned upside down: corner diners have given way to grandiose shopping centers; gated pleasure domes have replaced public parks; and the casual diversity of a neighborhood with centuries of history is being eradicated. In...
London: Hamish Hamilton (an inprint of Penguin Books), 2011. — 442 p. — ISBN10: 9780141902623; ISBN13: 9780241144350. Ghost Milk is a chronicle of a city turned upside down: corner diners have given way to grandiose shopping centers; gated pleasure domes have replaced public parks; and the casual diversity of a neighborhood with centuries of history is being eradicated. In this...
London: Penguin Books Limited, 2015. - 272 p. - ISBN: 978-0-241-97150-5 The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. With thirty-three stations and thirty-five miles to tramp - plus inevitable and unforeseen detours and false steps - he embarks on a marathon circumnavigation at...
Global Grey, 2021. — 240 p. The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which...
Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle (1906). It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that...
Harmony, 2015. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 080414110X; ISBN13: 978-0804141109. From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go. A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the...
Harmony, 2015. - 272 c. - ISBN10: 080414110X; ISBN13: 978-0804141109. From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go. A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. — 96 p. — (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 96) — ISBN-10: 0300093624; ISBN-13: 978-0300093629. Sean Singer's Discography , the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets 2002 competition, is playful, experimental, jazz-influenced, the poems in this book delight in sound and approach the more abstract pleasures of music. Singer takes as his...
Edited by Mary Flowers Braswell
Originally Published in Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995, 53 p.
Среднеанглийская поэма о рыцаре Персивале (Парцифале). С комментариями и современными английскими лексическими параллелями.
Manchester: Carcanet Press Ltd., 1998. — 544 p. — (Poetry Pleiade) — ISBN-10: 1857543793; ISBN-13: 978-1857543797. When C.H. Sisson was 20, he gave up writing poems. He began once more in his 30s under the stress of war-time, stationed in India. Verse came intermittently, exiguously; the bulk of his early writing in translation ('fishing in other men's waters' he calls it),...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Random House, 2018. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0399592865; ISBN13: 978-0399592867. “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible “I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 16 с. Ситуморанг Ситор. Ритуалы Бали Ага и другие стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Ситор Ситуморанг (1923—2014) — индонезийский поэт, драматург, критик. Участник движения "Поколение-45". The Island. The Rites of the Bali Aga. To My Friends on Legian Beach. The Beach.
Simon & Schuster. ISBN10: 1-84739-614-3 В отличие от других участников Mötley Crüe, Никки пристрастился к героину. Из книги The Heroin Diaries: «Алкоголь, кислота, кокаин… они были просто увлечениями. Когда я встретил героин, то влюбился в него по-настоящему». Он говорит, что передозировки у него были около 6 раз. Ночью 22 декабря 1987 Сикса объявили мёртвым после передозировки...
Avid Reader Press, 2023. — 477 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-7787-4 Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She's moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is...
Gollancz, 2002. — 192 p. — (Sf Collector's). — ISBN10: 0575072350.; ISBN13: 978-0575072350. Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's "asimov circuits." They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's first law of robotics: A robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. But, that's not what's...
Transl. from the Macedonian: Christina Kramer. — Penguin Books, 2012. — 266 p. — ISBN 978-1-101-60361-1. Damaged by loss and haunted by unfulfilled dreams, Adolfina Freud, sister of Sigmund Freud, tells her story. This grim but provocative novel by Macedonian author Smilevski asks whether Sigmund Freud, who escaped the Nazi invasion of Vienna after selecting an entourage...
384 pages; Publisher: Anchor; 1992 A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late...
London: Fourth Estate, 2019. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0008313369; ISBN13: 978-0008313364 In the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres. The Boy, who is no longer really a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work as the waves roll, dragging strange...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. (The audiobook) Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. (The audiobook) Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. (The audiobook) Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and...
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century", A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan — and her erratic, eccentric family — in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. (The audiobook) Originally published in 1943, this true American classic has sold millions of copies worldwide, and...
Penguin Random House, 2022. — 537 p. Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella "Teal Cartwheels" Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on the orders of her parents, who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles of reality. And the highway beckons. Leaving their abusive pasts behind them in Jersey, Kody and Teal set off...
Неадаптированный рассказ Курта Смита из периодического журнала Reader’s Digest за октябрь 1993 г. Рассказ о бейсболе, что был самым лучшим времяпрепровождением для взрослых и детей 90-х годов. Автор считает, что следует возродить традиции бейсбола в Америке. Интересен тем, кто увлекается спортом, знает игроков бейсбола, команды, собирает карточки…
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. — ISBN10: 148209777X ISBN13: 978-1482097771. Poker Boy somehow finds himself facing an imitation of his girlfriend, Patty Ledgerwood. Within a fraction of a second he somehow saves himself and maybe the world from another war. Or maybe he helps set up a new waR.
Dodie Smith's first novel transcends the oft-stodgy definition of "a classic" by being as brightly witty and adventuresome as it was when published nearly fifty years ago.
The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying castle during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an...
A. L. Burt Company, 1924. — 200 p. The third book in the Pollyanna series, this one is written by a different author than the original author. However, it still captures some of the charm of the originals. This book focuses on Pollyanna and Jimmy's first married year.
Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. — 213 p. Pollyanna is kept busy teaching her famous "glad game" to others and thus spreading her own infectious happiness wherever she goes. There is the unfortunate Lorraine whose great wealth fails to help her adjust herself to the effects of a bad accident, and there is young, inexperienced Paula Merrill who is rescued from disaster by Pollyanna's...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — ISBN 978-031652-975-4. Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS and CHANCES ARE...) Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's...
Berkley, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1984805428 Emmie Echavarre is a professional faker. She has to be to survive as one of the few female employees at Nuts & Bolts, a power tool company staffed predominantly by gruff, burly men. From nine to five, Monday through Friday, she's tough as nails--the complete opposite of her easy-going real self. One thing she doesn't have to fake? Her...
New York: New Directions, 1988. — 162p. — ISBN: 0-8112-1067-7; ISBN: 0-8112-1068-5 Collected in this volume are the wholly individual poems, accompanied by many of her equally ideosyncratic drawings, of Stevie Smith, one of the few English modern poets to reach a wide general audience - although she had to wait until 1962 to be highly regarded as a serious poet.
New York: New Directions, 1988. — 162p. — ISBN: 0-8112-1067-7; ISBN: 0-8112-1068-5 Collected in this volume are the wholly individual poems, accompanied by many of her equally ideosyncratic drawings, of Stevie Smith, one of the few English modern poets to reach a wide general audience - although she had to wait until 1962 to be highly regarded as a serious poet.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. — 600 p. — ISBN: 0-19-519816-6 “On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet.” — wrote Robert Lowell about Stevie Smith. Beloved by British old and young,...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. — 600 p. — ISBN: 0-19-519816-6 “On gray days when most modern poetry seems one dull colorless voice speaking through a hundred rival styles, one turns to Stevie Smith and enjoys her unique and cheerfully gruesome voice. She is a charming and original poet.” — wrote Robert Lowell about Stevie Smith. Beloved by British old and young,...
Edited by Jack Barbera & William McBrien. Preface by James MacGibbon. — New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 086068217X; ISBN13: 978-0860682172 Stevie Smith is most famous as a poet and for one of her three works of fiction, Notes on Yellow Paper, but throughout her most productive years she was also writing in many other forms. Stories, essays, drawings,...
Edited by Jack Barbera & William McBrien. Preface by James MacGibbon. — New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 086068217X; ISBN13: 978-0860682172 Stevie Smith is most famous as a poet and for one of her three works of fiction, Notes on Yellow Paper, but throughout her most productive years she was also writing in many other forms. Stories, essays, drawings,...
An anthology of stories edited by Zadie Smith. A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character. Judith Castle by David Mitchell Justin M. Damiano by Daniel Clowes Frank by A. L. Kennedy Gideon by ZZ Packer Gordon by Andrew O’Hagan Hanwell Snr by Zadie Smith J. Johnson by Nick Hornby, with illustrations by Posy Simmonds Lélé by Edwidge Danticat...
An anthology of stories edited by Zadie Smith.
A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character.
The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book...
Delphi Classics, 2012. — 8233 p. — ASIN B009L834YG. Revered by Dickens and Sir Walter Scott, Tobias Smollett is a writer seldom read nowadays, although he is responsible for some of the greatest literary works of the Eighteenth-Century. This comprehensive eBook offers Smollett's complete fictional works, with rare texts, beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and...
Inside Out Paperback – April 1, 2010
Keep Your Head Down.
Don't Get Noticed.
Or Else.
I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my...
Outside In (Inside) Paperback – February 15, 2011
Me?
A leader?
Okay, I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew.
That a whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion—between worker scrubs like me and the snobby uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I was off the...
Colorado: Outskirts Press,.2011.—122p.—ISBN: 978-1-4327-7366-3 Donna Solitario is an Award Winning Author with four published Poetry books. She taught Special Education for ten years, and is currently a Substitute Teacher. She is also a Senior Writer for the Community. Donna enjoys sharing her love of poetry & poems
Delphi Classics, 2013. — (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 16). — ASIN B00D65BOVA. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Sophocles, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi...
IDW Publishing, 2010. — 224 р. — ISBN: 1600106838.
The AllSpark Almanac II captures the magic of the most whimsical TRANSFORMERS series ever with a wondrous examination of this amazing universe. This volume is packed with behind-the-scenes sketches, interesting facts, production artwork, and musings from the characters themselves. Relive the thrill of the final season of...
Издательство: Idea & Design Works Llc, 2009 г.
ISBN: 1-60010-487-8.
ISBN13: 978-1-60010-487-9.
220 стр.
Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind atlas to an amazing new universe. It allows you to: discover behind-the-scenes secrets directly from the show's creators; marvel at the gorgeous settings where Autobots and Decepticons do battle;...
NY: NYRB Classics, 2012. — 256 p. One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the inability to have children, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke's younger...
Harper Perennial, 2023. — 732 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-304-304-6 A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.” No one can predict whom it will afflict, or how, but once infected, there’s no coming back. A young Hong Kong based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an...
Transl. with an intr. by David R. McCann. — New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. — 216 p. — ISBN-10: 023113973X; ISBN-13: 978-0231139731. Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief...
Contemporary African Plays. — Methuen, 1999. — p. 303-382. Death and the King's Horseman is a play by Wole Soyinka based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during British colonial rule: the horseman of a Yoruba King was prevented from committing ritual suicide by the colonial authorities. In addition to the British intervention, Soyinka calls the horseman's own...
[n.a.]: /ubu editions, 2002. — 84 p. Response presents a montage of poem narratives that strike at the corrupt heart of popular culture–its manipulation of images in ways that capture the human imagination with capitalist fantasies. Taken together, the poems in Response constitute a thorough critique of attempts to control life with imagery. Understood throughout Response as an...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. — 96 p. — ISBN-10: 052024321X; ISBN-13: 9780520243215 Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the...
One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual, Endless Love tells the story of David Axelrod and his overwhelming love for Jade Butterfield. David's and Jade's lives are consumed with each other; their rapport, their desire, their...
Publisher: Ecco Press, 1999. - 193 p. Language: English. Description: The classic novel that has been translated into over twenty languages and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. One of the most celebrated novels of its time, Endless Love remains perhaps the most powerful novel ever written about young love. Riveting, compulsively readable, and ferociously sexual,...
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. — 560 p. — (Weslean poetry) — ISBN-10: 081956868X; ISBN-13: 9780819568680 In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the...
A wild, erotic novel — a daring debut — from the much-admired, award-winning poet, author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others. A strange, haunting novel about survival and love in all its forms; about sexual awakenings and dark secrets; about European refugee...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2009 — 263 р.
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What’s your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you’re lots of fun and a bit sassy. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life. Or perhaps it’s a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a...
Picador USA, 2011. — 265 p. — (Patrick Melrose #5). — ISBN: 0330435906 (ISBN13: 9780330435901). As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends and the family gathers one last time,...
Picador USA, 2012. — 680 p. — (Patrick Melrose #1-4). — ISBN: 0312429967 (ISBN13: 9780312429966). For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novels—Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope,...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 389 p. Presenting 250 selections, the author has arranged the poems chronologically by conflict to produce a literary history of warfare as seen by the most eloquent observers of its effects, and consequences.
Edited by Larry D. Benson, Revised by Edward E. Foster
Originally Published in King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1994, 91 p.
Поэма на среднеанглийском языке, повествующая о фатальном столкновении чувств легендарного короля Артура, королевы Гвиневер и первого...
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. — 216 p. — ISBN-10: 0817350535; ISBN-13: 978-0817350536. Eighty-one poems spanning the career of the late George Starbuck, widely praised luminary of modern American verse. Starbuck was known in his lifetime and is remembered today as a practitioner of verse remarkable for its pathos, intelligence, and wit. A master of American...
Scribner, 2012. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4516-8173-4; ISBN: 978-1-4516-8176-5. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at...
Scribner, 2012. — 343 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4516-8173-4; ISBN: 978-1-4516-8176-5. After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at...
Aspidistra Press, 2012. — 284 p. Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me, to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth." Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby is...
[n.a.]: /ubu editions, 2004. — 127 p. Gulf, a collection of both my more "lyric" and procedural writings from the mid-nineties, first appeared in the form of a huge mass of stapled photocopies in 1998, published in an edition of 100 by Object and distributed by hand and mail. In 2000, Harry Tankoos Books published another 100 copies, some of which are still available at Small...
"A heartaching love story and moving tale of redemption.as only a dog could tell it." About the Author The author of two novels, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets and Raven Stole the Moon, and a play, Brother Jones, GARTH STEIN has also worked as a documentary filmmaker. He lives in Seattle with his family. WWW.ARTOFRACINGINTHERAIN.COM "The Art Of Racing In The Rain"...
Dorchester Publishing Company, 2008. When a young woman on the brink of bankruptcy inherits a small cornerstone, the contents are sure to solve all of her problems - at least the ones the cunning hunk inside the stone doesn't create himself!
A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of Mischief. It's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis, has been reduced to a single tenant. Lenny Sklarew awaits the draft by peddling drugs and shelving books — until he learns he...
Penguin Classics, 2003. — 735 p. — ISBN 0141439777; ISBN13 9780141439778. No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a...
Munich: 2005. — 695 p. As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, to the extent that Tristram's own birth is not even reached until Volume III. Consequently, apart from...
Сборник наиболее известных стихотворений американского писателя-модерниста Уоллеса Стивенса (1879-1955) на языке оригинала. За годы жизни и продуктивного творчества, Стивенс создал не только удивительные по силе символов и образов поэтические произведения («Части света», «Осенние зори», «Скала» и многие другие), но и прекрасные искусствоведческие опусы («Посмертные бумаги»,...
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971. — 543 p.
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in...
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1951. — 178 p.
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in...
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton.
Год: 1970.
Страниц: 464.
Описание: Merlin Trilogy -
1. Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity.Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age...
Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Merlin Trilogy - 2. The countryside of England and Wales in the Dark Ages forms an almost tangible background to this wonderfully and powerfully realised picture of an ancestral hero coming to manhood. The Hollow Hills is the brilliant portrayal of the young Arthur from his birth to accession to the throne of Britain. And behind and around him is the...
London: Coronet Books, 1964. — 320 p. Matthew Winslow, the master of Whitescar, is dying and has no living children. His beloved grand-daughter Annabel disappeared several years ago and his great-nephew Connor Winslow is now managing the farm - without hope for reward. An encounter with a young women having a strong resemblance to his lost cousin, draws Connor towards a plot to...
Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. Merlin Trilogy - 3. With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king. and to save him Merlin musters all his power to weave one last enchantment. He is showing signs of age...
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0-399-15534-1. Written quite a time ago about the middle of last century, this wonderful novel is still topical nowadays. Twenty two year old Skeeter has graduated from school and wants to proceed education, but according to the principles and traditions of that time her mother first of all wants to see her married. Girl used...
The Help is a 2009 novel by American author Kathryn Stockett. The story is about African-American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. A USA Today article called it one of 2009's "summer sleeper hits". An early review in The New York Times notes Stockett's "affection and intimacy buried beneath even the most seemingly impersonal...
The Adventures of Captain Horn is an 1895 adventure novel by Frank R. Stockton that was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897.
Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular...
Irving Stone (born Tannenbaum, July 14, 1903, San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo. At the early age of...
Doubleday, 1971. — 856 p. The Passions of the Mind is a 1971 novel by American author Irving Stone. It is a biographical novel about the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and covers his life from when he was a student to when he is forced to leave Austria to escape the growing influence of the Nazis. Compelling portrait of the Viennese neurologist, focuses on the intense, agonized...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.
Grove Press: New York, 1975. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9532-6. Travesties is a 1974 play by Tom Stoppard. It centers on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of...
The Man Booker Prize Set in South Yorkshire, this is the story of Colin's struggle to come to terms with his family – his mercurial, ambitious father, his deep-feeling, long-suffering mother – and to escape the stifling heritage of the raw mining community into which he was born. This book won the 1976 Booker Prize.
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. — 189 p. — ISBN: 978-0-545-05474-4. *The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.* Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear it's part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been...
Балетные туфельки. J. M. Dent & Sons. — 303 p. Знаменитая книга Ноэль Стритфилд рассказывает о жизни троих детей, которые потеряли во время землетрясения своих родителей и были вынуждены переехать в Англию к нелюбимому дяде. Несмотря на большие трудности, мальчики Франческо и Гасси помогают своей младшей сестре Анне осуществить ее мечту - стать балериной.
270 pp; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ISBN: 9781400062089 140006208X; 2009 Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior...
Random House, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0812996542; ISBN13: 978-0812996548. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these...
Random House, 2019. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0812996542; ISBN13: 978-0812996548. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these...
Grove Press: New York, 2020. — 472 p. Winner of the Booker Prize 2020. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020 The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' – Observer. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She...
"Clearing in the Sky" is the story of a man who is an embodiment of determination and strong will to live an active life to the age of seventy despite medical advice with regard to his weak heart. It is a first person narrative. The father of the narrator is the hero of the story. It runs parallel to or in contrast with the advice of the doctors.
The father wants to show...
Anchor, 2011. — 320 pages. ISBN10: 030747691X ISBN13: 978-0307476913 Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250111595; ISBN13: 978-1250111593. Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world’s most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life,...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. - 400 c. - ISBN10: 1250111595; ISBN13: 978-1250111593. Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world’s most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life,...
McBooks Press, 2004. First published 1972. The author's real name is Violet Vivian Finlay (1914-1983). The fifth book about Phillip Hazard. To break the stalemate in the Crimea, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS Huntress is dispatched with a select handful of his crew to seek out the...
McBooks Press, 2004. First published 1972. The author's real name is Violet Vivian Finlay (1914-1983). The fourth book about Phillip Hazard. The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress...
Chicago: Adams Press, 2004. — 100 p. — ISBN-10 1929612583; ISBN-13 978-1929612581. First full-length book of poetry by author Jason Sturner (Jay Sturner). Themes include love, loss, nature, and more. In addition to being gathered in book form, many of these poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and other periodicals.
[n.a.]: Published by the author, 2008. — 15 p. Jason Sturner was born in Harvey, Illinois, and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago. He is a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society and has published three books of poetry: Kairos , 10 Love Poems , and Selected Poems 2004-2007 . In addition to poetry he writes flash fiction, short stories, and nature essays. He resides in...
[n.a.]: Published by the author, 2008. — 30 p. Jason Sturner was born in Harvey, Illinois, and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago. He is a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society and has published three books of poetry: Kairos , 10 Love Poems , and Selected Poems 2004-2007 . In addition to poetry he writes flash fiction, short stories, and nature essays. He resides in...
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences she barely feels. For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction. She can’t quite understand what motivates others to take life seriously enough to focus on anything — for her existence is a loosely woven tapestry of fleeting concepts. From losing her virginity to mindless...
Apollo, 2022. — 385 p. Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th birthday of the famous artist Shirin Saka. It ought to be a time of fond reminiscence, looking back on a...
Apollo, 2021. — 477 p. September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same moment, an Indian spy sails into the golden-hued, sycamore-scented city with a secret mission from the British Empire. When he leaves, 17 years later, it will be to the smell of kerosene and smoke as the city,...
Novel. — Wales: Cambria Books, 2012. — v, 160 p. — ISBN 978-0-9572459-5-2. Anarchy in a Cold War is a novel by Kurtis Sunday set in the West Berlin alternative-squatter-Punk scene during the latter part of the Cold War. The city, a focal point in the conflict between East and West, was a capitalist enclave smack in the middle of Communist East Germany. It was entirely...
Harper Perennial, 2008. — 592 p. — ISBN-10 0061256234; ISBN-13 978-0061256233 New York TIMES BESTSELLER "A big, fat, happy feast of a book...[Isaacs's] most confident and appealing...[She] is both funny and piercing, a highly satisfying combination." --New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs's most dazzling novel of murder,...
An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion — his sense of smell — leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift — an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he...
The story spins along like an ancient tale out of the Arabian Nights with both suspense and horror growing steadily… A tour de force of the imagination, a spell weaving experience… "People" (The audiobook)
New York: Berkley, 2023. — 547 р. — ISBN 9780593546178 Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
Орел Девятого легиона» (The Eagle of the Ninth) — историческое произведение английской писательницы Розмэри Сатклиф, посвящённое Британии времён Римской империи (после 117 г. н. э.). Первая часть трилогии, продолжение — «Серебряная ветка» (The Silver Branch, 1957) и «Факелоносцы» (The Lantern Bearers, 1959). Основой сюжета повести послужила находка бескрылого орла (один из...
[A] hilarious novel' - Independent 'Very, very funny...Sutcliffe asks why crowds of well brought-up young teens leave their duvets and ready-made meals to go to Delhi, with zero knowledge of the sub-continent and half of Milletts in their Karrimors. He draws his characters stylishly' - The Times 'Very funny' - GQ 'Sutcliffe deploys a fine talent for social satire, brilliantly...
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,.2009.—104p.—ISBN: 81-260-2435-6 Sridala Swami is surprisingly mature as a poet, not only in her outlook or the way she approaches a poem, but the surefooted way she can select and handle the most difficult of themes. A Reluctant Survivor is Ms. Sridala Swami’s first book, and hence is being published under the Navodaya Scheme of the Sahitya Akademi....
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. — 66 p. — (Iowa Poetry Prize). — ISBN-10 0877456593; ISBN-13 978-0877456599. Looking at the paintings themselves involves examining the way that they make meaning and, in contrast, the way that words make meaning of them and of themselves - what happens when you have a representation of a representation? All the poems in this...
New York : Vintage, 1997. – 470 p. Language: English. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and...
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. – 586 p. Language: English. From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed Last Orders, The Light of Day, and Waterland a powerfully moving new novel set in present-day England, but against the background of a global "war on terror" and about things that touch our human core. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton-once a...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 3359 p.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press,.2010.—105p.—ISBN: 978-0-8195-6933-2 Afzal Ahmed Syed holds a unique place among contemporary poets of the Urdu language, as an acknowledged master of both the classical and modern Urdu poetic forms. The poems in Rococo and Other Worlds explore the mythology and historical realities of South Asia and the Middle East; their bold imagery...
Delphi Classics, 2018. — (Delphi Series Nine Book 14). — ISBN: 9781786561268. The playwright J. M. Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Today he is best known for his controversial play ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run. Synge's writings are chiefly...
The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective "reality" or having his own...
Review
“A masterpiece of compression. A political history of 1930s Portugal, a love story between a man and his dead wife, a gloriously successful formal experiment, and an irresistible thriller — and it can be read with enormous pleasure in a single afternoon.”
— Mohsin Hamid
“Pereira Maintains is small only in size. Its themes are great ones — courage, betrayal, fidelity,...
In this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to Portugal, a country he is deeply attached to. He spent many years there as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. He even wrote Requiem in Portuguese; it had to be translated into Italian for publication in his native Italy.
Requiem's narrator has an appointment to...
TokyoPop, 2007. — 248 p.
The novel that inspired the manga and anime!
Twenty-two-year-old Satou, a college dropout and aficionado of anime porn, knows a little secret — or at least he thinks he does! Believe it or not, he has stumbled upon an incredible conspiracy created by the Japanese Broadcasting Company, N.H.K. But despite fighting the good fight, Satou has become an...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0735211175; ISBN13: 978-0735211179. "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's...
Riverhead Books, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0735211175; ISBN13: 978-0735211179. "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's...
Translated from the Estonian by Inna Feldbach and Alan Peter Trei. — Haute Culture Books, 2014. — 642 p. "Truth and Justice" (Estonian "Tõde ja õigus") tells about the life of an Estonian farmer of the 19th century. The protagonist acquires land and tries to arrange his life fighting against land infertility and the culprits of his neighbor. Despite all the hardships, he is...
Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her "yin eyes." Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated...
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
The author presents the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. The daughters try to understand and appreciate their mothers' pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and...
Translated by Burton Watson. — Columbia University Press, 2003. — 125 p. In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882–1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist monk as well as literary inspiration for his memorable...
Translated by John Stevens. — 4th edition. — Weatherhill, 1991. — 126 p. Mountain Tasting presents the Zen haiku of the wandering Japanese poet Santoka (1882—1940). Santoka lived his life in the Zen hermit poetic tradition of Japan that includes Matsuo Basho, Ryokan, and Saigyo Hoshi. The open road was to become both his home and monastery. As he said, “Days I don’t enjoy: Any...
Lex Sakai never had time for dating until her crafty grandmother insisted she bring a date to her cousin's wedding. The always-in-control Lex uses Ephesians to compile a huge list of traits for the perfect man - but God seems to have a much more unlikely candidate in mind.
Vintage, 1994. 111 pages.
ISBN: 9781407073903.
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image. it is a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband. At is centre - seductive, manipulating, enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most...
Vintage Books, 1996. — 317 p.
Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty.
A Portrait of Shunkin
Terror
The Bridge of Dreams
The Tattooer
The Thief
Aguri
A Blind Man's...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. 107 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4629-0350-4. The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by educating his...
Vintage Books, 2000. 376 pages. ISBN: 9781407053752. Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, and brings a...
New Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2012. — 267 p. This book contains the tale of one of England's most famous legendary heroes, Robin Hood. Fantastically retold by Eva March Tappan, it tells the story of the ranger of the forest who is outlawed for shooting the king's deer but who becomes the embodiment of resistant to injustice in England and beyond. These classic legends...
High-school senior Mary Gilhooley and her friends have spent their
entire lives-but especially the last four years-feeling like underdogs
and also-rans. Having suffered constant ridicule from Oyster Point's
resident bully king and superjock, Jake Barbone, they are all just
dying to go away to college and never come back. But with only a week
until graduation, there's one last...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1922. — 373 p.
The book of American Pulitzer Prize winner is known for romanticized pictures of Midwesterners in portrayals of boyhood and adolescence.
Бут Таркингтон (1869-1946) — американский писатель, получивший Пулицеровскую награду за романы.
336 pp; Doubleday 1919 Largely overshadowed by Orson Welles’s famous 1941 screen version, Booth Tarkington’s novel The Magnificent Ambersons was not only a best-seller when it first appeared in 1918—it also won the Pulitzer Prize. Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth century—the dawn of the automobile age—the novel begins by introducing the richest family in town, the...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — 773 p. — ISBN: 0316055433; ISBN13: 9780316055437. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. — 576 p. — ISBN 9781400031702. A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and...
(Norton Critical Editions). First edition, 1999 - Всего страниц: 394
Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.
This Norton Critical Edition collects forty-four fairy tales, from the fifth century to the present. The Classic Fairy Tales focuses on six tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood,"...
HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. - 252 pages.
Seeking some much-needed rest and relaxation after a long stint as a TV-news war correspondent in Bosnia, 33-year-old Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice. There he is struck by the dark beauty of a young American woman, Vanessa Stewart, a 27-year-old glass designer from New York.Unhappily married, she welcomes a no-strings friendship...
Riverhead Books, 2023. — 469 р. — ISBN 9780593332351 In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work...
North Port, FL: Tiny Fox Press LLC, 2017. — 302 p. The Wehrmacht marches on Stalingrad. The deadly Luftwaffe dominates the skies. Nadya "Little Boar" Buzina, a young pilot with the Red Army's 586th all-female Fighter Air Regiment, has just been thrust into the meat grinder. If she’s to protect her homeland and survive the chaos, she’s going to have to learn to trust her wingman...
Роман Валери Тейлор, впервые опубликованный в 1959 году. Язык: английский.
Одна из самых первых американских книг о лесбиянках, женщинах, которые любят женщин. Как раз в 50-е годы сексуальные меньшинства стали героями серьезных романов (так же как, например, юные правонарушители или битники).
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyrical poet. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustrated in her poem, Spring Night (1915), from that collection. She was...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction...
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. — 108 p. — ISBN 0-19-567091-4. Ghashiram Kotwal is a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1972 as a response to the rise of a local political party, Shiv Sena, in Maharashta. The play is a political satire, written as historical drama. Based on the life of Nana Phadnavis (1741–1800), one of the prominent ministers in...
Delphi Classics, 2013. Собрание работ выдающегося английского поэта 19-го века. The Poetry Collections. Poems, By Two Brothers. Timbuctoo : A Poem. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. Poems, 1832. The Lover’s Tale. A Fragment. Poems, 1842. Miscellaneous Contributions To Periodicals, 1831-1868. The Princess: A Medley. In Memoriam A. H. H. Maud, And Other Poems. Idylls Of The King. Enoch...
Delphi Classics, 2013. Собрание работ выдающегося английского поэта 19-го века. The Poetry Collections. Poems, By Two Brothers. Timbuctoo : A Poem. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. Poems, 1832. The Lover’s Tale. A Fragment. Poems, 1842. Miscellaneous Contributions To Periodicals, 1831-1868. The Princess: A Medley. In Memoriam A. H. H. Maud, And Other Poems. Idylls Of The King. Enoch...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
Thomas Nelson, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1400205875; ISBN13: 978-1400205875. The enemy wants us to feel rejected...left out, lonely, and less than. In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection--from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to...
New York: Dell Publishing, 1983. — 359 p. Beth Harmon was a child, struggling in a cold and terrifying world of caretakers and institutions, when she discovered her gift... and the elegant, deadly game, difficult for some, but strangely easy for her. It gave her strength and power, as long as she won. But as she grew from child to woman, from prodigy to celebrated professional,...
Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2007. — 94 p. — ISBN 1-933556978, 978-1933556970. Тао Уорра Брайан. По ту сторону глаза, стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1, 1973) is a Laotian American writer. Must A World Sleep To Dream. A History of Water and Memory. Ghosts of Earth and Knowledge. Miscellaneous Rumors of My Time. End Notes. Afterword by Barbara Jane Reyes
Minneapolis: Silosoth Publishing, 2003. — 91 p. Тао Уорра Брайан. Танон Сай Тяй, стихотворения (на англ. яз.) Bryan Thao Worra (born January 1, 1973) is a Laotian American writer. Among the many stone Buddhas A novice from Luang Prabang Barely half my naïve years Beneath those loose robes: Caught seconds before The next orange prayer Walking towards nirvana, His smile...
Учебное пособие. — К.: Арий, 2015. — 80 с. — (Читаю на английском). — ISBN: 978-966-498-377-5. В книгу вошли адаптированные рассказы американской детской писательницы Джейн Тейер. Книга содержит рассказы для чтения, а также упражнения для проверки понимания текста и отработки и закрепления лексики и грамматических конструкций. Сборник предназначен для учеников...
HQN Books, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0373803907; ISBN13: 978-0373803903. There's no place like Haven Point for the holidays, where the snow conspires to bring two wary hearts together for a Christmas to remember It's been two rough years since Andrea Montgomery lost her husband, and all she wants is for her children to enjoy their first Christmas in Haven Point. But then Andie's...
HQN Books, 2016. - 336 c. - ISBN10: 0373803907; ISBN13: 978-0373803903. There's no place like Haven Point for the holidays, where the snow conspires to bring two wary hearts together for a Christmas to remember It's been two rough years since Andrea Montgomery lost her husband, and all she wants is for her children to enjoy their first Christmas in Haven Point. But then Andie's...
Сборник рассказов, 433 ст.
Edited by Alexander Jessup, editor of Representative American Short Stories, The Book of the Short Story, The Little French Masterpieces Series, etc.
The present document was derived from text provided by Project Gutenberg (document 10947), available free of charge. This document is also free of charge.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Daniel Alarcón. The Provincials. Charles Baxter. Bravery. Michael Byers. Malaria. Junot Díaz. Miss Lora. Karl Taro Greenfeld. Horned Men. Gish Jen. The Third Dumpster. Bret Anthony Johnston. Encounters with Unexpected Animals. Sheila kohler. Magic Man. David Means. The Chair. Steven Millhauser. A voice in the Night. Lorrie Moore....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Daniel Alarcón. The Provincials. Charles Baxter. Bravery. Michael Byers. Malaria. Junot Díaz. Miss Lora. Karl Taro Greenfeld. Horned Men. Gish Jen. The Third Dumpster. Bret Anthony Johnston. Encounters with Unexpected Animals. Sheila kohler. Magic Man. David Means. The Chair. Steven Millhauser. A voice in the Night. Lorrie Moore....
Edited by John Updike. — Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. — 860 p. — ISBN: 0395843685. The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of the The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature. In 1999, John...
Mariner Books, 2014. 1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig. 1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves. 1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. 1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman. 1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon. 1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon. 1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers. 1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday. 1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums. 1930....
Mariner Books, 2014. 1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig. 1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves. 1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. 1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman. 1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon. 1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon. 1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers. 1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday. 1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums. 1930....
1915. Benjamin Rosenblatt. Zelig. 1916. Mary Lerner. Little Selves. 1917. Susan Glaspell. A Jury of Her Peers. 1920. Sherwood Anderson. The Other Woman. 1922. Ring Lardner. The Golden Honeymoon. 1923. Jean Toomer. Blood-Burning Moon. 1927. Ernest Hemingway. The Killers. 1929. Willa Cather. Double Birthday. 1929. Grace Stone Coates. Wild Plums. 1930. Katherine Anne Porter....
ООО Эксмо, 2012. — 144 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-57749-1. В этом уникальном сборнике вы найдете лучшие произведения мастеров британской поэзии, а также их классические переводы на русский язык, выполненные российскими поэтами. Неадаптированные тексты позволят читателям в полной мере оценить произведения великих поэтов, а классические переводы помогут разрешить возникающие по ходу...
ООО Эксмо, 2012. — 144 с. — ISBN: 978-5-699-57749-1. В этом уникальном сборнике вы найдете лучшие произведения мастеров британской поэзии, а также их классические переводы на русский язык, выполненные российскими поэтами. Неадаптированные тексты позволят читателям в полной мере оценить произведения великих поэтов, а классические переводы помогут разрешить возникающие по ходу...
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature, Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century Year 2016 by Yunte Huang ISBN: 978-0393239485 Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and authoritative selection of significant works, in outstanding translations, from nearly fifty Chinese writers, that together express a search...
Odyssey Press: New York, 1948. — XX + 396 p.
Edited by Harry W. Hastings.
The short story has been defined facetiously as a story that is short; it may be described more seriously as a story which aims at the maximum of effect with the minimum of means. The good writer has the talent to discover the latent narrative value in many a combination of people and places and events...
Translated by Craig Williamson. With an introduction by Tom Shippey — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 1248 p. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was...
Translated by Craig Williamson. With an introduction by Tom Shippey — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 1248 p. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was...
Harper Collins Entertainment, 2004. - 99 p. - ISBN: 0-00-719168-5 - (The Simpsons library of wisdom) Homer Simpson is a man's man, an Average Joe, a loving father and husband, and a devoted beer drinker. But do you know the "real" Homer? Find out what's on Homer's mind, discover the mysteries of Homer's fridge, hang out in Homer's haunts, meet his friends and enemies, and spend...
A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende.
Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. — Paisley: Alex Gardner, 1874. — 424 p. Jacobite Relics is a collection of songs related to the Jacobite risings, was compiled by the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg on commission from the Highland Society of London. Most of the songs in the collection are Jacobite, and a minority are Whig. A number of the songs were written or...
Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. — Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd; Cadell & Davies, 1819. — 424 p. Jacobite Relics is a collection of songs related to the Jacobite risings, was compiled by the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg on commission from the Highland Society of London. Most of the songs in the collection are Jacobite, and a minority are...
Collected and illustrated by James Hogg. — Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd; Cadell & Davies, 1821. — 480 p. Jacobite Relics is a collection of songs related to the Jacobite risings, was compiled by the Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg on commission from the Highland Society of London. Most of the songs in the collection are Jacobite, and a minority are...
Aris & Phillips Ltd, 2000. — 176 p. — (Hispanic Classics) — ISBN 0856687286. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic expose of sixteenth century Spanish society, and...
Shorter edition. — New York: Norton, Rev., 1970. — 660 p. The Shorter Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, like the larger book of English and American poetry from which it is compacted, is particularly ample at both ends of the chronological spectrum, the medieval being lyrically richer than is sometimes recognized and the contemporary, denied the endorsement of...
London: Trübner & Co, 1888. — 118 p. “Taketori Monogatari,” or “The Old Bamboo-Hewer’s Story,” is a fascinating piece of early Japanese literature, well worth the short read. Written in the 10th century, it is one of the earliest known Japanese prose narratives, and the story recounts the beloved folktale of the bamboo princess, Kaguya.
Study guide. grades 6 and up. by Charlotte S. Jaffe and Barbara T. Doherty. Summary. Comprehension and Vocabulary questions of each unit and answer key.
Сборник захватывающих детективов. Удобная книга для чтения как на компьютере, так и на электронной книге. В сборник вошли рассказы: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe. The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte. The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle. Short stories by Melville Davidson Post (1869-1930), Clinton H. Stagg (1890-1916), Ross Macdonald (1915-1983). и другие.
Edited by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark. — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983 (1999 printing). — 160 p. The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems contains a wide range of poems, old and new, well-loved and less familiar. A host of poets are here — including Walter de la Mare, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley, and Roger McGough — along with traditional verses...
Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1953. — X, 694 p.
Introduction and notes by J. G. E. Hopkins.
Of the twenty-two stories offered in this volume, eleven made their earliest appearance in Scribner's Magazine, and all were published by Charles Scribner's Sons as individual volumes. The stories have, indeed, but one point of unity (excluding the fact of original publication by a...
Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. — London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973. — 1135 p. Much of “The Tale of Genji,” the eleventh-century Japanese masterpiece often called the world’s first novel, is about the art of seduction. Not that any sexual act is ever mentioned; very little in Murasaki Shikibu’s prose is plainly stated. Things are suggested, alluded to, often...
Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1972. — Reprint edition, 2013. — 251 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-0332-0, 1462903320. Revered as one of the great literary classics of Japan, The Tales of Ise is an anonymous tenth–century collection of Japanese poems and prose. First published in 1608 as Ise–monogatori, the work is a product of court life in which the romantic assignations, intrigues,...
Donner is dead by Cynthia Kaplan - Blue Christmas: The Tour by John Marchese - Eight by Any Krouse Rosenthal - That's Just about Enough Figgy Pudding, Actually by Catherine Newman - Birthday by Ann Patchett - The Accidental Santa by Joni Rodgers - Christmas 2001 by Anne Giardini - The Bite before Chrismas by Stanley bing - Survivor by Louis Bayard - I'll Have Christmas with the...
Houghton, 2012. — 323 p. Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there...
Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN10: 0345810422; ISBN13: 978-0345810427. Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of three musicians in China before, during...
Zondervan, 2012. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-310-33612-9. Beyond the Farthest Star tells the tale of a father desperate to reconnect with his daughter and regain the love of his wife. In it he discovers that reconciliation and trust begin, not with words, but with the revelation of the heart.
Balzer + Bray, 2019. On the Come Up is a 2019 young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It tells the story of Bri, a sixteen-year old rapper hoping to fill the shoes of her father and 'make it' as an underground hip-hop legend. Overnight, Bri becomes an internet sensation after posting a rap hit which sparks controversy.
Penguin Books, 1993. — ISBN: 0140231730. It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical...
Delphi Classics, 2013. — (Delphi Poets Series Book 23). — ASIN B00BTOQKE6. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works of Edward Thomas, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. Please use Calibre if you open this file on the...
Schmitz Götz (ed.). — Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. — 367 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 195; Renaissance English Text Society. Series 7, 22). As with all of the Society's publications, the focus is on the manuscript, and in this case also the 1633 printed edition, and so almost no information is provided about May...
Ballantine Books, 2023. — 367 р. — ISBN 9780593496268 After going viral “reading” the chaotic political news, having one-too-many awkward social encounters, and coming to terms with his intersecting identities, R. Eric Thomas finally knew who he was and where he was going. He was living his best life. But then everything changed. In this collection of insightful and hilarious...
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dream world called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith,...
Title: Candleford Green (the third novel in the trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford") Author: Thompson, Flora Jane (1876-1947) Date of first publication: 1943 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Oxford University Press, 1957 [reprint of the 1954 edition, volume 542 of the OUP's The World's Classics series. Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford" trilogy of novels was first...
London: Oxford University Press, 1957.
Trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford", part 1.
Lark Rise is Flora Thompson's childhood memories of a north Oxfordshire village, the people who lived and worked in it, and a way of life that has totally disappeared. The story is built around Laura and her brother Edmund, through whose eyes are seen "old Sally," whose grandfather built the...
Title: Over to Candleford (the second novel in the trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford") Author: Thompson, Flora Jane (1876-1947) Date of first publication: 1941 Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Oxford University Press, 1957 [reprint of the 1954 edition, volume 542 of the OUP's The World's Classics series. Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford" trilogy of novels was...
2009. Miss Charity Finch returns to her village Restharrow following an absence of 24 years. It's now post-World War II, but the sleepy little village has hardly changed at all since her childhood in the 1880s. Only the faces have changed. So many people she once knew and loved are now lying under the tall unkempt grass in the churchyard. As she walks the meadow path she...
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans.
A Savage Journey to the Heart Of the American Dream. Second Vintage books Edition, June 1998 copyright 1971. Страх и отвращение в Лас-Вегасе. Дикое путешествие к сердцу американской мечты. Язык английский - язык оригинала. Культовая книга, по которой был сделан культовый фильм. Содержание: - The Seizure of $300 from a Pig Woman In Beverly Hills - Strange Medicine On the...
Fiction, USA, Ballantine Books, 1996, 149 pages "California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose...
Fiction, USA, Fawcett Popular Library, 1980, 405 pages
Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous...
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and...
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0385736177 (ISBN13: 9780385736176) Linda Schenck (Translator) 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....
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2011. — 217 p. — ISBN: 0385740395 (ISBN13: 9780385740395) Linda Schenck (Translator) A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in...
Delacorte Press, 2015. — 229 p. — ISBN: 0385743858 (ISBN13: 9780385743853) Linda Schenck (Translator) Three years ago, Stephie and her younger sister, Nellie, escaped the Nazis in Vienna and fled to an island in Sweden, where they were taken in by different families. Now sixteen-year-old Stephie is going to school on the mainland. Stephie enjoys her studies, and rooming with...
Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Thoreau also used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the...
William Morrow, 2016. — 384 p. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight,...
The Sphere, 2017. — 561 p. Сборник гностико-христианских стихотворных и прозаических текстов английского поэта и исполнителя Дэвида Тибета. Все тексты идут в обратной хронологической последовательности — от 2013 года до 1983 года. Singing Omega ϫⲱ̂ ⲉⲱ̂ ⲙ̄ⲡ︤ⲣ︥ⲧⲣⲉⲱ̂ ϫⲱ̂ ⲉⲣⲟⲕ This volume brings together the major part of the words that I have written, or which have been written...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-61532-4. Translated from Indonesian by Max Lane, 1991. Toer Pramoedya Ananta. Anak semua bangsa. — Jakarta: Hasta Mitra Publishing House, 1980. “We fought back, Child, as well and as honorably as possible.” These were the words that ended Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s novel This Earth of Mankind, the first in a quartet of which Child of...
New York: Penguin Books, 1990. — 368 p.
Прамудья Ананта Тур. Мир человеческий (на англ. яз.)
"This Earth of Mankind" is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called "Buru Quartet", first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2018 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school...
Transl. by Jennifer Croft. — New York: Riverhead Books, 2018. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0525534199; ISBN13: 978-0525534198 A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high...
Barbour Publishing, Inc., 2019. A Desperate Mother Searches for Her Child. Widowed in Memphis during 1932, Cecile Dowd is struggling to provide for her three-year-old daughter. Unwittingly trusting a neighbor puts little Millie Mae into the clutches of Georgia Tann, corrupt Memphis Tennessee Children’s Home Society director suspected of the disappearance of hundreds of children....
Doubleday, 2016. — ISBN10: 0385536712; ISBN13: 978-0385536714. From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune,...
Puffin, 2020. — 400 p. Neil Gaiman meets Hans Christian Andersen in this delicious fairy tale full of mysterious spirits, daring escapes, and a beautiful message about the power of found families. Egbert, Lotta, Sem, Fenna, and Milou. They are an artist, an inventor, a sewist, a baker, and their imaginative ringleader—and they are the unadoptables: children who have lived their...
Louisiana State University Press, 2004. — 225 p. Be aware that there is neither publisher information nor paging in this document. Chapters are indicated, but section breaks within chapters are shown not by asterisks but by Roman numerals. The text is complete thanks to the layout of the document. The Forewod is by Walker Percy. "Ignatius J. Reilly is a thirty-year-old,...
Louisiana State University Press, 2004. — 603 p. Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print worldwide in...
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist-for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in ‘Trout and Salmon’-who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen…a project that will change his life, and the course of...
3rd edition. — ST Book Arts, 2014. — ASIN B003K15MO0. An Underground Bestseller with 1,200 5-Star Reviews Semifinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards The Dirty Parts of the Bible is a humorous adventure across America during the Great Depression--a rollicking tale of love and liquor, preachers and prostitutes, trains and treasure, sure to appeal to fans of O Brother Where...
A novel. — Translated from the German by Donald J. Davidson. — Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1979. — i-vii, 209 p. Since Traven’s death on March 4, 1969 in Mexico, many of the facts about his life have finally come to light. Some of these are revealed for the first time in a documentary film produced by British Broadcasting Company, B. Traven: a mystery solved. It...
A novel. — Translated from the German by Donald J. Davidson. — Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1979. — i-vii, 209 p. Since Traven’s death on March 4, 1969 in Mexico, many of the facts about his life have finally come to light. Some of these are revealed for the first time in a documentary film produced by British Broadcasting Company, B. Traven: a mystery solved. It...
Titan Books, 2023. — 536 р. — ISBN: 9781803364285 Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart....
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
Big Stone Gap - 4 Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. In Home to Big Stone Gap, she tells her most powerful story yet, full of humor and heart, wisdom and hope. Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan...
A Novel. Dutton, 2022. — 801 p. — ISBN 978-059-3183-328 Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the...
Westland, 2012. — 440 p. — ISBN: 9380658745. 1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary...
Bantam — 104 p.
Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually...
New York: Kensington Publishing, 2013. — 149 p. — ISBN 9780806528472. Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually realizes that he has lost his arms, legs, and all of his face (including his eyes, ears, nose, teeth, and tongue), but that his mind functions...
India: Imperial Press,.2010.—54p.
KORA is a powerful collection of creative writing which Tsundue produced over a decade, thus striking a perfect balance between the Writer and the Activist. We hope that his readers will not only enjoy the immediacy of his writing, through which Tsundue conveys the agonizing reality of a displaced people, but will also be inspired to reflect...
2006. 267 pages. CITADEL PRESS Kensington Publishing Corp. www.kensingtonbooks.com
AUTHOR’S NOTE: My real name is Tucker Max. Unless a full name is used, all other
names are pseudonyms. All the events depicted in the stories are completely true. Only certain
dates, characteristics, and places are changed to protect me from criminal prosecution or civil liability. I hope you...
Ballantine Books, 2020. A gripping new thriller about a man's quest for the daughter no one else believes is still alive, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place. Driving home one night, stuck behind a rusty old car, Gabe sees a little girl's face appear in the rear window. She mouths one word: 'Daddy.' It's his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never...
Allen & Unwin, 2021. — 511 p. — ISBN 978 1 76052 625 2 Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg—and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it. After a summer healing (translation: eating vast amounts of Cool Ranch Doritos and binging ballet videos on YouTube), she is forced to trade her pre-professional dance classes for...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 293 p. — ISBN 978-0-231-55477-0 The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of...
New York: Grove Press. — 307 p. Тутуола Амос. Путешествие в город Мертвых, или Пальмовый Пьянарь и его Упокойный Винарь. Моя жизнь в лесу духов (на англ. яз.) Амос Тутуола (20 июня 1920 — 8 июня 1997) нигерийский писатель, известный сказочными произведениями, основанными на фольклорных образах народа йоруба. В 1946 за несколько дней написал свою первую книгу — "Путешествие в...
Penguin Classics, 2002. — 1216 p. The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition...for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a...
Penguin Classics, 2014. — 784 p. From the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad—a moving depiction of the late twelfth-century wars between the Heike and Genji clans. No work has had a greater impact on later Japanese literature, theater, music, film, and...
HarperCollins, 2011. — ASIN B004IWR3A6. The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila...
Hendricks House — Farrar Straus, New York, 1949. Selected with a Foreword by Martha Foley Abraham Rothberg. Delaware: The Offending Eye. Ella Middleton Tybout Pennsylvania: The Doctor's Son. John O'Hara New Jersey: Christ in Concrete. Pietro Di Donato Georgia: The People Vs. Abe Lathan, Colored. Erskine Caldwell Connecticut: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. James Thurber...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. — 296p. — ISBN: 0–231–12862–2 This is a collection of four hundred haiku written by twenty Japanese women poets over a period of three and one-half centuries. As is obvious by now, using the term haiku to denote all serious poems written in the seventeen-syllable form since the sixteenth century. Such poems were called hokku before the...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
1993. A play script. Alfred Uhry'd Driving Miss Daisy is an entertaining, funny play. Basically this story is about two elderly people from very different walks of life and how over time they develop an understanding, respect and eventually a friendship. The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Hoke is hired by Miss Daisy's son to...
HarperCollins, 2024. — 240 p. 'So captivating I read it in a day. So disturbing I thought about it all night' Janice Hallet, author of The Appeal 'The twists of a Golden Age whodunit, mixed with a wonderfully innovative use of illustrations. Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever' G.T. Karber, author of Murdle A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of...
540 p. Uncle John’s 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world. The information miners at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, headscratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by...
Middlesex UK: Penguin Books,.1971.—110p.
Giuseppe Ungaretti (8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo ("Hermeticism"), he was one of the most prominent contributors to...
Park Row Books, 2025. — 610 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-369-72242-3 "[Unger's] great at keeping you interested and not seeing all the twists that are coming with a fabulous cat-mouse game." --Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy-award winning actress An extreme game of hide-and-seek turns deadly in this riveting new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger When the real game...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies, Black Out, and Die For You comes a novel of corrosive secrets, tenuous connections, and the all-encompassing strength of a mother's faith.
Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds – Maggie is positive Ricky had nothing to do with...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. - 524 p.
Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."—David HalberstamSacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade...
Soho Press, 2014. — 130 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61695-381-2. Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay — the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West — has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a scorned wife’s obsession with her husband’s illegitimate son. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. — 214 p. — ISBN: 9780544200333. Writing of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: like a Buddhist Chekhov . speak[s] to common truths . startlingly good (San Francisco Chronicle) and subtle and spiritually complex (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel showcases his finest writing and his signature themes. The Guru of Love is...
Expanded edition. — Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. — 816 p. — (Best American) — ISBN13: 978-0395843673. With an introduction by John Updike. Contains 56 different short stories of the 20th century, including Fitzgerald's Crazy Sunday , Anderson's The Other Woman , Saul Bellow's A Silver Dish , Saroyan's Resurrection of a Life , and others.
Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008. — 76 p. — ISBN-10: 9956558613; ISBN-13: 978-9956558612. Pidgin English is the chief medium of communication for the great majority of Cameroonians. It sustains a world view, culture and way of life. Pidgin embodies concepts that would at best be partially expressed in formal English. A critical understanding of Pidgin...
New York: A Tom Donerty Associates Book, 2015. Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own, from the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 603 р. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping...
California: University of California Press,.—490p.
There are poets whose work can be explained, and there are inexplicable poets, like Cesar Vallejo. But being unable to explain does not mean being unable to understand, or that his poems are incomprehensible, totally hermetic. It means that, contrary to our reading of explicable poets, even after we have studied everything...
New York: Grave Press, 1974. — 77 p. This book of poems was written to commemorate the Spanish civil war by a Peruvian poet who is increasingiy becoming recognized as one of the few great poets to have emerged from Latin America in our century, and one of the great poetic voices of our time. Spain, Take This Cup from Me is published in a bilingual edition with the Spanish original...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. — 370 p. The Translation judges for the National Book Awards — Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger — cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition...
Fiction. London: Penguin, 2008. — 389 p. A comedic sometimes sad yet straight forward novel that captures the humor of life in boarding school, through the diary of John 'Spud' Milton. The book is written in the style of a diary. The story begins on the morning of Spud's first day at a private boarding school, following his year and experiences with the often eccentric...
Fiction. London: Penguin, 2013. — 432 p. The hilarious final instalment in Spud Milton's turbulent teenage years by comedian John van de Ruit. Spud Milton is in his final year at boarding school. Now a prefect and on the cusp of adulthood, he thinks this may be his best year yet. But soon his life is as chaotic as ever as he wages a battle for his room, directs a play in which...
Fiction. London: Penguin, 2011. — 420 p. The third book in the Spud series, which was released in June 2009. This book details Spud's third year at a school. Spud Milton (practically a man in most areas) is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. But instead he finds his vindictive arch-enemy is back to taunt him and a garrulous new boy has taken...
Host and Guest is an epic poem by the Georgian poet, writer and philosopher Vazha-Pshavela. The poem was first published in 1893 in Tbilisi, and it is considered to be the "masterpiece of the Georgian literature". It is compulsory reading in Georgian schools. A film based on the poem was made in 1967 by Tengiz Abuladze.
Digital Book Print, 2009. — 220 p. The Tuaregs are the true sons of the desert. They can survive in the harshest of conditions like nobody else. The noble inmouchar Gacel Sayah, is the master of a large extension of the desert. One day, two fugitives arrive from the north and Gacel, following his ancient and sacred hospitality laws, gives them shelter. However, Gacel doesn't...
Chicago: Chicago University Press,.2009.—250p.—ISBN: 0-226-14188-8 Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536) was a Spanish soldier and poet. Although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to Spain. He was well known in poetic circles during his lifetime, and his...
Serpent’s Tail, 2013. — eISBN 978 1 84765 969 9. The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. The instant he sees Chloe, bass drums thump inside his shirt,...
Eric Partridge Limited at The Scholartis Press, 1930. — 293 p. This book provides an introduction to the life and works of François Villon by Geoffroy Atkinson. The translation is accompanied by the French original.
Translated by Peter Fallon. Oxford University Press, 2006. - 150 p. Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) was born near Mantua in northern Italy in 70 bce. He was educated at the larger town of Cremona and finally at Milan. He moved to Rome around 52 bce, but spent most of his time thereafter in the (then) congenial surroundings of the Bay of Naples. He wrote the Eclogues in the period...
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him...
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002. — 72 p. — (Iowa Poetry Prize) — ISBN-10: 0877458073; ISBN-13: 978-0877458074. Karen Volkman's award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her...
Jean Francois Marie Aroet de Voltaire. — Illustrated by Rockwell Kent; Introduction by W.H. Barber. — New York: Barron's Educational Series, 1963. — 106 p. In this witty political satire about a gentle man plagued by misfortune who clings to the belief that "all is for the best," Voltaire mocks the "eternal optimist" philosophy of his day that proclaimed human and natural...
Berkley Romance, 2023. — 565 p. — ISBN 9780593547311 When Nareh Bedrossian’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian men, she...
The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897, set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born —...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. — 216 p. — ISBN-10: 0520258789; ISBN-13: 978-0520258785. This compelling selection of recent work by internationally celebrated poet Keith Waldrop presents three related poem sequences - "Shipwreck in Haven," "Falling in Love through a Description," and "The Plummet of Vitruvius" - in a virtuosic poetic triptych. In these...
768 pages, 1072 pages; Vintage; 1983 Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a...
Harper Collins Books, 2022. — 830 p. — ISBN: 978-0-358-25187-3 Iris Chapel and her five elegant sisters, all of them heiresses to the Chapel firearms fortune, live cloistered in a lavish Victorian mansion. Neglected by both a distant, workaholic father and a mentally troubled mother—who believes their home is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons—the sisters have grown up...
Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 427 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-0454-2 Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of...
2006. To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she's getting more than she bargained for. Whisked away to the vast, isolated family ranch, she's closely supervised and...
192 p. He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes — or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish...
155 p. He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes — or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish...
Penguin, 2011 — 592 p. — ISBN: 9780141942896 The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this...
142 p. The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Bridges of Madison County once again brings characters and situations with his special blend of lyricism and magic. This is a bittersweet story about two good people who discover that true love, when it comes, is rarely fair, or right - or without pain.
Warner Books, 1992. — 52 p.
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the...
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area....
New York, Warner Books, 1995. Pages:
50. Language: English. The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to...
Scribner 2009 — 166 стр. — ISBN: 978-1-4165-8628-9
Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger. In Half Broke Horses, she survives droughts, tornados, floods, poverty, and whatever else fate can throw against her. Based on author Jeannette Walls's grandmother, Lily is a plausible...
The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates itself without condemning either of the Walls parents. Humor frequently imbues the work with a light-spirited tone.
For the first half of the...
The Glass Castle details the story of Jeannette Walls and her family. Constantly short on cash and food, the family moves around the country frequently and tries to re-settle. Though the family is dysfunctional, the memoir communicates itself without condemning either of the Walls parents. Humor frequently imbues the work with a light-spirited tone.
For the first half of the...
The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world—a triumph of imagination and storytelling.
It is 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who found something wrong with every...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 7217 p. — ASIN B071NPYS87 The English novelist Sir Hugh Walpole was a bestselling author of the 1920’s and 1930’s, supported by Henry James and Arnold Bennett. Highly regarded for his vivid plots and skill at scene-setting, Walpole wrote prolifically, producing at least one book every year and his novels established a large readership in Britain and...
New Yorl: George H. Doran Company, 1919. — 385 p. Written by an English writer living in Russia in at the time of the Russian Revolution, the novel wonderfully depicts gentry life in St.Petersburg (Petrograd) as the Revolution approaches and then unfolds in its earliest days. His familiarity with the ethos of the city, its topography, its mythic qualities are impressive, as is...
New Yorl: George H. Doran Company, 1919. — 385 p. Written by an English writer living in Russia in at the time of the Russian Revolution, the novel wonderfully depicts gentry life in St.Petersburg (Petrograd) as the Revolution approaches and then unfolds in its earliest days. His familiarity with the ethos of the city, its topography, its mythic qualities are impressive, as is...
Transit Books, 2021. — 102 р. — ISBN: 978-1-945492-64-8 A book-length essay on beauty and revolution as seen through the work of Jean-Luc Godard. As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. “There’s a resistance, in Godard’s women,” writes Walsh, “that is at the heart of his work (and theirs).” She is captivated by the...
2012. — 38 p. Cover by Patrick A. Walston. Edited by Michael E. Walston. It's been days since the plague hit America. Most of the population has turned into mindless creatures that hunger for human flesh and blood. Danny Hefner and a handful of others will try to live through this hellish nightmare, but they'll wonder if it's really worth it. Danny had watched and read plenty...
2016. — 770 p. Unabridged English translation of the 1945 classic by Mika Waltari, a historical novel situated in ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago during the times of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and other historical figures. The translation includes a complete map of Sinuhe's travels and an extensive glossary. Original Finnish novel “Sinuhe egyptiläinen” 1945 by Mika Waltari....
London : J.M. Dent & Co., 1902. — 368 p. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Here are stories from the wonderful Annals of Fairyland, first told at the Court of King Oberon. Contents: The Reign of King Oberon; The Gift of Dwarfs; Thumbelina; The Young Piper; Rumpel-Stilts-Ken; Karl Katz; The Wild Swans; The Herd-Boy; The Nose-Tree; The Pranks of Robin Goodfellow; The Golden...
Harper, 2020. — 378 p. An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a stunning, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. Featuring an...
Вальтер - псевдоним анонимного автора. Эротический роман, очень объемный, но хаотичный, с повторениями, зато искренний и откровенный, о сексуальном развитии и сексуальных переживаниях автора, то, о чем в викторианской Англии говорить было неприлично.
The memoir of a Victorian gentleman's sexual development and experiences.The work itself is enormous, amounting to over one million...
Вальтер - псевдоним анонимного автора. Эротический роман, очень объемный, но хаотичный, с повторениями, зато искренний и откровенный, о сексуальном развитии и сексуальных переживаниях автора, то, о чем в викторианской Англии говорить было неприлично. My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a Victorian gentleman's sexual development and experiences. It was first published...
Those who know little to nothing about Chinese culture will receive an eye-opening experience of how China was and how China is now through Annie Wang’s novel.
Wang takes readers on a journey with four cosmopolitan women learning to live life in the new China. Niuniu, the book’s narrator, is a Chinese American woman, who spent seven years living in the States obtaining her...
Those who know little to nothing about Chinese culture will receive an eye-opening experience of how China was and how China is now through Annie Wang’s novel.
Wang takes readers on a journey with four cosmopolitan women learning to live life in the new China. Niuniu, the book’s narrator, is a Chinese American woman, who spent seven years living in the States obtaining her...
Gallery Books, 2023. — 626 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9486-4 When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she’s carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she’s not like the other girls—if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don’t give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. St. Ambrose’s queen bee,...
Scout Press, 2023. — 587 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-5531-5 Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly...
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1979
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Robert Penn Warren's tale of ambition and power set in the Depression–era South is widely considered the finest novel ever written about American politics.
This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men...
Riverhead Books, 2023. — 473 р. — ISBN 9780593421116 Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2020. — 312 p. The debut novel from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020: 'This feels like a new vision for the 21st century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of on Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Benson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple....
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners – mother, son and daughter – are...
London, Virago Press, 2006.-506 pp.
Аннотация
An extraordinary story of four Londoners, set against the turbulent backdrop of wartime Britain.
Потрясающе красивая история четырех жителей Лондона во время Второй Мировой Войны.
London: 1938.
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the...
London: Doubleday, 2008. — 308 p. The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, held together by a fanatical love of music yet torn apart...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 567 p. — ISBN: HB: 978-1-63557-872-0 Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-described “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is...
Sold on Amazon, 2016. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 1523940271. — Editor Bridges Vanessa My life had a plan. Until he invaded it and stole it all away. My captor took me and I became a pawn His strategy changed and he sent me away to WAR, because money is everything in this world. In my WAR, though, I found peace. I couldn't help but find love where I least expected it, with a man who...
Wesleyan University Press, 2015. — 250 p. — ISBN: 978-0819565297. Brion Gysin (1916–1986) was a visual artist, historian, novelist, and an experimental poet credited with the discovery of the ‘cut-up’ technique -- a collage of texts, not pictures -- which his longtime collaborator William S. Burroughs put to more extensive use. He is also considered one of the early innovators of...
BookRix-Edition, 2014, язык: Английский, — 5 с. — 921 слово. I remember. I remember as if it were yesterday. I remember. It was Christmas Eve, and like many other people I was doing my last minute Christmas shopping. As I was walking down the cold, windswept street I heard a croupy cough coming from between a trash can and the corner of a building. As I approached the trash...
California: University of California Press,.2009.—ISBN: 978-0-520-25034-5 A Bilingual Anthology. Relations with Cuba have preoccupied the North American imagination far more than one might expect, given the island’s small size and minimal power. North American understanding of Cuba has, at the same time, been obscured by longings for the exotic, as well as mythologies of both...
Рассказ знаменитой современной писательницы Великобритании, на английском языке.
Written with biting satire, much humor and a pervading melancholy, this story is a fine example of Fay Weldon's exquisite and accomplished talent for short story writing.
Publication Date:
2009
Alex Wellen is a writer, inventor, and Emmy Award-winning television producer for CNN who lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son. He is a New York Times contributor and has written for numerous national publications and appeared on a wide range of syndicated television and radio programs. On September 18, 2006, through an act of God, Wellen won the much-revered New...
Independently Published, 2014. — 271 p. Born in the worst suburb in Pittsburgh, Elaine Brogan is bright, beautiful and bold. When her father is falsely arrested for passing counterfeit $100 bills, Elaine vows to become a Secret Service agent and track down the man responsible. After barely surviving the arduous Secret Service Training Academy in Laurel, Maryland, she is...
Glue tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades, through the use of different perspectives and different voices. It addresses sex, drugs, violence, and other social issues in Scotland, mapping the furious energies of working-class masculinity in the late 20th century, using a compulsive mixture of Lothians dialect, libertarian socialist theory, and an irresistible...
Vintage International, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 9780804173216; ISBN13: 978-0804173216. When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and...
The first thing to point out is that the book is very different from the (excellent) film. This is an amazing book; essentially a collection of vignettes about Edinburgh street life among the heroin users strung together by a common cast and a narrative about Renton escaping. Making heavy use of the local patois, the book can be difficult to read but it is well worth preserving...
Wendelin Van Draanen’s highly acclaimed he-said, she-said teen romance is going to be a major motion picture. Written and directed by Rob Reiner, the film features a stellar cast, including Madeline Carroll and Callan McAuliffe as Juli and Bryce, and Aidan Quinn, Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller, and John Mahoney. This movie tie-in edition will feature...
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side is a 2005 book written by Pete Wentz the bassist and lyricist of the Illinois pop punk band, Fall Out Boy. The book was illustrated by Joe Tesauro and published by Clandestine Industries. The story of the book is influenced by the recurring nightmares Wentz suffered as a child. It is named after the song "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side" by...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. — 397 p. The Song of Bernadette is a 1941 novel that tells the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who, from February to July 1858 reported eighteen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. The novel was written by Franz Werfel and translated into English by Lewis Lewisohn in 1942. It was extremely popular, spending more than a year...
Publisher: Speak, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0142410714. Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 2 and up For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child?s rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch begins dating...
NYRB Classics, 1958. The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself,...
NewCon Press, 2011. — 256 p. A volume of all original stories written as homage to Arthur C. Clarke's 'Tales from the White Hart', featuring many of todayâ s top genre writers, including Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, James Lovegrove, Liz Williams, Adam Roberts, Eric Brown, Ian Watson, Peter Crowther, and David Langford. The Fountain, a traditional London pub...
Boston: Geo. W. Eight, 1834. — 106 p. Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into enslavement at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where...
Boston: Geo. W. Eight, 1834. — 106 p. Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into enslavement at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America, where...
Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1503938131; ISBN13: 978-1503938137. Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three...
Lake Union Publishing, 2016. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1503938131; ISBN13: 978-1503938137. Sometimes the only way through darkness is to return to where it began. Marianne Stokes fled England at seventeen, spiraling into the manic depression that would become her shadow. She left behind secrets, memories, and tragedy: one teen dead, and her first love, Gabriel, badly injured. Three...
Berkley, 2022. — 726 p. — ISBN 9780593334584 After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated when the house’s previous occupants don’t seem to be ready to depart....
Del Rey, 2023. — 494 р. — ISBN 9780593359266 Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children’s program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their...
Penguin Classics, 1993. — 288 p. — (Twentieth-Century Classics). — ISBN10: 0140185828; ISBN13: 978-0140185829. These six novels and stories probe beneath the confused surface to expose the true nature of things. This book includes "A Woman's Hand", "The Full Belly", "The Night, the Prowler", "Five-Twenty", "Sicilian Vespers" and "The Cockatoos".
Introduction by J. M. Coetzee. Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he...
Introduction by J. M. Coetzee.
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he...
Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to...
Needfire Poetry, 2010. — 88 p. — ISBN: 139781926912028. Vicious Romantic is a collection of poems from one of the hardest of the hardcore horror authors. Using traditional Japanese and Korean formal poetic structures, this collection takes the very best elements of Wrath James White’s prose and condenses it into a medium that is both disturbing and thought-provoking. A wife...
Doubleday, 2016. — 306 p. — (New York Times Bestseller). — ISBN10: 0385542364; ISBN13: 978-0385542364. From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but...
Doubleday, 2016. — 306 p. — ISBN10: 0385542364; ISBN13: 978-0385542364. #1 New York Times Bestseller. From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but...
London: Severn House, 1982. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0-7278-0786-2 The year is 1944. As the tide turns against the Nazis, the Red Army begins its relentless advance west. Heading over the border, Punishment Battalion 333 is at the forefront once more. Comprised of criminals, pimps, murderers, thieves and perverts, the dregs of the Gulags, they kill, burn, rape and ravage across the...
Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 417 р. — ISBN 978-1-5011-9723-9 June 1937. Elizabeth Bishop, still only a young woman and not yet one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, arrives in France with her college roommates. They are in search of an escape, and inspiration, far from the protective world of Vassar College where they were expected to find an impressive...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 288 p. Part coming-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift...
A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat.
After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he’s paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust...
From internationally best-selling author Tommy Wieringa, comes a rich and engrossing novel about a man on an odyssey in search of answers about his dysfunctional artistic family and the legacy they left behind.
When Ludwig Unger returned to his hometown after a decade, he arrived with a plastic bag filled with his mother’s ashes and little else. He was there to make amends with...
Border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg orders their arrest, evidence of a murder is found in their luggage. As he begins to unravel the history of their hellish journey, it becomes increasingly intertwined with the search for his own origins that he...
Pocket Books, 2010 — ISBN: 1-84739-038-2 / 978-1-84739-038-7 They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three. Her father was supposed to be locked up until Meredith turned eighteen. She thought she had time to grow up, get out, and start a new life. But Meredith is only fifteen, and today her father is coming home from prison. Today her time has run out.
New York City: Scholastic Inc, 1990. — 119 p. A play in 3 acts: Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
Publisher: THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS, Language: English, First Edition: June 2006, ISBN: 0-312-35229-8, EAN 978-0-312-35229-5, 176 pages. Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been...
Minotaur Books, 2023. — 500 р. — ISBN 9781250290182 Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect one another, they have to find out who did. The ex, who drowns her darkest secret in a hip flask as the woman she loves drifts...
It Books, 2011. — 240 pages. ISBN10: 0062091182 ISBN13: 978-0062091185 In the intimate follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson reveals the naked truth about her life after Playboy—the secrets behind regaining her trademark sexy body, the trials of her life as a new mother, the tricks of sustaining her long-distance romance with...
It Books, 2011. — 240 pages. ISBN10: 0062091182 ISBN13: 978-0062091185 In the intimate follow up to her New York Times bestselling memoir Sliding Into Home, Kendra Wilkinson reveals the naked truth about her life after Playboy—the secrets behind regaining her trademark sexy body, the trials of her life as a new mother, the tricks of sustaining her long-distance romance with...
Look out New York City! Ms. Rayanne “Annie” McCauley from little old Mesa View, Texas has set her sights on being a high fashion model. Despite her humble beginnings in the Mesa View Mobile Home Park, hot tempered Annie thinks she can make it all the way to the cover of Women’s Wear Daily (as long as she follows her own rules).
ISBN: 1-59017-199-3. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973. He also published two volumes of verse and edited a classic anthology of English Renaissance poetry. In a rare interview given late in life, John Williams says of Stoner: I think he's a real hero. A...
Affirm Press, 2020. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-1925972597. In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated...
Poemhunter.com — The World's Poetry Archive, 2012. — 61 p. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court. The Restoration reacted against the "spiritual authoritarianism" of the Puritan era. Rochester was described by his contemporary Andrew Marvell as "the best English satirist," and he is generally considered to be...
Роман, в файле 164 стр. London Toronto Sydney New York. Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1974 Reprinted 1978. ISBN: 0-586-03943-0. Содержание «Философского камня» определяется интересом автора к опытам по физиологии мозга, которые активно велись в Великобритании и Сша на протяжении 60-х годов. Уилсон настолько увлечен информацией, полученной им из...
Garden City—New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. — 371 p. ’’Ruggles of Red Gap’’ is a popular work of fiction written by Harry Leon Wilson. Wilson was a novelist and dramatist of considerable popularity in the early twentieth century - this title provides readers with the opportunity to read the work that Wilson is most well known for. ’’Ruggles of Red Gap’’ is the story...
Ecco, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062913468; ISBN13: 978-0062913463. A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely...
Ecco, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0062913468; ISBN13: 978-0062913463. A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely...
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1949 — 404 pages.
Роман американского писателя Митчела Уилсона "Живи с молнией" охватывает период времени с 30-х годов нашего столетия до окончания Второй Мировой войны.
Автор в этом произведении последовал лучшим традициям критического реализма и дал широкую панораму быта технической интеллигенции в Соединенных Штатах, нарисовал правдивые...
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0425284689; ISBN13: 978-0425284681. For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart...based on a notorious true-life scandal.”* Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s...
Ballantine Books, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0425284689; ISBN13: 978-0425284681. For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart...based on a notorious true-life scandal.”* Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s...
Harper Collins, 2023. — 520 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-286798-8 A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. The private, quiet “Miss White" as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 676 р. For fans of Verity and A Flicker in the Dark, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is a twisted tale of murder, obsessive love, and the beastly urges that lie dormant within us all...even the God-fearing folk of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains...
Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015. — 2136 p. — (The Poldark Saga #2). — ISBN: 1492622109, ISBN13: 9781492622109. In the enchanting second novel in Winston Graham’s beloved Poldark series, Demelza Carne, an impoverished miner’s daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground brawl, now happily finds herself his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their...
Grove Press, 1997. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0802135162.
Language: English.
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes...
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier,...
Mindstir Media, 2012. Doug Bolling lost his wife of twenty years just as their stormy marriage was beginning to thrive, and he bitterly blames God. He tries to reconnect with his son, but it seems Mark is only interested if the relationship comes wrapped in religion. Mark claims he's just following God when he moves his family, including Doug's grandsons, further away, first to...
A debut novel from the bestselling author of Queen Bees and Wannabes!
Charlie Healy just wants a drama-free year, but it doesn't seem like she's going to get it. After surviving a middle school packed with mean girls, Charlie is ready to leave all that behind in high school. But then, on her very first day, she runs into her former best friend, Will, who moved away years ago....
The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize ‘Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength’ The villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life at the beginning of the twentieth century◦– much as they have always done. They are isolated and remote,...
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories have only the vaguest notion of what normal is. A gentle priest finds himself in a...
Autobiography of Tobias Wolff. His difficult childhood and his relationships with those who surrounded him all the time. A sincere story of a liittle boy step by step becoming an adult facing different issues and problems.
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. — 250 p. — ISBN-10: 1800640773; ISBN-13: 978-1800640771. Mendl Mann's autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. Translated into English from the original Yiddish...
Brunswick: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, 2013. — ISBN 978-192207-267-2, 978-19220-7051-7. Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, seventeen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by the eccentric musician Max Cheever, his beautiful wife Sally, and their...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. – 224 p. Language: English. Stop. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. No, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce,...
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012. – 216 p. Language: English. Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti. Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a Horrortacular,...
Anansi Press, 2023. — 433 р. — ISBN 9781487012489 In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other...
East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. A Victorian bestseller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centreing on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations.
The much-"quoted" line "Gone! And never called me mother!" (variant: "Dead! Dead! And never called me mother!") does not appear...
London: Steads Publishing company. s.a. — 79 p. Пересказ на современном английском языке нескольких легенд о Рыцарях Круглого стола: Sir Gareth's trial and Obedience, Patient Gareth conquers proud Lynette, Brave Launcelot and loving Elaine, How prince Geraint won fair Enid, King Arthur's last fight, Poem "Arthur' and his sward Excalibur"
San Francisco, New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1908. — 40 p. Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Wood's patents and theoretical work shed much light on the nature and physics of ultra-violet...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. – 205 p. Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. – 286 p. Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022. — 313 p. — ISBN 978-059-3540046 During an intense storm in Dark Harbor, Maine, a perplexing murder lands a dead man on Stone Barrington's doorstep. As secrets swirl around this mystery man's identity, Stone quickly sets out to unravel a web of cunning misdirections and lies. Soon enough, he is embroiled in an elaborate game of cat and mouse between...
New York: Alibi, 2017. — 297 p. — (Hush Money Mystery 1). — ISBN13: 9780425284568. The mayor is smart, funny, and loved by all. Except for the person who leaves him in a pool of his own blood... Madison is booming with dreamers and drifters, visionaries and entrepreneurs. Among them is Sydney Richardson, the daughter of a cop who died on these streets and now the proud,...
Call The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (2002)
An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one extraordinary woman
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while...
555 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, 1992. 1952 Novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1951. The novel was awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Caine Mutiny grew out of Wouk's experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II. The novel focuses on Willie Keith, a rich New Yorker assigned to the USS Caine, who...
Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 1978. - 1770 pp.
War and Remembrance is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American. A prologue, The Winds of War, published in 1971, set the historical frame for this work by picturing the events leading up to Pearl Harbor. This is a novel of America at war, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. It is the main...
Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY, 1971. - 1322 pp.
In this massive, best-selling novel-over one year on national best-seller lists-Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk re-creates two of the most dramatic years of the twentieth century, taking the
entire planet for his stage. From Washington, D.C., to the capitals of Europe to Pearl Harbor, The Winds of War pulses with the...
Джон Рэй. Спаситель мира. Оригинал книги на английском языке. Amazon's review Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he’s convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors,...
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the...
Translated with an introduction by Toby Wilkinson. — Penguin, 2016. — 384 p. — (Penguin Classics). In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. For this remarkable new collection, Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 574 p. Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 428 p. Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most...
Collinson Fair; Silk Pagoda, 2005. — 1410 p. Translation from Chinese. Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation, Monkey, is well known in English-speaking countries. The novel is an...
Foreign Languages Press, 1995. — 660 p. “A masterpiece from the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-tzu's The Scholars ranks with Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West , and the Water Margin as one of the greatest classic novels of China. The Scholars is the first Chinese novel of its scope not to borrow any characters from history or legend and it is the first work of satiric...
Martin’s Press, 2022. — 622 p. — ISBN 978-1250-272072 Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d’Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents’ house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau––friends of her...
Amazon Crossing, 2022. — 850 p. — ISBN-10: 154-204-4790 On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan―a lively quadrangle of homes―begins to stir. Auntie Xue’s son Jiyue is getting married today, and she is determined to make the day a triumph. Despite Jiyue’s woeful ignorance in matters of the heart―and the body. Despite a chef in training tasked with the...
Harper Perennial, 2010. — ISBN: 978-0-06-200930-2. When Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and psychotherapist.
Harper Perennial, 2010. — ISBN: 978-0-06-200930-2. When Nietzsche Wept is a 1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and psychotherapist.
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 397 p. A young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending. Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Boston, Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s...
Createspace, 2011.
In Memoirs of a Eurasian and Shanghai Girl, Vivian succeeds in creating an inimitable Shanghai and the Far East world that the reader can be transported to. Both novels are about a strong heroine with roots in Shanghai’s former French Concession who overcomes extraordinary odds in pursuit of a dream. Memoirs of a Eurasian, a chapter of which was a winner of The...
The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests. On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor-a boyish, scrappy world traveler who's run away from home-sets out to sell marijuana to the 50,000 anti-globalization protestors gathered in the streets. It quickly becomes clear that the throng...
A biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951. It is about a young African prince, who when people come and attack his tribe, is captured and taken to America as a slave. He masters a trade, frees himself by his own efforts and dies a respected citizen.
Amos Fortune - (ca. 1710 – 1801) born a prince...
Philadelphia: Apocalypse Party, 2020. — 382 p. — ISBN-10: 1733569456; ISBN-13: 978-1733569453. Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager’s multi-valent...
Carolrhoda Lab, 2022. — 357 p. — ISBN 978-1728-4158-26 Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is...
New York: Square Fish, 2013. — 170 p. — ISBN10: 1250034108; ISBN13: 978-1250034106. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize...
New York: Square Fish, 2013. — 170 p. — ISBN10: 1250034108; ISBN13: 978-1250034106. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 29 с. Ли Хэ-джо. Горы, реки, травы, деревья (на англ. яз.) As the sun slowly sets with a preoccupied air behind Tunggu Ridge to the west of Seoul, it looks back at everyone, as if bidding them, "Have a good night. I'll be back tomorrow", and at that moment the clear, bright moon merrily rises from the slopes of Mount Nak-san to the east. Just when the...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 33 с. Ли Мун Ёль. Гаруда (на англ. яз.) Kojuk opened his eyes, feeling as if a powerful beam of light had suddenly swept over him. It seemed only a short while since he had heard the nearby church bell ringing for dawn prayers, yet now it was morning. The sun was shining directly onto the white paper covering the eastward - facing lattice door, and...
Harvill Press, 1993. — 143 p. Ли Мун Ёль. Поэт (на англ. яз.) Perhaps we ought to begin this investigation into the deviations of his life by evoking the problem of human memory. In his later years, summing up the whole course of his existence in a long lyric, he wrote the following lines: As my hair grew longer, my fortunes travelled a rough road: The family line in ruins, the...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 28 с. Ли Мун Ёль. Зима этого года (на англ. яз.) Yi Mun-yol (born May 18, 1948) is a South Korean writer. I think the time has finally come when I can try to explain what happened that winter, all those years ago. I’m well past thirty now, and I’ve got a family I have to provide for; so every morning I go out to work, wearing a suit and really looking...
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2013. — 18 p. Ли Сан. Детская косточка (на англ. яз.) About Yi Sang. Child’s Bone: Feelers. The Beginning of Defeat. Oppose the Beggar. Whip a Galloping Horse. Clear Statement. Text. Failure.
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2013. — 30 p. Ли Сан. Умирающие слова (на англ. яз.) Ли Сан (1910-1937) — корейский писатель. Печатался с 1934 (сюрреалистические стихи). В 1936 опубликовал повесть "Крылья". В психологических повестях "Летопись жизни", "Останки ребенка", "Утраченный рай" передал внутреннее состояние интеллигента, который в условиях колониальной...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 6 с.
Ли Сан. Стихотворения (на англ. яз.)
The writer generally known as Yi Sang, or Lee Sang, was born Kim Hae-gyeong in Seoul in 1910 and was trained as an architect. During his short literary career he showed an interest first in poetry, turning out some highly idiosyncratic and experimental pieces, and then short fiction and anecdotal essays....
Seoul: Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014. — 13 p.
Ли Сан. Тёмная комната на карте (на англ. яз.)
“The Darkroom of the Map” (1931), Yi Sang’s first Korean short story, is often considered to be his most difficult work. As the text opens, we are led into the labyrinthine mind of an insomniac named “Ri Sang”, but the prose is extremely experimental, even by Yi...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. — 548 p. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,...
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,...
Ebury Publishing, 2021. — 151 p. 15-year-old boy named Junichi Honda, nicknamed Koperu, and his uncle as the youth deals with spiritual growth, poverty, and the overall experience as human beings. Koperu deals with the struggles of growing up as a human being, including bullying. The novel appears in one important scene of the Studio Ghibli animated film, also titled "How Do...
BookRix-Edition, 2010. — 8 с. — 2319 слов. I’ve always hated the rain, for reasons I’ll tell you about some other time. But, today the rain is appropriate. Today the rain is the only thing that feels right deep in my soul. It makes a hollow sound, which mimics the hollow feeling in my heart, as it thrums like distant drums on the tiny white coffin in front of me. Cold on my...
Сборник фантастических рассказов лаурета премии Хьюго за 1965 год, Роберта Франклина Янга, на английском языке.
The Girl Who Made Time Stop (1961)
Added Inducement (1957)
Hopsoil (1961)
Flying Pan (1956)
Emily and the Bards Sublime (1956)
The Dandelion Girl (1961)
The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats (1959)
Goddess in Granite (1957)
Promised Planet (1955)
Romance in a...
Система обучения в будущем, описанном Робертом Янгом в рассказе «В сентябре тридцать дней» (англ. Thirty Days Had September), исключила всех учителей, даже учителей-андроидов. Теперь дети не ходят в школу, их обучают дома телепедагоги.
Мистер Денби купил в антикварном магазине школьную учительницу мисс Джоунс для сына, к тому же она вполне подходила жене в качестве помощницы по...
Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare. Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well—until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a...
Boston: Mariner Books, 2017. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0544324471; ISBN13: 978-0544324473. From one of Korea’s literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costs In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society’s castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed...
Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, 2002. — 81 p. Ю Джон-юл, Кимбрел Дж. (ред.) Три поэта современной Кореи: Ли Сан, Хам Донг-сон, Чой Янг-ми (на англ. яз.) Yi Sang , I Wed a Toy Bride. Crow's-Eye View. Distance. Hahm Dong-seon . Choi Young-mi .
Peking: Foreign Languages press, 1978. — 177 p. Thunderstorm, a four-act play by China's leading playwright Tsao Yu, has held the stage since it was first produced in 1933, and is a classic of 20th-century drama. Its wide human appeal has drawn audiences from every walk of life. The setting is the home of an industrialist in northern China, where a family has come together with...
Japan: LN Published by Syosetsu. — 67 p. Юки Фудзимира. Тусклый символ, пустая иллюзия (на англ. яз.) Prologue. Saki Mitsumura. Masatoshi Sakizaki. City. A Digression. Memories Traced by a Corpse. The Answer. A New Development. Defeat. Graduation.
A young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Mexican game in this spellbinding debut novel that marks the arrival of a powerhouse new talent.
With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in her room, the young girl retreats...
Jill MacSweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends—everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she’s somehow trying to replace a lost family member with a new one.
Mandy Kalinowski understands what it’s like to grow up...
Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1982. — 160 p. OCR. Robert Zend (1929-1985) is unquestionably Canada's most musical poet. Translator John Robert Colombo: "Zend's poems display a ready wit and frequent flights of fancy. In Beyond Labels the poet shows more formal ingenuity and invention [than in From Zero to One], especially with his "Ditto poems" and "Drop poems," which are reminiscent...
Mission City (British Columbia, Canada): Sono Nis Press, 1973. — 208 p. OCR. Robert Zend (1929-1985), a Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and multi-media artist, was born in Budapest where he worked as a film man and as a freelance journalist and translator. He took his B.A. from the Peter Pazmany Science University in 1953. He left in 1956 to come to Toronto. "From Zero to...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1999. — 208 p. — ISBN10: 074754154X; ISBN13: 978-0747541547. In the moving and compelling debut novel from Benjamin Zephaniah, a young man's life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a car accident. Martin seems to have it all. He's cool, funny, and he's the undisputed leader of the Gang of Three, who roam their East London estate...
Algonquin Books, 2014. — 260 p. — eISBN 978-1-61620-394-8. A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to...
Riverhead Books, 2023. — 353 р. — ISBN 9780593538265 A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life...
Penguin / Tundra Books, 2024. — 424 p. — ISBN 10 073526998X; ISBN 13 9780735269989. After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles one of her loved ones as a hostage force Zetian to share power with a dangerous...
Random House, 2020. — 605 p. — ISBN 978-19848-5418-6 Lauren Cress teaches writing at a small college outside of Washington, DC. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well liked by her students and colleagues. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated, still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier. She seems to exist at a...
California: University of California Press,. 2009.—131p.—ISBN: 978-0-520-25972-0 A bilingual edition Raúl Zurita Canessa (born 1950) is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2000.
Penguin Classics 2016. — 555 p. — ISBN: 978-0141395722 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0141395739 (EPUB). For anyone interested in European literature these stories are an undiscovered snapshot of some of the most interesting and important writing of the twentieth and twenty-first century. From the same culture that consistently draws worldwide attention for its groundbreaking and...
Выходные данные отсутствуют, 185 с. The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952. It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to survive. The Borrowers also refers to the series of five novels including The Borrowers and...
Сборник. — 2-е изд. — М.: Менеджер, 1999. — 255 c. T. Dreiser. Ernestine. W. Faulkner. An Error in Chemistry. S. Anderson. The Teacher. The Stength of God. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Babylon Revisited. E. Hemingway. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. A Day's Wait. W. Saroyan. The Cocktail Party. J. Cheever. The Sutton Place Story. R. Laroner. Who Dealt?
Сборник. — 5-е изд. — М.: Менеджер, 1999. — 316 c. Herbert George Wells. The Door in the Wall John Galsworthy. The Broken Boot Graham Green. Proof Positive Katherine Mansfield. A Cup of tea Agatha Christie. The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, Strange Jest, The Four Suspects, Accident David Herbert Lawrence .The Horce Dealer's Daughter, You touched me, The Lovely Lady Virginia...
Издательство: Триада.
Год: 2002.
Язык: Английский, Русский.
Запускается файлом EngLit.exe.
Сокровища мировой литературы. 500 английских произведений. На диске представлены около 500 различных произведений в основном англоязычных авторов (Артур Конан-Дойль, Марк Твен, Редьярд Киплинг, ОГенри, Джером К. Джером и многие другие).
Диск снабжен словарем, который работает...
Большая просьба создать отдел "Гордон Ричард" в разделе отдела иностр. литературы на англ. языке - я сейчас отгрузил 14 его книг для предварительной проверки. Спасибо!
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У меня есть идеи по созданию нового раздела. Как их воплотить в жизнь?
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Не пропустят же!
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Бликсен Карен
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- в именах не ошибка, в англоязычной литературе она известна под псевдонимом Isak Dinesen.
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