Goodbye, Columbus. Филип Рот Goodbye Columbus is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish Diaspora.
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Fiasco : The American Military Adventure in Iraq. Thomas E. Ricks Providing eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories and figures, they give a chilling picture of the deceit, stupidity, wishful thinking, lack of forward planning and total intellectual failure of those behind the invasion. Cutting
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Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys A masterpiece of contrasting moods, Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bront
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2001. Penguin Student Editions are complete unabridged texts of Penguin Classics, Modern Classics and some more recent
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Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand Set in the future, the novel follows capitalist magnates as they battle looters, strikers, and the impending ruin of the United States` economy. Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand`s best-selling novel as the
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God`S Own Country. Ross Raisin Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine. In one of the most celebrated debut novels of recent years, Ross Raisin
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The Stuff Of Thought. Steven Pinker Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. He shows how we use space and
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Microtrends Surprising Tales of the way We Live Today. Mark J. Penn Microtrends is the story of the small groups that are causing big changes in our lives today. Welcome to the surprising world of microtrends, where Snowed-Under Slobs are increasing in number – but so are Extreme Commuters; where teenagers are
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Time And Chance. Sharon Kay Penman England, God’s year 1156, and Henry and Eleanor are battling to keep hold of the crown. Continuing the epic story of Henry II, Europe’s most powerful medieval king, and his beautiful and daring wife Eleanor of Aquitaine – a tale of
Still Thinking Of You They can`t wait to celebrate their wedding with their closest friends, all of whom have known each other since university where they enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle. Tash and Rich are newly engaged. But is fun as easy-come-easy-go in your thirties?
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White Rose Rebel. Janet Paisley Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl - tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than taking his bed. The Highlands
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Thetavern On Maple Street. Sharon Owens One day, Dublin-based developer, Vincent Halloran arrives with big plans for Maple Street. Lily Beaumont and her husband Jack are owners of a Victorian tavern. Instead, Lily hires four pretty barmaids to bring in the customers. The other traders
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Revenge Of The Wedding Plann.. Sharon Owens Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family. Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the over-the-top and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast`s brides and grooms to
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Leonardo Davinci. Charles Nicholl Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but
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The Luzhin Defense. Vladimir Nabokov The novel features a chess-playing genius Luzhin who discovers his gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of Grandmaster. One of the major novels by Vladimir Nabokov, originally entitled "The Defense". Из серии: Penguin Modern Classics
2001.
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. Vladimir Nabokov It describes his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers - on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in
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Pale Fire. Vladimir Nabokov The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor. A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his
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Glory. Vladimir Nabokov Из серии: Twentieth Century Classics
1990. A novel by the author of Mary , The Eye , The Real Life of Sebastian Knight , Transparent Things and Lolita .
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Bend Sinister. Vladimir Nabokov Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. His antagonist, the
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The Seven Year Itch. Kate Morris But Jack is a soap actor whose character has been killed off, leaving him hanging around the house and getting under the feet of Petra, an au pair too glamorous for her own good - even if she is a dab hand with glitter and glue. Ellie has been
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The Missing. Chris Mooney The result confirms she was abducted five years earlier and has somehow managed to escape from the dungeon in which she`s been caged. When Boston CSI Darby McCormick finds a raving and emaciated woman hiding at the scene of a violent kidnap, she
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Focus. Arthur Miller Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew. A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside
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No One Writesto The Colonel. Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес 2008. Presents the story of a Colonel and his ailing wife who fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес Its irony gives the book the nuances of a political fable. Setting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contradictions of memory and moments lost in time.
Short History Of Tractors. Marina Lewycka 2005. This tender, deeply funny novel is about an eccentric elderly Ukranian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold digger from the old country, who sweeps him off his feet.
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Freakonomics. Steven Levitt It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku
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Terra Amata. Clezio Jean-Marie-Gustave Le From a small boy playing on the beach, through his adolescence and his first love, to the death of his father and on to the end of his own life, he relishes the most minute details of his physical surroundings as he journeys on a sensory adventure
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Flood. J.M.G. Le Clezio Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. Francois Besson listens to a tape
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Fever. Clezio Jean-Marie-Gustave Le This title presents tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". Explores how the physical sensations we experience every day can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power
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Sword Of God. Chris Kuzneski Somewhere ahead is a chamber containing the collected fragments of an ancient scripture, a find of unimaginable significance. Tunnelling deep under one of the most holy cities in the world, an ambitious young archaeologist slowly works her way
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Lost Throne The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inaccessible. 2008. In the dead of night, the sanctity of
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Men Walks Intermediate O A Room. Nicole Krauss When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. 2007. The removal of a small
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The Gilded Chamber. Rebecca Kohn 2005. This is a tale of strength, seduction and survival, of the solidarity of women, and its descriptions of the Persian palace and the secrets contained within those walls will hold you spellbound to the final page.
Nkin Dead Zone,The. Stephen King John Smith awakens from an interminable coma with an accursed power-the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in. the dead zone.
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Rage. Jonathan Kellerman " Eight years ago, psychologist, Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the shocking murder of young Kristal Malley. "On a slow chilly Sunday in January, shortly after the Lakers overcame a sixteen point halftime deficit and beat New
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Beyond the Blonde. Kathleen Flynn-Hui In this superb roman-a-clef, Kathleen Flynn-Hui tells it like it is and gives readers more than one opportunity to spot the stars behind the stories . 2005.
Njack Loch Ness Monsters And Rain .Frog. Albert Jack 2008. What happened to the Mary Celeste? Where is the Mona Lisa? Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will the real Paul McCartney please stand up? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? What was Agatha Christie`s own mystery? Why does it rain
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The Lucky Country. Donald Horne Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. When it was first published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book still remains illuminating and insightful decades later. The book was a
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About a Boy. Nick Hornby As a result of one of his liaisons he meets Marcus, a strange 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Will is a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in his search for available women, invents an imaginary son and starts
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Measuring Time. Helon Habila When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds - and in time becomes a soldier well-versed in the ways of life and death. In the small Nigerian village of Keti live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father. Unable
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Straight Talking. Jane Green Or your girlfriend. This could be about your best friend. Are you Tasha - single and still searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting
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Bookends. Jane Green Cath is scatty, messy and emotionally closed, Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. Cath and Si are best friends, both unlucky in love. 2004. When Portia steps back into their lives, her reappearance sets off a chain
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Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems. Allen Ginsberg This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. Dark, ecstatic and
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Solace. Nicci Gerrard 2005. And as Irene soon realises, being along can mean discovering freedom, elation and even in the darkest of times, finding your solace.