Caravan Thieves. Gerard Woodward Contains stories with a mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of illumination, and intimations of mortality (in `A Ford Mondeo` and `Gardening`)
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Celestial Navigation. Anne Tyler He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who has never left home. 1996. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her
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Ghost Light. Joseph Connors A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Dublin, 1907. 2011. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London`s bomb-scarred city
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Take Someone Like Me. Jayne Buxton But lately, with one daughter in a constant fit of teenage sulks, a ten-year-old questioning everything in the universe and beyond, motherhood is showing some of its distinctly uglier sides. Libby always thought her life was well-ordered, charmed
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All quiet on the western front. Maria Remarque Erich Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals. A story that is told by a young `unknown soldier` in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. 2005.
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Selected Stories. John O`Hara This title dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them. Presents stories that expose the world of bartenders and `b-girls`, car washers and criminals. Из серии: Vintage Classics
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Wodehouse at the Wicket. P.G. Wodehouse He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a
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The Widows of Eastwick. John Updike They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and
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The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand First published in 1943, this novel presents a view of man`s creative potential. Tells the story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. 2007. It is about ambition, power, gold
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Death of a salesman. Arthur Miller The extraordinary success of the play throughout the world over a period of nearly fifty years, however, highlights what is perhaps its greatest strength. Arthur Millers classic portrait of an ordinary mans struggle to leave his mark on the world
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The grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck Out of their trials and their repeated collisons against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken,
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The Romanov Bride. Robert Alexander Set against a backdrop of Imperial Russiaas twilight, The Romanov Bride has the same enduring appeal. The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of The Kitchen Boy Book groups and historical fiction buffs have made Robert Alexanderas
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The Lost Throne. Chris Kuzneski Payne and Jones must race to recover a lost treasure that could rewrite history. Reaching from the wonders of ancient Greece to a harrowing quest in modern-day Europe, this thriller features Jonathon Payne and D.J. Jones, former members of a top
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Darkness Be My Friend (Tomorrow Series 4). John Marsden Ellie and her friends have found safety after months of fighting. Darkness is the friend and enemy of those who hunt by night. And so the friends must fight on. But the New Zealand Defence Force needs their help to infiltrate occupied Australian
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Secret Intensity of Everyday Life. William Nicholson That is, until a lover from her past comes back into her life. Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. But how much happiness has she a right to expect? Unknown to Laura, many others in her Sussex village are
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Pirates!. Celia Rees The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth- century West Indies, they are
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Mister Creecher. Chris Priestley Mr Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of
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The Decameron. Selected Tales. Giovanni Boccaccio 25 tales, selected from the original 100, highlight the very best of The Decameron and its tremendous variety -- earthy and irreverent satires, gripping tales of murder and revenge, love stories, and much more. A group of 14th-century Florentines
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Animal Farm. George Orwell His simple and tragic fable, telling of what happens when the animals drive out Mr. "It is the history of a revolution that went wrong-and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine",
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Grave Secret. Charlaine Harris But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both
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Outlander. Gil Adamson 2010. A brooding, compelling, fugitive-on-the-run story Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers` Prize, Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers Dashiell Hammett Prize, Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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First Law 2. Before They Are Hanged. Joe Abercrombie How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a
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Witching Hour. Anne Rice And the witching hour begins. On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, The Witching Hour could only have been written by
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Get a Life. Nadine Gordimer He is especially struck by the contradiction in values of his work as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency executive. When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer and prescribed treatment that makes
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Interrogation. Clezio Jean-Marie-Gustave Le He visits the town at rare intervals. Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog`s eye or a rat`s states of
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Diary. Chuck Palahniuk Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, shes been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Diary
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Jack Reacher. Lee Child . Now a major motion picture Electrifying . This series [is] utterly addictive. . Five dead. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times Six shots. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. One heartland city thrown into a state of
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Word Child. Iris Murdoch When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition. Hilary Burde, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic
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Bel-Ami. Guy de Maupassant But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a
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Учитель. Шарлотта Бронте В его основе — впечатления от времени, проведенного автором в брюссельском пансионе для девиц, где будущая писательница
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Rebel Heart. Rebel Heart ” It seemed so simple: Defeat the Tonton, rescue her kidnapped brother, Lugh, and then order would be restored to Saba’s world. Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the second book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV’s
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Ghost Children. Bunting Eve ” However, when someone vandalizes the dolls and two are stolen, it is Matt, with the help of his new friend, Kristin, who foils the would-be thief and returns the dolls to Aunt Gerda. When Matt and Abby go to live with Great-Aunt Gerda in Sierra
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Chronicle of Death Foretold. Marquez. Marquez Gabriel Garcia Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom
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Genius. Jesse Kellerman From its first hip, cynical, snarky, confessional pages, this deftly plotted novel rivets the reader. From the national bestselling author of "Trouble" comes this sinister and provocative thriller, now in a tall Premium Edition. "
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Fascination. William Boyd 2005. Described as the finest storyteller generation, Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space.
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Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim. Jonathan Coe He maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his childhood best friend refuses to return his calls. Maxwell Sim
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving Washington Once again in these pages, Ichabod Crane, the hapless schoolmaster of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, faces the terror of the Headless Horseman, and the henpecked husband of Rip Van Winkle rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed.
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1Q84. The Complete Trilogy. Haruki Murakami This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. The year is 1Q84. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. And in this world, there seems no way
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River of Smoke. Amitav Ghosh, Амитав Гош When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from
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Titanic Triology (Unsincable, Collision Course, SOS) 3-book pack. Gordon Korman Appropriate titles of equal value may be substituted if any of the listed titles are unavailable at shipping time. Four young characters — with reasons to hide and secrets to keep — are in for the journey of their lives in this fantastic
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Angel. Katie Price Eighteen-year-old Angel has only one dream: to leave behind the sheltered safety of her home and head for the modelling agencies of the big city. A sparkling and sexy tale of glamour modeling, romance and the treacherous promises of fame. But then
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Ecstasy. Ирвин Уэлш, Irvine Welsh Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best. Will their ardour fizzle and die
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Black Mischief. Evelyn Waugh His subjects are ill informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. Malcolm Bradbury
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Vile Bodies. Evelyn Waugh But as they crash through London, losing their way in both life and love, the Second World War is looming . The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair – innocent, hedonistic and sophisticated – are always seeking a new sensation, a new fashion
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Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde As he falls into the lure of a selfish world of luxury, his beauty remains unaltered. Dorian Gray is a popular and balanced young man, until he cannot resist corruption from the power of his own beauty. A master of language and turn of phrase - an
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Count of Monte Cristo (+ CD). Alexandre Dumas On the day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, Edmond is thrown into prison. Edmond Dantes is a clever young seaman, but he has enemies who tell lies about him. Will Edmond escape from prison and find the treasure? And will he see Mercedes
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From Splendor to Revolution. Romanov Women, 1847-1928. Julia Gelardi The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and. This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial
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Leopard Hunts in Darkness. Wilbur Smith But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. And his heart still clings to
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Torment of Others. Val McDermid THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD. Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a sickening quartet of murders. SOOTHING, CAJOLING, PRAISING, COMMANDING. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away, as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his
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The Lucky One. Николас Спаркс, Nicholas Sparks He carries it in his pocket, and from then on his luck begins to change. Do you believe in lucky charms? While in Iraq, U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photo, half-buried in the dirt, of a woman. Over time, he becomes convinced that the woman