Amsterdam. Иэн Макьюэн, Ian McEwan Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday are former lovers of the recently-deceased Molly Lane. A contemporary morality tale that is as profound as it is witty. 2009. They make a pact following her funeral, which both tests their friendship to the limits
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Homer and Langley. Эдгар Лоуренс Доктороу But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the war with his lungs seared by gas, and when both of their parents die, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era. Brilliant brothers Langley
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Eleven minutes. Пауло Коэльо During this time she develops a fascination for sex. The new novel from the internationally best selling Paulo Coelho After being tricked into moving to Geneva with the promise of being a dancer, Maria finds herelf working the streets as a
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Black Dogs. Иэн Макьюэн, Ian McEwan 2009. "Black Dogs" is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.
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Norwegian Wood. Харуки Мураками Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he
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Love, Etc. Джулиан Барнс, Julian Barnes In "Love, Etc" Julian Barnes revisits the three of them, using the same intimate technique of allowing the characters to speak directly to the reader, to whisper their secrets, to argue for their version of the truth. In "Talking it Over" Gillian
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The Time Traveler`s Wife. Одри Ниффенеггер, Audrey Niffenegger Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with ChronoDisplacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. This extraordinary, magical novel is the
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Oxford storyland readers. Level 9. Jo tells stories. Paul McGuire The series is carefully graded according to twelve levels of reading ability and controlled using especially designed computer software. This primary reading series introduces young learners to the world of reading. 2004. This ensures that these
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Hotel de dream. Edmund White Knowing it may be his last chance, he dictates the story of ‘The Painted Boy’, inspired by a real-life encounter. A moving, expertly crafted novel from one of New York’s most prolific authors The famed writer Stephen Crane is travelling to a
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Travelling hornplayer. Barbara Trapido Along with good stepmothers, bad mothers, strange professors and wicked monks, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale. Bad, mad, flame-haired cellist Stella, adulterous Jonathan and high-spirited sisters Ellen and Lydia Dent find their fates
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Juggling. Barbara Trapido And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns
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Skin. Jeremy Poolman In his cramped attic apartment in Krakow he has decided to set straight the record of his life, and yet he is wracked by the guilt and knowledge of a number of terrible secrets. Janek Janowiec is awaiting trial. Casting a revealing light on many
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Blank gaze. Jose Luis Peixoto The characters are universal, and they are all at the mercy of fate - their lives are pulled in different directions and sometimes even suffocated and snuffed out . Against a backdrop of rural Portuguese poverty, a handful of magical characters are
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The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize The final curtain is closing on
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Killing Johnny Fry. Walter Mosley Overnight Cordell’s calm life dissolves. Award-winning author Walter Mosley breaks new ground in this noir novel about a man who finally reaches breaking point When Cordell Carmel catches his long-term girlfriend with another man – the
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Diablerie. Walter Mosley But nothing can prepare Ben for his chance meeting with Star, a mysterious woman at a launch for the hip magazine Diablerie – because Star claims to share a gruesome secret that Ben just can’t remember. From the author of Devil in a Blue Dress
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The declaration. Malley Gemma Charismatic characters, action-driven plot and sublime writing combine to make this an unputdownable novel for teens. Powerful futuristic drama about a world in which human life has a transformed value, and ageing has long since lost its finality.
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The indian clerk. David Leavitt G.H. Hardy – eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age – receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. The extraordinary true story of the discovery of one of the greatest mathematicians
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Time of light. Kopperud Gunnar Markus, a former German soldier devastated by the outbreak of this new war, seeks atonement from an Armenian priest for his part in the Nazi invasion of Russia. Framed by the 9-day Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 1994, THE TIME OF LIGHT is skilfully
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The archivist`s story. Travis Holland The great author Isaac Babel is spending his last days in the infamous Lubyanka prison, forbidden to write. The Shadow of the Wind meets Gorky Park in this powerful, haunting debut Moscow, 1939. But Pavel makes a reckless decision in the face of a
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Всадник без головы. Майн Рид Действие романа происходит в Техасе в период покорения Дикого Запада. Данная книга представляет собой адаптацию приключенческого
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Малый уголок. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм Однако авторская манера повествования неспешна и созерцательна. «Малый уголок» — роман-путешествие, насыщенный драматическими
Best American Erotica 2004. Камминг Алан, Collective The best erotic fiction writings published last year in magazines, journals, and short story collections are presented in an anthology that covers the totality of human sexuality and include cutting-edge works by Maggie Estep, Jerry Stahl, Bill
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The Secret Between Us. Барбара Делински Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark.
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Street Lawyer. Джон Гришэм 2003. After a violent encounter with a homeless man, talented corporate lawyer Michael finds himself outthe streets, lucky to be alive, and holding a top-secret file belonging to his former employers.
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Gentlemen Of The Road. Майкл Чабон, Michael Chabon Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures–from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories–in a wonderful new novel brimming with
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The painter of Battles. Артуро Перес-Реверте Now, as continues to try to understand it, he starts painting a grand circular fresco on the inside wall of a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can never forget, and an unexpected visit: a man who wants to kill
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Slaughterhouse-five. Курт Воннегут 1998. Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.
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The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short
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A Son of the Circus. Джон Ирвинг Twenty years ago he was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Darwalla is a Canadian citizen living in Toronto. 1995. Now 20 years later, the
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Gulliver’s Travels & Atomised. Мишель Уэльбек, Джонатан Свифт " "Vintage Satire" is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. "Vintage Satire" contains volumes of "Gulliver`s Travels" by Jonathan Swift and Michel Houellebecq`s controversial bestseller "Atomised. Each twin consists of two books
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In the Heart of the Country. J.M. Coetzee From the author of DUSKLANDS and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS. A novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody
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Fight Club. Чак Паланик, Chuck Palahniuk Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off
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Frankenstein & Sexing the Cherry. Джанет Уинтерсон, Мэри Шелли This volume is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. "Vintage Monsters" contains "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and "Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson. Each twin consists of two books
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Winnie And Wolf. A. Wilson 2008. Presents the story of the relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth.
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Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency. Nigel Hamilton This title describes what was possibly the greatest disaster and re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. Charts the experience of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President as he took presidential oath of office - and how he fared thereafter
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Finding Monsieur Right. Muriel Zagha Swapping homes with French student Isabelle seems like the perfect arrangement. Daisy has just landed the perfect job: spending a year in Paris writing about fashion. Meanwhile, fun-loving Daisy discovers that Paris is the City of Love, and more
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Mudbound. Hillary Jordan Henry`s love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm
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Grotesque. Kirino Natsuo Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect and commanded attention from older men. Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo.
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Who Dares Wins. Chris Ryan One mission. Two brothers. Two brothers, SAS through and through. And a whole world of trouble Sam and Jacob Redman. They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war, fiercely loyal wherever they are. They fight alongside each other; they
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Special providence. Richard Yates At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. Robert Prentice is 18, and his dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. 2008. This novel describes post-war America, at odds with
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Collected Stories. Ричард Йейтс, Richard Yates 2008. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Richard Yates examines the hopes and disappointments of
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Teahouse Fire. Ellis Avery What I asked for? Any life but this one. `When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house. ` When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her
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Fire in the Blood. Ирен Немировски This title tells a story about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions, and the regrets of old age. Set in a small village, an old man looks back on a chequered
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Piccadilly jim. P.G. Wodehouse In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that Jimmy ends up having to pretend he`s himself. It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a
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Peeling the Onion. Гюнтер Грасс This memoir evokes his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Gunter Grass` parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him
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Le Bal. Ирен Немировски, Irene Nemirovsky Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. The Kampfs decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Instead, Antoinette is forced to sleep in the laundry room, as her bedroom is used as