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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are kno... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "e;Wizard"e; Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Meet Ginger Pye, the smartest dog you'll ever know. Jerry Pye and his sister, Rachel, feel pretty smart themselves for buying Ginger. It was the best dollar they ever spent. Ginger steals everybody's heart . . . until someone steals him! |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and househo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Hailed as "e;original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century"e; (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "e;fascinating psychological thriller"e; (The Baltimore Sun), this... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, the sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | In 1839, persecuted Mormons fled Missouri, across the Mississippi River, seeking freedom from violence. They hoped to find a safe haven on the banks of the river in an Illinois city that they called Nauvoo, the city beautiful.The Mormons did not flourish for long in ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | A New York Times Notable Book Nuanced and smart . . . Serber knows that neglect or disconnect doesnt always turn into trauma or damage. Life isnt algebra. Which events lead to pain, and which to growth and awareness, remains unpredictable. The one reliable truth is t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | With his customary wit, humor, and irony, along with a fine sense of the period, Louis Auchincloss artfully brings to life an exciting and dramatic facet of eighteenth-century England. On the Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the lowl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | For anyone who has ever loved a Jane Austen novel, a warm and witty look at the passionate, thriving world of Austen fandomThey walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Auste... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Longlisted for the National Book Award';This bold argument . . . will undoubtedly change the way we see Franklin Roosevelt.' Christian Science Monitor ';Masterly.' Wall Street JournalA dramatic, eye-opening account of how FDR took personal charge of the military dire... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Rodney Jones has been called "e;the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry"e; (Southern Review) and one of the nation's "e;best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets"e; (Poetry). Salvation Blues traces t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:52 | Louis Auchincloss, known to most people as the author of best-selling novels, is also a practicing lawyer. In Powers of Attorney he combines his two vocations in a graphic and authoritative account of the internal workings of a big New York law office. Each of the tw... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:53 | It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vulturesthey were lured by the glittering promise of instant riches and... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:54 | Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed theMississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indianattack, and as the wagon train pushed on throughSioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ...Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought awar at fifteen. Now Tel... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:55 | Dangerous. Sensual. Handsome as sin. Meet Hayden Rothwell, the shamelessly erotic hero of The Rules of Seduction and author Madeline Hunters most irresistible alpha male yet: a man of extraordinary passion and power, a man who can bring out the seductress in any woma... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:55 | 'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Te... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:56 | Inspired by the sultry heat and sensual ambiance of New Orleans, this steamy collection delves into the erotic underground of the Big Easy. Here is a tantalizing trio of stories by three rising stars that will tease your imaginationand seduce your senses. Lush, haunt... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:56 | As an impulsive young man, Rieuk Mordiern accidentally freed Azilis, a guardian spirit charged with keeping the balance between the kingdoms of the living and the dead. Now Rieuk's sole purpose is to bring Azilis backonly she doesn't want to return. Instead she has a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:56 | Every family has a secret. But what if that secret makes you question your own place in the family? Mixing equal parts memoir, detective story, and popular-science narrative, this is the emotionally charged account of one mans quest to find out the truth about his ge... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:56 | Written by two renowned authorities who specialize in the treatment of breast cancer, a surgeon and an oncologist, this lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for th... Полное описание |
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