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Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of co... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:58 | Having fled the invasion on Araldis, Mira Fedor travels to the nearest Orion League planet seeking aid for her devastated world, but the authorities seem more interested in stealing her bio-ship, Insignia, than in rendering help. While Mira flees from world to world,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:58 | The epic struggle begun in THE SUM OF ALL MEN continues in BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Gaborn has managed to drive off Raj Ahten, but Ahten is far from defeated. Striking at far-flung cities and fortresses and killing dedicates, Ahten seeks to draw out the Earth King fr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 5:59 | Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she used to be E... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:00 | Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics and Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:00 | Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:01 | MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Ter n travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama . ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:02 | I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.' FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - sho... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:02 | 'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explai... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | Whether it's a mighty battle between ancient gods, the Second Coming of a biblical saviour, or a pesky millennial computer virus, we've always wondered how the world would end ... and whether we'd be (un)lucky enough to see it. This book explores some of the theories... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | The Devonshire village of Ford is full of excitement and curiosity at the arrival of their new doctor, the dashing young Scotsman Jamie Murray. Among the fluttering female hearts are sisters Maggs and Crista Fletcher. And though Maggs frequents the local pub, the Ang... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | It began over lunch. Three different women, best friends, decide to spice up their love-lives with a little extra-curricular sex. Shannon is first, accepting the dare of seducing a motorcycle despatch rider - while riding pillion through the streets of London.The oth... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive . . . Scotty and his friends are among the last seven kids at their high school... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:03 | The forthcoming marriage of Venetia, eldest daughter of the Duke of Southport, and 'Beauty' Winchmore is the talk of London society, and a match which has the full support of Venetia's parents. But just weeks before the wedding Venetia cries off - unable to accept th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | In 1851 the fortunes of the Morland family are more buoyant than they have been for years. Morland Place is recovering under Benjamin's steady hands - happy at last with Sibella. Charlotte, now Duchess of Southport, is shortly to give birth to hersecond child and on ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | A Bill Slider mystery in which he investigates the death of gay dancer Jay Paloma. Slider feels his death is in some way linked to the attack on the community copper, but how and why will lead him into some curious byways and cul-de-sacs. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | In this ninth outing for the likeable detective, Inspector Bill Slider is called to cope with a disfigured corpse grotesquely left in a children's playground. His enquiries plunge him into the shadow world behind the fashionable facade of Shepherd's Bush, among the v... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, A... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | The time has now come for female werewolf Jessica McClain to honour the oath she swore to the icy Vampire Queen. With her mate Rourke at her side, Jessica is confident she'll be able to sail through this job without getting herself killed. What Jessica doesn't know i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:04 | This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century.Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 6:05 | This study explores maternity in the 'disciplines' of early modern England. Placing the reproductive female body centre-stage in Shakespeare's theatre, Laoutaris ranges beyond the domestic sphere in order to recuperate the wider intellectual, epistemological, and arc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 31 марта 2010, 0:22 | Quentin Meillassoux has been described as the most rapidly prominent French philosopher in the Anglophone world since Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. With the publication of After Finitude (2006), this daring protege of Alain Badiou became one of the world's most visib... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 31 марта 2010, 0:22 | Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which c... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 31 марта 2010, 0:22 | The pre-modern period saw a background of inter-ethnic strife among Arabs and non-Arabs, mainly Persians. Starting from the symbolic and cognitive roles of language, Yasir Suleiman shows how discussions about the inimitability and (un)translatability of the Qur'an in... Полное описание |
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Легко читается!
на один раз почитать сойдёт. Местами скучновато, местами интересно. Поэтому я читала её долго
