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Senelė, sužinojusi, kad Ašima laukiasi, suvirpėjo iš džiaugsmo, jog galės pavadinti pirmąjį šeimos sahibą. Tad Ašima su Ašoku nu- sprendė duoti vaikui vardą vėliau, kai gaus jos laišką… Tačiau laikas bėgo, o laiško iš Indijos nebuvo. Amerikos biurokratai pareikalavo nedelsiant pavadinti berniuką. Apimtas panikos, tėvas nusprendė duoti jam savo mėgstamo rašytojo – Gogolio vardą. Užaugintas Amerikos priemiestyje, bet auklėtas pagal indų tradicijas, Gogolis panoro atsikratyti nepatogaus vardo ir...
| Автор | Jhumpa Lahiri |
Natalie Meg Evansi esikromaan „Kleidivaras“ viib lugeja 1930. aastate Pariisi kõrgmoeloojate armutusse maailma. Romaani peategelaseks on terane ja hakkaja Alix Gower, kelle unistuseks on saada sama edukaks moeloojaks nagu Coco Chanel. Alixil on imetlusväärne anne: ta suudab kopeerida ükskõik milliseid kõrgmoe kavandeid, olles neile üksnes põgusa pilgu heitnud. Tänu sellele oskusele saab ta tööd ühes Pariisi edukaimas moemajas. Peatselt tõmmatakse ta aga kõrgmoetööstuse varjatud petuskeemide...
| Автор | Natalie Meg Evans |
Dabar ji – užsisklendusi koledžo studentė, kuri nemėgsta kalbėti nei apie save, nei apie savo šeimą. Vaikystėje Rozmari turėjo seserį ir brolį. Dabar ji – vienturtė. Kas gi įvyko Kukų šeimoje, kad apie tai kalbėti taip sunku, jog pasakojimą tenka atsukti iki vidurio ir perpasakoti iš naujo? Leiskime kalbėti pačiai Rozmari: neįtikėtina jos šeimos istorija peršoks dešimtmečius, supažindins su šokiruojančiais psichologiniais tyrimais, privers juoktis ir verkti, o galiausiai sugrįš į pradžią. Du...
| Автор | Karen Joy Fowler |
"Kui me ei oska kanda oma harjutusi unne," kirjutab Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, "kui me kaotame enda igal ööl, mis võimalust on meil siis olla teadvel, kui tuleb surm? Vaadake oma kogemusi unes, et teada, mis teiega hakkab juhtuma surmas. Vaadake oma unekogemusi, et avastada, kas olete tõeliselt ärkvel või mitte." Käesolev raamat annab üksikasjalikke juhatusi unenäojoogaks, kaasa arvatud põhjapanevad harjutused, mida tehakse päevaajal. Tiibeti traditsioonis ei ole võime näha teadlikult und asi...
| Автор | Rinpoche Tenzin Wangyal |
Vanaisa Omar ja Potike Keeda on lugu ühe poisikese kasvamisest täismeheks, tema pettumustest ja avastustest sellel teel. See haarab linnulennult ka tema vanaduspõlve ja lapselapse saatust, kes lõpetab nende perekonnaliini. Läbi loo on kandvaks motiiviks suhe vanaisaga, kes on maagiline tegelane ja küla teadmamees, kelle peategelane küll juba poisikese eas kaotab, ent vanaisa õpetused jäävad teda elupäevade lõpuni saatma. See on muinasjutuline lugu uskumiste ja väärtuste kujunemisest. Raamatu...
| Автор | Ethel Kings |
Enne 1919. aastat kehtinud argumentatsioon, mis põhines keskuse ja perifeeria vahelisel suhtel, ei ole enam mõeldav. Suurte paradigmade väärtuse langemise teiseks vaatuseks oli Teine maailmasõda. Ning kolmandaks vaatuseks 1989. aasta. Varjunditest tulvil kategooriate suures segadikus ei ole traditsioonilist argumentatsiooni juhtinud mõttetegevus, mis põhines sisse- ja välja-arvamisel, üksnes kahe valiku vahelisel either/or-il, enam võimalik.
| Автор | Simona Škrabec |
On aasta 1994. Verinoores Eesti Vabariigis käib võitlus selle nimel, kes kontrollib riigi ühtkasulikumat majandusharu – alkoholiturgu. Illegaalses alkoholiäris ringlevatemiljonite jälgi palgatakse ajama intriigide tõttu tööta jäänud tipp-kriminalist Mändmaa. Ootamatult satub uurija aga olukorda, kus tal tuleb lisaks kaduma läinud viinatehastele otsida ka Venemaalt varastatud tuumakohvreid. GRU ja KGB omakorda värbavad neilt varastatud kohver-tuumapomme otsima Palgasõduri, tabamatu diversandi ja...
| Автор | Калле Кландорф |
Muriel Barbery „Haldjate elu” on müstiline lugu kahest üleloomulike võimetega orvust Mariast ja Clarast. Maria elab Prantsusmaal Burgundia üksildases külas ja ta suudab kõneleda loodusega. Clara kasvab üles Itaalias Abruzzo mägikülas ja on ebatavalise muusikaandega. „Haldjate elu” on justkui muinasjutt ja samas fantaasiakirjandus, ent eelkõige on see igavikuline lugu hea ja kurja võitlusest. Romaani tegevus kulgeb määratlemata ajas, oma rolli mängivad müüdid, legendid ja rahvauskumused. Barbery...
| Автор | Muriel Barbery |
Sadie Turner ei ole kontrollifriik, ta on lihtsalt… korraarmastaja. Kui truudusetu abikaasa lööb uppi Sadie laitmatult korras maailma, pakib ta lapsed autosse, et veeta suvevaheaeg oma tädi järveäärses majas, kus ta loodab lõõgastuda, ennast koguda ja meestest eemal oma elu kilde kokku korjata. Kõikidest meestest. Kuid ekstsentrilisel tädi Dodyl on teised plaanid: ta on võtnud kindlaks nõuks teha nii, et Sadie natuke lõbutseks – Desmondiga, nende uue, seksika naabriga. Pikk, päevitunud,...
| Автор | Tracy Brogan |
Bestselling author Lauren Weisberger’s three standalone novels, the perfect read for any fan of the bestselling THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA.EVERYONE WORTH KNOWING, CHASING HARRY WINSTON and LAST NIGHT AT CHATEAU MARMONT, for sale as an ebook set for the first time.In EVERYONE WORTH KNOWING, Bette gets paid to party. Hanging out with celebs in the VIP section of New York’s hottest clubs is a million miles from her old banking jobs. But when she shows up in the gossip columns with a notorious playboy,...
| Автор | Лорен Вайсбергер |
The truth will tear them apart…An engrossing novel about difficult choices and second chances that will enthral fans of DOROTHY KOOMSON and ERICA JAMES.They had the perfect marriage…Glamour, money, and a beautiful home– the golden couple of Delhi, Neha and Sharat appear to have it all. But a dark secret from Neha’s past is about to resurface, a heartbreaking moment in her past that she has tried to block out.While studying at Oxford, a naive eighteen year-old Neha fell pregnant and made the...
| Автор | Jaishree Misra |
Two sisters, one life-changing secret . . .‘A terrific summer read’ Richard & JudyThere are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . .Katie’s carefully structured world is shattered by the news that her headstrong younger sister, Mia, has been found dead in Bali – and the police claim it was suicide.With only the entries of Mia’s travel journal as her guide, Katie retraces...
| Автор | Lucy Clarke |
Beneath the small-town charm is a big-time secretMuseum curator Grace McKenzie is shocked when she receives word that her ex-fiancé, Steven Hatfield, has been murdered. In his will, Steven has left her his art gallery in New Hope, Pennsylvania.Anticipating that she would turn down the bequest, he asked that she spend a week at the gallery before making her final decision. Motivated by a sense of duty to a man she once loved, Grace agrees to go to New Hope for one week. She isn’t the only person...
| Автор | Christiane Heggan |
The funniest debut novel since Tom Sharpe’s Riotous Assembly, only it’s set in Tasmania!Julian Corkle's got small-screenability. His mother tells him he'll be a star one day. 'Twinkle, twinkle,' she says, giving his hair a ruffle.Not everyone shares Julian's dreams of stardom. Television is too much like hairdressing for his father's tastes. A Tasmanian man wants a son for sporting purposes. 'Boys don't like dolls,' he tells Julian, 'They like Dinky Toys.' Not this boy, thinks Julian, who knows...
| Автор | D. Connell J. |
“Funny, warm and beautifully written – I loved it.” MILLY JOHNSONCan one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Veronica Henry meets Erica James in this gorgeous summer read.Previously published as The Island EscapeOctavia Shelton thought she’d have a different life. One where she travelled the world with an exotic husband and free-spirited children in tow.Instead she’s married to safe, reliable Jonathan, and her life now consists of packed lunches, school runs and mountains of...
| Автор | Кэрри Фишер |
The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious ‘accident’ in which a young woman was poisoned. Now grown up, the three friends are separated by this incident, and by time and distance. Boyang stayed in China, while Moran and Ruyu emigrated to the United States. All three remain haunted by what really happened.A breathtaking page-turner,...
| Автор | Yiyun Li |
Forced off the road by a speeding sports car, a van carrying nine passengers bursts into flamesAll nine occupants of the van – eight of them children – are killed .Criminal defence attorney Harrison J. Walker, aka Jaywalker, has been trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman seduces him into representing the driver – a man who also happens to be her husband – things get messy.Jaywalker tries to stay focused on his goal: limiting the damage to his...
| Автор | Joseph Teller |
A stunning and sumptuous tale of the boundaries between love and hate, truth and deception, set against the anticipation for the Kumbh Mela: the biggest festival in India.When Mia, acutely depressed by the suicide of her artist father, meets Karna, a young and mesmeric guru who bears a startling resemblance to a figure in her father’s painting, she feels compelled to follow him all the way from London to India. And if marrying Vik, the suave businessman her mother so approves of, is the way to...
| Автор | Sagarika Ghose |
Love lives in the most dangerous places of the heart The real world. That’s what Leda desperately seeks when she flees her life of privilege to travel to Kenya. She finds it at a boys' orphanage in the slums of Nairobi. What she doesn’t expect is to fall for Ita, the charismatic and thoughtful man who gave up his dreams to offer children a haven in the midst of turmoil.Their love should be enough for one another—it embodies the soul-deep connection both have always craved. But it is threatened...
| Автор | Deborah Cloyed |
Every woman needs a best friend…And Deena Munger needs one more than most. Faced with an almost empty nest, a marriage that's as stale as week-old bread, and hot flushes that are driving her mad, no wonder she feels running away. Despite her twenty extra pounds, Deena feels invisible and wonders when she started to disappear. And how come she never even noticed.Until the day Heloise enters her life.To the astonishment of her family, Deena volunteers to raise a Guide dog-and suddenly her world is...
| Автор | Elizabeth Wrenn |
Nine deliciously dark, funny and twisted short stories from one of America’s top crime writers.EXCLUSIVE EBOOK EDITION ALSO INCLUDES A FREE EXTRACT FROM LAURA’S FORTHCOMING NOVEL THE INNOCENTS.If you haven’t discovered Laura Lippman yet, delve into these nine ingenious tales and read an exclusive extract from Laura’s latest novel The Innocents.Within this collection, Laura Lippman takes us from Dublin in ‘Honor Bar’ to Washington D.C. in ‘ARM and the Woman’ and to New Orleans in ‘Pony Girl.’...
| Автор | Laura Lippman |
The best short stories from perhaps England’s finest young female comic writer.This selection of Nicola Barker’s finest short stories contains work first published in ‘Heading Inland’ and ‘Love Your Enemies’.A sixteen-year-old girl, in ‘Layla’s Nose Job’, is burdened with a grotesque nose. But plastic surgery only serves to demonstrate that her strangeness isn’t just skin-deep. The discovery turns her ingeniously violent. In ‘Inside Information’, Martha, a professional shoplifter, becomes...
| Автор | Nicola Barker |
DO YOU PROMISE NOT TO TELL?A DAUGHTERBeth has always known there was something strange about her daughter, Hannah. The lack of emotion, the disturbing behaviour, the apparent delight in hurting others… sometimes Beth is scared of her, and what she could be capable of.A SONLuke comes from the perfect family, with the perfect parents. But one day, he disappears without trace, and his girlfriend Clara is left desperate to discover what has happened to him.A LIFE BUILT ON LIESAs Clara digs into the...
| Автор | Camilla Way |
The new blockbuster from one of the world’s greatest storytellers concludes the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte, the original Woman of Substance, and the powerful Harte clan…Linnet O’Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman of substance as she battles to save the family business. She and Emma’s other great-granddaughters are tested to the limit as the final chapter in the extraordinary story of the Harte family draws to a dramatic...
| Автор | Barbara Taylor Bradford |