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Christmas Turkey, A A

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Christmas Turkey, A A

In «A Christmas Turkey», a poor family works hard to figure out how they can celebrate Christmas. When the father is unable to provide a turkey, the children venture out into the world, working to earn enough money to pool their resources and purchase one for the Christmas table.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Tessa's Surprises

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Tessa's Surprises

Tessa's Surprises is a story about an underprivileged little girl who strives to earn a few coins so she can buy her younger siblings Christmas presents. A heartwarming Christmas tale from Louisa May Alcott.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

The Grass is Singing

Дорис Лессинг

The Grass is Singing

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of ‘The Grass is Singing’ with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature.Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story...

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Дорис Лессинг

The Adventure of the Sinister Stran...

Агата Кристи

The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford wait anxiously for a letter from Russia that may contain information of international importance, surreptitiously hidden beneath the stamp. The letter is anticipated by more than just the Beresford’s, and they must fight to keep the information from getting into the wrong hands.

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Агата Кристи

Invisible

Jonathan Buckley

Invisible

A lyrical and beautifully realised novel about a blind man's experiences of the world around him, from the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe.Edward Morton, a blind translator, arrives at the Oak, an ailing spa hotel in the west of England, intending to stay for a few days to visit his family and to work. The manager of the Oak, Malcolm Caldecott, is preparing for the closure of the hotel, and for the visit of Stephanie, the daughter he has not seen for eight years. Eloni Dobra, a chambermaid at...

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Jonathan Buckley

The Search for the Dice Man

Luke Rhinehart

The Search for the Dice Man

The sequel to the cult classic The Dice Man, available in e-book format for the first time.The rules are down to you. The rules that stop you seducing your neighbour downstairs, that stop you hitting your boss, that stop you leaving your family and leaving the country. The rules that stop you living.The dice don’t do rules; the dice do life.Luke Rhinehart is a psychiatrist, a husband and a father, his life locked down by routine and order – until he picks up the dice. The dice govern his every...

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Luke Rhinehart

Hospital Christmas, A A

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Hospital Christmas, A A

In «A Hospital Christmas» a Civil War-era hospital is the setting for a Christmas story about caring for others, thinking positively and how sharing can make Christmas meaningful for those who have little.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Quiet Little Woman, The The

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Quiet Little Woman, The The

In «The Quiet Little Woman» a lonely orphan girl named Patty, desires only for a family to love her. When a family finally does come for Patty, she learns it is because they need a servant. But it happens that there is one person who cares about Patty, whose life will soon change forever. Written as a gift to five earnest fans of «Little Women», this Louisa May Alcott Christmas story has become a holiday classic.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Three Christmas Poems

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Three Christmas Poems

These three Christmas poems by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott are full of the magical holiday spirit and will warm the hearts of readers during the holidays.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Christmas Inspiration, A A

L. M. Montgomery

Christmas Inspiration, A A

Beth and Jean and three other girls at No. 16 Chestnut Terrace are spending a cheery Christmas together opening presents that came in the mail, since none could go home this year. Beth remarks that Miss Allen, an older woman resident of the boarding house, is apparently alone this year. Though Miss Allen is not widely liked by the girls, they agree that no one should have to spend Christmas alone. Thus, a Christmas Inspiration is born.

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L. M. Montgomery

What You Will

Katherine Bucknell

What You Will

An intimate portrait of London intellectual life, the breakdown of a marriage and the friendship between two women, ‘What You Will’ draws the reader into a spellbinding world of beauty and tension.Gwen, an American painter, lives in London with her English husband, Lawrence, an Oxford don. When Gwen’s friend Hilary arrives from New York bruised by a broken engagement, a lost job and an unsuitable love affair, Gwen is determined to find her someone to marry. But will he be another Oxford...

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Katherine Bucknell

The Wishbones

Tom Perrotta

The Wishbones

The second novel from Tom Perrotta, author of ‘Little Children’, ‘Election’ and ‘The Abstinence Teacher’.Everything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head…well, it's his parents' roof, but they don't hassle him much. Life isn't perfect. But it isn't bad. Not bad at all.But then he has to blow it all by proposing to...

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Tom Perrotta

A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin

Helen Forrester

A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin

A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey.Life in a Liverpool tenement block during the Great Depression is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly and her poverty-stricken family, as every day renews the threat of homelessness, hunger and disease.Family warmth remains constant however, despite the misery and disquiet of the slum surroundings, and the indomitible neighbourhood puts up a relentless fight for...

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Helen Forrester

The Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh

The Glass Palace

A sweeping story of Burma and Malaya over a span of one hundred years that has rightly become a modern classic no for the first time in ebook. From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Sea of Poppies.Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese king, queen and all the court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But...

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Amitav Ghosh

Poor Relation's Story, The The

Чарльз Диккенс

Poor Relation's Story, The The

Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, The Poor Relation's Story takes place during a Christmas feast, where a poor relation of the host tells the story of his life. This version of The Poor Relation's Story is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

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Чарльз Диккенс

Nobody's Story

Чарльз Диккенс

Nobody's Story

Originally published in the 1853 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, Nobody's Story uses the differences between the Big Wig family and the Nobody family to call attention to class-based inequity. This version of Nobody's Story is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

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Чарльз Диккенс

What Love Can Do

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

What Love Can Do

In «What Love Can Do», two poor sisters share their modest Christmas wishes with each other, namely: a little money with which to buy gifts for their family members. Overhearing this, the kindly residents of a boarding house come together to make a lovely Christmas surprise for the two girls.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Kate's Choice

Луиза Мэй Олкотт

Kate's Choice

In «Kate's Choice» a young English girl inherits a financial windfall when she is suddenly orphaned. Per her father's wish, she is sent to America to live with the families of each of her four uncles in order to choose where she will live. Each family is full of wonderful, prosperous interesting people, all of them anxious that Kate should choose their family to stay with. But at Christmastime, Kate surprises them all by announcing whom she shall stay with.

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Луиза Мэй Олкотт

March

Geraldine Brooks

March

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick.From the author of the acclaimed ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War.Set during the American Civil War, ‘March’ tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in ‘Little Women’, Louisa May Alcott’s classic American novel. In Brooks’s telling, March emerges as an...

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Geraldine Brooks

We’ll Always Have Paris

Рэй Брэдбери

We’ll Always Have Paris

From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales.Recently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy.In this new volume of never-before-published stories, follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home, discover what...

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Рэй Брэдбери

Fashionably Late

Olivia Goldsmith

Fashionably Late

Classic Olivia Goldsmith – a vibrant and witty novel about fashion, family and what happens when having it all isn’t as easy as you thought.She’s got the designer label, but she hasn’t got the designer genes…Wherever she goes, Karen Khan is fashionably late. She can afford to be: the star of the New York fashion scene, with her own company, a handsome husband and a deal that could make her millions, she is the apple – and the envy – of everyone’s eye.But, at forty, is she too late for the...

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Olivia Goldsmith

Tracy Chevalier 3-Book Collection:...

Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier 3-Book Collection: Girl With a Pearl Earring, Remarkable Creatures, Falling Angels

Three of Tracy Chevalier’s highly acclaimed novels, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, REMARKABLE CREATURES and FALLING ANGELS packaged together in one eBook for the first time.GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRINGTracy Chevalier’s extraordinary novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic and an international bestseller.17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework,...

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Tracy Chevalier

Christmas Tree, A A

Чарльз Диккенс

Christmas Tree, A A

Originally published in the 1850 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, A Christmas Tree is considered to be one of Dickens's more autobiographical pieces. In it, decorations on the Christmas tree trigger the narrator's memories of Christmases past. This version of A Christmas Tree is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

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Чарльз Диккенс

Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

Year of Wonders

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village.In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from...

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Geraldine Brooks

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