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Sweet and romantic Sophie Pembroke’s The Love Trilogy is the perfect treat for fans of Lucy Diamond and Milly Johnson.Room for LoveCan she make room for love?When wedding planner Carrie Archer inherits the crumbling Avalon Inn where she spent her childhood summers, she knows she’ll do whatever it turn it into a dream wedding venue and the perfect home.But Carrie has been left more than the inn—she’s also inherited its occupants, including three senior citizens, a single-father chef with...
| Автор | Sophie Pembroke |
От автора Книга адресована людям с пылким сердцем и крепкой печенью. Вся эта алкогольная фантастика написана для тех, кто стремится понять тайны мироздания и узнать – что же было до "Большого взрыва". Кто есть Бог, и зачем Сатана желает остановить спираль времени? Как летают драконы в безвоздушном пространстве? Что пьют по ту сторону жизни? Что такое настоящий Интернет, и как заставить мозг работать на 33% КПД? Эти вопросы будут закрыты, если вы прочтёте эту книжку. Но появятся новые. Только...
| Автор | Эдуард Беспяткин |
Piękna opowieść o bezwarunkowej przyjaźni, ludzkich tęsknotach i marzeniach. George Milton i Lennie Small to niezwykły tandem przyjaciół. George jest silnym mężczyzną, a podążający w ślad za nim Lennie – upośledzonym gigantem o umysłowości małego dziecka. Niezdarny i nieświadomy własnej siły fizycznej nie potrafi dostosować się do społecznych norm i co chwila sprowadza na siebie i George’a mniejsze lub większe nieszczęścia. Nie mogąc znaleźć dla siebie miejsca, przyjaciele przemierzają...
| Автор | John Steinbeck |
'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family’s heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.
| Автор | Mary Costello |
A Little Wisdom for Growing Up is an ancient form of storytelling, of passing on wisdom between generations. In this delightful collection of fables from the natural world (in the style of Aesop's famous fables), the author seeks to pass on to his young son, Jonathan, what he has learned from life. Characters in these brief fables run the gamut–from skunks and fish, to trees and the human body. Each story has been carefully written to reflect the natural world in which children live,...
| Автор | John C. Morgan |
Toe Elfrieda ná ʼn lang koma uiteindelik haar oë oopmaak, is haar kop leeg. Angs pak haar toe sy in ’n Durbanse hospitaal besef sy kan níks van haar verlede onthou ná sy voor ’n motor ingehardloop het nie. ’n Terloopse opmerking deur Michael, die neuropsigiater wat na haar omsien, bring ’n flits herinnering: Voor haar sien sy ’n vaalgroen boekie oor die lewe van die ontdekkingsreisiger David Livingstone se vrou, Mary. Met behulp van Michael begin Elfrieda stadig die legkaartstukkies van haar...
| Автор | Connie Luyt |
Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite – the way they always have done, it seems. But soon the social upheaval out on the street will break its way through the club's gilded doors, and its inhabitants above and below stairs must all confront their choices: to live safely without dignity, or to fight for their rights and risk everything.
| Автор | Alaa Al aswany |
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE? After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, he is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst a crazy alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he's a dog. What could possibly make someone change their...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB READ AN OBSERVER NEW FACE OF FICTION 2015 A HUFFINGTON POST 'ONE TO WATCH IN 2015' LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2015 'I was gripped by Catherine Chanter's The Well immediately. The beauty of her prose is riveting, the imagery so assured. This is an astonishing debut' Sarah Winman, author of When God was a Rabbit 'I loved this book!' JESSIE BURTON, author of The Miniaturist When Ruth Ardingly...
| Автор | Catherine Chanter |
Sweltering New York City, summer of 1841, the beautiful 'Segar Girl' Mary Rogers is brutally murdered. Popular amongst the journalistic and publishing elite, the task of finding her killer falls to High Constable Jacob Hays. At the end of a long and distinguished career Old Hays's investigation will ultimately span a decade, involving gang wars, grave robbing, and clues hidden in the poems of the hopeless romantic and minstrel of the night, Edgar Allan Poe. Superbly researched...
| Автор | Joel Rose |
'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of Seven Killings The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno's homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Arriving full of hope, the musician discovers that his community no longer recognises him and no one recalls his voice. His girlfriend Lela...
| Автор | Odafe Atogun |
"Mein Tod kam für mich völlig überraschend." So kann es gehen, wenn «Mann» beim Überqueren einer Straße allzu intensiv einer jungen Frau hinterherschaut und von einem Auto erfasst wird. Doch überraschender ist für den soeben verstorbenen Journalisten, dass er fortan als Geist über den Dingen schweben und andere Tote treffen kann. Doch Vorsicht: Kein Geist lebt ewig, und Dummheiten bleiben nie ohne Folgen …
| Автор | Arto Paasilinna |
Hans-Olof Andersson, Mitglied des Nobelpreiskomitees, wird erpresst: Er soll für eine ganz bestimmte Nobelpreis-Kandidatin stimmen oder seine Tochter muss sterben. Was niemand weiß: Gunnar Forsberg, der Bruder seiner verstorbenen Frau, ist ein knallharter Einbrecher und Industriespion, der keine Rücksicht kennt, wenn es um seine letzte lebende Angehörige geht. Gunnar macht sich auf die Jagd nach den Erpressern. Doch mit dem, was er herausfindet, hätte niemand gerechnet …
| Автор | Andreas Eschbach |