General Bottando of Rome’s Art Theft Squad is in trouble — his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed “Giotto”, is behind a string of thefts has aroused the scorn of his rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the...
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This first published work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature
Nobel Prize–winning writer André Gide lays bare his adolescent...
Автор: Макьюэн Скотт , Колоньяр Томас
Серия: Sniper Elite #3
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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From the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper comes a heart-pounding military thriller in which American hero and SEAL Team sniper Gil Shannon joins up with an unlikely ally in order to stop a terrorist plot bent on...
This collection of reflective essays forms a “spiritual autobiography” of AndréGide, a key figure of French letters
André Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines...
From a prizewinning young writer, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop...
Jessamy “Jess” Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she...
“Miranda is at home — homesick, home sick…”
As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her...
Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing — in a voice both eerie and enthralling — at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later,...
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty — the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome...
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Off the Beaten Track: Stories by Russian Hitchhikers
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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“Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature…. Literature has not seen such an influx of energy in a long time.”
—Olga Slavnikova, director of the Debut Prize
By and about Russian hitchhikers, these...