“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...
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A nineteenth-century appeal to maintain a decent standard of food for sailors, to care for the sick, and to prevent the frequency of flogging in the United States...
A nineteenth-century appeal to maintain a decent standard of food for sailors, to care for the sick, and to prevent the frequency of flogging in the United States...
Три пожилых леди отправились на островок в гавани — в ресторан. Здание было построено еще в начале века, но они были здесь впервые....
Автор: Янссон Туве Марика
Серия: Игрушечный дом #10
Язык: русский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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Три пожилых леди отправились на островок в гавани — в ресторан. Здание было построено еще в начале века, но они были здесь впервые....
Why was the corpse of Khalil Ahmad Jaber found in a mound of garbage? Why had this civil servant disappeared weeks before his horrific death? Who was this man? A journalist begins to piece together an answer by speaking with his widow, a local...
CONTENTS
White Nights
Notes from Underground—
à propos of the wet snow
A Faint Heart
A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
Polzunkov
A Little Hero
Mr....
White Nights and Other...
Both coming-of-age story and cautionary tale. In her mother's absence, Jean is torn between the adult world and her surreal fantasies of escape as she and Fender build a fort to survey the rumors of their town.
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