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<p>The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in...
The year is 1943 and life is good for Jewel Hilburn, her husband, Leston, and their five children. Although there's a war on, the Mississippi economy is booming, providing...
Феноменальный успех романа современного немецкого писателя Бернхарда Шлинка "Чтец" (1995) сопоставим разве что с популярностью вышедшего двадцатью годами ранее романа Патр...
Еще недавно жизнь Кэтрин Лайонз была спокойной и размеренной: она преподавала историю в школе, растила дочь и считала, что счастлива в браке. Но однажды ночью к ней в дом ...
Роман американской писательницы Джанет Фитч "Белый олеандр", сразу ставший бестселлером на ее родине, был положен в основу сценария одноименного фильма.
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Set in Petal, Mississippi, a small town at the close of the 1950s, this novel tells the story of the 28-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuabl...
It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but ...
The Potomac River claims the death of the daughter by drowning, and the family leaves their rural North Carolina world in search of a better life among friends and relativ...
Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 1999: Vinegar Hill is an appropriate address for the characters who populate A. Manette Ansay's novel of the same name. After all, whe...
The book is concerned with how one seemingly inconsequential moment can alter lives forever. Alice Goodwin, mother of two, school nurse and wife of an aspiring dairy farme...
An orphan raised in Valparaíso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, young, vivacious Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush o...
<p>Весной 1941-го ноготки не взошли. Мы думали тогда, что они не взошли потому, что Пекола ждала ребенка от своего отца. Если бы мы меньше грустили и больше замечали, то с...
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in...
Throughout the 20 years of her marriage, Samantha Morrow has been content with her life, though she knows it isn't perfect. She has a nice home, a great son, and a husband...
Начало двадцатого века, провинциальная Америка. На берегу озера живет простая фермерская семья: отец, его дочь Рут и ее тетя Аманда, с раннего детства заменившая ребенку п...