At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little to...
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"She writes with a beautiful clarity, an elemental humanity and a marvellous, limpid, funny apprehension of what goes on" - Sunday Telegraph.
These are dazzling, provoc...
What if the place you called 'home' happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating m...
История четырнадцатилетней Лили Оуэнс, потерявшей в детстве мать, - это история об утратах и обретениях, о любви, вере и прощении, история о людях, которым открылся истинн...
Поэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994), лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них — знаменитый “Стоунер”, книга с необычной и с...
Познакомьтесь с Эйлин Тумулти. Она родилась в бедном районе Нью-Йорка, в панельном доме, где отчаяние сменяется бурным весельем в зависимости от количества принятого. С са...
Созданный современной американской писательницей и поэтессой Кэтрин Мадженди неповторимый, волшебный мир расположен в глухих уголках восточных штатов, наполнен дыханием го...
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she ca...
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tra...
In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann,...
Впервые на русском! Второй сборник не опубликованных ранее произведений великого американского писателя!
Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд, возвестивший миру о начале нового века...
Today is a specidal day for Sal because she gets to go to Buck's Harbour with her dad. But when she wakes up to brush her teeth with her baby sister, she discovers somethi...
The story features a little girl, Sal, and her mother as they go and pick blueberries for winter—and a bear cub and his mother as they go and eat berries for winter from t...
Homer lives in the fictional town of Centerburg. He is a mild-mannered boy who enjoys fixing radios, and who somehow gets involved in a series of outrageous incidents, suc...
Centerburg might be your town, but there’s a delightful difference—Homer Price, Dulcy Dooner, Uncle Ulysses, the flustered sheriff, and the pompous judge all live there. A...
A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns...
Веселая приключенческая книга современного американского писателя, полная юмора и небезобидной насмешки над затхлостью и мещанством провинциальной жизни американцев.
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.
Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.
Frankie Landau-Banks...
This remarkable novel holds a fantastic puzzle at its heart.
By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. T...
Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little...