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(277)Книга и тайна, книга и преступление – истории, вошедшие в этот сборник, связывает книжная тема. Вы узнаете о незваном госте, явившемся к Зигмунду Фрейду, о том, как знамен...
«Мне показалось необычайно заманчивым, отталкиваясь от документов и опираясь на них, расширяя границы документа, внимательно и по возможности подробно рассмотреть “взаимоо...
Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of th...
Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city. Taking a...
Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are killed in a car crash, and his father never recovers from the accident: he wasn`t involved but is consumed by grief, h...
Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a b...
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very l...
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By maki...
Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy Writers' Circle club member, Chief Inspector Barnaby and his colorful sidekick, Sergeant Troy, delve into the secret p...
'I wanted to tell Mum something I'd never been able to sat to her before. If I left it till I came back home I might never be able to say it. I might be a different person...
Roald Dahl's Matilda won the Children's Book Award shortly after it was published in 1988, and it has continued to delight audiences ever since.
Matilda Wormwood is only...
Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, including:
* A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly cal...
Philip Carey is an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelburg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in Lon...
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract - and a...
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
Judy Jones, William Wilson
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(1)When it was originally published in 1987, An Incomplete Education became a surprise bestseller. Now this instant classic has been completely updated, outfitted with a whol...
A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel - a story of marriage and madness, of fa...
Эй Джей Фикри – угрюмый владелец единственного книжного магазина на острове Элис. Его жена умерла, бизнес переживает не лучшие времена, а в довершение всего бесследно исче...
Может ли обыкновенный кот изменить жизнь целого города? Да, если речь идет о Дьюи.
...В библиотеке маленького городка Спесер можно не только взять интересную книгу. Это...
В шестой книге сериала о Волшебной стране колдун Пакир снова пытается освободиться из заточения. На этот раз он поручает алхимику Парцелиусу добыть Черное пламя, способное...