The store has been here for only one year, but many people think that it has always been here. Above the door are faded brown letters which say: SPICE BAZAAR. I, too, look as if I have always been here. When customers enter, they see an old bent woman with skin the color of sand. The foods in my store remind them of India-the land most of them left behind when they came to America. They don`t know the truth about me, of course. They don`t know that I`m not really old-that this body is not really mine. I am Tilo, the Mistress of Spices. I can see into the hearts and lives of my customers. I know all their secrets and all their problems. Retold by Anne Collins.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7327-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Stephen Fry is one of the great This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should exist alongside behaviour that threatened to ruin the lives of innocent victims, noble parents and Fry himself, gives the book a tragic grandeur and lifts it to classic status". Financial Times "He writes superbly about his family, about his homosexuality, about the agonies of some of his bursts of simile take the breath his most satisfying and appealing book so far". Observer "This is one of the most extraordinary and affecting biographies I have Stephen painfully honest when trying to grapple with his ever-present...
ISBN: 978-0-09-945704-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of `Poetry Review` Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to avenge the whale that `reaped` his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab`s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmaеl, the novel`s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is...
ISBN: 9781853260087
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
With the help of her long-lost brother, Micky Minus, Molly must now use her telepathic powers to save the world from an evil Superbrain, in this fourth adventure of the "New York Times"-bestselling series.
ISBN: 9780060750381
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: май 2008
Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.It is the Eve of Gomrath – the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricably caught up in the struggle between their friend, the Wizard Cadellin, and the evil Morrigan.The strength of their courage will determine whether or not they survive the awaiting ordeal…
ISBN: 9780007127870
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. These two novels take place in ancient Fgupt. Moon of Israel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana. The hero of Morning Star novel, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart — Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen, beautiful and glorious as no woman before her.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07729-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
I was my dad`s vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that`s how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it`s why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. He wasn`t the first. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. I didn`t trust the lovely...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09762-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Moon-Face`and Other Stories" is a collection that contains many wonderful stories like "The Leopard Man`s Story", "Local Colour", "Amateur Night", and "The Minions of Midas".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07497-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
