Terrific, free-standing suel to the historical bestseller Earthly Joys, as John Tradescant, the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. John Tradescant, the Younger has inherited his fathers unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But, the virgin land is not uninhabited. Johns plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers. In the new world and the old,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722848-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2012
During his year of exploration, Patrick meets a rich cast of characters. Among them is a young local wine-maker called Virgile, who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season`s work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately committed to perfection, though he operates on a shoestring. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick`s dipsomaniac neighbour, a die-hard traditionalist producing a private wine lake of unspeakable rouge. With Manu as his self-appointed guide, Patrick embarks on a tour of the region`s wine makers, a succession of lively encounters with growers as varied as the wines themselves. Interwoven are digressions into the history of the region and its wine-making, right back to the earliest...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-6517-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide — it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a ’ First published in 1993, the haunting, humorous and tender story of the brief lives of the five entrancing Lisbon sisters is Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides classic debut novel.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-6059-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth`s ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth`s excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the...
ISBN: 978-0-7432-6926-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster USA
Дата выхода: май 2012
This book is from the bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a reissue of her first novel, which was first published in 1996. This is the compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. But it is all in vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, which leads to her encounter with the town`s wolfish librarian. Isabelle du Moulin, known as Le Rousse due to her fiery red hair, is tormented and shunned in the village - suspected of witchcraft and reviled for her...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724146-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...
ISBN: 0-553-56606-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Saints, sinners, and the mere mortals in betweenWhat do you need to be a saint these days? Ambition, determination and good PR. But what do you do if your mother`s a saint and you just want to be human? Anna and Harriet are about to find out Anna and Harriet share a burden: hellishly saintly mothers. So when they meet, initial loathing turns swiftly to recognition and firm friendship. Happily settled in a chaotic flat and armed with a wicked sense of humour, they set out to paint the town red. And for a while life goes swimmingly. But when they tread on one toe too many, they find that they have only their worst instincts - and each other - to rely on.Be good. And if you can`t be good, be careful...
ISBN: 0-09-941475-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Une enfance menacee par la maladie, une mere omni-presente et possessive. A vingt-neuf ans, Paul Folley se rebelle. Pour echapper a l`etouffement, il choisit de seduire et d`epouser la premiere fille rencontree. Elle est terne, coincee, meme godiche. Rien ne les rap-proche que la solitude. Et pourtant ces deux etres entrent sans le savoir dans une histoire impitoyable, marquee par tous les dechirements de Famour fou. Sebastien Japrisot a dix ans de moins que son heros quand il publie ce recit. Comme on l`ecrivit alors : "Tant de surete dans la violence, tant de maitrise dans la peinture des passions, n`ont pas fini d`eton-ner".
ISBN: 978-2-07-038179-1
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim`s final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac`s foundation is jostled again moments before an important planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be`s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he`s stable, and he`s safe. He`s even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There`s something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with...
"Visions of Paradise" is a panoply of experiences from the most peripatetic photographers on Earth - the photographers of "National Geographic Magazine". After all the stories and all the journeys, each man and each woman shares with us the place he or she found to be Heaven on Earth. The pictures come from all seven continents, from different times of year, in different climates. The stories are as minute as the glance of an amorous leopard seal before lunch or as vast as the landscape of Iceland during the days of the midnight sun. You will swim with penguins underneath the ice in the Antarctic, rest on a leaf in the Amazon with a dragonfly, and roam the forest floor in Borneo with a recognized scientist. By the end, you will know that...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0338-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81188-9
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
