Twenty-eight-year-old Geraldine travels to Kenya with her new husband James with the intent of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of the world are shaken to the core. Invited on a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya, the newlyweds are caught up in a horrific accident. In its aftermath, Geraldine must try to understand exactly what happened on that mountain and what it has done to her and to her marriage. A major author in terms of critical acclaim and bestseller status, Anita Shreve limns the secrets at the core of our closest relationships and the ways in which lives can turn on the axis of a single catastrophic event.
ISBN: 978-0-349-12059-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.
ISBN: 978-0-316-07414-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities` Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken
ISBN: 978-0-09-955417-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
To dare to Heart surgeon Dr Peter Hallam was trained to fight time, to conquer odds beyond hope. He had saved the lives of countless strangers, only to see his own wife die tragically beyond the reach of his healing hands. Months later the deep wound of loss had begun to heal as he learned to live without love. Melanie Adams, television newscaster, lived for her work and her children: nothing else mattered. On screen she was the ultimate professional, covering the biggest stories and meeting the hardest deadlines, but she was lonely inside. After heartbreak and desertion she had made her way to the top alone. And she, like Peter, had learned to live without love. But one day, for Peter and Melanie, everything changes.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4244-8
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
How did George Eliot?s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ?soulful? mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over with personality and warmth, Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny ? a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it?s a space in which to think freely.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101946-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
En trente ans de chansons, Georges Brassens a legue a ses millions d`admirateurs un monde poetique tour a tour drole et emouvant, truculent et pittoresque, plein de personnages inoubliables - I`oncle Archibald, Jeanne, Pauvre Martin - et de couplets aussi celebres que les plus belles pages de La Fontaine ou de Villon: "Le Parapluie", "La Non-Demande en mariage", "Le Grand Chene"... Voici reunie Vintegrale de cette ceuvre : plus de cent soixante chansons, у compris celles qui furent ecrites pour d`autres interpretes (Marcel Amont, ), et les dernieres compositions, enregistrees apres la mort du poete par son ami Jean Bertola. A retrouver, a savourer, a decouvrir peut-etre, un des plus authentiques tresors de la chanson et de la poesie...
ISBN: 978-2-253-06298-1
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
L`Impératrice, le Pape, l` Les arcanes du tarot de Marseille se réveillent au prix de sacrifices humains: une carte, un meurtre. Une puissance secrète et maléfique vient de remporter la première manche et s`apprête à effectuer la prochaine levée. Quand Matthias quitte Paris, il ne se doute pas qu`il a été choisi comme atout majeur pour contrer l`ennemi. Après une escale au Chili où des esprits l`initient à des rites mystérieux, il part en quête d`une solution pour empêcher l`apocalypse, armé de son insouciance et des quelques notions de magie qu`on lui a inculquées. Prochaine étape, l`Australie, tandis que sur l`île de Pâques le...
ISBN: 978-2-266-16765-9
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: август 2011
Charles Chaplin`s Little Tramp is the supreme icon of motion pictures - still recognized and loved throughout the world, more than 90 years since he first burst on the screen. The shabby little figure - with derby hat, too-tight jacket, oversized boots and pants, dandified bow tie, and swagger cane - seemed to symbolize the hopes and fears, defeats and optimism of all humanity. Chaplin`s own biography was a rags-to-riches story that saw the product of a destitute childhood in Victorian London become one of Hollywood`s first millionaires and the owner of his own studio before he was 30. His supreme gift was to transform his experience and knowledge of the human lot into comedy, for which his invention and skill have never been surpassed....
ISBN: 3-8228-2005-9
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Infamous for his politics and his scandalous sex life, Charlie Chaplin was a much more complex and contradictory character than has hitherto been known. Weissman casts a whole new light both on the screen legend and on the turbulent era through which he lived. 16-page b&w photo insert.
ISBN: 978-1-55970-892-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
