Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she`s going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she`s beautiful. Meet Rose`s sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called. She dreams of fame and fortune - and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they`re more alike than they`d ever believe. Funny...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-401-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2013
In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that`s wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway. But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That’s because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it`s time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden....
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4627-8
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
In House celebrates some of the world`s most striking and eccentric rooms, beautifully captured by Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda and a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and Nest magazines, who for nearly thirty-five years has inimitably photographed unique, style-setting houses. Richly diverse in style and period, what these extraordinary interiors share is an eccentricity and a commitment to decorative aesthetics that has singled them out in the eyes of the world`s most discerning arbiters of taste. From an airy and colorful Moroccan palace to an austere but whimsical Scottish castle; from an Art Deco masterpiece in Jodhpur to Alphonse Mucha`s cluttered apartment in Prague; and from the museumlike home of one of...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3349-8
Издательство:
Знак
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Il volume raccoglie un corpus di circa duemila espressioni linguistiche ricorrenti nella lingua italiana orale e scritta, ma non sempre registrate nei dizionari e sulle grammatiche per stranieri. Le singole espressioni, raccolte sotto la voce fondamentale dal punto di vista semantico, sono seguite da una spiegazione del significato (una sorta di "traduzione" in italiano non figurato) e da un esempio del loro uso.
ISBN: 978-88-7573-071-0
Издательство:
Bonacci
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that, they are married within days. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their
ISBN: 978-0-575-07465-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
It`s just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo`s nightlife. But Frank`s behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-7888-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Эдит Уортон - известная американская писательница XX века, первая женщина-лауреат Пулитцеровской премии. Её произведения до сих пор остаются актуальными и читаемыми во всём мире, вдохновляют режиссёров на новые экранизации. Путевые записки "В Марокко" отличаются живостью слога, необычным и уникальным взглядом на мир, яркими впечатлениями и эмоциями, которые не оставят вас равнодушными. Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05463-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt "In Morocco" is a travelogue about Ediths journey to Morocco in the final days of the World War I. It colorfully describes her month-long path through the cities and deserts of the country, and all the places she visited — ruins, mosques, palaces, markets, and harems.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07847-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
When ideas fail, words come in handy. But sometimes you can`t find the right word, and what you want to say can`t be found in the dictionary. English has its limitations, but the expression you`re searching for may exist in another language. In Other Words is a unique collection of well-known and absolutely obscure untranslatables - linguistic gems that convey a feeling or notion with satisfying precision yet resist simple translation. This quirky lexicon of hard-to-translate words gives the reader a new way to look at the world and how words relate to us. The words are arranged by region or country of origin, and a brief introduction to each section--each done by a respected translator - gives insight into the culture of the people as...
From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: `Flying Rabbits` begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; `Burning Bushes` travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and `Dire Cartographies` investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood`s own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between `science...
ISBN: 978-1-84408-755-6
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times bestselling erotic novel. French flaps and six full-color pages of classic artworks.
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now,...
ISBN: 978-0-553-57510-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Filled with the kinds of dream homes we all wish we could own, this richly illustrated volume showcases the work of US architectural firm Mclnturff Architects; a company whose zeal for architecture and craftsmanship, innovative design, and attention to detail has won them commissions from clients all over North America. Since their first book, In Detail was published by images six years ago, Mclnturff Architects has been asked to design everything from a house on the river whose central feature is a 20,000-volume library to a house inspired by traditional vernacular Japanese design, and another designed around the growing art collection of its owners. In Residence features these and other extraordinary residential designs, including a...
ISBN: 978-1-86470-124-1
Издательство:
Antique Collector Club
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat – and he isn’t even real. Actually this vast place – the last unknown inhabited country in the world – is far more surprising and entertaining. For one thing, it is as varied as Europe, combining stupendous wealth, grinding poverty, exotic traditions and a mad dash for modernity. Crisscrossing a vanished land, Christopher Robbins finds Eminem by a shrinking Aral Sea, goes eagle-hunting, visits the scene of Dostoyevsky’s doomed first love, takes up residence beside one-time neighbour Leon Trotsky and visits some of the most beautiful, unspoilt places on earth.
India is poised to become one of the world’s three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2032. Well before then India`s incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India`s volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the world`s next major conflict. And if you call anyone - from your bank to rail enquiries - your query may well be dealt with by a graduate in Gujarat. Any way one looks at it, India`s fate matters. Edward Luce, one of the most incisive and talented journalists of his generation, assesses the forces that are forging the new nation. Cutting...
ISBN: 978-0-349-11874-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
В этой книге с интригующим названием "In Telega" писатель Асар Эппель собрал публиковавшиеся в периодике статьи и эссе, в которых он призывает обратить внимание на проблему `нарушения экологии культуры`. Остроумная проза А.Эппеля, обладающего тонким слухом и поразительной наблюдательностью, наверняка доставит удовольствие читателям.
ISBN: 5-93381-121-1
Издательство:
Б.С.Г. - Пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2003
