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Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «The Book of Unknown Americans» When Alma Rivera arrives in Delaware she is full of the promise and possibilities of her new home. Hope that her daughter Maribel will be helped by the specialist support US education can provide, and faith that her husband Arturo will flourish in a country…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Three Daughters of Eve» Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground — an old polaroid of three…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Вторая жизнь Уве / A man called Ove. Книга для чтения на английском языке» Невероятно трогательная, жизнеутверждающая история о человеке по имени Уве написана с тонкой иронией и большой любовью к людям. Если вы прочитаете эту одновременно грустную и смешную книгу, то, без сомнения, навсегда измените свое отношение к жизни….
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «The Giver of Stars» «Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.» England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright — restless, stifled — makes an impulsive…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year (м) Townsend» The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she’s wanted to yell at the world, ‘Stop! I want to get off’. Finally, this is her chance. .Her husband Brian, an astronomer…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Oligarchy: a novel» Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomass fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege, and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl British boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world of fierce pecking orders, eating disorders, and…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Street Cat Named Bob, A, (film tie-in), Bowen, James» The phenomenal Number One bestseller about best friends James and Bob. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway.When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Baba Yaga The Flying Witch. (First Reading — Level 4)» This is a new title in the fantastic «First Reading» series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. Based upon a Russian folk tale, the story follows Tasha, who is sent into the woods to visit the flying witch…
Читать книгу Аннотация к книге «Blackbird» Olivia disappeared the night the blackbird died. It was New Years Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before fourteen year old Alex McCarthys sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister, within the previously safe walls of their subarctic…