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Название книги: May We Be Forgiven Авторы: Homes A Жанры: prose_contemporary Файл: fb2-512000-516999.zip/514492.fb2 Размер файла: 1,2 МБ Язык: Английский |
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Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George's loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st-century domestic life — at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history. The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. But it is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive satire on contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer — the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants' desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel's heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation — simultaneously terrifying and inspiring |
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Название книги: May We Shed These Human Bodies Авторы: Sparks Amber Жанры: prose_contemporary Файл: fb2-599000-602999.zip/599558.fb2 Размер файла: 313,5 КБ Язык: Английский |
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***Best Small Press Debut of 2012 — The Atlantic Wire*** May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds |
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Название книги: Maybe Авторы: Locke John Жанры: thriller Файл: fb2-375000-381999.zip/377650.fb2 Размер файла: 665,1 КБ Язык: Английский |
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When an angry, unemployed chemist unleashes a bio-terrorist attack against women and children, the president of the United States asks Donovan Creed to get involved. It's just one more thing on Creed's plate |
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Название книги: Maybe Someday Авторы: Hoover Colleen Жанры: love_contemporary Файл: fb2-495000-500999.zip/495180.fb2 Размер файла: 724,9 КБ Язык: Английский |
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At twenty-two years old, aspiring musician Sydney Blake has a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her good friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter cheating on her with Tori—and she is left trying to decide what to do next. Sydney becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor, Ridge Lawson. She can’t take her eyes off him or stop listening to the daily guitar playing he does out on his balcony. She can feel the harmony and vibrations in his music. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, either: He seems to have finally found his muse. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one… |
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Название книги: Maybe This Time Авторы: Hotschnig Alois Жанры: prose_contemporary Файл: fb2-521000-526999.zip/525777.fb2 Размер файла: 165,8 КБ Язык: Английский Дубликаты книги: Maybe This Time ( 1 шт. ) |
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"First published under the original German title: Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2006"-T. p. verso |
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Название книги: Maybe This Time Авторы: Crusie Jennifer Жанры: love_contemporary Файл: fb2-335000-343999.zip/336740.fb2 Размер файла: 692,3 КБ Язык: Английский |
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Andie Miller is ready to move on in life. She wants to marry her fiance and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever. A very distant cousin of his has died and left North as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows Andie can handle anything. When Andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared. The place is a mess, the children, Carter and Alice, aren't your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. Danvers. What's worse, Andie's fiance thinks this is all a plan by North to get Andie back, and he may be right. Andie's dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. And that's not the only haunting. What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiance. And just when she thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them. If Andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts, she's pretty sure she can save the kids, and herself, from the past. But fate might just have another thing in mind |
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Название книги: Mayday Авторы: DeMille Nelson, Block Thomas Жанры: thriller Файл: fb2-375000-381999.zip/376607.fb2 Размер файла: 839,5 КБ Язык: Английский |
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Название книги: Mayhem Авторы: Janes J Жанры: det_history, det_police Серии: St.Cyr and Kohler No в серии:1 Файл: fb2-576000-578999.zip/578578.fb2 Размер файла: 782,9 КБ Язык: Английский |
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Название книги: Mayhem in Greece Авторы: Wheatley Dennis Жанры: antique Файл: fb2-420000-425999.zip/421802.fb2 Размер файла: 1,1 МБ Язык: Английский |
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Original as ever, Mr. Wheatley has produced a new type of hero in Robbie Grenn, a charming but mentally retarded young man who, owing to an injury when young, has never been to school, and is regarded by his family as almost a moron. Espionage would hardly seem to be his metier, yet, to prove that he is as good as other men, Robbie takes up the challenge that lands him many times in peril of his life. Interwoven with his adventures is the story of his relationship with the lovely Stephanie, the first girl with whom the chronically shy young man has ever had more than a passing acquaintance. As this is a Wheatley book, we need hardly add that the suspense is acute and the denouement remarkable. And, more unusual, Mr. Wheatley, with his flair for blending the exciting and the informative, has embodied in his narrative some stories from Greek mythology told in strict accordance with the chronicles, yet in an off-beat manner which presents the gods and heroes as human characters involved in tragedies and comedies as grim or humorously bawdy as any put upon the Restoration stage. These are revealingly counterpointed with the story of Robbie. Mayhem in Greece is another certain best-seller which will enthrall Dennis Wheatley's present readership and extend it, for he is still the 'discovery' of new readers all over the world |