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Playing for Pizza
Джон Гришэм
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the deciding game at the climax of the season, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to...
Started Early, Took My Dog
Кейт Аткинсон
Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth novel in the bestselling sequence that started with Case Histories. It again features the beguiling former detective Jackson Brodie, who was also seen in the One Good Turn and When Will There Be...
Importance Of Being Earnest
Оскар Уайльд
Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in order to get out of tiresome family engagements. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his...
Ford County
Джон Гришэм
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A TIME TO KILL.*Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip...
Case Histories
Кейт Аткинсон
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem to...
One Good Turn
Кейт Аткинсон
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is...
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah
In the summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the coolest girl in the world moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to...
First Sight
Danielle Steel
Paris, L.A., and the world of ready to wear fashion provide rich backdrops for Danielle Steels deeply involving story of a gifted designer whose talent and drive have brought her everything except the ability to erase her past and trust...
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that strange-but irresistible-beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed...
Easter Parade
Ричард Йейтс
In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is...
Mary
Vladimir Nabokov
In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian migrs, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of...
Gift
Vladimir Nabokov
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native language and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course...
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokovs seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy...
Gentlemen & Players
Джоанн Харрис
The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and...
Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General...
I've Got Your Number
Софи Кинселла
I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same...
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and...
Magic
Danielle Steel
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmarkthe Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a...
Grapes Of Wrath
Джон Эрнст Стейнбек
Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some...
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Хелен Филдинг
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th?Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your...
When Will There Be Good News?
Кейт Аткинсон
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing...
One Good Turn
Кейт Аткинсон
It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander –...
Case Histories
Кейт Аткинсон
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem to...
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Кейт Аткинсон
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here...
Accidental Tourist
Энн Тайлер
How does a man addicted to routine – a man who flosses his teeth before love-making – cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog...
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours, he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry....
Saturday
Иэн Макьюэн
Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man – a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled...
Children Act
Иэн Макьюэн
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the...
Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
'I saw the strangest sight tonight.'New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home.London. England. After the financial crash....
Numero Zero
Умберто Эко
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee...
My Not So Perfect Life
Софи Кинселла
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of My not so Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella, read by Fiona Hardingham. Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram...
Vinegar Girl
Энн Тайлер
'You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that' Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's...
Bridget Jones's Baby
Хелен Филдинг
** The new Bridget Jones novel **8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with...
Surprise Me
Софи Кинселла
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella, read by Fiona Hardingham.After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home,...
Dead Men's Trousers
Irvine Welsh
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh, read by Tam Dean Burn.Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing...
Cien anos de soledad
Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес
"e;Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, elcoronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padrelo llevo a conocer el hielo."e;Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en...
Dandelion Wine
Jerry Robbins
Ray Bradbury's endearing, lyrical tale of boyhood and an idyllic Midwestern summer is presented here as a full-cast audio dramatization by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with sound effects and a brilliant music...
Area X
Jeff VanderMeer
If J. J. Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weismancollaborated on a series, it might be this awesome.This collection includes all three novels in the epicSouthern Reach trilogy-Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Praised for its evocative...
When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche,...
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Colm Tibns New York Times bestselling novelnow an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Pictureis a moving, deeply satisfying read (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish...
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Тейлор Дженкинс Рейд
';Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017.' BuzzFeed ';The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will...
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Фредрик Бакман
A little book with a big heart! I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know. Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still AliceFrom the New York Times bestselling author...
Deal of a Lifetime
Фредрик Бакман
In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life.A father and a son are seeing each...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Nina Stibbe
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe. 18 year old Lizzie Vogel finds herself a new job in a dentists surgery after answering a classified advert in the Leicester Mercury for a mature lady...
Rosie Result
Грэм Симсион
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion, read by Dan OGrady. Meet Don Tillman, the genetics professor with a scientific approach to everything. But hes facing a set of human dilemmas tougher than the...
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