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It's the mid-to-late 1800s and the British have banished Wajid Ali Shah-the nawab of Awadh in Lucknow-to Calcutta. To the sound of the soulful melody of the sarangi, the mercurial courtesan Laayl-e Aasman is playing a dangerous game of love, loyalty, deception, and betrayal. Bajrangi and Kundan, bound by their love for each other and for Laayl-e, struggle to keep their balance. Ranging across…
Everyone has a chapter they don't want to read out loud. This is mine… There are moments in our lives that define us. For Brooklyn Tanner, it's the summer before her junior year of high school. The summer boys finally begin to notice her. The summer he finally begins to notice her. Andrew Brinks. Handsome. Popular. Star hockey player. Her best friend's brother. For one summer, she&a…
Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching reruns of «I Love Lucy» keeps them close. That, and a magical garden that never seems to grow what they plant. One day Earl finds a set of infant toes in the loam. He and Linda plant them and watch in amazement as the garden produces an enormous bab…
"An unforgettable new female detective bursts onto the audio scene in a historical mystery series set in 1920's Ireland, featuring the Reverend Mother Aquinas. Read by Audie award-winning narrator Rosalyn Landor. A dead body washed up after a flood dressed in evening finery is not a sight often seen in the slums of Cork city, Ireland. When Reverend Mother Aquinas discovers the body at th…
Young Jaimie, a high school senior, holes himself up in an isolated cabin on a New Hampshire lake to mourn the tragic death of his girlfriend. He expects to be alone. So who is that swimmer he sees through the mist, out on the lake? What is the wailing he hears as night falls…the cry of the loon? Maybe Jannie had something else in mind when she made him promise they would be together forever. Afte…
The Metamorphosis was first published in 1915 and is one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century. The novel is the masterpiece of Franz Kafka, who is cited as a key influence for many of today's leading authors and is one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century. Traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like crea…
Даже самое безропотное существо способно восстать против окружающей его неприглядной реальности. Подчас таким способом, что у всех волосы встанут дыбом. Хотя автор не взялся бы утверждать, что люди к этому не готовы.
Lisa's grandfather is turning 100, and her family is gathering from across the country to celebrate at Grandpa Joe's home-a sprawling apricot orchard in southern California. The orchard is both the heart of their family and a reminder of its past. Like many immigrants to America, Joe and his wife, Anna, fled their home country in one of the horrific ethnic cleansings of the twentieth cen…
Staying healthy is at the very top of most people's wish list. The question is which of the abundant, often contradictory advice given in this connection is really sound. The internationally recognized physician and clinical cancer researcher Heinz Ludwig, M.D. shows how we can go through life healthier, longer, and more fulfilled. He demonstrates this on the basis of results from scientific …
Влад приехал к родителям на свою малую родину. Там он встречает своих школьных друзей, чье детство прошло в последнее десятилетие существования СССР. Воспоминания сами всплывают из памяти. Влад удивлен тому, что не только он живет обычной ничем не примечательной травоядной жизнью, но и его талантливые друзья также не стали ни космонавтами, ни героями капиталистического труда.
Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate. From Dan's anarchic account, we gradually piece together the story of the Fogarty family. How the parents are exiled from a small Irish village and end up living the hard immigrant life in England. How Dots, the mother, becomes a call girl in 1950s So…
У отца их было трое, у матери – ни одной. Старшая смотрит на себя в прошлом, младшая в будущем, средняя в настоящем. Глаза каждой из сестёр имеют свойство превращать в камень то, на что они смотрят. История, в которой смерть победила жизнь. Как прочтëте, так и будет. Об авторе: Литературная невидимка. Пишет, потому что так ей и надо. Начинала с Книги Фанфиков, где оставила свою юность и ориджинал …
When you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear. And worse: your mother's male co-worker shows up at the scene. And even worse: your brother wants to TALK about it at the dinner table. Rites of passage are difficult for …
