Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers ... |
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"Актьорите по природа са избухливи - алхимични създания, съставени от възпламенителни елементи: емоция, его и завист. Ако ги нагрееш и смесиш, понякога получаваш злато. А друг път бедствие." Оливър Маркс е излежал десетгодишната си присъда за убийство, което може, а може и да не е извършил. Детектив Колбърн, човекът, който го е вкарал зад решетките, се среща с него извън затвора, за да научи най-после истината за драматичните събития, разиграли се преди едно десетилетие. Тогава Оливър заедно с още шестима свои колеги е студент последна година по актьорско майсторство в престижната академия Делъкър. Освен ... |
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Тя иска да се влюби за първи път. Той не иска да има нищо общо с любовта. Когато 19-годишната Фара Лин започва семестъра си в Шанхай, тя знае, че иска да се влюби за първи път. Но категорично не и в Блейк Райън. Защото бившата звезда на колежанския футбол с прекалено голямото си его и неустоимите си трапчинки, въплъщава всичко онова в един мъж, от което интроверт като Фара се плаши най-много. Но една случайна среща в библиотеката и последвалите часове над учебниците разкриват на момичето един Блейк, много по-различен от вечно засмения спортист. Между двамата се заражда непредвидено приятелство, което скоро прераства в ... |
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Бестселър на "New York Times". Книга, която си заслужава да прочетете. И ако някой Ви попита как свършва - излъжете. ... Прекрасно, известно семейство. Частен остров. Интелигентно, наранено момиче; страстно момче със собствено мнение. Група от четирима приятели - "Лъжците", чието приятелство предизвиква разрушения. Революция. Инцидент. Тайна. Лъжи след лъжи. Истинска любов. Истина. Емили Локхарт е доктор по английска литература на "Колумбийския университет", преподава творческо писане в университета "Hamline". Тя е автор на романите "We were liars", "Fly on the wall& ... |
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Жените от семейство Санбернар са живели в Морн Мари, къщата на върха на хълм извън Порт Анджелис, от поколения. Изградена от останките на плантация, която е поробила техните предци, тя се превръща в дом на род, свързан с нещо повече от кръвта. По една жена във всяко поколение е отговорна за преминаването на душите на мъртвите от града в отвъдното. Но връзката на Йеджиде с майка ѝ, Петронела, винаги е била пропита от гняв и пренебрежение, които Петронела упорито носи и на смъртния си одър, оставяйки Йеджиде неподготвена да изпълни съдбата си. Междувременно, Даруин расте в провинцията с благочестивата си майка ... |
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A masterful suspense novel from the author of the unforgettable bestseller "We were liars". ... The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want ... |
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A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health and the healing powers of friendship and art, perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces and Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places. It's been two months since the Night on the Bathroom Floor - when Lily found her sister, Alice, hurting herself. Now Alice is coming home after treatment and it's getting harder for Lily to outrun the compulsive thoughts she's having. Meeting Micah, a guy with a troubled past of his own, the pair embark on a poetry project that helps Lily to see that the words she's been holding back, ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges: from his new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to herds of semi-feral cattle and gruff farmers with incomprehensible accents. Heart-breaking and hilarious in equal measure, "If Only They Could Talk" is the first volume of classic memoirs which chronicle James Herriot's first years as country vet in the 1930's. ... |
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Quick reads by great writers. To buy books would be a good thing, observed Arthur Schopenhauer, if we also could buy the time to read them. All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or two or three) in just one sitting. Quick Reads are bite-sized books by bestselling writers and well-known ... |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of "Beach Read" comes a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child, he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust, he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart - she's in New York City, and he's in ... |
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Over one million copies sold in Japan. ... A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week... Because how do ... |
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The book at hand, Living in Two Worlds - Bulgarian Czechs in the Village of Voyvodovo, explores the Czech Protestant community that once lived in the north-western region of Bulgaria in the first half of the XX century. The authors examine various aspects of this vibrant Czech community in Bulgaria, such as their religiosity, kinship, language, and architecture, thus providing valuable insight into the nature of this rather unique group. The book shows how the Czech village of Voyvodovo, founded in 1900 by migrants from the village of Svatá Helena (in what is today Romanian Banat), developed into a rather distinct ... |
