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The Great Classics of Russian Literature

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Come along on a very Russian adventure with the greatest classics the world has ever known! This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard… Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch… Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe… Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Dream Street, 31

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Una novela urbana de amores, amigos y grandes cambios en la vida.Una cantante de rock de vida tumultuosa. Un adolescente con ganas de volar. Una actriz camaleócia. Un anciano en el atardecer de su vida. Un poeta sin inspiración.Esta es la fauna que habita en el número 31 de Silversmith Road y a quienes la joven Leah, su vecina de enfrente, observa con mal disimulada curiosidad. Leah daría cualquier cosa por descubrir qué se cuece entre las cuatro paredes de aquella mansión victoriana... cuando el azar la pone en contacto con su propietario, Toby, un romántico incurable que desea dar un vuelco a su vida. Desde hace quince años Toby vive recluido en esta casa, rodeado de los inquilinos más peculiares que ha podido encontrar. Ahora un suceso inesperado le abre un mundo de posibilidades fuera de ella, pero ¿cómo convencer a esos huéspedes singulares de que abandonen un hogar que se ha convertido en un refugio para ellos?Dream Street, 31 es un novela llena de personajes entrañables, de optimismo y de segundas oportunidades en la que los sueños más peregrinos pueden llegar a cumplirse.

The Complete Harvard Classics ALL 71 Volumes

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( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success. Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century. The Harvard Classics: . 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne 4: John Milton 5: R. W.

Un an si o zi

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Birourile de obiecte pierdute din Franța păstrează un an şi o zi lucrurile care le sunt încredințate. Dar dacă ce ai pierdut e un an din viața ta, îl mai poți recupera vreodată?Jézabel Thevenaz vrea să îndeplinească ultima dorință a tatălui său, rostită pe patul de moarte: să ducă un ceas conceput de el unui bun prieten din Montréal. Este vorba de un mecanism unic, a cărui menire e cu totul alta decât să indice ora.În timp ce survolează Groenlanda, avionul lui Jézabel e prins într-o furtună cumplită şi aterizează forţat pe un aeroport anonim din nordul Statelor Unite. Jézabel se adăposteşte la Plazza, un hotel dărăpănat și labirintic, unde închiriază o cameră pentru o noapte.Dar, când se trezeşte, începe coşmarul: află de la recepţie că nu este cazată acolo de o zi, ci de… un an! Să fie oare o farsă sinistră?Un an şi o zi îşi proiectează cititorii într-un univers bizar şi neliniştitor, făcându-i să se simtă la fel de dezorientaţi precum eroina romanului."Timpul care nu trece este timpul visului, al inconştientului, al dorinţelor. Un an şi o zi vorbește despre un ceas — adică despre percepţia timpului — și despre un ceasornicar al cărui ţel e să repare lumea şi să-l ajute pe Dumnezeu." - Pascal Bruckner"O carte străbătută în filigran de obsesia lui Bruckner pentru trecerea timpului." - Le Figaro"Decorul halucinant al romanului este un personaj în sine: un hotel tentacular, o metaforă pentru labirintul vieții. Cu această poveste necruţătoare, Bruckner își confirmă pasiunea pentru literatura fantastică." - Midi Libre"Un roman insolit în care Pascal Bruckner îşi reglează conturile cu America lui Donald Trump." - La Presse

Lady Windermere's Fan

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The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours, beginning on a Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock, and ending the next day at 1.30 p.m

The Dinner List

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A Bustle Book Club Selection This poignant and romantic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Italian Summer and In Five Years answers the question: If you could have dinner with any five people, living or dead, who would they be? “I have five words for Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List: wistful, delicious, romantic, magical, love.” —Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young“We’ve been waiting for an hour.” That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.”At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Rebecca Serle contends with in her utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as One Day, and the life-changing romance of Me Before You.When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together.

Savage Texas

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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st CenturyIn a blockbuster new series, America's leading Western writer captures the most violent chapter in frontier history—in the saga of a Yankee with a rifle, an outlaw with a grudge, and a little slice of hell called. . .Savage TexasFor renegades and pioneers, there is no place like Texas—as long as you have a gun and the guts to use it. Now, the Civil War is over. Carpetbaggers and scalawags rule Austin. Soldiers return to pillaged homes. Longhorns roam the wilds and the state is in chaos. Especially in a town called Hangtree. Sam Heller and Johnny Cross are Hangtree's newest citizens: Heller is a former Yankee soldier, a deadly shot, and a believer in right from wrong. Cross is a gun for hire with dark dreams of wealth and power—at any cost. Hangtree, with its rich grazing land and nearby mineral deposits, soon erupts in murderous violence. By fate and by choice, these two strangers will find themselves on opposite sides of the law. And Hangtree will soon erupt in murderous violence

The Story of Gösta Berling

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Set in the 1820s in central Sweden, The Story of Gösta Berling follows the saga of the titular character as he falls from the priesthood and is rescued by the owner of a local estate. Joining the other saved souls in the pensioners’ wing of the mansion, he embarks upon a series of larger-than-life stories that tell of adventure, revelry, romance and sadness.Gösta Berling was the eventual Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf’s first published novel, and was written as an entry to a magazine competition. The richly detailed landscapes of Värmland were drawn from her own upbringing there, and the local folk tales inspired many of the individual stories in the book. The novel was published in Swedish in 1891; this edition is based on the 1898 English translation by Pauline Bancroft Flach. In 1924 the story was made into a silent film, launching the career of Greta Garbo.

180 Masterpieces to Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.1)

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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Call of the Wild Alice in Wonderland The Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen

Un colpevole quasi perfetto

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La caduta del Muro di Berlino ha travolto le sinistre europee e una nuova ideologia ha soppiantato la lotta di classe con il conflitto delle identità. Negli anni Sessanta e Settanta ci si batteva per il proletariato, il Terzo Mondo e i dannati della terra, in nome di un’umanità riunificata: il femminismo mirava a restaurare l’uguaglianza tra donne e uomini, l’anticolonialismo a liberare colonizzati e colonizzatori da un reciproco rapporto di dominazione, l’antirazzismo chiedeva il rispetto per tutti i popoli. Oggi queste battaglie tornano in Europa dagli Stati Uniti in una forma deviata che sposta i termini dello scontro sul campo del genere, dell’identità e della razza, e riporta il colore della pelle al centro del dibattito. Tre nuove correnti di pensiero– neofemminista, antirazzista, anticolonialista – individuano un nemico comune nell’uomo bianco eterosessuale. Capro espiatorio per eccellenza, il colore della pelle lo designa come un razzista, il potere come lo sfruttatore di tutti gli oppressi, la sua stessa anatomia come predatore per natura. Inserendosi con grande forza e spirito polemico nel dibattito contemporaneo, Pascal Bruckner analizza gli effetti di questi nuovi discorsi che celano il disprezzo per l’illuminismo e l’umanità in generale, e portano al riaffacciarsi sul mondo di società ripiegate sulla propria identità, e alla sostituzione di fatto di un razzismo con un altro. Stiamo assistendo, denuncia l’autore, al capovolgersi del progressismo in un nuovo oscurantismo.

Le paradoxe amoureux

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Inventer l’amour, l’émanciper des tutelles religieuses et des politiques familiales, instaurer le mariage d’inclination, en finir avec le servage des femmes, tel fut le grand projet des réformateurs depuis le 18ème siècle. Il aura fallu presque trois siècles pour le mener à bien et offrir à chacun la possibilité d’aimer qui il souhaite, de frayer avec la personne de son choix. Cette immense conquête est problématique : comment l’amour, dont la vocation est de rattacher, peut-il se concilier avec la liberté dont l’effet est de séparer ? Cette contradiction explique le caractère à la fois ardent et fragile des romances contemporaines. Croyance inentamée dans les beautés de la passion, de la fidélité, constat des difficultés de cet idéal dès lors qu’il met face à face deux individus qui ne veulent rien sacrifier de leur bonheur personnel et préfèrent saborder leur union plutôt que la prolonger dans la routine ou la médiocrité. Pour résoudre ce déchirement, deux idéologies se coalisent : l’une progressiste veut en finir avec la fidélité, le couple, la famille ; l’autre conservatrice veut restaurer le mariage à l’ancienne, la monogamie indissoluble. Mais l’amour, tétu, oppose sa permanence, sa richesse, son ambivalence aux discours qui prétendent le corriger. Le nouvel essai de Pascal Bruckner raconte, à travers les métamorphoses du mariage et de l’érotisme, la résistance du sentiment à tous les embrigadements. Nous n’avons pas trouvé la solution aux souffrances de l’amour, nous n’avons fait que multiplier les paradoxes. Il y a progrès dans la condition des hommes et des femmes mais il n’y a pas de progrès en amour : c’est la bonne nouvelle de ce troisième millénaire commençant.

Very Merry Christmas Bundle

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Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts! Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will find a Christmas tale for all occasions. Give yourself the gift of reading these Christmas stories and have a Very Merry Christmas! Table of Contents 1. "North Pole Panic" by Rebecca M. Senese 2. "Worth" by Irette Y. Patterson 3. "Christmas Whispers" by Bonnie Elizabeth 4. "Lump" by Robert Jeschonek 5. "Jukebox Gifts" by Dean Wesley Smith 6. "Christmas on a Hot Planet" by Russell Martin 7. "Walter's Christmas Night-Musik" by Susan J. Kroupa 8. "Dreaming of a Witch Christmas" by Mindy Klasky 9. "Boot Scoot" by Diana Deverell 10. "Corner of the Mind" by Ron Collins 11. "Carl of the Bells" by Annie Reed 12. "How Smoke Delivered A Christmas Present" by DeAnna Knippling 13. "Desperate Housewitches" by Dayle A. Dermatis 14. "Escape (The Peena Colada Song)" by Mark Leslie 15. "One Magical Christmas" by Leigh Saunders 16. "Nutball Season" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 17. "Shotgun Christmas" by Steve Vernon 18. "The Least Merry Elf" by Jamie Ferguson 19. "Sanctuary" by Leslie Claire Walker 20. "A Countess for Christmas" by Anthea Lawson

A Life in Chains

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e-artnow presents the collection of the recorded testimonies of former slaves, memoirs, historical studies, reports of the life and laws in the south, legislation on civil rights, as well as popular fiction which unveiled the injustice and horrors of slavery to the masses: Slave Narratives Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Underground Railroad Harriet: The Moses of Her People 12 Years a Slave Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith Who Was Executed for Burglary From the Darkness Cometh the Light Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Fifty Years in Chains Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb Story of Mattie J. Jackson A Slave Girl's Story Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive For a Quarter of a Century Historical Documents: Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863) Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865) Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868) Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868) Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1870) Studies: Captain Canot History of American Abolitionism Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report on Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Pearl Incident Novels: Oroonoko Uncle Tom's Cabin Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Heroic Slave Slavery's Pleasant Homes Our Nig Clotelle Marrow of Tradition Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man A Fool's Errand Bricks Without Straw Imperium in Imperio The Hindered Hand

Life, As It Is

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This is a short story, a glimpse into a working Indian woman, who is modern yet not free. The story takes you through the life on an unnamed character. She is perhaps living in a lot of middle class households, prisoners of their own thoughts.

A Christmas Carol

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The novel & movie edition of Charles Dickens' masterwork A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Britain, a period when there was strong nostalgia for old Christmas traditions together with the introduction of new customs, such as Christmas trees and greeting cards. Dickens' sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales. THIS BOOK INCLUDES FULL AUDIO & A RESTORED MOVIE BASED ON THE NOVEL.

Small Great Things

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.Praise for Small Great Things“Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written. . . . It will challenge her readers . . . [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice.”—The Washington Post “A novel that puts its finger on the very pulse of the nation that we live in today . . . a fantastic read from beginning to end, as can always be expected from Picoult, this novel maintains a steady, page-turning pace that makes it hard for readers to put down.”—San Francisco Book Review

Kaikki on kemiaa

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”Kuvaile itseäsi kolmella sanalla.”Elizabeth Zott: ”Hiili, happi ja vety.”Poikkeuksellinen sankaritar, raikkaan feministinen ote ja ilmeikäs kertojanääni tekevät Bonnie Garmusin esikoisromaanista supermenestyksen. Kaikki on kemiaa on riemastuttava romaani vakavista asioista: naisten oikeuksista, tieteen merkityksestä, ja omien valintojen tärkeydestä. Omapäinen Elizabeth Zott on raikas tuulahdus sovinnaisessa 1960-luvun taitteen Amerikassa, jossa älykkäälle naiselle on tarjolla vain kahvinkeittäjän osa. AUTHOR OF THE YEAR - BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 Kemisti Elizabeth Zott ei ole mikään tavallinen nainen. Elizabethin mielestä tavallisia naisia ei olekaan, mutta 1960-luvun tiedeyhteisö on toista mieltä. Vähättely, sorto ja seksuaalinen häirintä ovat työpaikan peruskauraa, jos työn ylipäätään onnistuu saamaan. Lannistumaton Elizabeth on vehkeilevän saarnaajan tyttärenä tottunut aivan kaikkeen mitä miessukupuoli voi keksiä, mutta kun ura ja rakkaus vaihtuvat lennossa yksinhuoltajuuteen ja työttömyyteen, joutuvat Elizabethinkin hoksottimet koville. Kohtalo heittää Elizabethin juuri sinne, mitä hän halusi välttää: kauhanvarteen. Uusi ura tv-kokkina avaa kuitenkin yllättävän mahdollisuuden valistaa kanssanaisia sekä kemian ihmeellisestä maailmasta että itsenäisestä elämästä. Setämiehet ovat ihmeissään: mitä tämän naisen kanssa pitäisi tehdä?"Kepeä kirja puhuu naisten oikeuksista terävästi ja taiten." -EEVA"Lukukokemus on yhtä aikaa riemastuttavan kevyt sekä täynnä tiukkaa asiaa." -KOTIVINKKI"Oi, pitkästä aikaa tykästyin romaanihenkilöön ihan kunnolla! ‒ ‒ Rooleihin mahtumaton Elizabeth on hilpeä, feministinen, raikas, ehdoton, viihdyttävä ja koskettava – ja niin on koko kirjakin." -KODIN KUVALEHTI"Kaikki on kemiaa -kirjaa on lähes mahdotonta jättää kesken. Kirja tarjoaa koko tunteiden kirjon, se naurattaa, suututtaa ja itkettääkin. Se on ehdottomasti fiksujen feelgood-romaanien aatelia!" -KIRSIN BOOK CLUB -BLOGIBonnie Garmus on copywriter ja luova johtaja, joka on työskennellyt teknologian, lääketieteen ja koulutuksen parissa. Hän on aktiivinen avovesiuimari ja soutaja, ja hänellä on kaksi tytärtä. Garmus on syntynyt Kaliforniassa, ja hän asuu nykyään Lontoossa aviomiehensä ja koiransa (nimeltään 99) kanssa. Kaikki on kemiaa on Bonnie Garmusin ensimmäinen romaani. Sen oikeudet on myyty kiivaan kilpailun jälkeen yli 30 maahan, ja siitä on tekeillä minisarja, jossa pääosaa esittää Brie Larson.

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

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The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is considered the world's first truly great work of literature. [1] The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk. These independent stories were used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later "Standard" version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipit Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep", in modern terms: 'He who Sees the Unknown). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

The Cowboy MEGAPACK ®

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The Cowboy Megapack collection 25 tales of western adventure, including two complete novels and 23 short stories! Authors represented include Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Clarence E. Mulford (creator of Hopalong Cassidy), and many more. The western tales are: “A Texan Rides the Trouble Trail,” by Johnston McCulley “Sixguns to Bowie,” by Robert J. Hogan “The Drive,” by Clarence E. Mulford “Thieves of Black Rock Desert,” by Bill Anson “Long Sam Jumps the Devil,” by Lee Bond “Gun-Whipped!,” by Carmony Gove “Easy Money,” by Ben Frank “The Trail Trap,” by T. W. Ford "Ride Proud, Rebel!" by Andre Norton “Long Sam Collects,” by Lee Bond “Mitigating Circumstances,” by Lon Williams “Night of the Thirteenth,” by J. Allan Dunn “A Lonely Ride,” by Bret Harte “Trumpets West!” by Luke Short “Pay Out West," by Thomas Thursday The Virginian, by Owen Wister “The Spirit of the Range,” by B. M. Bower “Mountain Man,” by Robert E. Howard “Guns of the Mountains,” by Robert E. Howard “Don’t Frame a Red Head,” by Clarence E. Mulford “Ranger Out of Bounds,” by Johnston McCulley “Ranger Style,” by J. Allan Dunn “Plumb Amusing,” by Jackson Cole “Long Sam’s Singing Six-Guns,” by Lee Bond And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Megapack" to see other volumes in this series, from westerns to science fiction to ghost stories to mysteries...and many more!

Do wszystkich chłopców, których kochałam

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Pierwszy tom serii, którego ekranizacja pojawi się na platformie Netflix!Lara Jean właśnie zaczyna naukę w klasie maturalnej. Jej starsza siostra wyjechała na studia do Szkocji, zrywając przy tym z chłopakiem, a młodsza robi wszystko, aby zaszczepić w ojcu chęć posiadania psa.Dziewczyny Song, jak same siebie nazywają, kilka lat wcześniej straciły matkę i dbają o to, aby nie zapomnieć o swoich koreańskich korzeniach i najbardziej ułatwić ojcu wychowanie trójki dorastających córek.Lara Jean w pudle na kapelusze, które dostała od matki, trzyma listy miłosne. I to nie byle jakie! Dziewczyna napisała je sama i skierowała słowa do swoich byłych obiektów westchnień, by ten sposób wyleczyć się z niechcianego uczucia. Łącznie powstało pięć listów, które nigdy nie miały trafić do adresatów.Jednak ktoś ukradł pudło i wysłał spisane na papierze słowa, które miały wyleczyć złamane serce dziewczyny. Wszyscy chłopcy, w których kiedyś kochała się Lara, otrzymują wiadomości. Całą sytuację można by obrócić w żart, gdyby nie to, że jednym z nich, jest były chłopak starszej z sióstr Song.__O autorceJenny Han to znana i ceniona amerykańska pisarka. Jej serie książek młodzieżowych mają fanów na całym świecie, a książka „Do wszystkich chłopców, których kochałam” doczekała się ekranizacji na Netflix. Urodzona i wychowana w Richmond. Po skończeniu Uniwersytetu w Północnej Karolinie przeniosła się do Nowego Yorku, gdzie mieszka do dziś. Jej książki młodzieżowe szybko trafiają na listy bestsellerów New York Times’a, a druga część przygód Songówek — „P.S. Wciąż Cię kocham”— wygrała nagrodę Young Adult 2015 —2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

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