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111The Plot against America , Philip Roth (2004)
In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid… 569 руб112Gray Mountain , Grisham John (2015)
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track until the recession hits and she is downsized, furloughed, and escorted out of the building. Samantha… 1218 руб113Mamerot. A Chronicle of the Crusades , Delcourt Thierry (2016)
Epic exploits. The intrepid voyages, bloody battles and heroic burials of the French Crusades. Completed circa 1474, Sebastien Mamerot's lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary… 1492 руб114The Sicilian , Puzo Mario (2013)
Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him. At sea… 534 руб115Selected Poems of Lord Byron , Lord Byron George Gordon (1994)
This selection includes all of that poem, and selections from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the satirical poems'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers'and'A Vision of Judgement'. Paul Wright's detailed… 353 руб116The Consolation of Philosophy (2008)
Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a… 555 руб117A God in Ruins , Atkinson K. (2016)
Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last… 420 руб118Bronte Villette , Bronte C. (2017)
Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic… 145 руб119Scott Rob Roy , Scott W. (1995)
One of Sir Walter Scott's most celebrated novels, Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first lacobite rising of I 715. Rob Roy is a… 178 руб120Profiles in Courage , Kennedy J. (2006)
Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight… 465 руб
