Black Swan American Wife Ситтенфолд Кертис

She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Odegard has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent African-American academic • America • And not someplace interesting, either: upstate New York • Plunged into a United States where race and identity, politics and promise, reverberate in every aspect of daily life. To find her older brother, she needs the help of the local police who appear to have already made up their minds about the case. Working with - or, if necessary, against — someone actually named Sheriff Irving 'Irv' Wylie, she must negotiate the local political minefields and navigate the back woods of the Adirondacks to uncover the truth before it's too late

Несмотря на то, что Кейт и Вайолет – близняшки, они очень сильно отличаются друг от друга. Однако у них обеих есть кое-что общее: их необычный бар. Когда девочкам было 13 лет, Кейт случайно раскрыла их секрет окружающим, и их пути разошлись • Прошло двадцать лет. Теперь Кейт живет в пригороде и растит двух маленьких детей. Вайолет же живет одна и ведет довольно эксцентричную и яркую жизнь. Однажды она предсказывает землетрясение в своем районе Сент-Луиса и тем самым привлекает внимание СМИ • День, на который предсказана катастрофа, приближается. Кейт должна восстановить разрушенные отношения с сестрой и принять правду, которую она так долго пыталась скрывать • Sisterland – это роман американской писательнице Кертис Ситтенфельд • Книга на английском языке

Все, кто знал Хилари с детства, говорили, что у нее «слишком активная жизненная позиция» • Ее считали умной, прилежной, но немного скучной. А затем она поступила в Йельскую школу права, и там она по-настоящему засияла. Девушка привлекла внимание целеустремленного, красивого и обаятельного Билла. Однако на его предложение руки и сердца она отвечает отказом • Как отказ Биллу Клинтону мог бы повлиять на судьбу Хилари, Америки и всего мира? • Rodham – это роман Кертис Ситтенфельд, произведение об одиночестве, о моральной неоднозначности и непоколебимой решительности • Книга на английском языке • 'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb • Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus

В возрасте 14 лет Ли Фиора покидает маленький городок в штате Индиана и отправляет учиться в престижную школу-интернат в Массачусетсе. Она представляет, что там все будет так же, как и в брошюрке: куча красивых мальчиков на фоне старых кирпичных корпусов, девочки, бегающие по полю с идеально чистыми клюшками для лакросса, все поют школьный гимн в старой часовне…Но на самом деле ее новая школа – это самое настоящее минное поле, и Ли должна найти свое место в школе, полной нелепых правил и странных обычаев – и сохранить его • «Подготовишка» – это роман американской писательницы Кертис Ситтенфельд • Книга на английском языке • Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts

Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary • But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has ever told him, everything he has said to her - it has all gone, mysteriously wiped in one catastrophic moment of memory loss. And now he has rediscovered her - only to find out that they are getting divorced • The Man Who Forgot His Wife is the funny, moving and poignant story of a man who has done just that. And who will try anything to turn back the clock and have one last chance to reclaim his life

The soldiers are coming home – after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and families will be heaven, after the hell they have been through • When Dan Riley returns to his adored wife, Alexa, and their children, his Army life still comes first. Alexa thought she was prepared to help him, and the whole family, to make the transition to normal life again – but no-one had told her how lonely and near impossible the task would be. Does marrying a soldier always have to mean that you are not marrying a man, but a regiment?

It's never too late to find your own way • For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items • When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband • She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life

Билл Брайсон сворачивает с автострад и проселочных дорог Средней Америки ради быстрой, волнующей поездки по маршруту американского языка и популярной культуры • В книге Made In America. An Informal History of American Брайсон рассказывает историю возникновения американского варианта английского языка и попутно развенчивает мифы о своей родине – объясняет, как пыльная деревушка в пустыне превратилась в Голливуд, как Дикий Запад не был завоеван, как американцы ели нездоровую пищу задолго до того, как появилось такое понятие и многое другое • Книга на английском языке • Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture

An early bestseller from the author of the fabulous Shopaholic series • Fleur is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of The Times announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich, vulnerable men. She charms her way into their lives and onto their platinum credit cards, takes what she can, and then moves swiftly on • When Richard, a dull but wealthy businessman, meets Fleur at his wife's memorial service, he's bowled over. Gradually Fleur works her spell on Richard's family - transforming their lives while she moves in on their wealth. But she finds herself lingering longer than she meant to

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.' • One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower – all facing their own personal disasters. As one of those lives hangs in the balance, the stories of all five unwind, drawn together by connection and coincidence into a web of love, grief, disenchantment and hope that perfectly represents the joys and tragedies of small town life

A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything • The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago, and the whole family feels her loss acutely, none more so than her adopted daughter Judy • Into this unhappy family comes Zoe, Judy's London friend, an outsider with an independent spirit and a disturbing directness. Everyone underestimates Zoe's power as a catalyst for change as the realities behind the seeming idyll of a rural community become ever clearer

Completing his edgy Spanish trilogy, Jason Webster unearths the secrets of the Spanish Civil War, and turns it into a personal quest for its dark legacy in today's Spain • After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish Foreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of cruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody events of that war