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Robert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man • Don’t cry • Drink beer • Play rough • Don’t talk about feelings • Looking back over his life he asks whether these rules are actually any use. To anyone

New York, 2007. After two long years apart, Jende Jonga has brought his wife Neni from Cameroon to join him in the land of opportunity. Drawn by the promise of America they are seeking the chance of a better life for them and their son • When Jende lands a dream job as chauffeur to a Lehman Brothers executive, Neni finds herself taken into the confidence of his glamorous wife Cindy. The Edwards are powerful and privileged: dazzling examples of what America can offer to those who are prepared to strive for it • But when the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, all four lives are dramatically upended. As faultlines appear in both marriages and secrets bubble to the surface they must all decide how far they will go in pursuit of their dreams

Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting, running away from their fears, their parents and the future, fighting to exist, killing time. They drink, steal cars, feel wrecked, play it cool, longing for real love and true freedom. Startlingly raw and deeply moving, While We Were Dreaming is the extraordinary debut novel by one of Germany’s most ambitious writers, full of passion, hope and despair

Мастерский роман о насильственном преступлении и его последствиях для общества – такой же своевременный и актуальный в 2019 году, каким он был при первой публикации в 2001 году • - Мы были Малвани, помнишь нас? Долгое время вы нам завидовали, потом пожалели нас. Долгое время вы восхищались нами, потом подумали о хорошем! это то, чего они заслуживают • Малвани с фермы Хай-Пойнт благословенны. Но затем, в День Святого Валентина 1976 года, что-то случается с Марианной, хорошенькой шестнадцатилетней дочерью, и ничто уже никогда не будет прежним • Книга на английском языке • A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community – as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001 • ‘We were the Mulvaneys, remember us? For a long time you envied us, then you pitied us

Siberia, 2031. After a virus, unearthed from melting permafrost, unleashes a deadly plague upon humanity, those left alive are forced to adapt to a new world, and do so in myriad moving and inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects - a pig - develops human speech; and a widowed painter and her teenage granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet • A story of unshakeable hope that seamlessly crosses literary lines, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humankind endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world

A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut - a love story and a ghost story set in modern day Trinidad • Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the departed. Darwin and Yejide's destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the ancient cemetery at the heart of the city, where trouble is brewing and destiny awaits • Embedded with a timeless, mythic magic, and yet alive with a fresh, modern sensibility, this hypnotic literary debut is a masterpiece of rhythm, exuberance, heart, loss in cycle with renewal and darkness with light: a reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets • Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead • Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing

After the hardships of World War II, the 1950s were the perfect opportunity to resume normal boring everyday life. Lots of new things came in: TV in people's homes, Andy Pandy, The Archers, American imports such as 'the teenager', Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. Cartoonist Tony Husband transports you back to a lost world of free school milk, beatniks and teddy boys, men in homemade jumpers who smoked pipes and Saturday morning cinema for the kids. It's guaranteed to make you laugh

A wife who must keep her affair secret • A husband who has the power to bring her lover down • A marriage that could end in murder • Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair the night she met Albie - a man who knows her ex better than anyone, but has no idea of their history • He's perfectly placed to give Beth the revenge she craves - if only she can keep her secret safe • But how far is she willing to go?

В "Карте знаний" Вайолет Меллер прослеживает путешествие идей трех величайших ученых древности - Евклида, Галена и Птолемея - через семь городов и тысячи лет. Мы проследуем за ними от Александрии шестого века до Багдада девятого века, от мусульманской Кордовы до католического Толедо, от средневековой медицинской школы Салерно до Палермо, столицы яркого сочетания культур Сицилии, до Венеции, где печатные станки этого великого торгового города позволили еще шире распространить эти знания • Прослеживая хрупкие нити знаний из века в век, с востока на запад и с севера на юг, Меллер также раскрывает паутину связей между исламским миром и христианским миром, связей, которые одновременно сохраняли и трансформировали астрономию, математику и медицину от раннего Средневековья до эпохи Возрождения