Harpercollins Love Medicine Эрдрич Луиза

A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 • Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Here, everybody is connected - by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden of a shared history • Growing up on the reservation is Evelina Harp, witty and ambitious, and prone to falling hopelessly in love. Listening to her grandfather's tales, she learns of a horrific crime that has marked both Ojibwe and whites. Nobody understands it better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who keeps watch over Pluto's inhabitants and recounts their lives with compassion and rare insight • Louise Erdrich's sense of the comic and the tragic sweeps readers along to the surprising conclusion of this stunning novel, a portrait of the complex allegiances, passions and drama of a haunting land and its all-too-human people

Во время тягот Гражданской войны в Америке Мэг, Джо, Бет и Эми Марч встречают Рождество без своего отца. "Маленькие женщины" - это их история - повесть о четырех очень разных сестрах, их приключениях и амбициях, их отношениях с соседкой Лори и, в конечном счете, об их трогательном пути из девочек в женщин • Эта очаровательная и неподвластная времени история, вдохновленная собственной жизнью Луизы Мэй Олкотт, является не только одной из самых любимых детских книг всех времен, но и одним из самых читаемых и продаваемых романов в американской литературе • Книга на английском языке • This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is the perfect addition to any bookshelf • During the hardships of the American Civil War, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March are facing Christmas without their father

Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II • After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year. He evaded the German army by hiding in the caves and forests of Fontanellato, in Italy's Po Valley. Against this picturesque backdrop, he was sheltered for three months by an informal network of Italian peasants, who fed, supported and nursed him, before his eventual recapture • ‘Love and War in the Apennines’ is Newby's tribute to the selfless and courageous people who were to be his saviours and companions during this troubled time and of their bleak and unchanging way of life

"Монстр любви" с участием единственного монстра в Кьютсвилле - это удивительно теплый и остроумный взгляд на то, как иногда, когда вы меньше всего этого ожидаете, любовь находит вас… От феноменального таланта Рэйчел Брайт, автора книжек с картинками • Может быть, нелегко быть единственным забавно выглядящим монстром в Кьютсвилле, но этот монстр не из тех, кто слоняется без дела и жалеет себя, поэтому он отправляется в большой мир искать кого-нибудь, кто полюбит его • Он смотрит высоко, он смотрит низко, и он смотрит повсюду между ними, но только когда он уже готов сдаться, он, наконец, находит то, что ищет… • Книга на английском языке • Featuring the only Monster in Cutesville, LOVE MONSTER is a wonderfully warm and witty look at how sometimes, when you least expect it, love finds you… From a phenomenal picture book talent

Веселый и дерзкий новый роман "Любовь и поцелуи" от мастера-рассказчика Жана Юре понравится всем девушкам, которые любят истории из реальной жизни • У тринадцатилетней Тэмсин никогда не было парня, и она начинает чувствовать себя брошенной. Даже у ее десятилетней сестры есть парень, так что наверняка скоро настанет и ее очередь! Когда Тэмсин встречает Алекса, она просто не может перестать думать о нем, и она в восторге, когда он приглашает ее на свидание. Но ему шестнадцать, и он уже закончил школу. Не успев опомниться, Тэмсин лжет о своем возрасте и действует за спиной родителей... но как долго она сможет продолжать притворяться? • Книга на английском языке • A fun and feisty new novel from master storyteller Jean Ure - with a gorgeous new cover look to appeal to all girls who love real-life stories

A New York Times Bestseller, 'Tracks' is a masterpiece from Louise Erdrich, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012 - a story for our times, narrated by a uniquely twentieth century figure • By turns reticent, garrulous, spiritual and profane, Nanapush, like the Native American culture he belongs to, is a living contradiction - alien, beguiling, strong and dying • Set in North Dakota, at a time in the early twentieth century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, 'Tracks' is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people erode ceaselessly, men and women are pushed to the brink of their endurance - yet their pride and humour prohibit surrender

Запечатан липкой лапой! Веселая переписка в первом классе от всеми любимого медвежонка Паддингтона – теперь главной кинозвезды! • Дорогая тетя Люси, • Я ожидаю, что это станет для вас большим сюрпризом, но я не только прибыл в Англию, но и у меня есть адрес! Я остановился в доме номер 32 по Виндзорским садам, и это совсем не похоже на приют для медведей-пенсионеров… • "С любовью, Паддингтон" Майкла Бонда - это восхитительно увлекательная серия писем Паддингтона его тете Люси в Перу рассказывает о его новых впечатлениях в Лондоне и демонстрирует его неповторимый, очаровательный и веселый взгляд на мир. От уборки на корабле до работы парикмахером - здесь, конечно, никогда не бывает скучно! • Книга на английском языке • Sealed with a sticky paw! Hilarious first class correspondence from everyone’s favourite bear, Paddington – now a major movie star! • Dear Aunt Lucy, • I expect this will come as a great surprise to you, but not only have I arrived in England, but I have an address! I’m staying at number 32 Windsor Gardens and it isn’t at all like the Home for Retired Bears… • This delightfully engaging series of letters from Paddington to his Aunt Lucy in Peru, follows his new experiences in London while showcasing his uniquely charming and hilarious take on the world

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman's relentless errors • Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an "emancipation" bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - "Patrice" - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera

A mother is brutally raped by a man on their North Dakota reservation where she lives with her husband and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. Traumatized and afraid, she takes to her bed and refuses to talk to anyone - including the police • While her husband, a tribal judge, endeavours to wrest justice from a situation that defies his keenest efforts, young Joe's world shifts on its child's axis. Confused, and nursing a complicated fury, Joe sets out to find answers that might put his mother's attacker behind bars - and make everything right again. Or so he hopes • The Round House is a poignant and abundantly humane story of a young boy pitched prematurely into an unjust adult world. It is a story of vivid survival; and it confirms Louise Erdrich as one of America's most distinctive contemporary novelists

Late summer in North Dakota, 1999: Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence but only when he staggers closer does he realise he has killed his neighbour's son • Dusty Ravich, the deceased boy, was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have been close for years and their children played together despite going to different schools. Landreaux is horrified at what he's done; fighting off his longstanding alcoholism, he ensconces himself in a sweat lodge and prays for guidance. And there he discovers an old way of delivering justice for the wrong he's done. The next day he and his wife Emmaline deliver LaRose to the bereaved Ravich parents. Standing on the threshold of the Ravich home, they say, 'Our son will be your son now'