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Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind • Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors • Lucy's story continues in Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea, available to read now!

Как мы должны думать и действовать в этом мире? "Что такое экзистенциализм?", книга о состоянии человека, написанная Симоной де Бовуар, одной из великих философов двадцатого века, исследует абсурдность наших представлений о добре и зле и вместо этого показывают, как мы создаем свою судьбу, просто существуя • Книга на английском языке • 'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' • How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being • Great Ideas. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other

You will discover that this book can be • A secret message - tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place • A recording device - have everyone you contact today write their name in the book • An instrument - create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover • This Is Not a Book will engage readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, 'If it's not a book, what is it then?' - with a kaleidoscope of possible answers

«Я не прошу тебя всегда так меня любить, но прошу помнить этот миг. Где-то в глубине меня всегда будет жить та девушка, которая стоит сейчас перед тобой» • Американский психоаналитик Дик Дайвер и его жена Николь живут на вилле на Лазурном берегу Франции, в окружении обеспеченных друзей. Когда среди этих друзей появляется прекрасная кинозвезда Розмари Хойт, она сразу сходится с замужней парой. Дик предвкушает новый роман, а Николь кажется, что она обрела новую лучшую подругу. Но в самом сердце их брака лежит тёмный секрет, который может разрушить их жизни • В серию «The Penguin English Library» издательства Penguin входят классические англоязычные произведения, написанные с середины XIX века до конца Второй мировой войны • Издание романа «Ночь нежна» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, классика из «ревущих двадцатых», входящая в серию «Penguin English Library» издательства Penguin, станет отличным подарком для любителей творчества автора

Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white • One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else's. She is becoming Jude

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement • Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of Arne Naess' philosophical writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature • Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world

'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' • Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies • One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists

It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?

A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp. (Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Elizabeth Is Missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core... (Emma Donoghue, author of Room). Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett. (Daily Telegraph). One of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down. (Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club). Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting. (Observer). If you're after a read you can't put down, then look no further. (New!). Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma Healey: meet Maud... Maud is forgetful

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body • A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions

The true story of one boy's courage in the midst of one of the world's most violent conflicts • At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers, liberation rebels and deadly militias, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation. But there are experiences ahead that will test his spirit in even greater ways than these • Truly epic in scope, and told with expansive humanity, deep compassion and unexpected humour, What is the What is an eye-opening account of life amid the madness of war and an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph

«Я не прошу тебя всегда так меня любить, но прошу помнить этот миг. Где-то в глубине меня всегда будет жить та девушка, которая стоит сейчас перед тобой» • Американский психоаналитик Дик Дайвер и его жена Николь живут на вилле на Лазурном берегу Франции, в окружении обеспеченных друзей. Когда среди этих друзей появляется прекрасная кинозвезда Розмари Хойт, она сразу сходится с замужней парой. Дик предвкушает новый роман, а Николь кажется, что она обрела новую лучшую подругу. Но в самом сердце их брака лежит тёмный секрет, который может разрушить их жизни • Издание романа «Ночь нежна» выдающегося американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, классика из «ревущих двадцатых», входящая в серию «Penguin Essentials» издательства Penguin, станет отличным подарком для любителей творчества автора