Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of a high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just downriver...
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned...
Middle-aged Mira Fenn knows she has an uncomfortably exotic past. As a small girl, she lived in a ornate old house in tiny Las Vegas, New Mexico, tended by oddly silent servant women and ruled by her...
Книга посвящена самобытной российской школе подготовки космонавтов, тем, кто готовится к полетам в космос, и их наставникам инженерам, врачам, научным работникам, летчикам, тренерам, испытателям,...
Очередной сборник серии «Стрела» посвящен воинам-пограничникам. Велика протяженность нашей границы. В Заполярье и Кушке, в Бресте и на острове Ратманова зимой и летом, днем и ночью идут по дозорным...
Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a...
Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and...
It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the...
Continuing to defy categorisation, John Marsden now reaches a wider audience than any other Australian author. He writes powerful stories which are infused with humanity and humour, and which treat...
«О мачеха моя! О русская земля!.. Но я люблю тебя, суровую и алую». Эти поэтические строки Е. А. Мещерской — ключ к ее мемуарам. В силу своего происхождения урожденная княжна Мещерская прошла через ад...
Книга «Три года в тылу врага» рассказывает о боевых действиях и сложной, нелёгкой жизни партизан Ленинградской области в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Разные люди пришли в партизанские бригады,...
