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CHABON, MICHAEL
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Chabon, Michael ... – USA : Picador, 2000. - 648 p. . . – 0-312-28299-0, 978-0-312-28299-8 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.11(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35256
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book
Keywords
comic book strips, heroes in mass media, Czech American writers, stories, novels, fiction about artists
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POWERS, RICHARD
The echo maker / Powers, Richard ... – USA : Picador, 2006. - 451 p.– (Picador. . . – 978-0-312-42643-9, 0-312-42643-7 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73) - 3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34128
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
In this book, author proves himself to be one of the boldest nd most entertaining novelists. The book narrates a story of a young man, who found himself a victim of Capgras syndrome after near-fatal car accident.The illness made him think that people around him are imposters
Keywords
stories, novels, Fiction
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JOHNSON, DENIS
Tree of Smoke / Johnson, Denis ... – USA : Picador, 2008. - 702 p. . . – 978-0-312-42774-0, 0-312-42774-3 : 700 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34112
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA-engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is "bound to become one of the classic works of literature produced by that tragic and uncannily familiar war"
Keywords
novels, stories, fiction
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TUCK, LILY
The News From Paraguay / Tuck, Lily ... – USA : HarperPerennial, 2005. - 248 p.– (Harper Perennial. . . – 978-0-06-093486-6, 0-06-093486-7 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34137
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -the future dictator of Paraguay -begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to Asunción and reigns there as his mistress
Keywords
novels, american novels, stories, fiction, detective story, historical novels
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FORD, RICHARD
Independence Day / Ford, Richard ... – USA : Vintage Books, 1995. - 451 p. . . – 978-0-679-73518-2 : 300 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35267
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Independence Day is a moving, peerlessly funny odyssey through America and through the layered consciousness of one of its most compelling literary incarnations, conducted by a novelist of astonishing empathy and perception
Keywords
novels, stories, bestseller
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BROCKMAN, JOHN
This Will Change Everything : Ideas that will shape the future / Brockman, John ... – USA : Harper Perennial, 2010. - 390 p. . . – 978-0-06-189967-6 : 500 tg.
UDC:
159.9
Shelf code:
Л 2012/33174
Subject headings
- Psychology
Annotation
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world
Keywords
evolution changes everything, change in Who We Are, robotic moment, personal genomics, psychology
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KIPLING, RUDYARD
Kim / Kipling, Rudyard ... – USA : Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. - 286 p. . . – 978-1-59308-192-8, 1-59308-192-1 : 400 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34153
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
In Kim, Kipling creates an exotic atmosphere, full of vivid characters and incidents, and immediately draws the reader into his strange world. The novel concerns a religious quest and a quest for identity, and includes both enlightenment and espionage, tranquillity and violence
Keywords
novels, stories, tales
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WILLIS HOLT,KIMBERLY
Wher Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Willis Holt,Kimberly ... – USA : A Yearling book, 1999. - 227 p. . . – 978-0-440-22904-9 : 250 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35259
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Nothing ever happens in Tobe`s small Texas town. Nothing much, that is, until this summer
Keywords
fiction, novels, stories
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CARROLL, LEWIS
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There / Carroll, Lewis ... – USA : Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. - 286 p.– (Barnes and Noble Classics. . . – 978-1-59308-015-0, 1-59308-015-8 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/35273
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Alice begins ger adventures when she follows the frantically late White Rabbit down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland
Keywords
novels, stories, american fiction, fiction
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MCCANN, COLUM
Let the Grean World Spin / McCann, Colum ... – USA : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. - 375 p.– (New York Times Bestseller. . . – 978-0-8129-7399-0 : 350 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73) - 3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34138
Subject headings
- American novels
Annotation
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people
Keywords
novels, stories, bestseller, american ficton, american novels
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CHABON, MICHAEL
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (2000)
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CARROLL, LEWIS
ALICE`S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE (2004)
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