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BROOKS, GERALDINE
March / Brooks, Geraldine ... – USA : Penguin Books, 2005. - 280 p.– (Pinguin reader. . . – 978-0-14-303666-1 : 400 tg.
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821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34133
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
March a story “filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man
Keywords
american novels, novels, stories, fiction
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O' MEALLY, ROBERT
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / O' Meally, Robert ... – USA : Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003. - 126 p. . . – 978-1-59308-041-9, 1-59308-041-7 : 250 tg.
UDC:
821.111(73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/33219
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras
Keywords
stories, novels
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BURNETT, FRANCES HADGSON
The Secret Garden / Burnett, Frances Hadgson ... – USA : Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005. - 238 p.– (Barnes and Noble Classics. . . – 978-1-59308-277-2, 1-59308-277-0 : 500 tg.
UDC:
821.111 (73)-3
Shelf code:
Л 2012/34157
Subject headings
- American fiction. Prose
Annotation
Mary also discovers a literal secret garden, hidden behind a locked gate on her uncle’s estate, neglected for the ten years since Colin’s birth and his mother’s death. Together with a local child named Dickon, Mary and Colin transform the garden into a paradise bursting with life and color
Keywords
novels, stories, fiction
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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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O' MEALLY, ROBERT
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE (2003)
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CHABON, MICHAEL
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (2000)
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