There has been a nuclear war. People not killed by bombs are now being killed by nuclear radiation, which will remain in the world for many years. The story is set in Melbourne, Australia. People are still alive there because the radiation has not yet reached the city. It is mostly in the north, but it is slowly coming south

The symbols of America tell part of out country

One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise s adventures "on the road" with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions, as they travel across the USA

This book is a collection of selected poetry and bibiograpical notes

Minor war and smudging to the page edges. Edgewear and laminate separation to the price-clipped DJ. "[Birth] dreams are dreams that are said to foretell the conception or birth of a child, dreamt by the future mother or people close to her. The belief that a dream will foretell a baby's birth originates from China, and is found in some East Asian countries. In Korea conception dreams are known as'taemong'. Many women in Korean culture report having such dreams themselves".

A book for actors, directors, playwrights, theatre introuductos

Once Around the Sun introduces the Lee family: Dong-ju, the 12 year old son—boisterous, exuberant and curious; Ji-young, the 16-year-old daughter, ripped from childhood and thrown into an adult world ...

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse

The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman", writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father`s farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father`s patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business