Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine: with her eccentic great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation

ONE OF THE MOST successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy’s vividly described inner life—from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death

During the fierce French and Indian wars, an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful Munro sisters from the Huron renegade Magua

Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolate—and eliminate—human evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions

The book about Tom Sawyer adventures. The author shows us the bravenes of young fellow. It is aimed specially for children

...Как известно, Литература - это подруга, которая не кормит, а лишь поит. Что же тогда такое Литературная Критика? Романист Уилфрид Баркли, переживающий одновременно "кризис творчества" и "кризис середины жизни", поневоле вынужден терпеть возле себя литературного "Санчо Пансу" - дотошного профессора-"барклеиста"... Так начинается ядовитая сатира на писательские и издательские нравы второй половины XX в. - "Бумажные человечки" Уильяма Голдинга, книга своеобразная, изящная, и, как ни странно, забавная