It begins in the Pacific Northwest, in Oregon. Guthrie looks around and decides to take a walk. He doesn't know how far he's going, he doesn't know where he's going. He doesn't take much with him, just a small backpack. A journey of any length begins with a single step and Guthrie takes it, facing east.

Wonderful things happen as he walks: Sleeping in the open in the chilled air, Guthrie discovers that he is not cold. Tired, he finds he always has a place to sleep. And he begins to draw people to him: Jody, a young man who doesn't understand what is happening, but knows he must walk. Sara and her son Thom. She's blind, but sees better than the sighted. Mame, crippled by arthritis, leaves her walker by the roadside. The group grows and walks and heals.

Also walking, but on another path, is Mark. Murderous Mark. When he joins the people, he discovers his role… and his punishment.

The random walk: It never ends, it just changes; it is not the destination which matters, but the journey.

In this novel of secret sorceries and forbidden desires, the mystic Cammon must put aside his personal feelings for Princess Amalie while he reads the souls of her suitors for any potential threats. But Cammon is unable to read Amalie, and he begins to suspect that she herself possesses magic powers-a revelation which would put her life in danger, and throw the kingdom into chaos.

Traces the fortunes of a first generation German-American family who pursue their dreams in a post-World War II United States.

Rusty-James is the toughest guy in the group of high-school kids who hang out and shoot pool down at Benny's, and he enjoys keeping up his reputation. What he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He wants to stay calm and laughing when things get dangerous, to be the toughest street fighter and the most respected guy on their side of the river. Rusty-James isn't book-smart, and he knows it. He relies on his fists instead of his brains. Until now he's gotten along all right, because whenever he gets into trouble, the Motorcycle Boy bails him out. But Rusty-James' drive to be like his brother eats away at his world-until it all comes apart in an explosive chain of events. And this time the Motorcycle Boy isn't around to pick up the pieces.

Titel der Originalausgabe: Республика ШКИД.Übersetzung aus dem Russischen von Lieselotte Remane.

Even an East Coast academic can't resist Hollywood's siren allure in this hilarious novel of the dangers that come with fame and fortune

Literature professor Perry Moss has slowly amassed it all: a steady job at Haviland College in southern Vermont, a successful writing career, and a beautiful wife, Jane. But everything changes when a television exec contacts Perry about turning one of his short stories into a network series, and he and Jane leave the comforts of the Northeast to give it a shot in Hollywood. The pilot episode a hit, Perry becomes infatuated with his glamorous new lifestyle of swimming pools, sultry actresses, and cocaine-fueled parties. He's willing to do anything for success in Tinseltown—even if it threatens to poison his marriage and send his wife packing.

Чтение оригинальных произведений — простой и действенный способ погрузиться в языковую среду и совершенствоваться в иностранном языке. Серия «Бестселлер на все времена» — это возможность улучшить свой английский, читая лучшие произведения англоязычных авторов, любимые миллионами читателей. Для лучшего понимания текста в книгу включены краткий словарь и комментарии, поясняющие языковые и лингвострановедческие вопросы, исторические и культурные реалии описываемой эпохи.

Сестры Элинор и Марианна очень разные: одна не забывает быть рассудительной, вторая отдает себя во власть эмоций. Но они обе стремятся к счастью и любви. Что у них получится?

Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем или продвинутом уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию.

Dar vienas populiariosios „Dinos knygos“ autorės romanas. „Septintas susitikimas“ taip pat pasakoja apie moters likimą. Knygos herojė Ruta Neset – garsi dailininkė, sunkiai prasiskynusi kelią į sėkmę. Septyni susitikimai su Gormu Grande – tai septynios jų meilės, atlaikiusios dešimtmečių išbandymus, gairės.

Versta iš: Herbjørg Wassmo  Det sjuende Mote Iš norvegų k. vertė Eglė Išganaitytė

„Šilko kelio daina“ – įspūdingas, bei įtraukiantis romanas apie dvasines žmogaus paieškas egzotikos ir paslapčių kupinoje kelionėje. Šis romanas  pasakoja apie tai kai dar būdama maža mergaitė ir augdama Honkonge, Lilė Lin žavėjosi dykuma, tiksliau dykumos  nuotraukomis. Neaprėpiamais, akimis neišmatuojamais toliais ir keliaujančiomis kopomis. Dabar, gyvendama Niujorke, uždarbiaudama kavinėje ir bandydama užbaigti dar universitete pradėtą romaną, ji sulaukia netikėto pasiūlymo iš savo netikėtai atsiradusios tetos. Teta, apie kurią Lilė niekada nieko nebuvo nei girdėjusi, nei žinojusi, pareiškia sumokėsianti dukterėčiai milžinišką sumą,  žinoma ne šiaip sau, bet jei Lilė sutiks  keliauti per Kiniją grėsmingą Takla Makano dykuma ir pakeliui atlikti kelėta nelengvų užduočių.

Smalsumo vedama bei noro gauti pinigus,  Lilė  sutinka. Vienos  iš jai skirtų  užduočių  pavojingos, kitos – keistos. Lilė privalo nuskelti gabalėlį molio nuo garsiųjų terakotinių skulptūrų, įkopti  į Dangaus kalnus ir ten nuskinti snieginį lotosą, bei sugundyti vienuolį. Siane, pirmoje savo kelionės stotelėje, ji susitinka jauną amerikietį Aleksą ir šis pasišauna ją visur lydėti.

Kelioneje po Taklo Makano dykumą, Lilė sutinka daug žmonių, kūrė per kelionę prisidėjo  prie jos gyvenimo apmąstymų  bei bandymų kažką keisti. Taigi, jeigu ieškote knygos kurią galėtumėte ramiai paskaityt vakare prie jaukios židinio šilumos ir  norėtumėt apgalvot savo iki šiol buvusį  gyvenimą ar  nuveiktus darbus, siūlyčiau perskaityt šį romaną, nes tai žavingas pasakojimas apie tikėjimą savimi ir  atsidavimą. Tai susimąstyti skatinantis romanas.

Originalas - Yip, Mingmei. Song of the Silk.

Vertė: Liutkutė, Jovita

Mingmei Yip was born in China, received her Ph.D. from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and held faculty appointments at the Chinese University and Baptist University in Hong Kong. She's published five books in Chinese. She immigrated to the United States in 1992, where she now lives in New York City.

Garsioji norvegų rašytoja Herbjørg Wassmo (Herbjorga Vasmo) romane „Šimto metų istorija“ atskleidžia nepaprastus trijų moterų likimus. Viena pagrindinių knygos herojų gimsta tais pačiais metais kaip ir pati knygos autorė. Herbjørg  Wassmo gyvenimo fragmentai pinasi su viena romano siužetinių linijų, ir iš viso to gimsta istorija apie mergaitę su geltonu pieštuku.

Rašytojos prosenelė, senelė ir motina – tai Sara Susanė, Elida ir Jordisė. Romanas „Šimto metų istorija“ pasakoja apie jų gyvenimus, pagimdytus vaikus, vyrus, kuriuos jos mylėjo, ir tuos, kuriuos jos gavo. Knygos herojė nuo gyvenimo realybės slapstosi tvarte. Kad būtų lengviau viską ištverti, geltonu pieštuku rašo dienoraštį. Mergaitė pasaulį išvydo 1942-aisiais, o prieš šimtą metų gimė stiprioji Sara Susanė, jos prosenelė, vėliau pozavusi angelą Lofoteno katedros altoriaus paveikslui.

„Šimto metų istorija“ – knyga apie visų šių moterų ilgesį ir vargus, svajones ir laisvės troškimą.

Iš norvegų kalbos vertė  Alma Ločerytė-Dale

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie’s children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward’s distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature.

On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley...

When Phil Potter decides to divorce his wife, Jessica, after a few difficult years, he imagines he’s in for a wild jaunt through the sexually liberated 1970s. But his new start—Phil has also left behind his job in PR for a teaching gig at a junior college—is more solitary drinking and TV dinners than raucous orgies. Even the women he does manage to connect with are equally disaffected with their own divorces or failing marriages, and Phil begins to understand the harsh, though often darkly funny, realities of starting over and searching for love the second time around.

Capturing both the excitement and struggles of feminism and the sexual revolution, Starting Over depicts the pleasures and pitfalls of dating in the seventies with humor and a deep understanding of how relationships work—or, more commonly, don’t work. Replete with spot-on cultural references and rendered under Wakefield’s careful journalistic eye, Starting Over is a stunning reminder of the hardships of love in the modern age

Herbjørg Wassmo romane gvildenama tema nė vieno nepalieka abejingo. Tai pasakojimas apie merginą, ieškojusią šviesesnio gyvenimo, tačiau tapusią preke… Romanas kupinas svajonių, vilčių bei išbandymų, kurių neturėtų patirti joks žmogus.

Amerikiečių rašytojos Emyl Jenkins romanas nukelia skaitytoją į antikvarinių vertybių pasaulį, kuris blizga ir tviska iš išorės, o viduje - kunkuliuoja paslaptimis ir intrigomis. Pagrindinė herojė Sterling Glas yra antikvarinių daiktų vertintoja. Kartą, norėdama išsiaiškinti senovinio kaitintuvo istoriją, ji aptinka sudėtingą sukčiavimo mechanizmą ir įklimpsta į besaikio godulio, apgaulės ir pavojų liūną. Pasirodo, pačios brangiausios vertybės saugo didžiules paslaptis.

**In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, from the wounded wife to her husband --torn between two women--to the wife's close-knit sisters and their mother.

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When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas, her straying husband, is blinded by passion for a younger woman--and not only that, she is pregnant with his child.

Nadia's three sisters close ranks around her, flying to Paris from Los Angeles and New York to lend support and offer their widely divergent advice. Athena, a...

In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters. In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters.

The sea roars dismally round the shores of Inverara. A Stranger takes a room on the island. Here lives a couple whose married years have been joyless, until the presence of the Stranger unleashes their passions... For as spring softens the wild beauty of Inverara, the Stranger becomes conscious of the dark-haired Mary - how summer makes her shiver with life. He is the first man she has ever loved, and she thrills with sexual awakening. But with autumn comes danger. Peasants mutter superstition against Mary; Red John laughs at nothing, there's murder in his eyes; and a madman's yell hurls the Stranger back to sanity . . . . Intense, compelling, beautifully descriptive - as Wuthering Heights is to the Yorkshire moors, so The Black Soul is to the Aran Islands.