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81Friendly Fire , Patrick Gale (2006)
Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained… 709 руб82Prep. A Novel , Sittenfeld Curtis (2008)
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate… 1068 руб83The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin , Kahn Andrew (2006)
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and… 2727 руб84Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century , Anderson Stansford (2002)
Most histories of twentieth-century architecture cite Peter Behrens'influence on three of his prot&# 233;g&# 233;s--Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier--and mention the turbine… 4803 руб85Turner: Masters of Art , Crepaldi Gabriele (2011)
Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as the painter of light. A The use of brilliant watercolour characterizes his numerous landscapes. Travelling throughout Europe… 962 руб86The Shape of Her , Somerville Rowan (2011)
Max and Tine arrive on the Greek island of her childhood holidays. Both are in their mid twenties and this is their first serious relationship. Max is relatively inexperienced with women and his… 869 руб87Jerusalem: The Biography , Sebag Montefiore Simon (2012)
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations… 1151 руб88A Village Lost and Found , May Brian (2009)
Brian May's painstaking excavation of exquisite stereo photographs from the dawn of photography transports the reader back in time to the lost world of an Oxfordshire village of the 1850s. At the… 3929 руб89Catholicism. A Very Short Introduction , O'Collins Gerald (2009)
Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church and the broader phenomenon of Catholicism remain a vast and valuable presence into the third millennium of… 411 руб90Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt , Rice A. (2010)
Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord… 383 руб
