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82) Pitch dark
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
""What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow-up to her prizewinning novel Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, a fraught relationship that reverberates throughout the novel, as it moves from Kate's house in rural Connecticut...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and a passport full of stamps. It isn't quite what she dreamed of when she was a teenager dog-earing pages in exotic travel guides, but it's secure. Then her best friend bails just hours after they arrive in Hong Kong for a girls' trip, and Sophie meets Carson, a free-spirited, globetrotting American artist. In the midst of their whirlwind vacation...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jakub Procha is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he leaves his beloved wife behind and launches into the galaxy. But things aboard spaceship JanHus1 quickly turn weird, and, to make matters worse, he soon learns that his wife has disappeared without a trace back on Earth. As...
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen stories on travel. In The Gardens of Mont-Saint Michel a married couple revisits a scene of great happiness only to suffer a disappointment, in Summer Opportunity an African-American girl, considered plain at home, is feted as a sex queen in Africa.
Author
Series
Mirovai͡ volume a klassika
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"Gulliver's Travels is the most significant work of Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, publicist, poet and public figure. At first glance, "Gulliver's Travels" is an allegory, a parable, the author who is a ruthless and brilliant master of words, ridiculing human and social vices. Masterfully using all shades of humor, from good-natured, gentle irony to angry sarcasms and venomous ridicule, Swift has created one of the greatest satirical books...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"Jonathan Swift's book "Gulliver's Travels" includes the first two parts of the book about Doctor Lemuel Gulliver: "Journey to Lilliput" and "Journey to Brobdingnag". There are many unexplored corners of our world, inhabited by amazing peoples. Some people are as tall as toy dolls, while others are incredible giants to whom we are living dolls. The brave traveler Gulliver visited both the land of the Lilliputians and the land of giants. leaving his...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1897, the discovery of gold in the desolate reaches of the Yukon has the world abuzz with excitement, and thousands of prospectors swarm to the north seeking riches the likes of which have never been seen before. For Liza Peterson and her family, the gold rush is a chance for them to make a fortune by moving their general store business from Vancouver to Dawson City, the only established town in the Yukon. For Constable Ben Turner, a recent recruit...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
¿Hasta dónde te puede llevar una idea? En la década de 1920, una época de profundos cambios sociales, la protagonista dará un giro a su vida y vivirá una apasionante aventura a la conquista de sus sueños. Barcelona, 1928. Anna Expósito es una joven huérfana que ha crecido en la Casa de la Misericordia. Su afición por el cine, las revistas femeninas y la cosmética han hecho de ella una muchacha independiente que quiere disfrutar...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kino travels with the trusty talking motorrad, Hermes. The duo are always together, with Hermes providing speed, and Kino providing balance. They stay in each country for no more than three days, as a rule--enough time to learn about each destination's unique customs and people. And so Kino and Hermes journey ever onward.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
A Vertical Comics edition, First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a vast forest lies a certain country, a place blessed with abundance, so wonderful that all travelers want to visit at least once. The country is so popular, in fact, that anyone who wishes to stay must enter the tournament held in the coliseum and battle for citizenship and the right to create a new law for the land..." --
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she's still like every other twentysomething who feels that their life is going nowhere fast. Bored out of her mind, her solution is to drop out of school, dump her boyfriend and leave her homeworld of Meta behind--courtesy of the infamous "madness coat" of renegade poet Rac Shade, which is not so much a garment as it is a multidimensional gateway. After stealing the coat and astrally projecting herself across...
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