An epic love story, which became a major Hollywood film starring Mandy Moore, by the bestselling author of THE NOTEBOOK and THE LAST SONG. Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. ...
From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of&,nbsp,The Forty Rules of Love&,nbsp,and&,nbsp,The Architect''s Apprentice,&,nbsp,The Gaze&,nbsp,is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at.An obese woman and her lover, ...
It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe´s newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives ...
A powerful, moving memoir—and a practical guide to healing—written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her ...
Mutant Message Down Under is the gripping fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she makes a four month long journey with the ''''Real People'''', as the tribe ...
''All warfare is based on deception.'' According to General Malik, Pakistan is defined by three ''A''s: Allah, Army and America. Yet, for one brilliant and educated man, the war isn''t based on religious extremism. It''s personal. When his family''s compound is bombed by a US military drone, Professor ...
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you''''ve got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana''''s only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss ...
Aria, Emily, Spencer, Hanna and Alison have been best friends since the third grade. They go everywhere together, thinking no-one can come between them. If anyone is the ringleader of the group it is Alison, and the other girls cannot help but confide all their secrets to her. One night, during a sleepover, ...
In this third volume of highly original ''detective'' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah''s best bud, wh o has been resurrected to tell the story in this ...
When Betty Friedan produced "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries'''' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty ...
Evie is desperate for a holiday - a good one. Not only because she\''s been working all hours as a receptionist for two high-powered plastic surgeons, but also because every holiday she\''s ever been on has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting - sometimes all three at once. Why can\''t ...
Alex Leamas is tired. It''s the 1960s, he''s been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of ...
''I lost my own father at 12 yrs of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.'' In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, ...
