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From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our future Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alar...

An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood. Stein vivid...

At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told. Beginning with Reichl�...

En este relato, escrito en 1964, Julio Cortazar narra un fabuloso atasco en la autopista entre Fontainebleau у Paris un domingo por la tarde. En realidad se trata de una metafora de nuestras propias vidas: vivimos atrapados en una rutina. Cada persona en su automovil, identificada por su marca о modelo, tiene eomo objetivo llegar a Paris para realizar una determinada tarea. Un accidente hara que c...

Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal. Everything Danny has e...

One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across ...

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers.

Десять никак не связанных между собой людей в особняке на уединенном острове... Кто вызвал их сюда таинственным приглашением? Зачем кто-то убивает их, одного за другим, самыми невероятными способами? Почему все происходящее так тесно переплетено с веселым детским стишком? Роман "Десять негритят" – один из величайших детективных произведений в истории. Выпущенный общим тиражом более 100 000 000...

Лорды и герои, воины и чернокнижники совершают великие деяния и предательства, плетут политические интриги, борются за власть, любят и погибают - все ради того, чтобы исполнилось древнее пророчество о мире Семи Королевств- мире суровых земель вечного холода и цветущих земель вечного лета.