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21House of Hilton. From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege , Jerry Oppenheimer (2007)
This intimate, shocking— and thoroughly unauthorized — portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour. From Conrad Hilton, the… 929 руб22White Corridor , Christopher Fowler (2008)
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception… 764 руб23Nicholas Nickleby , Charles Dickens (1995)
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of… 212 руб24Tristram Shandy , Laurence Sterne (1996)
Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous… 222 руб25The Last Days of Dogtown , Anita Diamant (2006)
The tiny rural backwater of Dogtown nestled on Cape Ann and hugging the Massachusetts coast line, is a place that is reputedly dying, but its few remaining inhabitants show an enduring spirit that… 504 руб26Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy , Iain R. Webb (2008)
Crowned‘Designer of the Year’ by Vogue in 1970, Bill Gibb (1943–1988), barely out of college two years and yet to launch his eponymous line, was to become a major name in fashion history… 2805 руб27The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson , Emily Dickinson (1994)
Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1… 353 руб28The Lost World (+ CD-ROM) , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2007)
At the beginning of the 1900s the whole world has been explored. There is nothing left to discover. But maybe this is not totally true. The eccentric Professor Challenger says that there is a place… 992 руб29PS, I Love You , Cecelia Ahern (2005)
With the help of letters her husband left her before he died, and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, a young widow learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover… 545 руб30Polar Shift: A Kurt Austin Adventure , Clive Cussler (2007)
Polar Shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its weakest, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes… 607 руб
