A masterful suspense novel from the author of the unforgettable bestseller "We were liars". ... The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want ... |
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Edited by David A. Jasen. ... Throughout history, few musical crazes have hit with such impact, had such a heyday and lingered so hauntingly as ragtime. Ragtime arrived on the upswing of Tin Pan Alley, when the popularity of pianos in the home was reaching its peak and an endless stream of sheet music flowed out to meet the demand. In the early 1900s, no name was more prominent on those sheet-music covers and no one wrote ragtime music more brilliantly than Scott Joplin. This wonderful book brings together in one superbly produced playing edition all thirty-eight of Scott Joplin's piano rags, including his six ... |
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From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly recorded by Defoe . Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last ... |
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Get to know the simple, intuitive art of Lenormand with Cute Little Lenormand! This colorful, modern take on a classic divination deck is designed to spark inspiration, offer clarity, and even hint at what the future might hold. With a touch of whimsy and a generous splash of pink, author and illustrator Sara M. Lyons has given this historical card deck a contemporary makeover with bright, updated illustrations and inclusive language that invites everyone to see themselves in the cards. Cute Little Lenormand includes a comprehensive guidebook along with a complete 36 card Lenormand deck, so you can start working with the ... |
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The main purpose of the book Mathematical Handbook is to present school Students, applying to Mathematical Colleges and Universities, candidates for SAT I and SAT II, Students of Mathematics, Computer sciences, Economics, Engineering, Physics and other sciences full information on mathematics concepts, formulas, graphs, axioms, theorems and tables. Moreover, this book is helpful to those Students who go to mathematics exams and competitions, where they can easily express their own ideas and thoughts by solving mathematical problems. Mathematical handbook is written according to the newest educational programs and ... |
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С 96 илюстрации на Хю Томсън (1894). Гордост и предразсъдъци е любима книга на милиони читатели - и това не са просто думи. В тази красива, прекрасно разказана история има всичко - романтика, интересни герои, недоразумения, семейни ценности и неочаквани обрати, представени с много изящество, хумор и красив език. Това е история за аристокрацията през XIX век чрез перипетиите в живота на семейство Бенет, дарено с пет дъщери. Когато няма наследник, който да поеме семейните дела, единственото, на което разчита мисис Бенет, е дъщерите ѝ да си намерят богати съпрузи. Но Елизабет Бенет отказва да се подчини и да приеме ... |
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This book was initially planned as a record of a series of lectures to my first classes of Bulgarian Philology, English Philology and Applied Linguistics, and Public Relations undergraduate and graduate students at the South West University of Bulgaria where, back in the early 1990s, we were to lay the foundations of an academic tradition in a fast changing world. It was meant as a record of the fast restructuring of our minds and attitudes in time of economic and sociopolitical transition and cultural transcendence, seen from a changing Bulgarian perspective where the world came upon our horizon English-speaking. The ... |
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"Чудовища" е мрачна и чудата галерия от гротескови и страховити същества от всички световни култури, сътворени от творческото въображение през вековете. Повече от 200 изображения от популярни и неизвестни художници на богат набор от зверове, населявали праисторията, Класическата епоха, Средните векове, Ренесанса, епохата на Романтизма, та чак до първите проблясъци на съвременната наука. Чудовищата са приемали всевъзможни форми през хилядолетията и са обитавали всяка позната на човека територия, от митологията до манга-културата, от сънищата до кошмарите. Но какво ни говори това за самото човечество? Защо ... |
