A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the eagerly anticipated prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends-the Liars-whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just lie."Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." John Green First book in the We Were ... |
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Бестселър на "New York Times". Книга, която си заслужава да прочетете. И ако някой Ви попита как свършва - излъжете. ... Прекрасно, известно семейство. Частен остров. Интелигентно, наранено момиче; страстно момче със собствено мнение. Група от четирима приятели - "Лъжците", чието приятелство предизвиква разрушения. Революция. Инцидент. Тайна. Лъжи след лъжи. Истинска любов. Истина. Емили Локхарт е доктор по английска литература на "Колумбийския университет", преподава творческо писане в университета "Hamline". Тя е автор на романите "We were liars", "Fly on the wall& ... |
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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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Only the best and brightest will attend. Only the monstrous will survive. A dead teacher at an elite boarding school. Four students who had every reason to want her gone. Who is the monster? At an elite New England boarding school, eight students are selected for an exclusive storytelling workshop with the one and only Meredith Graffam-an enigmatic writer, director, and actress. For sixteen days, they will live in the isolated estate of the school's founder, surrounded by snowy woods and a storm-tossed seas. Only one of the chosen will walk away with a lifechanging opportunity to realize their creative dreams. ... |
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Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers ... |
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"Актьорите по природа са избухливи - алхимични създания, съставени от възпламенителни елементи: емоция, его и завист. Ако ги нагрееш и смесиш, понякога получаваш злато. А друг път бедствие." Оливър Маркс е излежал десетгодишната си присъда за убийство, което може, а може и да не е извършил. Детектив Колбърн, човекът, който го е вкарал зад решетките, се среща с него извън затвора, за да научи най-после истината за драматичните събития, разиграли се преди едно десетилетие. Тогава Оливър заедно с още шестима свои колеги е студент последна година по актьорско майсторство в престижната академия Делъкър. Освен ... |
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Жените от семейство Санбернар са живели в Морн Мари, къщата на върха на хълм извън Порт Анджелис, от поколения. Изградена от останките на плантация, която е поробила техните предци, тя се превръща в дом на род, свързан с нещо повече от кръвта. По една жена във всяко поколение е отговорна за преминаването на душите на мъртвите от града в отвъдното. Но връзката на Йеджиде с майка ѝ, Петронела, винаги е била пропита от гняв и пренебрежение, които Петронела упорито носи и на смъртния си одър, оставяйки Йеджиде неподготвена да изпълни съдбата си. Междувременно, Даруин расте в провинцията с благочестивата си майка ... |
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Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can't I be happy? Am I doing this right? Each morning, she's somehow forgotten all the answers. She wonders: I'm almost fifty years old. I've learned a whole lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know? Her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby, are the people Glennon calls first when she's drowning, because they are her life preservers. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with ... |
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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called Delta-503, keeps a journal of his life and activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world ... |
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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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The sequel to the book A Column of Fire. ... A time of conflict. It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for. Lives intertwined. A Norman noblewoman follows her husband to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey has a vision of transforming his humble home into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe. The dawn of a new age. Now, with England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, these three ... |
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"Не е важно кой започва играта, а кой я завършва."Джон Удън ... В Роузууд, Пенсилвания, четири потресаващо красиви момичета са преследвани от много грозно минало. Спенсър, Ариа, Хана и Емили нищо не искат по-силно от това да забравят Алисън Дилорентис, бившата си най-добра приятелка, която се опита да разруши живота им. Но някой отказва да позволи споменът за нея да умре. "А." още е тук, промъква се в сенките и изравя най-новите тайни на малките сладки лъжкини. Емили възстановява връзката със старата си тръпка, появява се и бебе! Но накъде е тръгнала тя – към истинската любов, или към поредното ... |
