Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, "Tender is the Night" explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the ... |
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Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Divers’ troubled marriage, and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the problems inherent in the possession of great wealth. Despite cataloguing a maelstrom of interpersonal conflict, Tender is the Night has a poignancy and warmth that springs from the quality of Fitzgerald's writing and the tragic personal ... |
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Обещаващият млад психиатър Дик Дайвър се оженва за своя бивша пациентка - красивата и богата Никол. Елегантната двойка се установява на Ривиерата, огражда се с безгрижни и безделни приятели и се отдава на разточителни развлечения. Обект на завист за онези, които не са допуснати в тесния им кръг, Дик и Никол кръстосват между плажовете край Ница и Кан, модните зимни курорти и парижките салони. Постепенно обаче над привидното благополучие и сякаш неугасващото привличане помежду им започва да тегне сянката на компромисите. Разкъсван между грижите за психически нестабилната Никол и зараждащите се чувства към изгряващата ... |
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A dangerously romantic Scarlet Pimpernel-inspired fantasy with post-revolution witches from acclaimed author Kristen Ciccarelli. On the night Rune's life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is. Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch ... |
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Vicious Nightmares Need Peaceful Dreams. Shaken from the aftermath of the Libertatem, the newly found star-maiden Astraea is determined to keep her freedom, even at the cost of betraying her heart. But time is running out to recover her memories with the hope it will unveil her killer. Embarking on a journey to discover her past, Astraea's awakening power spins the hourglass on a history threatening to repeat itself. While Nyte tries to regain control of the vampires hungry for bloodshed, a sinister plan by his brother to overthrow him sparks a dangerous feud. But are they willing to wear the blood of their kin to ... |
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Meg Long's "Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves" is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer, but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide? ... |
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From bats to bees to elephants to elk, discover powerful animal spirit energy to guide you through the darkest, toughest times and discover the light. This tarot deck is an invitation to find beauty wherever you are on your path and to remember that there is always light to be found - even on the darkest nights. Based on the traditional Rider Waite Tarot, The Guardian of the Night Tarot blends the essence of the animal spirits with the Major and Minor Arcana. The archetypal creatures of this deck will become your guardians as they walk beside you, offering their individual gifts of wisdom and inspiration to your readings. ... |
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force. First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working- ... |
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Set in a rich, high-fantasy world inspired by ancient Rome, Sabaa Tahir's "An Ember in the Ashes" told the story of Laia, a slave fighting for her family, and Elias, a young soldier fighting for his freedom. Now, in A Torch Against the Night, Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' ... |
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Поредицата се състои от книжки с упражнения за децата, на които им предстои да тръгнат на училище. ... |
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Поредицата се състои от книжки с упражнения за децата, на които им предстои да тръгнат на училище. ... |
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Първа част от поредицата Свръхестествени разследвания от Б. Б. Олстън. ... Амари Питърс никога не е преставала да вярва, че нейният мистериозно изчезнал брат Куинтън е жив. Въпреки твърденията на полицията за обратното. Затова, когато открива тиктакащо куфарче в неговия гардероб, съдържащо документи за записване в обучителната програма на Бюрото за свръхестествени дела, тя е убедена, че именно тази тайна организация е ключът към разплитането на загадката около неговото изчезване. Е, и разбира се, ще ѝ трябва известно време да осмисли това, което току-що е научила - че извънземни, магьосници, феи и други свръх ... |
