Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (The Twilight Saga)
Added by: decabristka | Karma: 68119.34 | Fiction literature | 3 May 2010
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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret...
Beautifully rendered, this first installment of Twilight: The Graphic Novel is a must-have for any collector’s library.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 30 April 2010
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Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M.Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a comedy of manners that uses the elements of farce to demonstrate how a comic clash of cultural sensibilities can quickly turn to tragedy. Forster's acclaimed first novel displays his finely honed talent for using a tragi-comic incident to comment on human existence. In his first book, he shows a subtlety and lightness of touch, which he lost in his more "philosophical" Howard's End and A Passage to India.
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 29 April 2010
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The Last Ticket & Other Stories
This is a collection of contemporary literature for young people from Asia and the Pacific countries which is widely read, published under the Asian /Pacific Co-publication Programme (ACP) carried out by the Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU), with the joint efforts of UNESCO member states in the region, and in co-operation with UNESCO. 21 Asian/Pacific countries participated; this volume comprises ten stories from ten countries, and the second volume The Wall and Other Stories contains eleven stories from eleven countries.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 29 April 2010
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The Way We Live Now is the essence of Trollope. If he had written no other novel, it would have ensured his immortality. He paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte, who is one of the Victorian novel's greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time. Trollope's 'Now' might, in the 21st century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today.