Every neighbourhood has its black sheep, but this one has bears. Well, nobody has actually seen the inhabitants of the house at the end of the road, but that doesn't stop the gossip about The Bears We Know. In colourfully mischievous illustrations, readers are invited to see for themselves these ursine neighbours living life as they see fit. Also, they growl if anyone gets too close, so nobody visits. This playful story promises to charm even as it challenges with the question "Does anybody really know their next-door neighbours?" Reading Level: Grade K-3
Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse - (Translated, with a commentary, by Vladimir Nabokov)
Added by: kuynka | Karma: 279.22 | Fiction literature | 15 December 2009
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Aleksandr Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse - (Translated, with a commentary, by Vladimir Nabokov)
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse.
Added by: tonysorete | Karma: 8.19 | Fiction literature | 14 December 2009
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Stephen King - Under the Dome
The town of Chesters Mill (pop. approximately 2000) is suddenly cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible barrier, preventing anything other than a small amount of air from passing through. What follows is mostly told from the perspective of Dale "Barbie" Barbara, a former Army lieutenant.
Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings – one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. And who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune?
