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111The Borgias , Кристофер Хибберт (2011)
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was… 370 грн (только Украина)112PETER PAN MUST DIE , VERDON, JOHN (2014)
Dave Gurney, the most decorated homicide detective in the history of the NYPD, is pulled out of retirement once again when his former partner Jack Hardwick comes to him with a puzzling case. A real… 1875 руб113Nana
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle… 555 руб1142 YEARS 8 MONTHS&28 NIGHTS , RUSHDIE, SALMAN (2015)
Once upon a time, in a world just like ours, there came "the time of the strangenesses." Reason receded and the loudest, most illiberal voices reigned. A simple gardener began to levitate, and a… 1516 руб115Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights , Salman Rushdie (2015)
From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginative novel of his great career, which blends history and myth with tremendous philosophical depth. A… 639 руб116The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia , Jaques (2015)
An art-oriented biography of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings to become one of the most powerful people in the world. A German princess who married a… 1980 руб117War and Peace , Лев Толстой (2012)
Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon&# 039;s disastrous Russian invasion, this classic novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is… 110 грн (только Украина)118The Life of Christina of Markyate
'I wish to remain single, for I have made a vow of virginity.'This is the remarkable story of the twelfth-century recluse Christina, who became prioress of Markyate, near St Albans in Hertfordshire… 493 руб119The Last Tycoon , Fitzgerald Francis Scott (2014)
They were smiting at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of… 287 руб120Shroud for a Nightingale , Филлис Дороти Джеймс (2006)
When Nurse Pearce died within the gloomy precincts of the Nightingale Training College the situation looked grim enough. Then a second young nurse is found dead and suddenly Chief Superintendent Adam… 228 грн (только Украина)
