Summer is in full swing, and you need to spend time with benefit not only for the soul and body, but also for the brain. The best food for the mind is books. Only, mind you, real ones - paper ones! Take them with you to the beach, open them in the evenings in outdoor cafes, read them in bed while the rain sounds, and don’t forget to put them in your suitcase when you go on a trip. Reading will become not only fashionable for you, but also a truly useful habit if you use our list of 11 books that you should definitely read this summer!
Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
We have all heard stories about how a successful and successful entrepreneur or employee gave up everything, sold his property and went to some distant land in search of spiritual truth. Robin Sharma's work, which has been recognized more than once as a bestseller, tells the story of one of these characters: a very wealthy lawyer who is experiencing spiritual crisis, leaves his former life for the sake of immersion in ancient culture so that, thanks to Eastern wisdom, awaken your soul and defeat the melancholy that has settled in it. Let's see what he can learn!
Alice Munro, "More Than Life"
Canadian writer, who received in 2013 Nobel Prize in literature, she is considered a continuer of the traditions of A.P. Chekhov for her simplicity, purity and, of course, brevity. “More expensive than life itself” is literally Munro’s last work: according to the writer, she does not plan to continue her literary works. The book is a collection short stories, telling about life stories and the fates of heroes. If you love descriptions of the subtle inner world of characters, this book is definitely for you!
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
For some, this summer will not be complete without a magnificent book by the famous writer, which makes you think about the transience of time, kindness, and fleeting moments of happiness that need to be noticed. Full of warm and sunny memories, this work will help you enjoy the nostalgia of childhood and feel every moment associated with the most beautiful time of the year. If you haven’t read this book yet, it’s time to rectify the situation!
Marcus Buckingham, Kurt Coffman, "First Break All the Rules"
If your summer is spent in a stuffy office, it's time to give yourself a break and distract yourself with a rather interesting book that will convince you that “the best managers in the world do things differently.” Tens of thousands of interviews that the authors conducted with the most effective managers of our time reveal the secrets of success and efficiency: it turns out that sometimes you just have to break the rules. Try!
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
One of the best books for the holidays - fascinating, exciting, and will not leave any reader indifferent. The novel, which broke many sales records, is a confessional tale of a hero who was forced to hide from the law for years. This book contains everything that normal people would prefer never to encounter in their lives, but which is so interesting to read about from your cozy and safe nest. Divorce, deprivation of parental rights, drug addiction, robbery, sentence - 19 years in prison strict regime, escape, counterfeiters, smugglers, Indian mafia, fight for love... In a word, everything that will not let you get bored this summer!
Anna Gavalda, “35 kilos of hope”
Another story by a French writer, this time written from the perspective of a 13-year-old boy who stubbornly hates school. But you shouldn’t think that the book is intended for the younger generation - it absolutely surprisingly resonates in the hearts of both older children and adults themselves. And if you have already acquired offspring, then this book is simply a must-read: thanks to it, you will remember your youth and learn to better understand growing children. “35 Kilos of Hope” is a reminder of how to be good parents, as well as the importance of not giving up and believing. Reading will take you no more than one or two hours, and we can say with confidence: your time will not be wasted!
Eckhart Tolle, Live Now!
This book will become your little friend and a real salvation if suddenly on a rainy summer evening you feel lonely, sad and, perhaps, a little anxious, if you are entering a new period of your life - by your own will or by chance. A great expert on wounded human souls, Eckhart Tolle will reveal to you the true state of affairs in your life, give you consolation, tell you how to find spiritual harmony and perspective, help you return to the “assemblage point” and pave the path of your own path, so that the next morning you can again enjoy a new day !
Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Touching and incredibly exciting until the last page is the story of Jess, a single mother who works two jobs and at the same time tries to guide her two children on the right path. Unexpectedly for the heroine, but expected for us, a man appears in her life who awakens to the desire to help Jess and her children. Modern and original, full of irony and positivity, this story ends as it should in a romance novel!
Jennifer L. Scott, Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Style Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris
If you want to learn the traditions of French families, as well as the secrets of French women on how to look not just beautiful, but elegant in any situation, how to instill healthy habits in yourself, how not to deny yourself your favorite dishes and not gain weight, as in the ever-accelerating rhythm of life to preserve not only beauty, but also health, then this book is for you! The narration is told on behalf of the author - a purebred American woman who ended up in a French family through an exchange program and, willy-nilly, was forced to learn something...
Peter Mayle, France. A year in Provence"
You can travel while sitting without leaving the room: right in the office or at home, sitting comfortably between the sofa cushions. This book will take you to the sun-drenched province of Provence, which seems quite eccentric to any visitor. The main character of the novel buys himself an old farmhouse to start here new life, trying to accept the local way of life and integrate into the environment. When you look out the window of your house at traffic jams and concrete walls high-rise buildings, what is happening in the novel seems like some kind of unknown miracle that is located far in a parallel Universe. And after reading the book, you begin to understand where you want to spend your next vacation...
Daphne Du Maurier, "Rebecca"
If you like a book that not only thrills your heart, but also excites your nerves, “Rebecca” is definitely for you! The novel, written in the first half of the last century, was included in the list of 110 best works according to the BBC. Four directors, each in his own time, did not disdain to film it, including A. Hitchcock himself. This is a work that came out largely from Jane Eyre and continued in the novels of Hesse and King. According to the plot of the novel, a young woman meets an aristocrat who is much higher in position than her, and is also the owner of the luxurious Manderley estate. After the imminent wedding, the main character moves to her husband’s estate, where his former wife Rebecca, now deceased, previously ruled. Very soon the new young wife begins to suffer from the fact that she cannot outshine her predecessor, who, it seems, even after her death continues to be the mistress of the situation. Or doesn’t it seem so?.. “Rebecca” will certainly become a decoration in your library and will remain in your memory for a long time. The narrative is so captivating that they say reading this book is like hypnosis. A must read!
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Today it is rare to find truly useful and interesting books on self-development. Sometimes a beautiful cover hides mediocre content. To make it a little easier for you to navigate the diversity of educational literature, we have prepared a review of the 10 latest new products from the end of 2013 - beginning of 2014.
“Emotional intelligence. Russian practice". Sergey Shabanov Alena Aleshina
This book is not as popular as its namesake from Daniel Goleman, but it is very useful, informative and focused on Russian practice. Psychology, sociology, NLP, management and many other disciplines are intertwined here to help you understand and manage your own and others’ emotions. Besides, this work is real teaching aid, which offers various cases, questions, exercises, opinions (including skeptical ones). You can simply read the book in a few evenings, or you can study with it for several weeks - choose for yourself.
The authors of this book, Sergey Shabanov And Alena Aleshinat- successful business trainers of the EQuator company, authors of trainings and programs for managers and leaders. Among their clients are Severstal, SIBUR, MTS, MAGNA Cosma International, Nissan Manufacturing RUS, Danone group of companies in Russia, Yandex.Money, DataArt, OpenWay, Gazpromneft-North-West, Alfa-Bank , SIAB, Uralsib, Vostochny Express Bank, North-West Customs Administration, Swedwood, Yulmart and others. In the book, the owners of the consulting company EQuator talk about the domestic practice of using emotional intelligence in business. Emotional intelligence or EQ is a concept that characterizes a person's ability to recognize, achieve, and generate emotions in a way that promotes thinking, understanding emotions and what they mean, and accordingly managing them in a way that promotes one's emotional and intellectual growth.
I am very glad that I was able to read this book, which perfectly complements the lessons on our website. This book will be especially useful for those who decide to create works of art. This is not a textbook, but rather a collection of metaphorically stories, dialogues, poems and photographs that will allow you to feel the creative spirit of Marina Moskvina.
Book page on the publisher's website.
“Take or give? A new look at the psychology of relationships." Adam Grant
This is another useful book on developmental psychology. The author tries to prove that the desire to help other people to the detriment of one’s own interests, without expecting any rewards, is not only not useless, but, on the contrary, leads people to success. Don't believe me? Read a book.
Author of the book Adam Grant- the youngest and most popular professor among students at the Wharton School of Business. He devoted more than ten years of his professional life to studying the psychology of relationships in a variety of structures - from Google to the US Air Force. The authoritative magazine BusinessWeek included Adam Grant in the world's Top 40 professors under 40 years of age.
Book page on the publisher's website.
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What
Perhaps the main bestseller of the decade is a psychological thriller in which unexpected turns there is more plot than even the most demanding reader could wish for.
Plot
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife Amy goes missing under suspicious circumstances, leaving him the prime suspect in her possible murder.
Context
Critics have called Flynn's book a "novel of mirrors": nothing can be trusted here and on every page everything turns out to be not what it seems. It seems that the reader opens the book for this reason, so that he is thoroughly taken aback, but not only. Flynn writes, as it were, a fascinating read on the most favorite topic of a great novel - about family. She takes two absolutely glossy main characters, rips off all the covers from them, so what kind of marriage is there, it’s uncomfortable to stand next to such people, but at the same time it implies that this is such an impossible union of unpleasant people perfect formula strong marriage.
Screen adaptation
Young, successful, beautiful and, most importantly, distinctly Hollywood protagonists are begging to be seen on the screen - it’s as if Flynn is writing a novel about the secret lives of American stars. In the novel, by the way, it is repeatedly emphasized how blonde they are - and it seems that the very choice of Ben Affleck for the main role hints that Fincher is up to something to spite the text. In any case, it will not be difficult for this film adaptation to become better than the original - there is nothing in the text except the plot, and Fincher is known for his ability to do beautiful things.
Tom McCarthy "When I Was Real"
What
An avant-garde novel, delightfully different from all other novels before and after it.
Plot
The main character, waking up in a hospital after an unnamed disaster, receives several million in compensation for damages and paranoid uncertainty about the reality of today - and spends a fortune on recreating the “real” pictures that lie dormant in his mind. It all starts with the construction of an entire house, in which a team of special people recreates the smell of fried liver, the sounds of music from a pianist from above, and cats walking on the roof. But it doesn’t end there - behind the house the scene of a street robbery is recreated, and then something worse.
Context
Tom McCarthy came to literature from contemporary art, and his novel is not about the state of modern society, but rather about the state of modern art. Like an attempt to find out how far the art of actionism can go in its pursuit of reality. That is, what is important here is not only the fantasies of the hero, who suffers from the inability to light a cigarette with the ease of De Niro in “Mean Streets,” but also the fact that a whole army of professionals helps him fulfill any whim: from casting to literally choosing wallpaper. This alienation of the process from the result is reminiscent of cinema - is it worth adding that it was this book that Charlie Kaufman was inspired by when writing “New York, New York”.
Screen adaptation
It is logical that the adaptation of the novel was also undertaken not by a director, but by an artist, and not the last one: video artist Omer Fast became famous precisely for his works that groped the line between art and reality - in “Spielberg’s List” (2003) he interviews the team of the film “Schindler’s List” on the site concentration camp, built near Krakow as a film set, in "Casting" a soldier talking about serving in Iraq turns out to be an actor auditioning for the role of a soldier. The author of the book and the director wrote the script for the film together - and, it seems, understood each other: the movie, where Tom Sturridge, with the help of artistic reconstructions, tries to reach his own forgotten past, Fast describes as the story of an artist devoid of talent.
Laura Hillenbrand "Unbroken"
What
One of the main non-fiction bestsellers of the decade, the 2010 Time magazine book of the year is about a man who survived.
Plot
The incredible biography of Louis Zamperini, a street boy who was raised to be an Olympic runner and sent to the Games in Berlin. Then he became a pilot during World War II, survived a plane crash, drifted on a raft in the ocean for a month - all to be captured by the Japanese.
Context
Incredible and absolutely true story, which was found by Laura Hillenbrand; our time needs heroes and, not finding them in the present, finds them in the recent past.
Screen adaptation
The script for Angelina Jolie's film, which we will see at the end of the year, was written by the Coen brothers, her joint photograph with the main character, taken shortly before his death, went around the Internet, but it may turn out that the desire to make socially responsible films will play a bad joke on her: this It’s easy to kill an already pathetic story with brutal seriousness.
Jeannette Walls "The Glass Castle"
What
A wonderful book about a difficult childhood in a strange family.
Plot
Dad drinks, mom draws pictures, no one works, there is often no food at home and never money, the children don’t go to school, but dad can tell them the best fairy tale in the world, and mom can teach them to play the piano - and everyone is happy.
Context
In fact, “The Glass Castle” is almost the best thing that happened to young adults literature this decade: instead of the fictional suffering of teenagers from dystopias, here is a real complex childhood, where the bohemian life of parents is not always a joy for their four children.
Screen adaptation
The main name of the upcoming film adaptation is already known - this is Jennifer Lawrence, for whom this book will be a chance to finally get out of the swamp of The Hunger Games somewhere closer to the arthouse. With all the love for Lawrence, a lot depends on her in this film adaptation: the whole book is built on very subtle details, and this should turn out well as “Tideland,” and not just another teenage thriller.
Colm Toibin "Brooklyn"
What
Irishman Colm Toibin, one of the most serious modern authors, tragically (for us) not translated into Russian, and his novel, which received the Costa Prize in 2009.
Plot
A young Irish woman leaves her native village for America better life- and although things are already difficult for her in Brooklyn, everything becomes even more difficult when tragic events in her homeland force her to return home.
Context
Colm Tóibín is one of the few authors capable of writing long, slow, unhurried texts and following his characters with close attention and exceptional sympathy, who have been forgotten by world literature for more than a hundred years. His novel, however, can be read more simply - as a novel about emigrants in reverse, where America becomes a place from which it is necessary to leave.
Screen adaptation
Saoirse Ronan, the apprentice pastry chef from The Grand Budapest Hotel, will play the lead role in the upcoming - very Irish - film adaptation by John Crowley: it seems that the heroine's inability to take life into her own hands will be the main plot here.
Kevin Powers "The Yellow Birds"
What
A novel about returning from war, written by an Iraq war veteran, has become for Americans something like All Quiet on the Western Front in the 21st century.
Plot
Private John Bartle went to Iraq with his school friend Murph. At the beginning of the war, they swear to each other not to die - but the hero returns alone. Surviving is only half the battle: adapting back to peaceful life turns out to be completely impossible.
Context
Kevin Powers' novel filled the empty niche of the Great Novel about Iraq; here, for the first time in literature, all soldiers’ injuries are fully described - both in the fields and after the fields: why they leave, what they experience and how they return.
Screen adaptation
Benedict Cumberbatch, who has been cast in the lead role in David Lowery's upcoming film, says too much about the upcoming film adaptation: he doesn't look much like an Iraqi mercenary, which means that in a text that is half poetry and the other half the call of blood, it has been decided only poetry was left.
Sebastian Barry "Tables of Fate"
What
A century of Irish history in notes from a madhouse.
Plot
A hundred-year-old woman, sitting in a madhouse, keeps a diary in which the tragedy of her own life is inseparable from the tragic history of Ireland - and her attending physician sits around the corner and also keeps a diary, a little simpler. Sooner or later they meet.
Context
The 2008 Costa Prize, the Man Booker Prize shortlist and a host of other awards prove, if not the importance, then the literary excellence of the text, authored by one of the best living Irish writers and playwrights.
Screen adaptation
It’s a rare case when already at the stage of preparation of the film it is clear that it will pay tribute to the original: Jim Sheridan in the directors, in the roles of the patient and her doctor Vanessa Redgrave and Eric Bana - and a whole sea of famous names in flashbacks.
Elizabeth Strout "Olivia Kitteridge"
What
A collection of stories from the life of the American province, in which the main character manages to remain a minor character almost to the end.
Plot
13 stories from a small town in New England, from which the main character gradually emerges - an inconvenient, overbearing, aging high school math teacher. We meet Olivia Kitteridge as a middle-aged woman, and see her off as an old one - in general, this is a story, if not about aging, then about the loneliness that inevitably accompanies it.
Context
2009 Pulitzer Prize - and a whole bunch of other awards: Elizabeth Strout managed not only to find a new hero, but also to complete the more difficult task of telling the story of an inconvenient heroine with empathy.
Screen adaptation
Frances McDormand, performer leading role in the HBO miniseries, which will be released this fall, Kitteridge is not very suitable for the role: in the novel we are repeatedly pointed out what a large, physically awkward body she has. By making the heroine miniature, television cut off the novel itself, turning it into a story about what happens to a marriage after children grow up - a line that turns out to be far from the main one in the novel.
Jojo Moyes "Me Before You"
What
A sad story of impossible love that sells very well.
Plot
A girl at a crossroads loses her job and gets a job as a nurse for a smart, handsome man who is completely paralyzed after an accident.
Context
The social rom-com genre, which Jojo Moyes invented with this novel and has been exploiting with might and main since then, is an undoubted success. Here, in general, it’s the same Jane Austen plus the problems of the first world in the 21st century. That is, the poor beautiful girls have nothing to pay for loans, Mr. Darcy also cries, in between - there are many details of the hard life of the working class, laughter through tears, but still more tears. It's not essential reading, just a good chick flick, but it proves that literature can be left-wing in a good way without being too smart.
Screen adaptation
Estimated release - August 2015. Sentimental prose of this kind, as a rule, in film adaptations becomes something moderately marginal: it reaches its strong one hundred million (three times the budget), after which everyone tries to forget it as an annoying misunderstanding. Without counting on anything in particular, the studio gave itself the freedom to play a little: it invited Thea Sharrock, known more for her theatrical work, to the director’s chair (this will be her debut in a feature film, but she, as they say, is widely known on Broadway, in particular to her we owe it to Daniel Radcliffe naked with a horse), and Emilia Clarke aka Khaleesi was called to play the main female role. And Sharrock seems determined not to knock tears out of the audience, but to show them the injustice of the British class system.
Today there are more than 129 million books in the world. It would not take several generations to read them all. Therefore, I have compiled a list for you of 10 must-read books in 2019. Take the time - it's worth it.
A few weeks before the election, a popular talk show host mysteriously disappears. Among the suspects are all Ukrainian presidential candidates. This could very well happen in reality. But for now, this is just the plot of the political detective story “Caesari.” The dense dynamic action of the book is only a cover for a subtle satire on the entire Ukrainian politics and the search for answers to eternal questions that have long worried Ukrainians.
This novel by Colombian Marquez is well known all over the world. The work, written in the direction of magical realism, has been translated into more than 35 languages. If you have not yet had time to enjoy the lines of the book “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” we advise you to still read it. The novel is quite extensive and consists of twenty chapters, describing a long story looped in time. It all starts with the founding of the village of Macondo, and then the author talks about the people, their destinies, the development and decline of the village. Despite its volume and many plot lines, the novel is read in one breath and is incredibly captivating.
Among the best examples of world literature, there was a place on our list for a book that was published in 2015. In this book, close and well-recognized characters, intertwined with the realities of our lives, transform the fairy tale genre, actually creating a new direction - “fairy tales for adults.” Light and refined style, exciting storylines, philosophical reflections on eternal questions and unexpected allusions - all this distinguishes “Fairy Tales for Adult Children” among modern (and not only) literature.
This detective novel is the first book in Larson's Millennium trilogy. The work begins with Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist for the Swedish political magazine Millennium, losing lawsuit and must serve three months in prison. But soon Blomkvist receives an offer to conduct a rather complicated investigation, and he agrees. From this moment the fun begins. The book has it all: riddles to be solved, the influence of money, disappointments and love.
This book is a science fiction story about mentally retarded Charlie Gordon, who at the age of 37 works as a floor cleaner and one day agrees to participate in an experiment to improve his intelligence. A similar experiment has already been successfully carried out on a mouse named Algernon, so why not conduct the same on a person? After surgery, Charlie's life gradually changes, he learns to read, write, and becomes much smarter. But what happens if the hero becomes smarter than the professors who worked on his intelligence? And what will happen if Charlie realizes that any rise ends in a fall, and progress is characterized by regression...
Echoes of this story - the theme of duality - can be seen in many films and read in hundreds of other books. The story in the book tells about Dr. Jekyll, who suddenly began to often lock himself in his office, refusing to go out white light, yes, besides, addressing people in a strange voice. At the same time, a certain Mr. Hyde appears in the city, who calmly commits atrocities and disappears. We advise you to definitely read this story, written with a touch of science fiction.
"Shantaram" is partly an autobiographical novel: the characters in the book are fictional, but the events are real. The action of the work takes place in India in the 80s of the last century. The plot describes the hero, a former drug addict and robber, who escaped from an Australian prison and ended up in Bombay. There he receives the name “Shantaram”, which means “peaceful person”. It is better to read for yourself what will happen to the hero next. The book is fascinating.
The book describes the coming of age story of the young maximalist and idealist Holden Caulfield. An angry, touchy, somewhat wild, somewhat confused, sincere and vulnerable boy. What can a story about him teach the reader? Perhaps to show the reality in which we all live.
The book tells about a young and beautiful guy Dorian, who absolutely does not want to grow old. One day, the talented artist Basil Hallward writes incredibly beautiful portrait young man, after looking at which Dorian Gray expresses a desire to remain forever young, it would be better if the man in this picture grows old. This is what happens. With every terrible thing Dorian does in life, the Dorian on canvas becomes older and uglier. The story ends tragically. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” is really worth reading, it perfectly reveals the psychology of narcissism.
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Miranda July is a one-man band. In addition to filming, a director's project and a collection of short stories that won the prestigious Frank O'Connor Award, July has a debut novel that also deserves attention.
“The First Bad Man” is a tragicomic story about the imaginary and real world; about loneliness, opposites and love. At the center of the plot is a sensitive and charismatic heroine, whose emotionality resembles each of us.
The light, sarcastic novel by British writer Zadie Smith won the Orange Prize, one of the main awards in the English-speaking literary world. The main characters of the novel - Professor Belsey and Professor Kips - specialize in the work of Rembrandt, but this is where their similarities end.
Political views, art, the idea of multiculturalism - throughout the entire work, their confrontation only intensifies. Smith masterfully ironizes the university “war” and reveals the absurdity of any belief.
Billy Milligan is a criminal diagnosed with multiple personality who helped him escape prison sentence. Daniel Keyes wrote a documentary novel about the amazing characters (like the parodist Steve or little Christine) who filled Milligan's essence. The plot centers on a prisoner main character, juggling the memories of his lives.
The sensual narrative of the relationship with the famous drug lord follows the canons of Latin American drama: the plot covers the ups and downs of the energetic Escobar and the story of his romance. The confession of journalist Virginia Vallejo is a kind of excursion into the controversial, vibrant, dangerous era of the formation of the Medellin cartel.
Through the ironic, thoughtful novel by Amor Towles, you can look at Soviet realities from an interesting perspective. The main character, the charming Count Alexander Rostov, is declared an enemy of the people and forced to serve his sentence in the Moscow Metropol Hotel, which he cannot leave under pain of death. This is how it begins new chapter in the history of the country and his own life.
Modern classics
An ironic novel about hardship family life. The plot centers on lawyer Abel Breteau and his wife Mariette, who are living through another crisis of coexistence. The eminent French writer explores the “immobility” of marriage, fascinatingly discussing its pitfalls - not just a sentence, but an aphorism.
The legendary novel about one of the most powerful mafiosi in America was published in 1969 and inspired Francis Coppola to create the cult film of the same name. The unhurried narrative about the victories and misadventures of Don Corleone enchants from the first pages: the author masterfully describes both the mechanics of gangster life and the difficult fate of the Godfather himself.
Not everyone knows that almost 50 years later Bradbury published a sequel to the popular story “Dandelion Wine.” In this novel, the main character, Douglas Spaulding, grows up and experiences new, unforgettable stories.
The book, which gave the writer the Booker Prize and inspired Boris Akunin to take on “Coronation,” impresses with the authentic atmosphere of good old England. The story is narrated by the butler Stevens. Selfless service to Lord Darlington, detailed life, dangerous intrigues, devotion and resourcefulness - one cannot help but sympathize with the main character of this novel, the text is so fascinatingly structured.
Fantasy novels
The novel brought its creator the Carnegie Medal - an award for the best children's book of the year. Inspired by the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin and own feeling humor, the English writer creates a large-scale, non-trivial space. The imposing cat here coexists with a clan of rats, and in the dungeons lurks evil that cannot be easily overcome.
One of the most famous novels of the American science fiction writer talks about the thin, barely discernible line between reality and illusion. In the near future, life does not end after death, and some people are able to turn back time. The world is turning into a place where the supernatural is combined with the everyday, and the heroes will have to adapt to it and separate the wheat from the chaff.
The cult novel about Professor Challenger was published in 1912. The story takes place in South America: the main character and his colleagues go on an expedition, during which they discover a world untouched by time.
A complex story about two unusual worlds. Wonderland is something like modern Japan, where evil jabberwogs live and the subconscious can be controlled. The End of the World is a gloomy Nowhere in which there is a City and a Forest, and in libraries they read dreams from the skulls of unicorns. Like other bestsellers, this novel is a masterly combination of the familiar and the abnormal, magic and human power.
The famous novel by the American science fiction writer was published in 1955. The large-scale story tells about the organization “Eternity”, which has subjugated time. They have millions of eras and human lives in their power. Global changes will begin with extraordinary events in the life of Andrew Harlan, a talented Technician who will encroach on the existing world order for the sake of love.
Detective stories
This novel is an artistic experiment by Lars Mitting, author of the bestselling non-fiction novel Norwegian Wood. The atmospheric plot develops according to the following laws: sudden death parents, short-term memory loss, a return to a mysterious tragedy many years later... In order to dot all the i’s, Edward Hirifjell will have to plunge into his dark past.
A topical, witty book from Booker Prize winner Paul Batey. Shootings, drugs, cops and political strife, broadcast from the point of view of the bully Winston Foshay - all this immerses you in the novel from the first lines and allows you to look at the American elections from a different angle. The author does not skimp on gloomy descriptions and highlights the problems of life in the ghetto.
A large-scale disaster novel about saving the planet from the apocalypse. A solar flare turns into a series of cataclysms that threaten to destroy humanity. Survival instructions are found in ancient writings covering a mysterious crystalline column on the ocean floor. Perhaps 12 thousand years ago people knew something about a distant, ominous future.
The world is deceptive and illusory: good can turn out to be evil, an angel can be a real fiend of hell. In this novel, the “angel” is portrayed by an atomic monster capable of destroying millions of people in an instant. Only Max Flynn, a super agent in the service of Her Majesty, can stop the disaster. This is a fascinating story about the limits of human capabilities, courage and love.
A cozy Parisian apartment is the meeting place of Madeline Green and Gaspard Coutances, who mistakenly moved into the same apartment. Social phobic playwright and former officer The police were looking for privacy, but instead discovered the mysterious past of the rooms that belonged to the famous artist, and - each other. This is an atmospheric investigative novel in which the search for the criminal is intertwined with the personal stories of the characters.
The cinematic novel immerses the reader in a resort setting in the south of France. The scorching sun, a villa with a swimming pool, two married couples and a strange creature named Kitty French, shocking guests with her immodest and puzzling behavior. In a few days, serenity will turn into anxiety and tension: where did this woman come from and what is each of the characters in the book hiding?
A heartfelt family saga about women with unusual abilities. Molly and her daughter Cassandra can foresee the future, but this gift does not bring them happiness: predictions play a cruel joke on them. This is a novel about fatalism and human faith, love and real miracles.
A touching, multifaceted collection of stories brought the English writer the prestigious Frank O'Connor Prize. Each of these texts celebrates love in all its forms. The author carefully observes how this feeling is born in painful, strange and unusual circumstances.
Life is unpredictable: you never know what little thing will lead to dramatic changes. For Emmy Hamilton, the owner of a bookstore, such a small thing is a chance find - love letters from the Second World War. These texts are a bridge between the mysterious past of the O'Shea sisters and the life of Emmy, who decided to find the key to their story.
This novel opens the saga “The Cazalet Family Chronicles”, created by the English writer. The plot centers on the tragicomic life of one English family, where each of the characters is looking for answers to the main questions. The story begins in 1937, and relationships develop in an alarming, pre-storm atmosphere.
A light, witty book about a marriage experiment: to drive away routine and boredom, ideal spouses Sylvie and Dan surprise each other. At first funny game leads to embarrassment and gives many reasons for jokes, but soon the main characters are truly surprised: it turns out that each of them keeps skeletons in the closet.
A touching, inspiring text about the mysterious Vianne (in the Hollywood film of the same name - Juliette Binoche) and her chocolate shop. Her appearance in a quiet French town is a real event for local residents, which will be followed by other incidents, one more surprising than the other.
The French novel, which has gained stunning popularity all over the world, tells about the destinies three women, each of which is ready to fight for freedom and happiness. India, Sicily, Canada - charismatic heroines live on different continents and have never met each other, but it is no coincidence that their lives overlap.
