По-современному
– Семен Мироныч! Я на минутку. Я приехал, чтоб пригласить тебя в Николин день ко мне на именины! Будет литературный, физическій и химическій вечер. Четыре бутылки одного киршвассеру для жженки купил. Приедешь? Калинкин взглянул на жену. Гость продолжал: – Вас, Анна Андренна, я не приглашаю, потому как у меня холостой пир. Конечно, ежели бы вы были дама современная, то вам это наплевать… По- современному, даже и девицы к холостым ездят. Впрочем, милости просим, можете с моей маменькой посидѣть, только не советывал бы, тоска.... Так придешь, Семен Мироныч? Калинкин замялся. – Да не знаю, право… Слова не даю. Ты сам знаешь, я теперь человек женатый. Прочитано по – H. А. Лейкинъ. Веселые разсказы. Санкт-Петербургъ. Изданіе книгопродавцевъ Колесова и Михина. 1874. Музыка – Doh De Oh by Kevin MacLeod СС (BY)
МОЗАИКА МОЕЙ ЖИЗНИ
«Мозаика моей жизни» – второй роман писательницы. Описываемый в романе период времени охватывает первую половину ХХ века и основан на воспоминаниях людей, живущих в эту историческую эпоху
Days of Lead
#1 Best Seller – Over 50,000 Copies Sold Hailed by Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, Days of Lead is a gripping best seller recounting the author’s life on the front line during Israel’s War of Independence. Exquisitely written with a poetically beautiful touch, Days of Lead is the page-turning true story of a young soldier’s brave escapades during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. This incredible account is a story of determination and heroism, but also a stinging portrait of life on the battlefield—of looking an enemy soldier, also wide-eyed and only eighteen, in the eyes and knowing that it’s his life or yours, either you take a life or you lose yours. Far from a regular coming-of-age story, this is a firsthand account of a young man trying desperately to save the lives of his fellow soldiers, but watching them taken down one-by-one until he’s the last man alive on his platoon. It’s heartrending, but enthralling. This new edition of Days of Lead , published in English for the first time, provides an up-close view of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv long before they became the bustling cities we know today. It also presents fascinating, never-before-shared context on the making of the book and its enduring relevancy, as Israeli soldiers continue to fight for Israel’s right to exist. In a personal letter to the author, Israel’s founder and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, one of many well-known celebrators of the book, writes, “I started reviewing your book without the intention of reading to its end, but from the first pages I was captivated and I read it to the end through excitement and astonishment. From where all of a sudden pops up such mighty expression, truth telling, and wonderful description? It seems to me that until now I have not read such a precise and true story of combat from the War of Independence. . . . You have contributed a valuable asset . . . to our literature at large.”
Bittersweet: A Memoir
Book centers on an item beloved around the world.The average American eats 11.5 pounds of chocolate a year; chocolate is a $21.1 billon industry in the US.Entertaining and moving book from the world’s expert on chocolate.Shows what it means to have the world’s greatest job; reveals the perils facing the industry; teaches how to know if you are eating high-quality chocolate.Energetic UK-based author is excellent with media.
Designer Dogs: An Exposé
– WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. PHIL MCGRAW – Designer Dogs is the shocking exposure of the dangers of continuing to make our dogs tinier or funnier looking, more “Instagram worthy,” and presents startling new revelations on why this threatens French bulldogs, pit bulls, and other favorite breeds with extinction. Ever heard of a labradoodle, a goldendoodle, or a puggle? How about a cockapoo, a pomsky, or a spoodle? You or a friend have certainly been enticed by a “hypoallergenic dog” or smiled at a “teacup.” These are not dog breeds that nature created; these are the results of the forced mating or genetic engineering of different breeds, or inbreeding, and popularized by social media and celebrities. In Designer Dogs , Madeline Bernstein, one of the country’s most respected animal welfare crusaders, reveals the obsession with new types of dogs—engineering puppies that keep getting smaller or sillier looking—and the horrifying health consequences of this on those we claim as our best friends. She also provides extraordinary revelations on how this has led to a world of “disposable pets”—puppies and adult dogs abandoned when their medical expenses become too costly and added to the 6.5 million animals entering shelters each year, or put on the street—and informed insight into what’s ahead: made-to-order puppies; hybrid animals; shorter life spans for dogs; and even the extinction of breeds like French bulldogs, pit bulls, King Charles spaniels, mastiffs, Skye terriers, bloodhounds, and more. And Bernstein calls out those responsible for the savagery, both domestic puppy mills and backyard breeders, and also an international dog trafficking ring that she’s been on the front line exposing.Bernstein’s game-changing and unforgettable book is destined to cause outrage and save lives in the process.
Robot, Take the Wheel
From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives , the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno’s Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving cars and the road ahead. Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they’ll soon be on every street in America. Whether it’s Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’s Distronic, or Uber’s modified Volvos, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large? In Robot, Take the Wheel , famed automotive expert Jason Torchinsky gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and their likely implications. Torchinsky encourages us to think of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today. He considers how humans will get along with these robots that will take over our cars’ jobs, what they will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what we can expect of them, how they should act, ethically, how we can trick them and have fun with them, and how we can make sure there’s still a place for those of us who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission. This vibrant volume brims with insider information. It explores what’s ahead and considers what we can do now to shape the automated future.
One by One
A passionate and heart-wrenching memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America’s new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick Bush was one of them. Forty-five thousand people in the US die annually from the disease, two lives lost to it were Nick’s sister and brother, three were his friends. Opioid addiction is recognized as the nation’s worst health crisis. Because of it, the average American lifespan is decreasing.Incredibly, the stories of the people suffering from opioid addiction rarely get told. In One by One , Nick steps out of the opioid shadows to share his page-turning true story. He is remarkably candid about how he became an addict, as well as the stories of those around him, in a community ravaged by the disease. Nick, though, is a survivor. Here he tells how, and inspires us to know that the war against opioid addiction is one that we can win if only we are willing to bring humanity to the disease, faces to the addiction.
The Big Impossible
In prairie towns and backwaters, and in the big cities, people search for themselves and their lost way. Is the American dream still possible in this big, harsh land? The short fiction in The Big Impossible explores guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady. In “Clean,” a man waits for inevitable justice to come, as much as it will play against him. In “House of Sully,” a working-class family navigates the tumultuous year that 1968 was, as new perceptions shake long-held and dependable, if sometimes misguided, beliefs. Other stories examine the inner life of a school shooter, the comical posturing of writers at a literary party, a British veteran of The Great War living at a Florida retirement home but haunted by his losses, and a man’s bittersweet visits to past lives via Google Street View. In the sequence set in the West, an itinerant worker moves across the Great Plains, navigating stark landscapes, trying for foothold. The Atlantic ’s C. Michael Curtis praised Ted Delaney’s debut collection for its “moral intensity . . . in the tradition of writers as varied as Ethan Canin and William Trevor.” Two decades later Delaney returns to the short fiction form with utter mastery.
Glorious Boy
It’s 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. They cannot, however, take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear. With time running out, Shep forces Claire onto the ship while he stays behind to find their son. But just days after landing in Calcutta, Claire learns that the Japanese have taken the Andamans—and cut off all access to her missing family. In the desperate odyssey that follows, Claire, Shep, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved “glorious boy.”
Naistepäev
Jüri Kolk – see on nagu vanamehe nimi. Tegelikult Kolk mingi vanamees ei ole, vastupidi, ta kirjutab nagu noor jumal, on lausa külluse sarv. Mõni teine kirjanik, kellele on vähem antud kui Kolgile, venitaks igast selle raamatu jutust välja romaani, aga Kolk on pillav, teeb justkui tervele kõrtsile välja.(Urmas Vadi)Milline naine poleks kannatanud maitsetute tähelepanuavalduste all? Surunud laua all kätt rusikasse, sellal kui nägu üle veiniklaasi naeratas? Jüri Kolk teab, kuidas sest hädast pääseda – ja miks on kasulik kanda madalaid kingi.(Triinu Pakk)Raamatus leidub ka Tuglase auhinna võitnud novell „Sünnimärk”.