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When Jamie Paddock learns of his father's suicide, memories of his childhood in West Virginia come roaring back. One of the few people in his town to ever make it out, Jamie’s living in New York City now, developing marketing videos for YouTube, struggling to write and partying a lot — all while suppressing the accent that gives him away. Spurred by an artistic curiosity surrounding his silent and private father, Jamie goes home, staying with his disabled mother and sister in their trailer, conveniently located between two Walmarts. Always poorer than the local coal miners, Jamie's family relies on welfare, but it is the mystery of his father’s suicide that will help define Jamie’s identity and possibly decide whether he leaves West Virginia for good.

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It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens.When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch and environmental activist Ernest is up in arms. According to the company facilitating the visits, the spaceship is 100 percent non-toxic, but as Ernest's panic increases, so do his questions: What are the effects of longterm exposure to the saucer and why is it really here?The family starts logging the spaceship’s daily fits and starts but it doesn't get them any closer to figuring out the spaceship's comically erratic behavior. Ernest’s wife Cynthia and their children, Alison and Gabe, are less concerned with the saucer, and more worried about their father’s growing paranoia (not to mention their mundane, suburban existences). Set before the arrival of the internet, Neon Green will stun, unnerve, and charm readers with its loving depiction of a suburban family living on the cusp of the future.

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In a strange seaside city on the verge of revolution, a young man made of paper climbs out of a crashed bus and into his new life. He is called Michael, and since the procedure that transformed him from a regular boy into one made of paper, he has been living the isolated existence of a freak inside his family’s Inland home. Escape is Michael’s only hope, and the City offers art, adventure and possibility for everyone, even somebody as strange and different as Michael.Things take a surprising turn when Michael’s cruel high school sweetheart Mischa suddenly reappears in his life, the only person who remembers him as a normal boy. Torn by his friendship to Maiko, the woman who saved him from dissolving in a sudden rain storm after he first arrived in the City, and Mischa's decadent art world, Michael follows his impulses. But it is the artist David Doppelmann that ultimately captures Michael’s heart, and as he strives for more from his new life in the anarchic city, the paper man begins another dangerous transformation, one that will either lead to his resurrection as a human being, or destroy him and everyone he cares about.

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At a Caribbean resort built atop a former slave plantation, Myrna works as a maid by day; by night she trespasses on the resort’s overgrown inland property, secretly excavating the plantation ruins the locals refuse to acknowledge. Myrna's mother has stopped speaking and her friends are focused on surviving the present, but Myrna is drawn to Cruffey Island's violent past. With the arrival of Mrs. Manion, a wealthy African-American, also comes new information about the history of the slave-owner’s estate and tensions finally erupt between the resort and the local island community. Suffused with the sun-drenched beauty of the Caribbean, Fingerprints of Previous Owners is a powerful novel of hope and recovery in the wake of devastating trauma. In her soulful and timely debut, Entel explores what it means to colonize and be colonized, to trespass and be trespassed upon, to be wounded and to heal.

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«Мельмот Скиталец» – одно из самых значимых произведений позднего готического жанра, сложное и многоярусное по композиции. В той или иной мере оно оказало влияние на творчество Оскара Уайльда, Оноре де Бальзака, Эдгара По, Александра Пушкина и Михаила Булгакова. Это трагическая и пугающая история таинственного незнакомца, продавшего душу дьяволу за бессмертие и веками ищущего человека, которому он мог бы, согласно условиям сделки, передать свой проклятый и мучительный дар…

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In this new edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, re-read the classic love story that has haunted and inspired nearly who’ve come across it. From the burning love between Catherine and Heathcliff, to the estranged family dynamics at Wuthering Heights, Bronte’s novel explores the dangers of a love that remains forever unrequited. Lockwood, a striking young man from the south of England, is only looking for some respite when he decides to rent a mysterious property in Yorkshire. The landlord, a crotchety old man named Heathcliff, tends to Lockwood as he becomes acquainted with the expansive and haunting property. When inclement weather strikes, Lockwood is forced to stay in the manner at Wuthering Heights, the home of Heathcliff himself. When Lockwood suddenly falls ill, Nelly, the housekeeper tends to him, and spills all the dirty secrets that have been concealed there over the years. Learning about the turbulent relationship between Heathcliff and his deceased lover Catherine Earnshaw, Lockwood struggles to piece together what truly happened on the property at Wuthering Heights. The stories concealed within Wuthering Heights have been hailed as completely original in the legacy of Victorian era literature. Emily Bronte created new narrative structures, such as the frame narrative, which had not been seen before. This avant-garde writing style has been celebrated for decades. Wuthering Heights is a love story that will both terrify and enthrall the most daring of readers.Professionally type-set, and including a new section about the author herself, Wuthering Heights is just as riveting today as it was when it was originally published in 1847.

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Лучший способ учить иностранный язык – это читать художественное произведение, постепенно овладевая лексикой и грамматикой. Предлагаем учить французский язык вместе с одним из самых известных и до сих пор любимых читателями произведений французского писателя Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери – «Маленьким принцем». Эта небольшая повесть-сказка переведена практически на все языки мира, а общий тираж изданий по всему миру превысил к настоящему времени 80 миллионов экземпляров. Теперь у вас есть возможность прочитать эту легендарную книгу в оригинале, получая удовольствие от лёгкого, изящного, остроумного и в то же время проникновенного и лиричного стиля писателя. Текст произведения снабжён подробным лексико-грамматическим комментарием, расположенным на полях и содержащим ссылки на соответствующее правило грамматики. Объём грамматического справочника, следующего сразу за текстом, соответствует уровню выше среднего, поэтому им можно успешно пользоваться и в дальнейшем. В конце книги помещён французско-русский словарь, содержащий лексику сказки. Издание предназначено для всех, кто начал и продолжает учить французский язык, кто стремится читать французские книги в подлиннике.

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Individuals are tools of production and consumption, relentlessly looking for pleasure that never comes. Their same "self" vanishes while attempting to fill up the emptiness of their existences completely dehumanized and possessed by the totalitarian law of profit. Neither old nor new values will never appease their plight while the social regime remains unaltered. Until the social room we all occupy is humanized, there is no chance for Man to finally be born, we'll keep being oppressed by the ruthless Leviathan, no matter if it disguises itself with the reassuring forms of civil rights and democracy. Democracy is not an alternative to totalitarianism, it is just one of the faces of dominion. It is nothing more than a good system to produce goods and accumulate money under peculiar circumstances. There's nothing left out of the iron grasp by Capital, its domination spreads from end to end across our entire world and place in the universe. The law of profit allows no option, it's despotic, and it appropriates of everybody and everything, and moves the individuals according to the invisible, yet overbearing and unstoppable, hand of necessity. As a consequence, the search for humanization and liberation of all Mankind goes necessarily through overcoming the actual social regime, for a world without social classes, money, trade, politics and power. The entire novel plays and rocks between reality and dream, and yet hallucination and actuality melt and confuse one another. One thing is Chimera, another is Utopia, but most of all, it's all happening now right now in front of each and every one of us while we're wide awake…

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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by James Joyce<br><br>Ulysses<br>Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man<br>The Dubliners<br>Chamber Music

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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by<br><br>Joseph Conrad:<br><br>Heart of Darkness<br><br>Lord Jim<br><br>Nostromo<br><br>Under Western Eyes<br><br>Victory<br><br>The Secret Sharer<br><br>Chance<br><br>The Rescue

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