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"The Color Purple" is one of the strongest statements of how love transforms and cruelty disfigures the human spirit that this reviewer has ever read. Alice Walker gives us Celie, 14 years old when the book opens, who has been raped, abused, degraded and twice impregnated by her father...

"В книге "Расплетая радугу" я пытался показать, как крупно повезло нам, живущим, если вспомнить, что огромное большинство людей, которые потенциально, учитывая лотерею возможных комбинаций ДНК, могли бы появиться на свет, никогда не будут рождены. Для тех из нас, кому повезло попасть...

Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We"re just starting to reap the...

From a bestselling author on grammar, Patricia O’Connor’s guide to grammar fundamentals is “sympathetic to the struggling writer and often just plain funny.” (The Seattle Times) Whether you are working on the novel that';s been in the back of your mind for years or simply facing an increasing...

Clear Light of Day is both an examination of contemporary India and a family history in which two sisters, Bim and Tara, learn that although there will always be family scars, the ability to forgive and forget is a powerful ally against life"s sorrows. Twenty years ago when Tara married, she...

Of Galbraith"s classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith"s prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping...

Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick...this is the story of the giant American capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of American life forever. Index.

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters" inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers" finest...

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"The Book of Salt" serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their...