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  • 11The Scarlet Letter , Nathaniel Hawthorne (1992)
    This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan… 212 руб

  • 12Forward the Foundation , Isaac Asimov (1994)
    A stunning testament to his creative genius. "Forward The Foundation" is a the saga's dramatic climax - the story Asimov fans have been waiting for 607 руб

  • 13The Vicomte de Bragelonne , Alexandre Dumas (2009)
    It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la… 616 руб

  • 14The Bride of the Mistletoe , James Lane Allen (1909)
    1909. Allen was born on a farm near Lexington, Kentucky. As a young boy, he lived the life of the Southern ante-bellum gentry, but by the time he was a teenager the Civil War and Reconstruction had… 1307 руб

  • 15Vittoria , George Meredith (1907)
    Count Serabiglione would work himself up in the climax of denunciation, and then look abroad frankly as one whose spirit had been relieved. He hatedbad men; and it was besides necessary for him to… 1322 руб

  • 16Lin McLean (1907) , Owen Wister (1897)
    1897. In this novel after the young hero’s (Lin McLean) first adventure with his elder brother and the bishop, a plot begins with the entrance ofthe biscuit-shooter, and steadily proceeds through… 1311 руб

  • 17The Town , Chuck Hogan (2010)
    Four masked men - thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown - take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault was… 656 руб

  • 18Faithless , Karin Slaughter (2006)
    Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose… 656 руб

  • 19The Stalin Epigram , Robert Littell (2009)
    Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few… 477 руб

  • 20The Afrika Reich , Guy Saville (2011)
    1952. It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the… 621 руб

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