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21The Staircase: The Architecture of Ascent , Oscar Tusquets, Martine Diot, Adelaide de Savray (2013)
The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill and ingenuity. This… 4089 руб22Jersey (2014)
Lying in the Bay of Mont St Michel, just 14 miles (22km) from the Normandy coast, Jersey has a distinct Gallic twist. The moment you arrive there is a sense of being abroad. Airport and harbour greet… 809 руб23Holding the Dream , Nora Roberts (1997)
Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, Kate Powell treasured her life at Templeton House... and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo's beauty… 789 руб24Bloodline , Sheldon Sidney (1991)
Sheldon's sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill... Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family… 610 руб25The Thorn Birds , McCullough Colleen (1996)
Now, twenty-five years after it first took the world by storm. Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback… 640 руб26Russka , Edward Rutherfurd (2008)
In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most… 796 руб27The Communist's Daughter , Dennis Bock (2008)
"The Communist's Daughter" is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched… 929 руб28Decameron , Giovanni Boccaccio (2005)
1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate… 373 руб29Selected Poetry , Lord George Gordon Byron (2008)
Byron was a legend in his own lifetime and the dominant influence on the Romantic movement. The most European of the English writers in an age of revolution, Byron was deeply involved in contemporary… 432 руб30The Story Of Wellesley , Florence Converse (1915)
In this happy condition of affairs, the alumnae trustees undoubtedly play a mediating part, for they understand the college from within as no clergyman, financier, philanthropist,--no graduate of a… 1314 руб
