Dancing at the Gold Monkey
Автор: Allen Learst
Год издания: 0000
Linked story collection, winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest.Very relevant today with the war in Iraq just ended and an entire new generation of veterans living with the after effects of their war experiences. Relevant to contemporary readers because it focuses on the lives of returning soldiers made dysfunctional by the Vietnam War. One of the characters, a veteran, loses his son in Iraq thirty-five years from Vietnam—something else that is a reality for many American families today.This book goes beyond conventional war stories that typically take place in the country where the war is set and explores an interior war, the war of the psyche all soldiers fight when they return from the horrors of combat. For these characters, the war is physically over, but the events linger in their minds forever afterwards. These stories are about what people go through when they return from a combat zone, how they attempt to adapt and how they do or do not survive the nightmare locked in their psyches without the knowledge it takes to heal and alleviate their pain.
Приключения Шерлока Холмса: Пляшущие человечки / The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Автор: Артур Конан Дойл
Год издания:
«Пляшущие человечки» – захватывающий рассказ Артура Конан Дойла из цикла «Приключения Шерлока Холмса», выпущенного в 1892 году. Знаменитый сыщик сталкивается с загадкой, слишком таинственной даже для него… Для удобства читателя текст незначительно сокращен и адаптирован, а также содержит комментарии, разные виды упражнений и краткий словарь. Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 2 – Pre-Intermediate).
A treatise on the art of dancing
Автор: Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
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Полный вариант заголовка: «A treatise on the art of dancing / by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini».
Dancing on Coffins. Black comedy
Автор: Yan Bratovich
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Harold Hoffman is a head of funeral home. Hoffman and his comical colleagues decide that it is necessary to increase the number of orders for coffins and a funeral. They want to increase death rate in the city. The journalist Julia Shweetner understands – this group of psychopaths threatens her city and fight against them.