Secret Lives
Автор: Berthe Amoss
Год издания: 0000
The hilarious and touching story of Addie Agnew, who seeks to uncover the secret of her mother's mysterious death, “Secret Lives” is also a brilliant portrait of 1930s New Orleans, down to street cars and radio mysteries. Wonderful portrait of a historical New Orleans that has long been gone. Tie into the revived interest in literary mysteries in the YA world. This touching and thrilling mystery about family is a natural for mother-daughter book clubs, as well as school reading lists. Berthe Amoss is the author and illustrator of over 28 books. Her work as appeared at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A life-long resident of New Orleans, Amoss's son is Jim Amoss, the editor of New Orleans' Times-Picayune.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Автор: Дж. К. Роулинг
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"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'"
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone… Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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The lives of Haydn and Mozart
Автор: Стендаль
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Примечание: Жизнеописания Гайдна, Моцарта и Метастазио. Полный вариант заголовка: «The lives of Haydn and Mozart : With observations on Metastasio, and on the present state of music in France and Italy / Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet. ; With notes by the author of the Sacred melodies».
Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 1
Автор: Charles Philibert
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie : Tome 1 : et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».