What we read in the March 10 exciting new books

Fiction

"Beautiful savage," Philip Pullman

The new novel by Philip Pullman - a prequel to the famous fantasy trilogy, "His Dark Materials." The reader will be able to return to the familiar world inhabited by Damon and other amazing creatures.

Eleven year old Malcolm Polsted living in the family innkeeper learns that on the other side of the Thames there was an unusual guest - a little girl, which is associated with an ancient prophecy. The name of this girl - Lira Belakva.

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"Immortelle" Chloe Benjamin

Hot summer of 1969 in the Lower East Side there is a mysterious fortune teller, able to predict the exact death date. Four children from the Gold family sent her to learn their fate. That's just what then to do with such knowledge, they are not thought of in advance. Now they will have to somehow live with such a burden.

The novel is divided into four parts, each of which describes how the resulting impact on the fate of the prophecy, and the attitude of heroes.

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"Imagine 6 girls," Laura Thompson

A documentary novel about the notorious in England in the mid twentieth century Mitford sisters. "I am a normal, my wife is also normal, but her daughter have any crazy!" - so spoke of his daughters, David Mitford. And he had good reason to.

Nancy was a self-taught writer, Pamela sang of the young poet, Diana was a stunning beauty, exchanged husband Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. Unity worshiped Hitler, Deborah idolized Elvis Presley and successfully managed the estate aristocrat husband and Jessica ran away from home to take part in the civil war. Laura Thompson tells what life and why would prefer to choose wayward sisters.

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"Kind of Solitude", Jun Li

The country's history of friendship of three people connected with each other terrible secret that for many years does not give them a deep breath. When the characters were very young, some of them slipped the poison into the drink Shaoay common friend. The girl survived, but always remained a helpless cripple.

Who did it and why - is unknown to the reader. The life of each of the trio after the tragedy turned into hell. Heroes keep a secret, but it is given to them is very difficult: someone looking for solace in solitude, someone is trying to drown out the pain of endless work. But once they get a chance to start over with a clean slate.

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"Lincoln Bardo" George Saunders

Experimental novel, which describes only one night - 20 February 1862, when heartbroken US President Abraham Lincoln decided to visit the family crypt, where his son was dying of typhoid typhoid.

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"Twin Peaks: The last file," Mark Frost

If you watched two seasons "Twin Peaks"And the prequel series" Fire Walk With Me ", read" The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer "and" Secret History of Twin Peaks " sustained for 25 years and watched the third season, was admired, but still little understood, grasp for reading this book.

Tamara Preston on roving agent has been investigated "Dossier archivist" and send a progress report to Gordon Cole, director of the regional bureau of the FBI. Just the same with this case in all its details, and the details and will familiarize the reader.

Non-fikshen

"Defense Against the Dark Arts. Guide to the world of paranormal phenomena, "Alexander Panchin

Despite the development of science and technology, people still continue to sincerely believe in the supernatural and paranormal. Incapable of understanding the phenomenon debited to the account of a sudden awakening of demonic forces, which for some reason suddenly occurred to annoy people.

Alexander Panchin explains why people tend to believe in horoscopesHypnosis and psychics predictions, in the existence of mermaids, brownies and frights. Modern science has long been able to explain most of our fears and traps of the mind, and the mystic has got nothing to do with it.

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"Suffers from the Middle Ages. Paradoxes of Christian iconography, "Dilshat Harman, Sergey Zotov

If you've ever seen on the internet weird pictures with unknown animals, people in obscene poses and all sorts of monstrous creatures, you have probably been wondering who painted them, and that all this means.

This publication collected over 600 such medieval plots. The authors describe how they laid the meaning and reason in the Middle Ages, these thumbnails are not considered to be a sacrilege. Decoding Christian iconography, a little humor and a lot of exciting stories - just what you would expect from a book.

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"Stories of the country of Rembrandt," Olga Tilkes

The history of the XVII century Holland, told through the lives of the people, was captured in the paintings of the famous painter Rembrandt. This is a fascinating and clear narrative about the daily life and the features of the Dutch social and political structure of the state.

As taught in Dutch universities that made the Dutch, when suddenly illAs the institution of marriage has been arranged and who could elect the city council - all this, as well as other interesting details fascinatingly described in the book.

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"Time travel. The history of "James Glick

At the end of the nineteenth century English writer HG Wells gave the world the idea of ​​time travel. After the publication of his sci-fi novel "The Time Machine", this concept has become an object careful study of many researchers, who are not eager to bring in an unusual fudge reality.

American journalist James Glick decided to scale to peruse everything that today is known about time travel. In his book he describes in detail the history of the development of this idea, its impact on culture, science and perception of the world and dispels many popular speculation that have accumulated over many years.

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