Long-lived
31A Cool Head , Ian Rankin (2009)
Gravy worked in the graveyard - hence the name. He was having a normal day until his friend Benjy turned up in a car Gravy didn't recognise. Benjy had a bullet hole in his chest, but lived just long… 259 руб32The Testament , John Grisham (1999)
Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die, His heirs, to no one's… 746 руб33One Fifth Avenue , Candace Bushnell (2009)
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over Manhattan’s hippest neighbourhood, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into - one way or another. For the… 912 руб34Bill Gibb: Fashion and Fantasy , Iain R. Webb (2008)
Crowned‘Designer of the Year’ by Vogue in 1970, Bill Gibb (1943–1988), barely out of college two years and yet to launch his eponymous line, was to become a major name in fashion history… 2805 руб35The Kentucky Warbler , James Lane Allen (1918)
1918. With frontispiece. 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… 1308 руб36New York , Edward Rutherfurd (2010)
A novel that tells the story of New York city - from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to… 937 руб37True Life: Steven Harris Architects , Steven Harris (2010)
Effortless and inevitable are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Harris designs homes custom-made to his client's daily-lived experience. His… 4435 руб38No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain , Addison Paul (2010)
In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War. As he shows, in this period a series of peaceful… 1084 руб39The Reluctant Fundamentalist , Hamid Mohsin (2013)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamids thrillingly provocative international bestseller. It is shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007. Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring… 626 руб40Tolstoy: A Russian Life , Bartlett (2013)
In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most… 1307 руб
