Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story, Buckley, David

Автор: Will Buckley
Название: Man Who Hated Football, The
ISBN: 0007175558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007175550
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 1583.00 р.
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Описание: A novel about a family man struggling to reconcile his shambolic personal life with the job of football reporting he has grown to hate.

Автор: Buckley, Carla
Название: Things that keep us here
ISBN: 1409117332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409117339
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: Millions are dead. Fear and panic have gripped the nation. Neighbour has turned against neighbour... An engrossing and emotionally gripping story of one family whose limits are tested to the extreme.

Автор: Buckley
Название: Florence of Arabia
ISBN: 0812972260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812972269
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1287.00 р.
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Описание: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world-Arab-American relations-in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn't delight.

Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend Nazrah, youngest and most petulant wife of Prince Bawad of Wasabia, Florence Farfarletti decides to draw a line in the sand. As Deputy to the deputy assistant secretary for Near East Affairs, Florence invents a far-reaching, wide-ranging plan for female emancipation in that part of the world.

The U.S. government, of course, tells her to forget it. Publicly, that is. Privately, she's enlisted in a top-secret mission to impose equal rights for the sexes on the small emirate of Matar (pronounced "Mutter"), the "Switzerland of the Persian Gulf." Her crack team: a CIA killer, a snappy PR man, and a brilliant but frustrated gay bureaucrat. Her weapon: TV shows.

The lineup on TV Matar includes A Thousand and One Mornings, a daytime talk show that features self-defense tips to be used against boyfriends during Ramadan; an addictive soap opera featuring strangely familiar members of the Matar royal family; and a sitcom about an inept but ruthless squad of religious police, pitched as "Friends from Hell."

The result: the first deadly car bombs in the country since 1936, a fatwa against the station's entire staff, a struggle for control of the kingdom, and, of course, interference from the French. And that's only the beginning.

A merciless dismantling of both American ineptitude and Arabic intolerance, Florence of Arabia is Christopher Buckley's funniest and most serious novel yet, a biting satire of how U.S. good intentions can cause the Shiite to hit the fan.

From the Hardcover edition.

Автор: Buckley Fiona
Название: Perilous Alliance
ISBN: 1780295596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780295596
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 2619.00 р.
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Описание: Widow Ursula Blanchard is urged to remarry for the sake of Queen and Country in this latest enthralling historical adventure

January, 1576. After three husbands, widow Ursula Blanchard has no desire to marry again. However, she is not in a position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard, the illegitimate son of King Henri II, in order to build a strategic alliance with the French.

When the Count arrives at her country home to pay court, Ursula's misgivings grow stronger. Then one of her household staff is found dead at the bottom of the stairs. An accident - or something more sinister?

The disturbing chain of events that follows sees Ursula heading on a perilous journey in a race against time to prevent a national catastrophe. En route she will encounter danger, hardship, conspiracy - and murder.

Автор: Buckley
Название: Boomsday
ISBN: 0446697974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446697972
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 1880.00 р.
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Описание: BOOMSDAY'S heroine is Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger who incites massive political turmoil when, outraged over mounting Social Security debt, she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of her outraged peers ("Generation Whatever") and an ambitious Senator seeking to gain the youth vote in his presidential campaign. With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (they call it "Transitioning") all the way to the White House, over the forceful objections of the Religious Right and, of course, Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.