The highly anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of The Accident Season is a gorgeous, twisty story about things gone missing, things returned from the past, and a group of teenagers, connected in ways they could never have imagined. One stormy Irish summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things. It starts with simple items like hairclips and jewelry, but soon it's clear that Rose has lost something much bigger, something she won't talk about, and Olive thinks her best friend is slipping away. Then seductive diary pages written by a girl named Laurel begin to appear all over town. And Olive meets three mysterious strangers: Ivy, Hazel, and her twin brother, Rowan, secretly squatting in an abandoned housing estate. The trio are wild and alluring, but they seem lost too—and like Rose, they're holding tight to painful secrets. When they discover the spellbook, it changes everything. Damp, tattered and ancient, it's full of hand-inked charms to conjure back things that have been lost. And it just might be their chance to find what they each need to set everything back to rights. Unless it's leading them toward things that were never meant to be found...

The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales: The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales comprises of two novels and two short stories. In this mesmerizing collection, the author bases his ideas on scientific facts and creates an extra-ordinary world of fantasy

Навчальний посібник складається з 16 розділів оригінального тексту роману. До кожного розділу додається пояснення і коментар до тексту, комплекс вправ та завдань. Навчальний посібник містить довідкову інформацію про життєвий і творчий шлях автора, а також поради і рекомендації для ефективного опрацювання та засвоєння нового лексичного матеріалу. Навчальний посібник призначений для студентів І курсу спеціальності “Переклад” факультетів іноземних мов і філологічних факультетів вищих навчальних закладів 3–4 рівнів акредитації та для широкого кола осіб, які удосконалюють свої навички читання та перекладу англійської художньої літератури.

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In World Gone Missing, Laurie Ann Doyle's powerful short story debut collection, people have disappeared. Set in and around San Francisco, these twelve stories weave contemporary issues--divorce, sexual identity, homelessness--through a cast of memorable characters struggling to fill the void of a missing loved one. From the newly married couple anxiously searching for a brother who didn't come home one night to the successful businesswoman increasingly obsessed with a high school friend she hasn't seen in decades to the middle-aged clerk meeting her son's birth-mother for the first time, Doyle's writing vividly evokes the loss and liberation absence can bring. Stories in this book have won the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award and been nominated for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays have also been published in The Los Angeles Review, Timber, Jabberwork Review, Under the Sun, and elsewhere.

This is no ordinary biography about one of the world's mostinfluential writers. It is instead a work that deciphers the cryptic originsand actual scientific methods used by fiction's most famous consulting detectiveSherlock Holmes--a work that provides a detailed look into the psyche of Holmes'creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The book follows Doyle's illustrious literarycareer as the Sherlock Holmes mysteries evolved during from the late 1880s tothe early 1900s. Revealed here for the first time--by son-father writing teamDaniel Friedman, MD and Eugene Friedman, MD--are the many inspirations that lay behindthe physical, emotional, and intellectual characteristics that Doyle wovetogether so deftly to bring his legendary sleuth to life. Readers are in for manysurprises as the Friedmans bring forth tantalizing parallels between theliterary realm of Sherlock Holmes and the actual events from Doyle's childhoodand early adulthood that served as frequent inspiration. The authors offer answers to long-debated and mysterious questions, such as: * Who was the real-life inspiration behind Holmes' arch enemy, Professor Moriarty? * Why did Holmes have such disdain for Scotland Yard? * What was Holmes' relationship to Mrs. Hudson? * Did Holmes resort to murder? * Why did Doyle lobby for divorce reform, while simultaneously attacking the suffragettes? * From whom did Sherlock Holmes actually learn the art of detective work? Doyle's World ​is divided into three sections. The first is dedicated tothe torments of Doyle's childhood, and how it eventually gave rise to theHolmes character. The second section emphasizes the highly complex themes andplots present in the Sherlock Holmes adventures, while the third section is a thoroughlyexamines Doyle's strengths and weaknesses as a public figure of his time. TheFriedmans also reveal how Doyle was able to subtly incorporate his own politicaland social views into the Holmes character. In addition, the authors offerthree "lost" stories that they uncovered were written by Doyle under pseudonyms. It is no coincidence that it took two medical doctors to undercover the manytruths--and lies--at play in the often bizarre and always fascinating world ofDr. Doyle, himself a medical doctor. What they have revealed has proven to bejust as compelling as any Sherlock Holmes tale. As the reader will see, eachstory in Doyle's World shines a lightupon the life of a complicated man who few people really knew.