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When best-selling mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, as well as refrigerators full of food, and stoves and microwaves on which to cook them. But traveling with 25 dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated, despite RVs, the extra kibble, volunteers (including a few readers), and camping equipment.

البدايةُ كانت عندما خرجتِ السيدةُ أجاثا كريستي في مساءِ ذلك اليومِ، الثالثِ من ديسمبرَ، لا تعلمُ وِجهتَها، لكنها تركتْ رسالةً مقتضبةً لسكرتيرَتِها تطلبُ منها أن تُلغِيَ كلَّ مواعيدِها؛ لأنها ذاهبةٌ إلى يوركشاير، وعلى طريقةِ "كريستي" كانَ لابدَّ من وجودِ فتًى غجريٍّ يكشِفُ خيطًا دراميًا؛

A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After five days under consular protection, Smith was evacuated from a very different China to the country he first visited 25 years earlier.

Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help.

Die Bühnenstücke des Heinrich von Kleist gehören nach wie vor zum festen Repertoire aller großen Theaterhäuser weltweit. Im direkten Schriftverkehr mit Angehörigen, Freunden, ehemaligen Weggefährten und und und offenbart sich nicht nur der Mensch Kleist mit seinen Bedürfnissen, Wünschen, Ansichten und Hoffnungen, sondern auch ein sehr außergewöhnlicher Intellekt und unglaublich reger Geist.

Известный писатель, поэт и литературовед Дмитрий Быков является также автором увлекательных, психологически точных портретов-эссе о творческих знаменитых людях. Предлагаем вашему вниманию аудиокнигу, записанную на студии "Ардис", в которую вошли рассказы о Джоне Голсуорси, Михаиле Светлове, Владимире Высоцком, Ольге Берггольц, Анне Ахматовой.

For two and a half years, Ari Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the voice of President George W. Bush.