Author : Valery Kostyleff
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615467129
"Who know what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The president, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? This book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life" from the cover.
Author : Valery Kostyleff
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2015-12-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781635084757
Who knows what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The President, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcoholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? The world started a new time from the collapse of the Soviet Union. From this moment, the world changed dramatically. How did all this happen? Who did this? The KGB team receives an order to liquidate the advisor of President Gorbachev; the Mafia intervenes in this operation. Drunken Vice President proclaims a State of Emergency. Devil appears in Moscow. He participates in all events of this unforgettable August. The operation ends with an unpredictable finale. This book, written with humor, irony and a smile, doesn't leave the reader bored. The book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life. Valery Kostyleff prepared news for the presidents of the Soviet Union for eight years. These eight years were part of the twenty years that he spent working for Russian News Agency-TASS. Also, he worked for cruise lines and published a small newspaper entertaining the tourists. He also worked in the University of Algeria. All his life, he wrote but none have been published in the Soviet age. In the 1990s, phrases from his short novel, Who Knows the Whole Truth in Our Home?, became well known maxims in Russia. In 1991, being a TASS correspondent in Morocco, he developed problems with the KGB. Since then, he resides in Pennsylvania with his daughter.
Author : Valery Kostyleff
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635081695
An inside story, fiction or real? In a theater near you, hopefully! Who knows what Russia is? Empire of evil or empire of good? The President, or the average person, mafia, KGB, or artist, alcoholic, and a lover? Or all of this together? The world started a new time from the collapse of the Soviet Union. From this moment, the world changed dramatically. How did all this happen? Who did this? The KGB team receives an order to liquidate the advisor of President Gorbachev; the Mafia intervenes in this operation. Drunken Vice President proclaims a State of Emergency. Devil appears in Moscow. He participates in all events of this unforgettable August. The operation ends with an unpredictable finale. This book, written with humor, irony and a smile, doesn't leave the reader bored. The book continues a great tradition of Russian literature. Like Nicholas Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, the author laughs at the stupidity of modern Russian life. Valery Kostyleff prepared news for the presidents of the Soviet Union for eight years. These eight years were part of the twenty years that he spent working for Russian News Agency-TASS. Also, he worked for cruise lines and published a small newspaper entertaining the tourists. He also worked at the University of Algeria. All his life, he wrote but none have been published in the Soviet age. In the 1990s, phrases from his short novel, Who Knows the Whole Truth in Our Home?, became well known maxims in Russia. In 1991, being a TASS correspondent in Morocco, he developed problems with the KGB. Since then, he resides in Pennsylvania with his daughter.
Author : Al Franken
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141018429
The dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, the first Jewish president of the United States. From the first days of the Franken campaign as the candidate pledges 'to walk the state of New Hampshire, diagonally and then from side to side' as Al, aided by his covering sex addict and alcoholic deputy campaign manager, stuns the pundits by defeating Al Gore for the democratic nomination, then is swept into office carrying all fifty states. But from that moment of triumph it's downhill all the way...
Author : Michael Malice
Publisher : Michael Malice
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1495283259
No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang, DEAR READER is a carefully reconstructed first-person account of the man behind the mythology. From his miraculous rainbow-filled birth during the fiery conflict of World War II, Kim Jong Il watched as his beloved Korea finally earned its freedom from the cursed Japanese. Mere years later, the wicked US imperialists took their chance at conquering the liberated nation—with devastating results. But that's only the beginning of the Dear Leader's story. In DEAR READER, Kim Jong Il explains: *How he can shrink time *Why he despises the Mona Lisa *How he recreated the arts in Korea *Why the Juche idea is the greatest concept ever discovered by man *How he handled the crippling famine *Why Kim Jong Un was chosen as successor over his elder brothers With nothing left uncovered, drawing straight from dozens of books, hundreds of articles and thousands of years of Korean history, DEAR READER is both the definitive account of Kim Jong Il's life and the complete stranger-than-fiction history of the world's most unique country.
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101543558
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .
Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140280241
From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.
Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1789 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1101105151
From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.
Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387075977
A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period.In this book, O. Henry coined the term ""banana republic"". Set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria, this is a classic tale that has been loved by many for generations, a great addition to the collection. William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their surprise endings. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. Get Your Copy Now.
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312203436
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
