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10 books about strong personalities!
1. Jenny Downham — "While I'm alive»
Sixteen-year-old heroine of this book only begins to live, and she has so much to do. So she writes a list of all your desires and takes on the case. Not all of it so innocent as her peers. But only because it is largely not like them. And also because she needs to catch it now! "While I'm alive" — honest, brave and incredibly life-affirming novel. He literally stops time, reminding us that we need to appreciate the main thing is to seize the moment, to be bold in desires and enjoy the adventures that gives us every day.
2. Erich Maria Remarque — "the Life of a loan»
Sixty nine million fifteen thousand one hundred eighty four
The LIFE of a LOAN — this is the life that heroes win at the death. When there is nothing to lose when one stands on the verge of death, so that life and not knowing, and the other this accursed life became unbearable. And as always with the Remark, only love and friendship remain intact. Only they can find a foothold.
3. Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego — "White on black»
Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, Russian writer, grandson of General Secretary of the Communist party of Spain, in his experience of life in Soviet Russia, much of which took place in boarding schools for disabled children, fully aware of the meaning of "Communist morality". About this experience his brilliant autobiographical novel in stories "White on black", which became a sensation already in magazine publishing and later received the award "Russian Booker" as the best novel of the year.
4. Alexander Solzhenitsyn — "Cancer ward»
Fourteen million four hundred nine thousand eight
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) — Russian writer, Nobel prize laureate (1970). His works influenced the change in public consciousness around the world and brought its author international fame.
The novel "Cancer ward", one of the Central works of the author, was first published in 1968 abroad. Subsequently translated into almost all European languages. At home "Cancer ward" was published in 1990. A novel based on the author's personal experience, most of the characters which is deducted from nature, has become one of the most widely read works.
5. By Jodi pikolt — "angel sister»
Anna is not sick, but in my thirteen years has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, injections. And all in order to help her sister with leukaemia. As parents said, for this Anna I was born.
But what could be her life if she weren't tied to her sister?.. Anna decided on a step which for many people would be too complicated, and sued the parents appropriated the right to dispose of her body.
6. Nikolai Ostrovsky "How the steel was tempered»
The novel depicts events of the civil war era, the years of recovery of the national economy and socialist construction. In the image of Pavel Korchagin, the author showed great human qualities of the Soviet youth, educated in the revolutionary struggle: devotion to the cause of the party, love of country, courage and moral purity.
7. Majgull Axelsson — "the April witch»
The novel "the April witch", was awarded the prestigious Swedish August prize and already translated into fifteen languages, the story of a complex interweaving lives of four women, by the circumstances which became the sisters of the doctor Christina, physicist Margareta, alcoholic and addict Bridget and crippled from birth, Desiree, who can neither walk or speak, but able to think and comprehend the mysteries of the universe. Becoming "the April witch", she flies through time and space, enters into the lives of the sisters and the unknown girls hands hugging his only beloved. Axelsson novel full of fantasies and magical charm. This is both a parable and a mirror of modern life.
Seventy seven million four hundred eighty nine thousand one hundred twenty eight
8. Randy Paul — "the Last lecture»
What in our lives is really important and what is just stupid vanity? How to live, what to do, so you do not regret about wasted time in vain, the unfulfilled dreams, unrealized potential?
Very often we don't think about it, adrift, floundering in a rut with the feeling that there is plenty of time. But sometimes the conditions of the game change dramatically…
Randy Paul wrote "the Last lecture" when he learned that he left to live a few months. And she in a matter of days became a national bestseller in the US, turning the minds of millions of readers.
This book is his message to children, friends and relatives, students and colleagues, all of us. This is a story about how we should live. How to appreciate every moment. How anxious attention to children's dreams. How to live so as not to waste a second of precious time.
This is not a book-a biography, not a book-moral. This is a chance for each of us, having a long, many years, understand now: what should I get?
9. Jean-Dominique bauby "the diving bell and the butterfly»
Twenty million nine hundred twenty five thousand nine hundred three
Jean-Dominique bauby — author of this confession. "The diving bell and the butterfly" — his message to the world. In its frozen forever the body moves in only one eye. This eye, it blinks once to say Yes, twice to say no. So, marked with a flutter of the eyelashes of the letters of the alphabet there are words, phrases, whole pages. So, under the glass dome of the suit, closed in a frozen body of brain, which butterflies the thoughts he sends us postcards — messages from a world in which nothing remained except the spirit and mind of the Creator at work.
10. Anton Borisov — "a Candidate for culling»
"This book would be worth to sell in the pharmacy, along with antidepressants. And not only because their everyday problems are overshadowed by the warped life of the Russian disabled. And also because between the pages of a heart beating thought — whatever happens, don't give up! In several places, broken right hand — learn to write with the left. The whole world — from the prone position, crawl. The pain of hell every second fractures — be patient. Father's ashamed of you, little sister has it! My own mother wants you dead — still love! What should be the power of the spirit, will and love in the heart, to the life described in this bitter-revealing diary, to not break? He would be a strong body, and he moved mountains, spinning the globe! And inspired by this idea, you don't notice, as he begin to turn...". published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! © Join us at Facebook , Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki
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Sixteen-year-old heroine of this book only begins to live, and she has so much to do. So she writes a list of all your desires and takes on the case. Not all of it so innocent as her peers. But only because it is largely not like them. And also because she needs to catch it now! "While I'm alive" — honest, brave and incredibly life-affirming novel. He literally stops time, reminding us that we need to appreciate the main thing is to seize the moment, to be bold in desires and enjoy the adventures that gives us every day.
2. Erich Maria Remarque — "the Life of a loan»
Sixty nine million fifteen thousand one hundred eighty four
The LIFE of a LOAN — this is the life that heroes win at the death. When there is nothing to lose when one stands on the verge of death, so that life and not knowing, and the other this accursed life became unbearable. And as always with the Remark, only love and friendship remain intact. Only they can find a foothold.
3. Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego — "White on black»
Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego, Russian writer, grandson of General Secretary of the Communist party of Spain, in his experience of life in Soviet Russia, much of which took place in boarding schools for disabled children, fully aware of the meaning of "Communist morality". About this experience his brilliant autobiographical novel in stories "White on black", which became a sensation already in magazine publishing and later received the award "Russian Booker" as the best novel of the year.
4. Alexander Solzhenitsyn — "Cancer ward»
Fourteen million four hundred nine thousand eight
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) — Russian writer, Nobel prize laureate (1970). His works influenced the change in public consciousness around the world and brought its author international fame.
The novel "Cancer ward", one of the Central works of the author, was first published in 1968 abroad. Subsequently translated into almost all European languages. At home "Cancer ward" was published in 1990. A novel based on the author's personal experience, most of the characters which is deducted from nature, has become one of the most widely read works.
5. By Jodi pikolt — "angel sister»
Anna is not sick, but in my thirteen years has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, injections. And all in order to help her sister with leukaemia. As parents said, for this Anna I was born.
But what could be her life if she weren't tied to her sister?.. Anna decided on a step which for many people would be too complicated, and sued the parents appropriated the right to dispose of her body.
6. Nikolai Ostrovsky "How the steel was tempered»
The novel depicts events of the civil war era, the years of recovery of the national economy and socialist construction. In the image of Pavel Korchagin, the author showed great human qualities of the Soviet youth, educated in the revolutionary struggle: devotion to the cause of the party, love of country, courage and moral purity.
7. Majgull Axelsson — "the April witch»
The novel "the April witch", was awarded the prestigious Swedish August prize and already translated into fifteen languages, the story of a complex interweaving lives of four women, by the circumstances which became the sisters of the doctor Christina, physicist Margareta, alcoholic and addict Bridget and crippled from birth, Desiree, who can neither walk or speak, but able to think and comprehend the mysteries of the universe. Becoming "the April witch", she flies through time and space, enters into the lives of the sisters and the unknown girls hands hugging his only beloved. Axelsson novel full of fantasies and magical charm. This is both a parable and a mirror of modern life.
Seventy seven million four hundred eighty nine thousand one hundred twenty eight
8. Randy Paul — "the Last lecture»
What in our lives is really important and what is just stupid vanity? How to live, what to do, so you do not regret about wasted time in vain, the unfulfilled dreams, unrealized potential?
Very often we don't think about it, adrift, floundering in a rut with the feeling that there is plenty of time. But sometimes the conditions of the game change dramatically…
Randy Paul wrote "the Last lecture" when he learned that he left to live a few months. And she in a matter of days became a national bestseller in the US, turning the minds of millions of readers.
This book is his message to children, friends and relatives, students and colleagues, all of us. This is a story about how we should live. How to appreciate every moment. How anxious attention to children's dreams. How to live so as not to waste a second of precious time.
This is not a book-a biography, not a book-moral. This is a chance for each of us, having a long, many years, understand now: what should I get?
9. Jean-Dominique bauby "the diving bell and the butterfly»
Twenty million nine hundred twenty five thousand nine hundred three
Jean-Dominique bauby — author of this confession. "The diving bell and the butterfly" — his message to the world. In its frozen forever the body moves in only one eye. This eye, it blinks once to say Yes, twice to say no. So, marked with a flutter of the eyelashes of the letters of the alphabet there are words, phrases, whole pages. So, under the glass dome of the suit, closed in a frozen body of brain, which butterflies the thoughts he sends us postcards — messages from a world in which nothing remained except the spirit and mind of the Creator at work.
10. Anton Borisov — "a Candidate for culling»
"This book would be worth to sell in the pharmacy, along with antidepressants. And not only because their everyday problems are overshadowed by the warped life of the Russian disabled. And also because between the pages of a heart beating thought — whatever happens, don't give up! In several places, broken right hand — learn to write with the left. The whole world — from the prone position, crawl. The pain of hell every second fractures — be patient. Father's ashamed of you, little sister has it! My own mother wants you dead — still love! What should be the power of the spirit, will and love in the heart, to the life described in this bitter-revealing diary, to not break? He would be a strong body, and he moved mountains, spinning the globe! And inspired by this idea, you don't notice, as he begin to turn...". published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! © Join us at Facebook , Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki
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