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Lost in the Forest
Автор: Sue Miller Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082010-03-28
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«One minute John is the cornerstone of Eva's world, rock to his two teenage stepdaughters and his own son Theo; the next he is tossed through the air in a traffic accident, and killed. His sudden death changes everything. Eva struggles with the desolation of loneliness, finding herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband; Emily, the eldest daughter, grapples with her new-found independence and responsibility. Little Theo can only begin to fathom the permanence of his father's death. But for the middle child Daisy, John's absence opens up a whole world of confusion. Just at the onset of adolescence and blossoming sexuality, Daisy is exposed to the terrifying duplicity of life, the instability that hovers just beyond the safety of parental love, and the powerlessness of that love to protect or even console her. In steps a man only too willing to take advantage of her emotions. «Lost in the Forest» is a powerful and gorgeously layered testament to the fluidity of life and the web of connections that bind us, divide us, and drive us on. A finely observed portrait of marriage and family; an intensely sensual journey through the consuming realms of grief and sex; and an unforgettable evocation of adolescent yearning and vulnerability, this is Sue Miller at her inimitable best.»
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Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World
Автор: Dominic Barker Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092007-12-10
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Blart is not an average boy. He lives on a pig farm with his grandfather and doesn't care about being heroic or famous or legendary, but he does know that if you want to catch a pig you have to sneak up behind it and take it by surprise. So when a great wizard visits and explains that humankind depends on Blart joining his quest, Blart says no — until the wizard threatens his pigs. Reluctantly, Blart embarks on a very epic quest stuffed with brilliant characters: a feisty princess who likes dragons, a warrior who's a big softie at heart, a disaffected dwarf, and evil Zorab, trapped in a mountain, waiting for his mignons to dig him out...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
Автор: Elizabeth Gilbert Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092012-08-23
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby — and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So, she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Adult Edition)
Автор: J.K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092007-02-26
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When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adventure when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous, or both.
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Nanny McPhee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda
Автор: Christianna Brand Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. 'The person you want is Nurse Matilda', they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable tales of Nurse Matilda — Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital. Having delighted generations of readers since their first publication in the sixties, the books have now formed the inspiration for the newly-released and fabulous Nanny McPhee, written and adapted for the big screen by Emma Thompson who stars as Nanny McPhee opposite Colin Firth as Mr Brown. This collection of stories from Christianna Brand is sure to charm and entertain all readers new and old.
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The Song Before it is Sung
Автор: Justin Cartwright Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin's bomb failed to kill him. The conspirators, among them Axel von Gottberg, were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of von Gottberg's papers and letters and becomes obsessed with what they reveal and with finding the film of those brutal executions. Award-winning writer Justin Cartwright has conjured a masterwork that addresses the nature of friendship and what it means to be human, and it is a remarkable tapestry of passion, ideas, frailty and courage.
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The Wolves in the Walls (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Neil Gaiman Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20122010-04-15
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When Lucy hears noises from behind the wall she tries to warn her parents that there are wolves banging about. But her parents don't listen. When the wolves finally take over the house and Lucy and her family are evicted to live in the garden, her parents realise perhaps they should have listened. But Lucy is no shrinking violet and pretty soon she has the wolves out and the family back in the house. So what was that noise Lucy heard coming from behind the wall? This is a brilliant, witty and inventive picture book with cutting-edge art, which is sure to be a hit with existing fans of Neil Gaiman as well as young readers.
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Fierce People
Автор: Wittenborn Dirk Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 335 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092005-07-24
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«1978: Lower East Side, New York. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one of her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage, and more secretive than any tribe in National Geographic. Offered a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne's empire, Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He's living a twisted approximation of the American dream — and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking. But in America, social-climbing is a blood sport. Even on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Maya, Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest and laughing. This is a modern coming-of-age novel in the tradition of «Huckleberry Finn», and a portrait of America as vivid and strange as «The Great Gatsby, Fierce People» marks the emergence of a dazzling new talent.»
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Zugzwang
Автор: Bennett Ronan Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr. Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces — political, historical, sexual — that are holding him in their grasp.
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101 Things You Wish You'd Invented
Автор: Turner Tracey Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Marvel at the sheer brilliance of invention, from glass to underpants, the noble compass to the humble pencil. Not forgetting, of course, the undeniably indispensable banana suitcase. Filled with fascinating details about everything from the most common everyday object to inventions which changed society, it will also distinguish the strokes of genius from discoveries of sheer chance, or millennia of evolution... and reveal the real reason why Alfred Nobel had to establish a peace prize (tut, tut). Expand your knowledge of man's accomplishments in the most compelling — and irreverent — way possible.
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Red Moon Rising
Автор: Brzezinski Matthew Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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On 4 October 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth's first artificial moon. Powered by a car battery, it passed over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes and propelled the USSR from backward state to superpower and pioneer of the Space Age. This is the pulse-racing story of a time when two nations and ideologies were pitted against each other in a quest that laid the foundations of the modern technological world.
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Blart 2: Boy Who Was Wanted Dead or Alive — or Both
Автор: Dominic Barker Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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Just as Blart is settling down to enjoy his teenage years on a fabulous pig farm with the proceeds from saving the world, Capablanca returns — with bad news. A terrible oversight in his original world-saving research has led to accusations of no less than collusion with evil Zoltab himself. And now he is a wanted man — and so, by assocation, is Blart. To prove their innocence or else be hounded to the four corners of the earth by a bloodthirsty army, they must locate their comrades from the original quest. Together they may stand a chance of proving that Capablanca's was an innocent mistake, by finding the answer to a great mystery — what exactly did they do with Zoltab? And how could they be so careless as to forget... And so begins another hilarious and unforgettable adventure (with pigs) and a brilliant cast of characters including newcomers Uther Slywort the merchant and sociopathic Baron Killbride.
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Blart 3: The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Автор: Dominic Barker Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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«Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue ‘damsel in distress’ to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship «The Golden Pig» with Olaf the innocent – who believes what everyone says all the time – and Kupverstich the Strange – an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one thing in common: they’re all wrong. They must battle cut-throat pirates, a sixteen-tentacled octopus, escape the suffocating bureaucracy of Triplicat, where they are briefly marooned, not to mention evade the Guild of Assassins, who have a contract to kill Blart, in their selfless (well, almost) bid to rescue poor Lois. But will they make it in time?»
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Автор: Georgina Harding Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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It is August 1616, the whaling ship Heartsease has ventured deep into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter this far north. So he is left with provisions, shelter, and a journal — should he not live to tell the tale...
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Run
Автор: Ann Patchett Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 344 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092012-03-18
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Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them. But when they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their lives, how the death of Doyle's wife Bernadette has affected the family, and an anonymous figure who is always watching.
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The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Автор: Maureen Lindley Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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«Peking, 1914. Eight-year-old Eastern Jewel peers from behind a screen as her father, Prince Su makes love to a servant girl. Caught spying by her thirteenth sister, Eastern Jewel’s sexual curiosity sees her banished to live with distant relatives in Tokyo, then forced into a passionless marriage in freezing Mongolia. Increasingly isolated, at night she is plagued by disturbing fantasies and unsettling dreams. But she refuses to be pinned down by anyone – least of all a man – and in the dazzling city of Shanghai she puts her thrill-seeking nature to work spying for the Japanese, spurning everything she once held dear… Based on the real-life story of Yoshiko Kawashima, Chinese princess turned ruthless Japanese spy, «The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel» is an intoxicating tale of sexual manipulation and self-discovery that spans three countries and a world war.»
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Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You
Автор: Cecily von Ziegesar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-04-17
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Enter the world of Gossip Girl – a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, crisp cotton sundresses are made to order, and jealousy and betrayal are the ultimate summer accessories... Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate’s Hamptons estate... But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what’s this about Vanessa venturing surfside? Who’s next, Dan? Never say never...
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Gossip Girl 9: Only in Your Dreams
Автор: Cecily von Ziegesar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where Gossip Girl and her friends are the biggest stars ...whether or not the cameras are rolling. Lights, camera, scandal! Hollywood is invading New York and Serena is set for her big screen debut. She's already having an off-screen romance with her onscreen lover, Thaddeus. What will that mean for Hamptons-bound Nate? And if Nate is free, what about Blair? Sure, she's off to London to spend time with her royal boytoy, but Nate will always be Prince Charming in her eyes...
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The Messenger of Athens (The Mysteries of Greek Detective)
Автор: Anne Zouroudi Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. His methods are unorthodox, and he brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him, on whose authority is he acting, and how does he know of dramas played out decades ago?
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Автор: Mary Ann Shaffer Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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It's 1946. Juliet Ashton, a 32-year-old writer, has found a certain recognition through her light-hearted column for the Spectator which lifted the spirits of her readers during WW2, but she can't think what to write next. But then Dawsey Adams writes to her from Guernsey — by chance he's acquired a book Juliet once owned — and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence. Dawsey belongs to the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and as Juliet investigates the strange-named reading group, soon she stumbles upon a whole number of islanders eager to write and tell her of their experiences of the German occupation of Guernsey. Entranced by her new friends, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly. A moving tale of friendship, tolerance and forgiveness in the wake of a period of unthinkable hardship and horror, this is set to become a classic.
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