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Troublesome Young Men: The Churchill Conspiracy of 1940
Автор: Lynne Olson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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In May 1940, Britain was at war with Germany and Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister, struggling with a poorly prepared defence against Hitler. But waiting in the wings was a group of Tory rebels who would change the course of history. They were doing the unthinkable: trying to topple their leader from power. This is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how these troublesome young men risked political suicide and vilification as traitors to their class, party and government, and paved the way for Winston Churchill to step in as Britain's saviour.
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The Thornthwaite Inheritance
Автор: Gareth P. Jones Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite had been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin could remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever had struck first, trying to take each other's lives was simply what they did. Until one day a lawyer arrives at their house to take stock of its contents, and his accompanying son attracts their attention. Soon a new battle evolves — one in which the twins have to work together to solve the mystery of their parents' deaths. Can Lorelli and Ovid overcome their old animosities, and will they ever get to finish that game of chess?
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Out for Blood
Автор: Alyxandra Harvey Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Hunter Wild just wants to get through her last year at the secret Helios-Ra Academy. To do so, she'll have to betray her grandfather, date a vampire and possibly take down the entire League — all before the end of term.
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The Declaration
Автор: Gemma Malley Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Anna Covey is a 'Surplus'. She should not have been born. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. But is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy? This is a tense and utterly compelling story about a society behind a wall, and the way in which two young people seize the chance to break free.
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Committed: A Love Story
Автор: Elizabeth Gilbert Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 297 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20122013-09-12
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe — a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, who — after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing — gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving completely into this topic, trying with all her might to discover (through historical research, interviews and much personal reflection) what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. The result is Committed — a witty and intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood. Gilbert's memoir — destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage — is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
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True Grit
Автор: Charles Portis Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142012-12-30
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There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster — a man, she's told, who has grit — and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
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Calculator Annie
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20082009-09-17
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No matter how hard Annie tries, she just cannot do even the simplest sums. It's so embarrassing! When she goes to the shops, she can't work out how much money to hand the shopkeeper, and she always gets 0 for her maths homework. That is, until Annie goes to sleep with a calculator under her pillow, and something very strange happens. Overnight, Annie becomes a maths maestro capable of solving problems so fast it takes people's breath away. It impresses one world-renowned maths genius so much that he decides to put Annie's powers to the ultimate test. Will Annie be up to the mathematical challenge, or will she be at sixes and sevens and end up back at square one? Prepare yourself for this brain-teasing adventure.
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The Doughnut Ring
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20082008-09-27
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Jim and his friends are upset to hear that their school janitor's car has been stolen, and just before he's due to retire too. So Jim comes up with a bright idea for a way to help raise money to buy a new car: selling doughnuts. They start by making their own very delicious doughnuts to sell, but run into problems when demand exceeds supply. That's when Jim has another brainwave and decides the only way to make enough is to write a chain letter asking people to make more doughnuts. The doughnuts start rolling in and rolling in and soon Jim is up to his ears in them. It takes another inspired business idea to rescue a situation which is rapidly getting out of hand. This is the inspiring story of a boy with a big heart and big business ideas, from bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 607 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20132010-12-26
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'In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country and is once more active. It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord — well, you know who I mean — is alive and among us again, said Fudge.' These dramatic words appeared in the final pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the midst of this battle of good and evil, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with Voldemort's power and followers increasing day by day...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20102006-12-20
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The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable... With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvellous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20112010-04-29
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Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time'', he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.' Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his whole world upside down...But before he even gets to school, Harry has an unexpected and frightening encounter with two Dementors, has to face a court hearing at the Ministry of Magic and has been escorted on a night-time broomstick ride to the secret headquarters of a mysterious group called 'The Order of the Phoenix'. And that is just the start. This is a gripping and electrifying novel, full of suspense, secrets, and — of course — magic.
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The Finkler Question
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other — or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. Both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and together with Treslove they share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost. It is that very evening, when Treslove hesitates a moment as he walks home, that he is attacked — and his whole sense of who and what he is slowly and ineluctably changes.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him — and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord's forces of evil.
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Sex and Stravinsky
Автор: Barbara Trapido Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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The time is 1995, but everybody has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books — that's when she can carve out the space between her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Автор: Anthony Bourdain Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential — for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author's bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he's seen and what he's seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: 'Why cook?' Or the harder one to answer: 'Why cook well?' Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of powerful chefs he compares to a Mafia summit, Bourdain, in his distinctive, no-holds-barred style, cuts to the bone on every subject he tackles.
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The Book of Human Skin
Автор: Michelle Lovric Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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«The Book of Human Skin» is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it. There are people who are a disease, you know. 13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister's ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save her...»
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The Fool's Girl
Автор: Celia Rees Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long and their adventures many, but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get to tell the entire story from beginning to end! But where will this remarkable tale ultimately lead Violetta and her companion? And will they manage to save themselves, and the relics from the very evil intentions of Malvolio.
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Araminta Spook: Vampire Brat
Автор: Angie Sage Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20122010-04-17
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WHAT'S LURKING IN THE BASEMENT? Araminta thinks something horrible might be hiding in the deep, secret passages of Spook House. She suspects it might be a werewolf. To make matters worse, Uncle Drac's creepy nephew has arrived and is now Wanda's New Best Friend. Araminta finds him (and the situation) very annoying. She has to come up with a cunning plan to reveal what she believes to be true — that there is more to Max than meets the eye — and also figure out what to do about that werewolf. But even the best laid plans don't always work out quite as you'd hoped...
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The Wombles Go Round the World
Автор: Elisabeth Beresford Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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Great Uncle Bulgaria loves telling the ancient and revered history of the Wombles clans to the younger Wombles. But to his great sadness he notices that the young Wombles are not nearly as interested in the history as he is. So Great Uncle Bulgaria decides to take action and show these young Wombles how wonderful — and international — the history of the Wombles is. Tobermory invents some very eco-friendly clockwork air balloons to travel in and Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk and Wellington are sent variously to America, Tibet and Australia. In these interesting and farflung places the young Wombles get quite as much excitement as they could wish for!
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The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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«The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.»
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