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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Автор: Helen Simonson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret'd) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife Nancy's death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of nosy village women, his grasping, ambitious son, and the ever spreading suburbanization of the English countryside, preferring to lead a quiet life upholding the values that people have lived by for generations — respectability, duty, and a properly brewed cup of tea (very much not served in a polystyrene cup with teabag left in). But when his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Ali, the widowed village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, the Major is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Drawn together by a shared love of Literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs. Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. The Major has always taken special pride in the village, but how will the chaotic recent events affect his relationship with the place he calls home? Written with sharp perception and a delightfully dry sense of humour, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is a heart warming love story with a cast of unforgettable characters that questions how much one should sacrifice personal happiness for the obligations of family and tradition.
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MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
Автор: Keith Jeffery Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 840 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-12
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A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world.
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The Invisible Womble
Автор: Elisabeth Beresford Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20132012-06-23
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Orinoco is certainly the tubbiest of the Wombles and is perhaps the Womble who needs the most encouragement to go out on the daily sortie to clear up and recycle all the rubbish that humans leave behind... Meanwhile, Tomsk, DIY extraordinaire, is getting to grips with the one of the humans' more ingenious inventions: the vacuum cleaner!
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Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20082009-09-17
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Harriet is invited to help her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Initially excited by this prospect, Harriet quickly begins to regret getting involved. Will Harriet overcome her fears and find out who is causing Mr Fetlock's horses to lose all their races? Hold on tight for this bumpy ride!
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Fugitive Pieces
Автор: Anne Michaels Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
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The Cardturner
Автор: Louis Sachar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to a conclusion. Alton's mother is in for a surprise!
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Автор: Lisa See Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
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Walking to Hollywood
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych — obsessive, satirical, elegiac — in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour. 'Very Little' is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode's progress, as the worm of obsession — with scale and packing and the 'stuff' of our lives — bores through a mind in extremesis. 'Walking to Hollywood' is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. 'Spurn Head' leads Self to a tormented sojourn with a madman whose house is sliding over the edge of a cliff, to a game of checkers with Death, and finally to an encounter with one of Swift's immortal Struldbruggs and a march through a tear in time itself. In Walking to Hollywood Will Self pushes memoir to the limits of invention.
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Ripley Under Water
Автор: Patricia Highsmith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law — he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny... The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him. He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body Ripley would prefer remain hidden in a nearby river.
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The Kite Runner
Автор: Khaled Hosseini Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Willowdale Handcar: or, the Return of the Black Doll
Автор: Edward Gorey Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20092006-10-27
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«In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, «The Willowdale Handcar» is vintage Edward Gorey.»
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The Selfish Crocodile Library
Автор: Faustin Charles Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 60 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-21
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Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo. This small library, perfect for little baby hands, features not only the selfish crocodile but a whole host of his friends, as familiar themes for pre-school readers are explored. Children will relish learning about numbers, colours, animals, sounds, food and first words in these bright and brilliant board books.
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Piercing
Автор: Ryu Murakami Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder.
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The Dead of Winter
Автор: Chris Priestley Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will... Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley.
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Whatever it is, I Don't Like it
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with aesthetics is supposed to be. But the hour passes. Good men return from fighting Satan in the wilderness the stronger for their struggle, and so do I. Man Booker Prize-winning Howard Jacobson shimmers with life in this collection of his most acclaimed journalism. From the unusual disposal of his father-in-law's ashes and the cultural wasteland of Chitty Bang to the melancholy sensuality of Leonard Cohen and desolation of Wagner's tragedies, Jacobson writes with all the hostility and joy of a man possessed. Absurdity piles upon absurdity, and glorious sentences weave together to create a hilarious, hearty, heartbreaking and uniquely human collection. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will read it again and again.
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The Curious Sofa
Автор: Edward Gorey Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 1999 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092001-10-27
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A book about one of the most ridiculous hairstyles of all-time.
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No Matter What
Автор: Debi Gliori Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092004-12-13
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A little fox is in a big bad mood, and is worried that its mother won't love it forever. In this beautiful and lyrical picture book, we see a clever and resourceful mother prove to her child that a parents love is limitless — no matter what! In this reassuring and warm picture book, the hugely talented Debi Gliori manages to treat the familiar subject of childhood worries in a very fresh, original and inventive way.
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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Автор: Margaret Atwood Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt — before it is too late.
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Sleep With Me
Автор: Joanna Briscoe Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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Richard and Lelia's child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, and barely register a slight, drab woman in the hall. Sylvie. As their baby grows, so does the presence of Sylvie — she seems to be nowhere, yet everywhere, harmless yet sinister. Richard is seduced by her subtle, inexplicable charm, while Lelia, struggling with Richard's sudden ambivalence towards their baby, finds that she is haunted by painful memories. And Sylvie remains as invisible as she wants to be — that is the source of her power. Beware of mice.
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
Автор: Chris Priestley Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But soon that journey turns out to be more of a challenge than anyone could have imagined as the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and a mysterious woman in white helps the boy while away the hours by telling him stories — stories with a difference.
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