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The Player of Games
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1989 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20091993-03-24
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The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death.
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Rebecca
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092006-09-24
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding Mrs Danvers... Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.
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The Russian Concubine
Автор: Kate Furnivall Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112011-09-12
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Junchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed — those of thieves and Communists alike. So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life into her own hands. Lydia's mother, Valentina, numbered among the Russian elite until the Bolsheviks rounded them up. They took her husband but she managed to buy back her child and bring her to China. But survival is hard. Even though mother and daughter live in the Whites-only settlement, no walls can keep Lydia in. She escapes to meet Chang An Lo, who saves her life once and is bound to her for ever. But Chang has enemies who are hunting him down — Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed towards Junchow to kill Reds like him. Their all-consuming love can only mean danger for them both, but they are powerless to end it …
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A Spectacle of Corruption
Автор: David Liss Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-09-20
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Benjamin Weaver is awaiting death in Newgate gaol. Mysteriously convicted for a murder he didn't commit by a judge determined to see him hang, he is suddenly — and equally mysteriously — offered the means to escape. What, you may well ask, is going on? It's a question Weaver asks of himself as he slinks out into the London night on a mission to clear his name. In doing so, he steps straight into a labyrinthine plot that weaves, like Benjamin, across eighteenth century London. For the conspiracy against him is part of a grimmer and gaudier picture: one that encompasses double-dealings and dockworkers, the extorting of a priest — and a looming election with the potential to spark a revolution and topple the monarchy. Handily, Weaver is a private investigator. He's also an ex-pugilist, which is also a good thing when it comes to punching his weight in the `polite' society of plotters and politicians, power-brokers, crime lords, assassins and spies. At the apex of which sits, rather precariously, a recent import from Hanover: The King.
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Sweet Land Stories
Автор: E.L. Doctorow Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages ('Jolene: A Life'), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security ('Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden'). Comprised in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of the American spiritual landscape show a modern master at the height of his powers.
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The Thorn Birds
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092009-10-11
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‘Sometimes when he didn’t know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain’s core... And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able to serve. For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way...’
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Trading Up
Автор: Candace Bushnell Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092006-05-22
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When Janey Wilcox makes it big as a Victoria's Secret model, she finally gets the celebrity status she has always craved. Suddenly the car of her dreams is hers, and even better, so is that house in New York's exclusive Hamptons. No longer will she have to choose her boyfriends according to who has a house she can summer in. At the most exclusive of Hampton parties, Janey finds herself mingling with Hollywood celebrities and the cream of New York society. But all this is secondary when she is charmed and captivated by a handsome, successful man, a man who quickly becomes her new beau. Janey, though, is not the type to live happily ever after, especially with her chequered past of far from good behaviour…
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Use of Weapons
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1992 Страниц: 434 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20091993-12-07
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The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman’s life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.
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The Wasp Factory
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 244 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20122015-03-26
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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return — an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
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Whit
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1996 Страниц: 455 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20091998-05-24
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A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four — yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon. Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs — Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.
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Company of Cheerful Ladies
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of traditional build, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van and a bicycle, and by a spectacular disagreement between her assistant, Mma Makutsi, and one of the apprentices at the garage. This apprentice has found a fancy girlfriend who drives a Mercedes-Benz. How can he be rescued from his folly? And as for Mma Makutsi, she has found a dancing class, and a man who may not be able to dance very well, but who admires her greatly. And all of this happens against a background of quiet sessions of bush tea, and of a land that stretches out forever under mile upon mile of empty sky...
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Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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The eighth instalment of Alexander McCall Smith`s wonderful No.1 Ladies` Detective Agency series.
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Germany: Jekyll and Hyde
Автор: Haffner Sebastian Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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«Brilliantly insightful analysis of Hitler's Germany first published in 1940, written by the author of «Defying Hitler».»
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Steep Approach to Garbadale
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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«Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks` best novel since «The Crow Road».»
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Love Over Scotland
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092012-08-23
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The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street.
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Under a Blood Red Sky
Автор: Furnivall Kate Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102009-12-30
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«Under a Blood Red Sky» is a breathtaking epic novel — a tale of love, escape, revenge and redemption.»
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Devil You Know
Автор: Carey Mike Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092008-05-16
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«A new series of supernatural thrillers with a characteristic British flavour, from the acclaimed writer of «Lucifer» and «Hellblazer».»
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Priestess of White: Age of Five
Автор: CanavanTrudi Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092011-08-11
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Trudi Canavan, author of the bestselling Black Magician trilogy, embarks up on a wonderful new fantasy series set in a classical world of magic, heroes, gods and forbidden love.
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Saturn Returns: Astropolis
Автор: Williams Sean Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Part of a series that aims to collectively produce the most comprehensive statement on the psychotheraputic treatment of adolescents. This volume dicusses every aspect of individual and group therapy, and work with parents.
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Innocent Mage
Автор: Miller Karen Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20102010-09-17
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The first instalment of a fast-paced fantasy duology, brimming with action and adventure.
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