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Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince
Автор: Rowling J.K. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082007-06-28
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It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursley's house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort, and Harry can't quite believe that Professor Dumbledore will actually appear at the Dursley's of all places. Why is the Professor coming to visit him now? What is it that cannot wait until Harry returns to Hogwarts in a few weeks' time? Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine…
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Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (Adult edition)
Автор: Rowling J.K. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 956 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092005-12-10
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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. 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. A gripping and electrifying novel, full of suspense, secrets, and — of course — magic.
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Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix
Автор: Rowling J.K. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 766 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092009-08-24
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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. 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. A gripping and electrifying novel, full of suspense, secrets, and — of course — magic.
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Word Origins
Автор: John Ayto Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092009-03-12
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This in-depth exploration of the English language covers every nuance and curiosity of this constantly evolving linguistic pastiche. It is estimated that every year 800 neologisms are added to the English language, and include acronyms (NIMBY, Not In My Backyard), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an a-to-z format with detailed cross-references and written to appeal equally to students, etymologists, and nonnative speakers, this historical guide is an invaluable resource for this truly global lingua franca.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Children's Edition)
Автор: Rowling Joanne Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20102009-10-27
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Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing — if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?
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101 Things You Need to Know (and Some You Don't)
Автор: Tracey Turner Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
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101 of the most fascinating, most disgusting, most unbelievable facts — at your fingertips. Utterly addictive (but not illegal) will keep any 10+ child occupied at weekends, on holiday, in the evening... 101 marvellous facts, brilliantly explained: Why do we have nails? Why is the sky blue? Why can birds stand on electric wires and not be electrocuted? Educate your child with minimum effort, and in blissful peace and quiet. The perfect source of fascinating facts for any child who doesn't want to be Boring when they Grow Old.
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101 Things to Do Before You're Old and Boring
Автор: Richard Horne Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092008-04-29
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So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Adult Edition)
Автор: J.K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20102009-10-27
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In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, re-read and read again.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Adult Edition)
Автор: J.K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 366 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092007-09-12
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Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Harry and Ron embark on their journey to Hogwarts in a flying Ford Anglia, little do they know that this year will be just as eventful as the last as ghosts from Hogwarts past return to haunt the school corridors. The texts of the Harry Potter adult editions are identical to that of the standard editions; only the jacket illustrations vary.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Автор: Rowling J.K. Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 468 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092006-10-20
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Harry Potter, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. The texts of the Harry Potter adult editions are identical to that of the standard editions; only the jacket illustrations vary.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Adult Edition)
Автор: J.K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2004 Страниц: 796 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092005-06-05
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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 Divination lessons (sigh) to be attended. Harry is expecting these: however, other quite unexpected events are already on the march ... The texts of the Harry Potter adult editions are identical to that of the standard editions; only the jacket illustrations vary.
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JPod
Автор: Douglas Coupland Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122008-12-13
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Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There, they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is being invaded by marijuana gro-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and the rise of China. Everybody in both worlds seems to inhabit a moral grey zone, and nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself.
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The Mob
Автор: Clem Martini Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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It's springtime — hundreds of Crows set out on their yearly migration and converge at the Gathering Tree. This sacred Gathering is an opportunity for the six crow Clans of the Family Kinaar to assemble, to make decisions and to celebrate being together. But when young blood is lost, sacred laws are tested as an illegal Mob seeks revenge, and a schism threatens the unity of the flock. The Family's situation is made yet more precarious when a severe blizzard hits and the Crows are faced with the dilemma of where to find shelter. Breaking age-old decrees and working together may offer their only chance of survival. Here is a startling view of the world from a bird's-eye perspective, complete with its own set of beliefs, mythologies and politics. But it's a world familiar to us too — where the needs of the individual often clash with those of the group, and where the desire to be free must be tempered with the need to be safe, to survive.
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Zugzwang
Автор: Ronan Bennett Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence. This title is set in St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and — under its surface of frosty glamour — seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery April day, O.V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later, Dr. Otto Spethmann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city — and somehow he is implicated. He is mystified — and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself. He is preoccupied, too, by two new patients: Anna Petrovna, the society beauty plagued with nightmares with whom he is steadily and inappropriately falling in love, and troubled genius Rozental, the brilliant but mentally fragile chess master, due to play the most important competition of his life — the spectacular St. Petersburg chess tournament — but on the verge of a complete breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the many forces — political, historical, sexual — that are holding him in their grasp.
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Check Your English Vocabulary for Law
Автор: Rawdon Wyatt Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20082009-09-17
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«Check Your English Vocabulary for Law» is a workbook designed to help non-native English speakers improve their knowledge and understanding of core legal terminology. The workbook includes crosswords, puzzles and word games to test English vocabulary and a combination of self-study exercises and practical speaking activities meaning that this book is ideal for both home and classbased study.»
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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
Автор: Tony Thorne Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20082009-04-19
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«With more than 15,000 definitions, this book provides a definitive guide to the use of slang today. It deals with drugs, sport and contemporary society, as well as favourite slang topics such as sex and bodily functions. In this convenient paperback edition of the highly acclaimed «Dictionary of Contemporary Slang», language and culture expert, Tony Thorne explores the ever-changing underworld of the English language, bringing back intriguing examples of eccentricity and irreverence from the linguistic front-line.»
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Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism
Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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The topics covered in this title include travel, tourism, ticketing, hotels and staff, restaurants, kitchens, table settings, service and cooking, along with general business, accounting and personnel terms. Handy supplements include quick-reference lists of airline and airport codes, currencies, international dialling codes, time zones, balance sheets and international public holidays. This work is ideal for students, employers, or employees who work in any part of the hotel or tourism industry or who need to use specialist English vocabulary for their work or studies.
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Girl, 15: Flirting for England
Автор: Sue Limb Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution — a digitally enhanced solution — and who better to ask to help than her best mate Fred! Fans will lap up this prequel as it charts Fred and Jess's relationship — and Jess's relationships with others — before Fred and Jess actually get together. The whole book sparkles with Sue Limb's characteristic wit and humour, and will send fans racing to read the rest of the books in the series.
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In The Miso Soup
Автор: Ryu Murakami Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Автор: Susanna Clarke Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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«Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from «Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell»: Strange himself and the Raven King.»
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