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Maya's Notebook
Автор: Allende Isabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2014 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20172015-12-23
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The author of 'The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. The narrator and protagonist of 'Maya's Notebook' is a 19-year-old girl who grows up in Berkeley, California, and falls into a life of drug addiction and crime. To rescue Maya, and save her from the criminal types pursuing her, Maya's Chilean grandmother sends her to a remote island off the southern coast of Chile. Here she lives among a traditional rural people, the Chilote, who speak an older form of Spanish and have remained largely isolated from the materialism, crime, and fast-paced contemporary life which is our own. The book alternates between the narrative in the US and that on Chiloe, the island, so the two strands of the story unfold for the reader at more or less the same time. This new book is very different from Isabel's previous historical novels: a contemporary setting; an American (of Latino descent) teenage drug addict as the protagonist and narrating voice; a realistic style of writing rather than a magical realistic one (Chiloe exists, and one can visit it). Maya's voice is modeled on that of Isabel's teenage granddaughter, a native of the Bay area (San Francisco, Berkeley).
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The One Minute Manager Builds High Performance Teams
Автор: Kenneth H. Blanchard Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092003-09-20
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The alternative way towards better team-building, this is the bestselling management tool from the author of The One Minute Manager. Most managers spend over half their time working with a team, and the One Minute Manager's practical advice shows how any team can work better and more effectively. The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams explains the four stages on the way to building a high performing team: Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Resolution and Production and reveals how to tap the creativity and potential of people at all levels in order to become an effective group leader.
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Pretties
Автор: Westerfeld Scott Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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Tally has finally become Pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend is totally gorgeous, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun — the non-stop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — is the nagging sense that something is very wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's Ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with Pretty life, and the fun stops cold. Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life...
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Extras
Автор: Westerfeld Scott Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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At the end of Specials, the conclusion to the Uglies trilogy, things in Tally's futuristic world had stabilised. The walls between the social classes — the uglies, pretties and specials — had been torn down. So Tally took off to live on her own in the wild. Fast forward... Tally discovers another brand new world. In Extras, it's all about who you know, and how much you have. It's just like LA. Only Paris and Nicole are way dead...
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Flash Harriet and the Missing Ostrich Eggs
Автор: Wallace Karen Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-12
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Flash Harriet has a problem. The ostrich eggs at a nearby farm are being stolen. Without them her father can't do his famous musical performance, and the farm will have to be sold. Who's stealing the eggs, and why do they want them?
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Your Brain
Автор: Morgan Sally Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-12
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Your brain controls everything you do — from your movement to your senses and even your thoughts and decisions. Complete with detailed diagrams, discover how this important part of your body works, and how you can look after it.
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My Journey Across the Indian Ocean
Автор: Adair James Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20152016-04-15
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Sharks, whales, huge waves, and months and months at sea — these are just a few of the things that James Adair and his friend Ben had to battle against when they decided to row unsupported across the Indian Ocean. Find out about their incredible journey, in this thrilling first-hand account.
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Project Bright Spark
Автор: Pitcher Annabel Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20152016-04-15
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Briony had always suspected there was something wrong with her teacher. But after doing some further investigation with her friend Sergio, she uncovers a secret conspiracy so amazing that she could never have believed it was true. Find out how the adventure unfolds in this thrilling mystery novel by Carnegie-medal nominee Annabel Pitcher.
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The Black Dog
Автор: Goodwin Harriet Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20152016-04-15
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Annie, George and Jed are on a school camping trip, and their team hasn't been doing very well in the activities they've been set. There is one final task — an orienteering exercise in the nearby woods — and they're determined to win. But will their differences in opinion hold them back, and what is the howl they've heard deep in the woods?
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Force of Will
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20102008-06-05
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Arguably the most popular live-action series from Disney, readers everywhere will eagerly devour the amazing 8x8 retellings of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film. Each book will retell the story from a different point of view and will provide kids with full-color stills from the film. No pirate-in-training will want to miss out! 8x8 #3: The swash-buckling adventures and twisted intrigues of the third Pirates of the Caribbean film are retold from Will Turner's point of view.
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Big Nate Super Scribbler
Автор: Peirce Lincoln Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2015 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20172018-09-30
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Scribble for hours with Big Nate Super Scribbler, the awesome fifth Big Nate activity book! Chock-full of mazes, crossword puzzles, comics, quizzes, and sudokus, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series gives kids the chance to have even more fun with Big Nate. Hang out with Dee Dee, Teddy, Gina, and the whole gang while solving the latest Big Nate mysteries and cracking codes right alongside your favorite characters. With more than 150 new games, this will provide hours of entertainment!
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953
Автор: Dallek Robert Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, and Truman, among others, the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe, to rely on traditional power politics in spite of the catastrophic violence they had endured. The decisions of these leaders, for better and often worse, had profound consequences for decades to come, influencing relations and conflicts with China, Korea, and in the Middle East. The Lost Peace is a penetrating look at the misjudgments that caused so much strife and suffering during this critical period, from the closing months of World War II through the early years of the Cold War. Dallek has written a cautionary tale that considers what might have been done differently to avoid the difficulties that strong and weak nations around the globe encountered in the mid-twentieth century. Provocative, illuminating, and based on a lifetime of research, The Lost Peace also offers extraordinary lessons for today's leaders, who might learn from the mistakes that were made in the years leading up to the cold war and engage in a more successful era of international cooperation.
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Mog and Bunny
Автор: Kerr Judith Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092007-10-13
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New cover, new format reissue of this story about everyone's favourite family cat, Mog. Bunny is Mog's best thing. But one day Mrs Thomas says she is going to throw Bunny in the dustbin!
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The Iron King
Автор: Druon Maurice Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin's epic work. Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation! The Iron King — Philip the Fair — is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty...
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Human Universe
Автор: Cox Brian Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2015 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20172016-06-25
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Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature somehow conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book, Professor Brian Cox will take readers out of this world and into a whole new dimension as he gives us a new perspective on human life. Following the spark of human curiosity from its ignition in the distant past to its journey into the future, the book will span the history of the Universe, as Brian attempts to understand the greatest wonder of them all — humankind. He will reveal how time, physics and chemistry came together to create a creature that can wonder at its own existence, blessed with an unquenchable thirst to discover not just where it came from, but how it can think, where it is going and if it is alone. Combining dramatic photography and innovative CGI with the magical storytelling that has become Brian's trademark, Brian will give us his personal take on the past, present and future of this unlikely and unfathomably precious phenomenon — the story of humanity from the birth of the Universe to the ultimate fate of our species.
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
Автор: Smith Chas Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell by Chas Smith has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000
Автор: Paul M. Kennedy Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1989 Страниц: 928 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091991-05-18
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Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might among the great powers of the world. Kennedy begins with Europe's dramatic return to the forefront of world domination at the expense of China and the Muslim world and brings us up to modern times, with both on the brink of remarkable recovery. Along the way he explores world wars and civil wars, destructive ideologies, the paranoia of superpowers and the inherent problems of a united Europe. He persuasively demonstrates the interdependence of economic and military power, showing how imbalance between the two has historically led to spectacular political disaster. Erudite and brilliantly original, 'The Rise and Fall of Great Powers' is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics of power.
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Half the World
Автор: Abercrombie Joe Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2015 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20172017-05-24
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Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Fate traps her in the schemes — and on the ship — of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. Beside her on her gruelling journey is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. A failure in his eyes and hers, he has one chance at redemption. Will Thorn forever be a tool in the hands of the powerful or can she carve her own path? is there a place beyond legend for a woman with a blade?
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Biscuit Takes a Walk
Автор: Alyssa Satin Capucilli Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20122010-06-05
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Biscuit is walking to Grandpa's house, and he's having such a good time that he doesn't want the walk to end. But the little puppy knows that the only thing better than a walk to Grandpa's house is a visit with Grandpa himself! The youngest of readers are sure to enjoy strolling with Biscuit through this charming, easy-to-read adventure.
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Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear
Автор: Alyssa Satin Capucilli Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-10-13
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Just in time to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Biscuit, this My First I Can Read reader features a lost toy that gives the beloved bestselling character a chance to save the day and make new friends. Full color.
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