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Fire and Hemlock
Автор: Jones Diana Wynne Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092004-03-19
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The photograph above Polly's bed sparks memories that don't seem to exist any more. Nine years ago she met Thomas Lynn for the first time. But what has happened in the years between? Why has Tom been erased from Polly's mind, and from the rest of the world as well?
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Next
Автор: Crichton Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092010-02-29
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The world of genetics is out of control — now the new Sunday Times bestseller from Michael Crichton, one of today's most famous authors, shows you what happens NEXT!
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Howl's Moving Castle
Автор: Jones Diana Wynne Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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A new look for one of Diana Wynne Jones' funniest and most popular novels.
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The Children of Hurin
Автор: Tolkien J.R.R. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts, this is the first complete, standalone Middle-earth book by J.R.R. Tolkien since The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings, and Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Turin and his sister NiA nor will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth, and destroy the children of Hurin. Begun by J.R.R. Tolkien at the end of the First World War, The Children of Hurin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Автор: Lewis C.S. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20092005-08-14
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Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated to a house during the war wherein lives a vague professor. Left much to their own devices, they find a way into another world — Narnia — and discover Aslan, the lion king in hiding.
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Tatiana and Alexander
Автор: Simons Paullina Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-07-24
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«Tatiana and Alexander» is a powerful story of grief and hope — a passionate and epic love story from the Russian-born author of «The Bronze Horseman». The world at war... two people in love. Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow. Her husband, Major Alexander Belov, a decorated hero of the Soviet Union, has been arrested by Stalins infamous secret police and is awaiting imminent death as a traitor and a spy. Tatiana begins her new life in America. In wartime New York City she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. However, her grief is inescapable and she keeps hearing Alexander calling out to her. Meanwhile, Alexander faces the greatest danger hes ever known. An American trapped in Russia since adolescence, he has been serving in the Red Army and posing as a Soviet citizen to protect himself. For him, Russias war is not over, and both victory and defeat will mean certain death. As the Second World War moves into its spectacular close, Tatiana and Alexander are surrounded by the ghosts of their past and each other. They must struggle against destiny and despair as they find themselves in the fight of their lives. A master of the historical epic, Paullina Simons takes us on a journey across continents, time, and the entire breadth of human emotion, to create a heartrendingly beautiful love story that will live on long after the final page is turned.»
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The Summer Garden
Автор: Simons Paullina Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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A novel of the enduring power of love and commitment — against the forces of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace.
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The Northern Clemency
Автор: Hensher Philip Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20102012-02-16
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An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher.
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Everyone Worth Knowing
Автор: Weisberger Lauren Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 367 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092010-03-18
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«The in-crowd wears Gucci but one girl wears her heart on her sleeve... From the bestselling author of «The Devil Wears Prada» comes a no-holds barred expose of the world of the Manhattan super-rich. Bette gets paid to party! Well, to plan them, anyway. And she can hardly believe her luck. Running with celebs, gaining VIP access to Manhattans hottest spots and meeting everyone worth knowing is a million miles away from her old banking job. Overnight, New York has become her sexy late-night playground. But quicker than you can say Birkin bag, Bette turns up in the gossip columns as girlfriend to a notorious British playboy. Its news to her — but news that delights her publicity-hungry new boss. Her family and old friends, however, think its not very Bette. What happened to the girl they know and love — who always had time for romantic novels, 80s music and junk food, not to mention them? As her new and old worlds threaten to collide, can Bette say goodbye to the glamour and the Gucci, the parties and the Prada, and step back into the real world — and find a prince whos got a heart to match his charm?»
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Final Solution
Автор: Chabon Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20112008-07-21
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«Brilliant novel by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning «The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay».»
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Earthly Joys
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20082009-04-19
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This is a tremendous historical novel of the early 1600s, as seen through the eyes of John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age. A traveller in a time of discovery, the greatest gardening pioneer of his day, yet a man of humble birth: John Tradescants story is a mirror to the extraordinary age in which he lives. As gardener and confidante to Sir Robert Cecil, Tradescant is well placed to observe the social and political changes that are about to sweep through the kingdom. While his master conjures intrigues at Court, Tradescant designs for him the magnificent garden at Hatfield, scouring the known world for ever more wonderful plants: new varieties of fruit and flower, the first horse chestnuts to be cultivated in England, even larches from Russia. Moving to the household of tflamboyant Duke of Buckingham, Tradescant witnesses at first hand the growing division between Parliament and the people; and the most loyal of servants must find a way to become an independent squire.
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The Abstinence Teacher
Автор: Perrotta Tom Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors.
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The Divine Invasion
Автор: Dick Philip K. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092001-08-31
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The second in the Valis trilogy of books, this story tells of the Second Coming: a story of total confusion.
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Tully
Автор: Simons Paullina Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1995 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20091997-05-12
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Tully Makker is a tough young woman who forms an enduring bond with jennifer and Julie, two friends from very different backgrounds. Tully emerges into adulthood, marriage and a career, and then lifes strikes back in the most unexpected way.
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Game Players of Titan
Автор: Dick Philip K. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-06-28
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«Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for by machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff, allowing them to win or lose property and also form new marriages in order to maximise the remote chance some pairings will produce a child. When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his current wife and his deed to Berkeley, he stumbles upon a far bigger, more sinister version of the game. The telepathic, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players and at stake is the Earth itself. «The Game Players of Titan» is a brilliantly conceived vision of a future dystopia, full of imaginative detail, moments of pure humour and thought-provoking musings on the nature of perception, as the seemingly straightforward narrative soon turns into a tumultuous nightmare of delusion, precognition and conspiracy.»
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Counter-Clock World
Автор: Dick Philip K. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 236 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092006-03-12
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«Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning «Time's Arrow» by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.»
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Paddington Bear (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Bond Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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«The classic story of a much-loved bear — Paddington! Join Paddington and the Browns as they start their adventures at Paddington Station and relive their treasured story in this stylish book and CD set. Paddington Bear first met the Brown family at a railway station — Paddington station, in fact. He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and a label reading «Please look after this bear». Without further ado, Mr and Mrs Brown promptly welcomed the adventurous bear into their family, and in honour of their meeting place they named him Paddington. The Browns soon discover that Paddington is a most unusual bear. Ordinary things — like having a bath — become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is around. Now this treasured story is available as a charming picture book and CD set that even the youngest children will enjoy.»
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Election
Автор: Perrotta Tom Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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«A brilliantly funny novel from the author of «The Abstinence Teacher» and «Little Children», made into an acclaimed film starring Reece Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.»
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Bad Haircut
Автор: Perrotta Tom Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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«The literary debut from the author of «Little Children», «Election» and «The Abstinence Teacher».»
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Stephen Fry in America
Автор: Fry Stephen Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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Britains best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephens account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in the fascinating book that orginally accompanied his journey for the BBC1 series. Stephen Fry is a treasure of the British Empire.
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