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The Dead Town
Автор: Koontz Dean Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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The cataclysmic conclusion to Koontz's brilliant reworking of the classic tale. The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught. Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan is to remake the future: a future in which mankind will be annihilated. To accomplish this aim he has created nothing less than the shock troops of the Apocalypse. Now the alliance of the good must make their last, best stand and do battle against overwhelming odds. And Deucalion, Frankenstein's original and flawed attempt at replicating life, must finally confront his evil creator. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance!
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Heidi
Автор: Spyri Johanna Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Up on the Alp with grandfather is the loveliest spot in all the world.' Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in his remote house in the Swiss Alps. She soon begins to love her life with her grandfather and makes friends with Peter, the goat-herder and his grandmother. Idyllic as her existence is, her aunt sends Heidi to live in Frankfurt to become a companion to the invalid daughter of a wealthy family although Heidi yearns to be back in the fresh air and freedom of the mountains.
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I Heart Paris
Автор: Kelk Lindsey Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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Angela is in the City of Love — but her own lovelife is heading for trouble! Angela Clark is a British girl living the life dreams are made of in fabulous New York. But she's never been to the romantic capital of the world — Paris. So when boyfriend Alex suggests a romantic trip there, tying in with his band's tour and Angela writing an insider's guide to the hip city for a glossy fashion mag — Belle, she jumps at the chance. Soon Angela finds herself meandering along charming streets lined with designer shops, sipping creamy hot chocolate and eating croissants. It's a world away from New York but she could get used to the joie de vivre of Paris. But when Louisa, Angela's best friend shows up from London, it's not quite the happy, girly catch up she'd hoped for and everything in Paris seems to be going from bad to worse. Louisa reminds Angela that her old life is only a train journey away. With Alex spending so much time partying with the band and meeting up with his ex, for the first time in ages, Angela is homesick. Suddenly Angela is questioning her new life in New York and wondering — is it make or break for her and Alex?
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I Heart Vegas
Автор: Kelk Lindsey Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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After her first standalone novel, The Single Girl's To-Do List, Lindsey returns with a sparkling and romantic new novel in the I Heart series. Angela Clark loves her life in New York. She a Brit who's conquered the Big Apple. Unfortunately, she's also a Brit who's lost her job. And when, just a couple of weeks before Christmas, the immigration department gets wind of this, Angela needs to find a new job urgently. Or a husband. And she doesn't think her boyfriend Alex will be keen. A girls' weekend in Vegas with her best friend Jenny seems the perfect way to forget her troubles. From the minute they arrive Angela is swept up in a whirl of cocktails, outrageous outfits, late nights and brushes with the chapel of love. But rather than escaping trouble, Angela is up to her neck in it!. But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — right? With a bonus Angela's Guide to Vegas — the ultimate city break guide!
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The Lost Relic
Автор: Mariani Scott Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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Some secrets should stay buried! A web of deceit — and Ben Hope is caught in the mayhem... Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a distracted Ben nearly runs over a young boy — and unwittingly walks into his deadliest mission yet. Ben's involvement with the boy's family runs deeper as he witnesses their brutal murder at a gallery robbery. A seemingly worthless Goya sketch was the principal target in the bloodbath heist. Now it's up to Ben to find out the truth behind the elusive painting. Wrongly accused of murder and forced to go on the run, he must get to the heart of the conspiracy while he still has the chance...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Автор: Joyce James Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood — a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the style of writing proved controversial upon publication in 1916 and the character of Stephen on a quest for his identity did not appeal to readers.However, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works.
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Seven Years in Tibet
Автор: Harrer Heinrich Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling in Lhasa, the Forbidden City, where he became a friend and tutor to the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years gaining a more profound understanding of Tibet and the Tibetans than any Westerner before him. More recently made into a film starring Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet is a stunning story of incredible courage and self-reliance by one of the twentieth century's best travel writers.
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Shatter the Bones
Автор: MacBride Stuart Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. 'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.' Alison and Jenny McGregor — Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation — are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. They're in all the gossip magazines, they've got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive. The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger are reaching fever-pitch. Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence. The investigation is going nowhere. It looks as if the price of fame just got a lot higher!
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Tender is the Night
Автор: Fitzgerald F. Scott Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.' Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties.
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Three Men in a Boat
Автор: Jerome Jerome K. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'That's Harris all over — so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.' Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey through the English waterways full of anecdotes, and farcical incidents with Montmorency wreaking havoc along the way.
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Villette
Автор: Bronte Charlotte Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied — Sleep never came!' Based on Charlotte Bronte's own experiences as a governess in Brussels, her last novel tells the story of lonely Lucy Snowe who finds employment at a girls' boarding school in the town of Villette. Finding the students challenging and experiencing the pain of unrequited love for the first time, Lucy becomes increasingly isolated in a world governed by societal expectation and struggles to maintain her integrity in the face of her envious and watchful employer, Madame Beck.
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The Water Babies
Автор: Kingsley Charles Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters.
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Collins Spanish Dictionary and Grammar
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 1216 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20122012-10-23
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The Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. Colour headwords, cultural notes, and an easy-to-use grammar section make this book ideal for intermediate learners. Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar is designed for intermediate learners of Spanish, whether at school, at home, or for business. 80,000 references and 110,000 translations will help those learning Spanish take their language skills to the next level. / This edition of Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and Spanish, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation. / A comprehensive grammar guide which presents detailed examples and translations to help users understand Spanish grammar — the perfect complement to the dictionary. / The clear Collins typography gives the text a contemporary feel, and along with the new alphabet tabs, ensures that users find the information they need quickly and easily. Log on to www.collinslanguage.com and access our free online Spanish dictionary. Some of the other titles available in the Collins Spanish dictionary range are Collins Spanish Gem, Collins Spanish Pocket and Collins Spanish Concise Dictionary — giving users all the help they need.
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Death on the Nile
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092002-06-25
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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
Автор: Stein Garth Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 323 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20122012-05-26
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A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope — a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.
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Paddington's Suitcase (количество томов: 8)
Автор: Bond Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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8 paperback picture story books featuring the misadventures of the lovable bear from Darkest Peru, contained in a special gift suitcase. Ages: 3-6 yrs.
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The Man Who Hated Football
Автор: Buckley Will Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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A novel about a family man struggling to reconcile his shambolic personal life with the job of football reporting he has grown to hate. Jimmy Stirling's wife despairs of him, while his editor at the newspaper for which he is a football reporter both despairs of him and actively despises him as well. Not to be outdone, Jimmy Stirling despairs of his job, himself and the local Budgens where most of his meagre salary goes providing for his needy twins (and his aggressive smoking habit). His father has just died, the mortgage is destroying him, and the pints in the Butt of Lewis (his London pub) and the Hare and Greyhound (his country pub) are adding up. Is his wife having an affair? Is he having an affair? Does he want to hold on to his job? Ladies and gentlemen, in Will Buckley's hilarious and piercing first comic novel, I'm afraid we have another man in crisis.
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Animals
Автор: Ridgway Keith Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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A novel of confusion and paranoia, love and doubt, fear and hysteria: unsettling, unhinged, provocative and bestially funny, 'Animals' is for human beings everywhere. Keith Ridgway's third novel is a psychological menagerie of confusion, paranoia, searching and love. Narrated by an illustrator who can no longer draw, it tells of the sudden and inexplicable collapse of a private life, and the subsequent stubborn search for a place from which to take stock. We are surrounded here — by unsafe or haunted buildings, by artists and capitalists who flirt with terror, by writers and actresses and the deals they have made with unreality, and by the artificial, utterly constructed, scripted city in which we have agreed to live out a version of living. But there are cracks in the facade, and there are stirrings under the floorboards, and there are animals everywhere you look, if only you'd dare to look for them. Unsettling, unhinged, provocative and richly funny, 'Animals' is for human beings everywhere.
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Hidden Depths
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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Embark on a journey to the hidden depths of the world`s oceans. Explore the world`s last frontier through breathtaking, unique photographs from the ocean depths amd state-of-the-art maps.
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Giotto's Hand
Автор: Pears Iain Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092010-02-24
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Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue. In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando's colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk — only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career!
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