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United States of Pie
Автор: Kane Adrienne Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20142014-10-20
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A baker's delight, United States of Pie is an utterly charming and mouthwatering compendium of heirloom American pies — regional favorites from East to West and North to South — gathered lovingly together by Adrienne Kane, author of Cooking and Screaming and creator of the popular food blog www.nosheteria.com. From long lost recipes to classic favorites, the irresistible desserts featured in this wonderful cookbook will be pastry nirvana for Mollie Katzen and Moosewood fans — hot and tasty treats sweetly illustrated, combined with time-tested baking tips and secrets for preparing the perfect pie.
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Eleven Minutes
Автор: Coelho Paulo Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 269 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20122015-03-29
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«Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that «love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer». A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness — sexual pleasure for its own sake — or risking everything to find her own «inner light» and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.»
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I Met the Walrus
Автор: Levitan Jerry Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 168 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20142014-09-14
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In 1969 a determined 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto during his famous Vietnam protest bed-in with Yoko One, and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Four minutes of this exclusive 40-minute interview, in which John speaks candidly on war, politics, what it means to be a peacenik, the scandalous Two Virgins album, and the supposed subliminal messages in his music, is the basis for the recent 2008 Academy Award nominated short film, I Met The Walrus. Here for the first time in book form is Jerry's full contextualized and illustrated account of his experience with John, with all new illustrations from the film's acclaimed illustrator James Braithwaite, never-before-seen candid photographs of John and Yoko, and a DVD keepsake featuring exclusive video footage and the complete 40-minute soundtrack of the interview with John. A complete annotated typescript of the interview is also included plus Jerry's memorabilia from that day — notes from John and Yoko, drawings and doodles from John and more. The result is a spell-binding package, an immortalized up-close one-on-one moment with John, a tribute to his extraordinary voice, boundless wit and timeless message.
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Anybody Out There
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 456 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20102009-10-11
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Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy's house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she's able, Anna's flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous quest-involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction. Marrying life's darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out There is a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.
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Flight Behavior
Автор: Kingsolver Barbara Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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From the New York Times bestselling author, a suspenseful and brilliant new novel about catastrophe and denial which explores the complexities that lead us to believe in our chosen truths.
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Foundation's Triumph
Автор: Brin David Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092004-03-19
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction. Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished. The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest — a search for knowledge and the power it bestows. The outcome of this final journey may secure humankind's future — or witness its final downfall...
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Vagabond
Автор: Cornwell Bernard Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 405 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20082007-06-28
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In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail. Among the flames of the Hundred Years War, a sinister enemy awaits the fabled archer and mercenary soldier: a bloodthirsty Dominican Inquisitor who also seeks Christendom's most holy relic. But neither the horrors of the battlefield nor sadistic torture at the Inquisitor's hands can turn Thomas from his sworn mission. And his thirst for vengeance will never be quenched while the villainous black rider who destroyed everything he loved still lives. From internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the spellbinding second chapter in his Grail Quest — the majestic epic adventure of duty, war, and destiny that began with The Archer's Tale.
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Автор: Ariely Dan Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 284 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20152015-05-18
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Cheating is reaching epidemic heights. The world is full of cheaters. We hear about them every day on the news from Washington to Wall Street. We see it all around us and we do it ourselves, whether its the white lie to keep us out of trouble or that extra cookie that breaks our diet. In this book, award-winning and bestselling author Dan Ariely explores why we just cant stop cheating. He examines the forces we usually think drive us to dishonest behavior but actually don't, and how the irrational forces that we think dont matter often make a big difference in how ethical our actions are. Together these findings shed light on what spurs us to cheat as well as what keeps us honest. Dan investigates not only how dishonesty works in the professional and political world, but how we tend to navigate our daily lives by acting slightly dishonestly while still thinking of ourselves as individuals with high moral standards. It wont all be bad news though, as he offers ways for us to stick more closely to the straight and narrow. This book takes apart and examines the complex nature of cheating, and in doing so, points the way for greater honesty in ourselves and in the world.
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Micro
Автор: Crichton Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 429 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20152016-04-24
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In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company — only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
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The Prisoner of Heaven
Автор: Zafon Carlos Ruiz Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182015-07-14
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Once again, internationally acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow Of The Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives.
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Sharpe's Devil
Автор: Cornwell Bernard Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092001-05-25
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Sharpe and Patrick Harper set sail for Chile in order to track down a friend gone missing. As a favor to Napoleon, they carry a seemingly harmless gift with them — one that embroils them in a web of conspiracy and danger.
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Sharpe's Battle: Spain 1811
Автор: Cornwell Bernard Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092001-05-16
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«The «Washington Post» has hailed «Sharpe's Battle» as a book that «combines those strengths that have come to characterize Bernard Cornwell's fiction — immaculate historical reconstruction and the ability to tell a ripping yarn».»
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This Charming Man
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 563 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132013-04-29
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With This Charming Man, Marian Keyes hits her stride as a novelist with her best novel yet, telling the stories of four women who are shaped by one man. Paddy de Courcy is Ireland's debonair politician, the John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin. His charm and charisma have taken hold of the country and the tabloids, not to mention our four heroines: Lola, Grace, Marnie, and Alicia. But though Paddy's winning smile is fooling Irish minds, the broken hearts he's left in his past offer a far more truthful look into his character. Narrated in turn by each woman, This Charming Man explores how their love for this one man has shaped their lives. But in true Marian Keyes fashion, this is more than a story of four love affairs. It's a testament to the strength women find in themselves through work, friendship, and family, no matter what demons may be haunting their lives. Depression, self-doubt, domestic abuse — each of these women has seen tough times in life, and it's through Keyes's wonderful storytelling ability that these subjects are approached with the appropriate tone and candor. Her deft touch provides a gripping story and, ultimately, a redemptive ending.
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Watermelon
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092003-12-07
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February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me... I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a postpartum body that she can hardly bear to look at. She decides to go home to Dublin. And there, sheltered by the love of a quirky family, she gets better. So much so, in fact, that when James slithers back into her life, he's in for a bit of a surprise.
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Rise of a Merchant Prince
Автор: Feist Raymond E. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20091997-06-21
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«In grand Dickensian fashion, the acclaimed best-selling author of The Riftwar Saga brings to vivid life the myriad colors, realities, dangers, and details of an exotic, richly imagined world and the remarkable folk who populate it. A fast-moving and dramatic adventure, «Rise of a Merchant Prince» is Raymond E. Feist in top form.»
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The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures
Автор: Largo Michael Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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The first bestsellers ever published were medieval bestiaries, encyclopedias that collected all of human knowledge and myths about animals. Eagles and lions lived in these pages next to imaginary beasts like griffins and sea monsters. For hundreds of years bestiaries rivaled only the bible as the most read books in the western world. Taking these original bestiaries as his inspiration, Michael Largo returns readers to that captivating wonder of animals we all had as children and looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone. Michael Largo shares the Animal Kingdom's most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing-and often hilarious-fact about their oddest behavior. Here is a sampler of curious facts: the star-nosed mole can catch and devour its prey (insects) in an eye-blurring speed of 220 milliseconds; In 1842, circus ringmaster P.T Barnum fooled many when he displayed a mermaid carcass, which later proved to be monkey bones sewed together with a fish body; Peregrine falcons reach speeds during descending flights, called stoops, of over 200 mph, making them the fastest animal in the world; recently discovered in a volcanic crater in New Guinea, the Bosavi Wolly rat grows to the size of cat and weighs four pounds; to keep his wife company while he was away, President Andrew Jackson bought an African Grey Parrot, named Poll. The bird outlived them both and was removed from Jackson's funeral service for cussing obscenities in both English and Spanish; if humans had hands proportional to those of bats, each of our fingers would be longer than our legs. (Bats are mammals whose wings are actually webbed hands.); and woodpeckers bang their head against a tree 10,000 times each day, on average.
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The History of the Hobbit: Part One
Автор: Rateliff John D. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112012-03-18
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A major new examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit, including his complete unpublished draft version of the story, and many little-known illustrations and previously unpublished maps by Tolkien himself.
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Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters
Автор: Dunn Jane Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-27
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Angela, Daphne and Jeanne Du Maurier — three sisters in a family who longed for sons; beautiful, successful, rebellious or mad, the sisters lives were bound in a family drama that inspired Angela and Daphne's best novels. Much has been written about Daphne but here the three sisters hidden lives are revealed in this riveting joint biography. Born in the first decade of the twentieth century, all three girls shared a visceral love for Cornwall. The family was glamorous and successful and the girls were encouraged in ancestor worship. Their parents were leading lights in the acting world — charismatic, philandering and unhappy. Their expectations for their girls, and the wish that they'd been boys, would have a lasting effect on all three girls.
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Typography 33
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182015-07-14
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For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 33 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in the field for the year 2011. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, representing a wide range of categories including books, magazines, corporate identities, logos, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.
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Game of Thrones: A Storm of Swords Part 1
Автор: Martin George R. Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2014 Страниц: 623 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20162017-04-19
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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS: STEEL AND SNOW is the FIRST part of the third volume in the series.
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