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Before We Fall
Автор: Cole Courtney Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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The third book in the Beautifully Broken series. BEFORE WE FALL will feature Dominic Kinkaide, Courtney Cole's baddest bad boy yet. And Jacey Vincent, the bad girl who will save him...
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Teach Yourself Instant Russian
Автор: Smith Elisabeth Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20112008-07-21
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First published in 1998, the Instants have established themselves as the best-selling range of language titles from teach yourself. When published as part of the teach yourself relaunch in May 2003, they were given a new cover, internal text re-design and availability on CD for the first time, but now they have undergone an extensive revision, with 16 more pages to give room for additional exercises and flashcards, and an extra CD to double the amount of audio practice. The 45-minutes-a-day, six-week course is highly structured and has a fresh approach to language learning which appeals both to readers who have not learnt the language before and to those with some basic knowledge of Russian. The author has used her wide teaching experience to refine the course so that it covers only the grammar (explained in no-nonsense English in the book and on the CDs) and vocabulary which are really necessary. Her day-by-day, no-nonsense programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, readers have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations they'll need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With fewer than 400 words to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable. Sales of the Instants (over 150,000 units since in the last two years) have established Elisabeth Smith as the UK's leading language author (Bookscan figures) and her large amount of fan mail is witness to the success of her unique method. The book (0340925353) and CDs (034092537X) are available separately.
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Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Автор: Bock Laszlo Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20192021-08-14
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A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Daily Telegraph, Huffington Post & Business Insider Top Business Book to Read 'Every year, 2 million people apply for a job at Google — so what's the secret?' Guardian A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Work Rules! offers both a philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent and ensuring the brightest and best prosper. The way we work is changing — are you?
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The Loney
Автор: Andrew Michael Hurley Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20192017-12-30
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'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; The Loney, however, looks as though it may be both' Sunday Telegraph If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney — that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was impossible to truly know the place. It changed with each influx and retreat, and the neap tides would reveal the skeletons of those who thought they could escape its insidious currents. No one ever went near the water. No one apart from us, that is. I suppose I always knew that what happened there wouldn't stay hidden for ever, no matter how much I wanted it to. No matter how hard I tried to forget...
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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Автор: Backman Fredrik Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20192017-12-30
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Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving illegally? Breaking into a zoo in the middle of the night? Firing a paintball gun from a balcony in her dressing gown? Seven-year-old Elsa does. Some might call Elsa's granny eccentric, or even crazy. Elsa calls her a superhero. And granny's stories, of knights and princesses and dragons and castles, are her superpower. Because, as Elsa is starting to learn, heroes and villains don't always exist in imaginary kingdoms; they could live just down the hallway. As Christmas draws near, even the best superhero grandmothers may have one or two things they'd like to apologise for. And, in the process, Elsa can have some breath-taking adventures of her own...
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A Song of Shadows
Автор: Connolly John Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20182017-06-18
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Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other... Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one, Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to recover. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. She is hiding from the past, and the forces that threaten her have their origins in the Second World War, in a town called Lubko and a concentration camp unlike any other. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows...
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At the Water's Edge
Автор: Gruen Sara Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20192021-08-14
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A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. 'the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already finished it' — Jodi Picoult 'truly enthralling' Scotsman After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already ashamed of his colour-blind son's inability to serve in WWII. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour (and generosity) is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed at: he will hunt the famous Loch Ness monster and when he finds it he will restore his father's name and return to his father's good graces. In January 1945 they hitch a ride on a ship across the Atlantic while the war is still raging all around them. And Maddie, now alone and virtually abandoned in a foreign country, must begin to work out who she is and what she wants — the vacuous life she left behind or something more real? What she discovers — about the larger world and about herself — opens her eyes not only to the dark forces that exist around her but to the beauty and surprising possibilities of life.
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The Dark Half
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20132013-10-21
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Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be... The sparrows are flying again. The idea — unbidden, inexplicable — haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona George Stark, author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet... the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2012 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20142015-09-22
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Everyone in the kingdom talked about the King-in-waiting, Roland's elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland's younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead.The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne.Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance... A captivating tale of heroic adventure, of dragons and princes, of mysterious mice and men from the pen of the master storyteller.
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A Gift from Bob: How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas
Автор: Bowen James Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2015 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20192016-12-16
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From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A STREET CAT NAMED BOB and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB, touched millions around the world. In this new story from their journey together, James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times — providing strength, friendship and inspiration but also teaching him important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
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Theodore Boone: The Fugitive
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2016 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20182018-07-11
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He was supposed to be having fun with his friends, not playing detective and stalking a serial killer. Theodore Boone — teenage lawyer and courtroom hero — is on a class trip seeing the sights of the capital city. But he hadn't counted on seeing the most wanted man in the history of his home town, Strattenberg. Suddenly Theo is caught in the hunt for an accused murderer, alongside the FBI. Theo knows he's getting in deep — and things could become even more dangerous. Because if this case goes back to court, it will be down to him. Will justice finally be done... or will the killer's criminal allies be out for revenge?
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End of Watch
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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END OF WATCH is a compelling and chilling suspense novel which sees retired detective Bill Hodges back on the trail of his nemesis Brady Hartsfield, the criminal the press called The Mercedes Killer. Foiled in his attempt to commit a second mass murder, Hartsfield is confined to a hospital brain injury unit in a seemingly unresponsive state. But all is not what it seems: Brady is able to influence both his physician and the hospital librarian to commit crimes in the outside world. Now, the technological genius has created a hypnotic electronic fishing game which compels users to commit suicide, and he is determined to target the three people who put him in hospital — Hodges and his sidekicks Holly and Jerome. Then he plans to initiate a suicide epidemic. For Hodges — and the city — the clock is ticking in unexpected ways... Both a stand-alone novel and the final episode in the Hodges trilogy, END OF WATCH is a tense read which takes the series into a powerful new dimension.
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The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction
Автор: Gaiman Neil Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2005 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092008-04-24
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The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation' Welcome to the conversation. Neil Gaiman fled the land of journalism to find truths through storytelling and sanctuary in not needing to get all the facts right. Of course, the real world continued to make up its own stories around him, and he has responded over the years with a wealth of ideas and introductions, dreams and speeches. Here 'we can meet the writer full on' (Stephen Fry) as he opens our minds to the people he admires and the things he believes might just mean something — and makes room for us to join the conversation too.
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After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Автор: Schloss Eva Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2014 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20162017-04-29
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Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home. They searched desperately for Eva's father and brother, from whom they had been separated. The news came some months later. Tragically, both men had been killed. Before the war, in Amsterdam, Eva had become friendly with a young girl called Anne Frank. Though their fates were very different, Eva's life was set to be entwined with her friend's for ever more, after her mother Fritzi married Anne's father Otto Frank in 1953. This is a searingly honest account of how an ordinary person survived the Holocaust. Eva's memories and descriptions are heartbreakingly clear, her account brings the horror as close as it can possibly be. But this is also an exploration of what happened next, of Eva's struggle to live with herself after the war and to continue the work of her step-father Otto, ensuring that the legacy of Anne Frank is never forgotten.
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