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The Harlequin
Автор: Hamilton Laurell K. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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The first warning is unexpected, calculated. Malcolm, head of the vampire Church of Eternal Life, is no friend to Anita Blake. So when he asks for help, against creatures so feared that no vampire will willingly speak their name, Anita is surprised. But the Harlequin require different rules. The second warning is presented like a gift, with Anita printed on the box. Inside, carefully wrapped in folds of pristine tissue paper, is a plain white mask. The fact that it's white is good news. White means they are only being watched. The power connecting Anita with Jean-Claude, vampire Master of the City and Richard, Ulfric of the werewolves, has been increasing exponentially — and this has attracted very unwelcome attention. Anita Blake has the authority to pass judgment on vampires. The Harlequin have the authority to pass judgment on her. It is forbidden to speak of the Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death.
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In Golden Blood
Автор: Woodworth Stephen Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Natalie Lindstrom is one of a select few souls born with violet-coloured eyes — and the ability to channel the dead. But Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organisation that has used her as a crime-solving tool — and who now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru. Her job: to find a trove of priceless artifacts — by channelling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site. But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage — and she cannot silence the voices of the dead. The slaughtered reach out to her. The slaughterers boast of their crimes. Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realisation: every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining.
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Broken Home
Автор: Kray Roberta Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-11
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If you don't care about her, who will? Hope Randall leads a quiet life, but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep, bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had, he's going to change her world for ever. Connie's in deep trouble and the mysterious Flint needs Hope's help in finding her. Returning to London, Hope is forced to confront old demons — and new ones. To find her sister, she'll have to toughen up and fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End, it's not only the notoriously savage Street family she'll have to worry about: there's also a psychopath on the loose, attacking working girls. If Connie's going to be saved, Hope may have to get close to the enemy...
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The Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2
Автор: Meyer Stephenie Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20142017-08-27
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To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life — first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE — seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever? The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.
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The Door
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122010-06-11
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THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. As the New York Times has said, 'Atwood's poems are short, glistening with terse, bright images'. A brave and compassionate book, THE DOOR interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on.
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes' travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies' investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences — as she sees them — between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery', 'fantasy' and 'slipstream fiction'. In Other Worlds is a must.
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Corduroy Mansions
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20112012-07-18
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Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: an Arts and Crafts beauty with comforting weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to some delightfully eccentric Londoners. In the top flat lives William, with his wastrel son and an ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay. Four lively young women share the first floor, including twinset-and-pearls Caroline, vitamin-addict Dee, and Jenny, a put-upon PA. And round the corner lives Oedipus Snark MP, the loathsome Lib Dem who has succeeded in offending everyone he knows. But what dark revenge is being plotted by his mother, Berthea Snark, and by his girlfriend, Barbara Ragg?
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From Notting Hill to New York: Actually
Автор: McNamara Ali Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20082007-07-24
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Scarlett O'Brien, utterly addicted to romantic films, has found her leading man. She's convinced Sean is Mr Right, but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn't quite like the movies. With Sean constantly away on business, Scarlett and her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York for the holiday of a lifetime. From one famous landmark to the next, Scarlett and Oscar make many new friends during their adventure — including sailors in town for Fleet Week, a famous film star, and Jamie & Max, a TV reporter and cameraman. Scarlett finds herself strangely drawn to Jamie, they appear to have much in common: a love of films and Jamie's search for a parent he never knew. But Scarlett has to ask herself why she is reacting like this to another man when she's so in love with Sean...
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Lady of the English
Автор: Chadwick Elizabeth Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20142014-05-25
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Two very different women... Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, has always been on Matilda's side but now she is married to William D'Albini, a warrior of the opposition. In a world where a man's word is law, how can Adeliza obey her husband while supporting Matilda, the rightful queen? What does it cost to be 'Lady of the English?'
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School of Fear
Автор: Daneshvari Gitty Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
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Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces. Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. Which is why this may be the scariest summer of their lives. Worse than detention or summer school. Worse even than the dentist. The foursome must face their phobias head-on at the exclusive and elusive School of Fear. The school is unusual, to say the least. But 'terrifying' would be a more accurate description. The curriculum is simple: Conquer your fears in six weeks or find out just how frightening failing can be.
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Three Little Secrets
Автор: Carlyle Liz Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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Wealthy land owner Merrick MacLachlan is the polar opposite of his polished, ever-so-charming brother. While Sir Alasdair is fair and handsome, Merrick is dark and brooding, both in looks and in temperament. With his penetrating eyes and badly scarred face, Merrick has always made the ton deeply uncomfortable. Professionally, Merrick has attained a level of wealth and power which no one could have imagined when he was a brilliant but starving young architect. Privately, he has no lifewhich is just how he likes it. But his rigid, tightly-controlled existence is about to spin out of control. Because once upon a time, Merrick did have a life. And then, he made a terrible mistake. Her name was Madeleine. And if ever he is tempted to forget her, he has but to look at the scars she left behind...
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Touchy Subjects
Автор: Donoghue Emma Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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How do you make conversation with a sperm donor? How do you say someone's novel is drivel? Would you give a screaming baby brandy? In what words would you tell your girlfriend to pluck a hair on her chin? Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons, a mother who deserts her children. Other topics, like religion and money, are not inherently taboo, but they can cause acute discomfort because people disagree so vehemently. Many of these stories are about the spectrum of constrained, convoluted feeling that runs from awkwardness through embarrassment to shame.
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Portrait of a Killer
Автор: Cornwell Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20112014-03-08
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Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear for months in the East End, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand for a serial killer — Jack the Ripper. For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. Until now. Using her formidable range of forensic and technical skills, Patricia Cornwell has applied the rigorous discipline of twenty-first-century police investigation to the extant material, and here presents the hard evidence that the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders was the world famous artist, Walter Sickert. With her knowledge of criminal investigation and her consummate skills as a bestselling writer, Patricia Cornwell has produced a book which is as compelling as it is authentic — the definitive account of one of the world's most famous murder mysteries.
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Bloodstone
Автор: Gemmell D. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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The tyrannical rule of the Deacon and his Jerusalem Riders has unleashed upon the world a sea of bigotry and hatred, where Unbelievers and Mutants are massacred in the name of God and Peace. And the long-vanished Jerusalem Man is now considered a saint of the new order. To speak ill of his memory is heresy. But when the church in Pilgrim's Valley is burnt to the ground, its congregation slaughtered, a rider appears and hunts down the killers. And word spreads — The Jerusalem Man is back! Hunted and alone, Jon Shannow must battle the forces of the Deacon — and face a terrible enemy from another universe; a dark god who feeds on the souls of worlds.
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Trouble
Автор: Kellerman Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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It's late at night, and all Jonah Stem wants to do is to get home and fall into bed. Working long hours as a medical student, he's seen enough drama — not to mention enough blood — for one day But when he hears a scream ring out in the darkness, and an injured woman is on her knees and begging for her life, Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation. And this situation means trouble. Jonah's intervention will change not only his own life, but also the lives of those he cares about, in ways he never thought possible. A heart-stopping thriller, masterfully told, Trouble is the story of what can happen when you find yourself in way over your head...
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The Star Principle: How it can make you rich
Автор: Koch R. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Richard Koch has made over £100 million from spotting 'Star' businesses. In his new book, he shares the secrets of his success — and shows how you too can identify and enrich yourself from 'Stars'. Star businesses are ventures operating in a high-growth sector — and are the leaders in their niche of the market. Stars are rare. But with the help of this book and a little patience, you can find one, or create one yourself. THE STAR PRINCIPLE is a vital book for any budding entrepreneur or investor (of grand or modest means). It is also invaluable for any ambitious employee who realises the benefits of working for a Star venture — real responsibility, fast personal development, better pay, great bonuses and valuable share options. Whoever your are, identifying and investing in Stars will make your life much sweeter and richer in every way.
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Beauty's punishment
Автор: Rice A. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty resumes Beauty's explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire and seduction. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of 'the village' as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. Once again Anne Rice's classic tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.
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Druid of Shannara
Автор: Brooks T. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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To the scions of Shannara have fallen three tasks: Par Ohmsford has recovered the fabled Sword of Shannara. This he has accomplished, but the Federation's Chief Seeker has planted an awful thought in Par's mind — that he himself is Shadowen, the very evil he seeks to destroy. Wren is in the Westland, seeking out the elves. And in the Northland... Walker Boh has been commanded by the shade of Allanon to find the lost city of Paranor and recreate the Order of Druids, disbanded for three hundred years. To achieve this he must find the Black Elfstone, but the gem is in the hands of an ancient being of timeless evil — the Stone King. Beset on all sides by enemies, and from within by his own self-doubt, Walker Boh sets out on his part of the perilous quest. A quest that will end in success — or the complete destruction of all he holds dear.
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Lipstick Jungle
Автор: Bushnell C. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block, Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production and Nico is the editor of BONFIRE magazine. The trouble is, from where Victory, Nico and Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed and Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible, and as she follows them through the minefield of work, love and life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet.
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Bitter Seeds
Автор: Tregillis Ian Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2012 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20152013-12-10
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The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls, bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar. If the British are to believe their eyes, a twisted Nazi scientist has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers. And Raybould will be forced to resort to dark methods to hold the impending invasion at bay. But dealing with the occult exacts a price. And that price must be paid in blood. Ian Tregillis' Bitter Seeds is a chilling masterpiece — a tale of a twentieth century like our own and also profoundly different.
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