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The Mountain Shadow
Автор: Gregory David Roberts Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2015 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20172016-12-26
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The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules. It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life. But Lin can't leave the Island City: Karla, and a fatal promise, won't let him go.
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The Twins
Автор: Sarginson Saskia Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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They were identical in every way Until the unthinkable tore them apart Isolte and Viola are twins. Inseparable as children, they've grown into very different adults: Isolte, a successful features writer for a fashion magazine with a photographer boyfriend and a flat in London, and Viola, desperately unhappy and struggling with a lifelong eating disorder. What happened all those years ago to set the twins on such different paths to adulthood? As both women start to unravel the escalating tragedies of a half-remembered summer, terrifying secrets from the past come rushing back — and threaten to overwhelm their adult lives...
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The Stone Boy
Автор: Loubiere Sophie Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162017-02-24
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When the elderly Madame Preau returns to her own house after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighbourhood has changed. A new family has moved in next door and, from her window, she watches their three children playing in the garden after school. Two of the children seem perfectly healthy, but Madame Preau is struck by the third child, who seems listless and stands apart from the others. When she reports this to social services, they refuse to believe her. Cut off some years ago from her own grandson, she begins a mission to help this boy, even when those around her start to fear for her sanity. The Stone Boy is an award-winning and darkly atmospheric psychological thriller from a critically acclaimed French author. Packed with shocking twists and turns that will appeal to fans of Barbara Vine and Erin Kelly, Madame Preau's story will hold you entranced until the very last page.
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Breaking Dawn
Автор: Meyer Stephenie Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20142011-12-26
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Twilight tempted the imagination... New Moon made readers thirsty for more... Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon... And now — the book that everyone has been waiting for... Breaking Dawn. In the much anticipated fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's love story, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.
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The Girl with All the Gifts
Автор: Carey M.R. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20182016-05-22
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Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is the most powerful and affecting thriller you will read this year.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales
Автор: Atwood Margaret Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2015 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20182018-04-17
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A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatalite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle — and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
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The Glass Castle
Автор: Walls Jeannette Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112008-10-17
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This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents. At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger siblings follow later. After pursuing the education and civilisation her parents sought to escape, Jeanette eventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle class existence' she had always craved. In her apartment, overlooked by 'a portrait of someone else's ancestor' she recounts poignant remembered images of star watching with her father, juxtaposed with recollections of irregular meals, accidents and police-car chases and reveals her complex feelings of shame, guilt, pity and pride toward her parents.
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Otherworld Nights
Автор: Armstrong Kelley Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20162018-03-28
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Sunday Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong captivated readers with her Women of the Otherworld series of supernatural thrillers. In this new anthology, favourite characters return in stories of drama, danger and desire. Legendary werewolf partners Elena and Clay stalk the pages of this book, along with vampires, witches, half-demons and sorcerers. Filled with fan favourites and rarities, Otherworld Nights concludes with a brand-new novella, Vanishing Act. This thrilling longer story is set after series finale 13, and features much-loved characters Savannah and Adam as they begin a new life — and a mysterious new case — together.
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Through It All
Автор: Kristyn Kusek Lewis Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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The first step is the hardest... Waverly Brown is the anchor that keeps her tight circle of friends together. Loyal and generous with her time, she would do anything for Kate and Amy but she can't bring herself to tell even her best friends the truth about her bakery and her increasing debt. She's so consumed with her own worries that she almost misses what is right in front of her; something is wrong with Amy, terribly wrong. Try as they might to reach out, Waverly and Kate can't make Amy open up to them. She refuses to admit there's anything wrong but Waverly is convinced Amy is in trouble and she's terrified. Can Waverly convince her friend to save herself before it's too late?
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The Dark Heart of Florence
Автор: Giuttari Michele Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare... After enduring years at the mercy of an infamous serial killer, the people of Florence rejoice at news of his death — until a senator is found brutally murdered. To Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara the case is very much alive. But, with a powerful adversary conspiring against him, he is trapped in a spiral of corruption and deadly speculation. As the truth comes to light, Ferrara is left standing face-to-face with something truly rotten at the heart of the city... The Dark Heart of Florence is an evocative, gripping work of detective fiction, and a major bestseller across Europe. A crime author with impeccable credentials: Giuttari is no less than the former head of the Florence police force, where he was on the case of the notorious serial killer The Monster of Florence. Who better to write about the dark undercurrents beneath the surface of the city?
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The Island Hideaway
Автор: Candlish Louise Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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How far would you follow him before you accept it's over? Eleanor Blake, distraught after breaking up with her fiance Will, decides to do what most would scarcely dare: secretly follow him to the island hideaway where he's on holiday with the woman who took her place. But on the shimmering, sun-drenched Sicilian island of Panarea, distractions come in many forms — including her fellow hotel guest Lewis, an enigmatic Englishman with secrets of his own to protect. And then there's Frannie, a young Italian actress on the island to prepare for her first film role, who is as charming as she is beautiful. Can she really be so perfect? And shouldn't Eleanor be the first to suspect that things might not be as they seem? The Island Hideaway is a surprising, insightful and compelling novel from the bestselling author of Since I Don't Have You. Previously published as Prickly Heat.
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That Night
Автор: Stevens Chevy Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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Eighteen-year-old Toni and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted for the murder of her younger sister. Seventeen years later she returns home, ready to move on with her life, but she can't. Ryan is convinced he can uncover the truth; her mother still doesn't believe Toni is innocent; and the former high school girls who made Toni's life miserable may have darker secrets than anyone can imagine. Before Toni can move forward, she must take a terrifying step back to her past to find out the truth and clear her name, before it's too late.
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The Spice Merchant's Wife
Автор: Betts Charlotte Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20172015-12-23
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1666. Newly married to a wealthy spice merchant, Kate Finche believes all her dreams of a happy family life are just around the corner until the Great Fire rages through London. She watches in horror as their livelihood goes up in flames, filling the air with the heady scents of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. As the city is devastated, Kate's husband Robert is forced to seek employment to ensure their survival, but when he is found drowned, Kate refuses to believe that he has taken his own life. Widowed and penniless, she seeks refuge in The House of Perfume, the home of blind perfumer Gabriel Harte, who awakens Kate's senses to a whole new world. But as she flees from this forbidden love, her husband's murderer comes looking for her... The Spice Merchant's Wife is a stunning novel, bursting with the colour and flavour of Restoration London — perfect for readers of Phillipa Gregory, Joanne Harris and Patrick Suskind's Perfume.
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Practical Demonkeeping
Автор: Moore Christopher Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy travelling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
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Next to Die
Автор: White Neil Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20102010-08-11
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Joe Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence lawyer. Sam Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective. Both bear the burden of the unsolved murder of their sister fifteen years earlier. And both have a stake in a new series of murders that has shaken their city to its core. Ronnie Bagley is locked up and facing trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby and there's only one lawyer he wants to defend him: Joe Parker. As Joe takes to the courtroom to represent Ronnie, little does he know that Bagley is smarter than anyone has given him credit for, and soon Joe will find himself pitched against his own brother, Sam, in a race to outwit the most terrifying serial killer the city has ever seen. It isn't long before Joe and Sam's shared past comes crashing into the present in a pulse-pounding race to find out who is NEXT TO DIE...
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Vogue: Colouring Book
Автор: Iain R. Webb Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20082010-08-23
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This, the first colouring book from VOGUE, has been created by award-winning writer, fashion editor, curator and Royal College of Art Professor, Iain R Webb. The hand-drawn artworks are inspired by iconic images from British VOGUE in the 1950s — an era of hats and matching gloves, haughty elegance and hourglass silhouettes (a period that continues to inspire contemporary designers including Miuccia Prada and Dolce & Gabbana). The book features a glamorous dream wardrobe of luxurious ballgowns and soigne cocktail dresses, smart suits and dramatic accessories by key designers including Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Chanel. The accompanying captions offer fashion and style tips (often highly amusing in hindsight) and are taken from the original pages of VOGUE. The c90 artworks can be coloured in in the spirit of the original images that inspired them or embellished with whatever colours and patterns take the reader's fancy. The colouring book is the perfect present for all those who love vintage fashion and will be published in time for VOGUE's centenary celebrations in 2016, which begin with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Secret New York
Автор: Zoe de Las Cases Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20082010-08-23
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Enjoy walking along the vast avenues, breathing in the unique atmosphere of Brooklyn and admiring the Statue of Liberty. Discover this city in perpetual motion, its energy and elegance. Get rid of your stress and decorate the city of dreams in a thousand colours. You will discover your inner artist and, after a few pencil strokes, forget your everyday worries.
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Secret Paris
Автор: Zoe de Las Cases Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2015 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20182016-06-25
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Wander through picturesque streets, visit quirky shops and cafes, and enjoy a uniquely French way of life in the course of these pages. As you focus on colouring in and forget the stresses of everyday life, you'll find calm returning.
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Starman: David Bowie — The Definitive Biography
Автор: Trynka Paul Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20082007-07-24
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David Bowie — famously described as rock's greatest chameleon — has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war, bombed out Brixton to a troubled later childhood in Bromley, to the decadent glamour of Ziggy Stardust to his controversial Berlin period, Bowie's life has been filled with drama. One of our most fascinating stars, his story has never been satisfactorily told until now. Paul Trynka has interviewed over two hundred friends, ex-lovers and fellow musicians in order to write the definitive biography of Bowie. The result is a compelling, intimate and revealing book that will appeal to Bowie's millions of fans around the world.
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Art is Dead: The asdf Book
Автор: Ridgewell Thomas Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2015 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20172017-10-31
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In 2008, Thomas TomSka Ridgewell uploaded a short animated film to YouTube; he called it asdfmovie. It has since been viewed more than 50 million times and has spawned eight sequels and many, many dedicated fans. Now, for the first time, the weird and wonderful world of asdf has exploded onto the page in ART IS DEAD, a book conceived and written by Tom and illustrated by Matt Ley. Featuring much-loved characters from the films, as well as brand-new, never-before-seen comics and bonus material — including the asdf origin story and Tom's own sketches — ART IS DEAD is a comic book like no other. Expect trains, potatoes, suicidal muffins and jokes about death, destruction and things talking that don't normally talk, all wrapped up in book so awkwardly shaped it will make your shelves look weird.
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