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My Brilliant Friend: Book One
Автор: Ferrante Elena Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila. Ferrante is the author of three previous works of critically acclaimed fiction: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. With this novel, the first in a trilogy, she proves herself to be one of Italy's great storytellers. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative details and characterizations, that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight her many fans and win new readers to her fiction.
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The Story of a New Name: Book Two
Автор: Ferrante Elena Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.
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The Story of the Lost Child: Book Four
Автор: Ferrante Elena Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20162017-07-18
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Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimed The Guardian newspaper about the Neapolitan Novels in 2014. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the third book in the series, was an international best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Its author was dubbed one of the great novelists of our time by the New York Times Book Review. This fourth and final installment in the series raises the bar even higher and indeed confirms Elena Ferrante as one of the world's best living storytellers. Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up — a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable! Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship. The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and, like Elena and Lila themselves, every return will bring with it new discoveries.
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Book Three
Автор: Ferrante Elena Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20172015-12-23
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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors — Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few — and critics — James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom eaders first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seem them living a life of mystery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to see each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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First Children's Encyclopedia
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 312 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202017-10-27
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This book helps you discover everything you ever wanted to know about anything with this first reference for young readers and writers. An inspiring and comprehensive collection of the best in the DK First Reference series, all gathered together in one superb volume. From prehistoric life to space travel, bacteria to the human brain help your child discover all about the world we live in. They'll discover how life on Earth began, how the human body works, how people lived in Ancient Egypt, why some dinosaurs were so huge, what makes machines work, the countries of the world and much, much more. Full of fantastic photos, bite-sized facts and quiz questions kids will love getting their teeth into, there's lots to see and explore. Perfect for homework or just for fun. Go ahead; let your child find out more about everything!
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The Eye of Heaven
Автор: Cussler Clive Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 330 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20182017-10-20
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Baffin Island: Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved — and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they investigate, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl — and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven — begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people. Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught among treasure-hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them. The solution to a thousand-year-old mystery awaits them at the end of the chase — if they manage to survive it.
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Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect
Автор: Greaney Mark Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20172018-02-09
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The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country's nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nation's economic fortune. A rich deposit of valuable minerals have been found in the Hermit Kingdom. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage. There's just one more step needed to complete this perfect plan — the elimination of the President of the United States.
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The Vampire Combat Field Guide: A Coloring and Activity Book for Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead
Автор: Ma Roger Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20202020-08-27
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From the author of The Zombie Combat Field Guide and The Vampire Combat Manual, an interactive coloring and activity book that will teach even the most inept potential Vampire warrior how to fend off the undead.
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Found
Автор: Coben Harlan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20172019-03-29
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From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling Mickey Bolitar series. As mysterious clues continue to surface, Mickey is determined to uncover the truth about his father's death. Was it accidental? Murder? Or is he in fact still alive? With the help of his Uncle Myron and loyal friends, Spoon and Ema, Mickey unravels the mysteries of the Abeona Shelter and the elusive Butcher of Lodz — all while trying to navigate the ins and outs of everyday life in high school. This third Mickey Bolitar mystery starts at a swift pace and never lets up.
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Midnight Riot
Автор: Aaronovitch Ben Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-23
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Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.
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Where Is Mount Everest?
Автор: Medina Nico Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20182017-05-24
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As the recent deaths of sixteen Sherpas underscore, climbing Mount Everest remains a daunting challenge. Located in the Himalayas, Everest is the highest mountain in the world at a whopping 29,029 feet. In this compelling narrative, Nico Medina guides readers through the mountain s ancient beginnings, first human settlers, historic climbs, and the modern commercialization of mountain-climbing. With stories of expeditions gone wrong and miraculously successful summit climbs, this is a thrilling addition to the Where Is...? series!
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Where Is the Great Wall?
Автор: Patricia Brennan Demuth Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20182017-05-24
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More than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build a wall to keep out enemies. It was a wall that kept growing and growing. But its construction came at a huge cost: it is believed that more than a million Chinese died building it, earning the wall its nickname — the longest cemetery on earth. Through the story of the wall, Patricia Brennan Demuth is able to tell the story of China itself, the rise and fall of dynasties, the greatness of its culture, and its present-day status as a Communist world power.
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Who Was Marco Polo?
Автор: Holub Joan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 105 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20142014-07-21
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China... and forty-one when he came back More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about... or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was...? biography with black-and-white artwork by John OaBrien.
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Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Автор: Yona Zeldis McDonough Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 106 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20102011-04-22
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Born in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old Soon after, he was performing for kings and emperors. Although he died at the young age of thirty-five, Mozart left a legacy of more than 600 works. This fascinating biography charts the musician's extraordinary career and personal life while painting a vivid cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe. Black-and-white illustrations on every spread explore such topics as the history of opera and the evolution of musical instruments. There is also a timeline and a bibliography. Illustrated by Carrie Robbins. Cover illustration by Nancy Harrison.
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
Автор: Buckley Jim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20172015-06-23
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As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two inventors and aviation pioneers who never lost sight of their dream: to fly, and to soar higher!
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The Counterfeit Agent
Автор: Berenson Alex Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20172017-05-24
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John Wells returns for another deadly mission from New York Times bestselling author Alex Berenson... In an Istanbul hotel, a deep source warns a CIA agent that Iran intends to kill a CIA station chief. Quickly, John Wells is called in to investigate, but before he can get far, the tip comes true. Which means that the next warning the source gives will be taken very seriously indeed. And it's a big one. A radioactive one. As the threat level jumps and the government mobilizes, Wells must figure out what's really going on. From a drug lord's mansion in Guatemala to a secret plastic surgery center in Thailand to the slums of Istanbul, Wells uses every skill he has — including his ability to go undercover in the Arab world — to chase down leads. But the enemy he faces is equally determined. And soon he may be too late to pull the United States back from the brink of war...
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Festive in Death
Автор: Robb J.D. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20182018-02-29
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«Eve Dallas deals with a homicide and the holiday season in the latest from #1 «New York Times» bestselling author J.D. Robb. Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn t count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest. Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who were loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat. While Dallas sorts through the list of Ziegler's enemies, she's also dealing with her Christmas shopping list plus the guest list for her and her billionaire husband s upcoming holiday bash. Feeling less than festive, Dallas tries to put aside her distaste for the victim and solve the mystery of his death. There are just a few investigating days left before Christmas, and as New Year's 2061 approaches, this homicide cop is resolved to stop a cold-blooded killer.»
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Mirage
Автор: Cussler Clive Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 329 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162016-05-18
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The extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the grand master of adventure. In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax — but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be sold, something very dangerous to America’s interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined — but by the time he realizes it, he may already be too late...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Автор: Twain Mark Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20172015-12-23
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Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous Duke and Dauphin. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents — of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. In 1853 he left home, earning a living as an itinerant type-setter, and four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi, a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War. For five years, as a prospector and a journalist, Clemens lived in Nevada and California. In February 1863 he first used the pseudonym 'Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel letter. A trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), A Tramp Aborad (1880), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), and his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885). Twain died on 21st April 1910. The best book we've had. (Ernest Hemingway).
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Art of the Start 2: 0. The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Автор: Kawasaki Guy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2015 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20172019-03-29
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Fully revised and updated for the first time in a decade — Guy Kawasaki's iconic, bestselling guide for startups of all kinds. Now featuring the latest wisdom about social media and many other topics. A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything-where there's a will, here's the way. Whether you are an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on topics such as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles and websites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis. Or they focus on the wrong priorities and face bankruptcy before they discover their mistakes. The Art of the Start solves that problem by distilling Guy Kawasaki's two decades of experience as one of the most original and irreverent strategists in the business world. At Apple in the 1980s, he helped lead one of the great companies of the century, turning ordinary consumers into evangelists. As founder and CEO of a venture capital firm, he has field-tested his ideas with dozens of newly hatched companies. And since 2004, The Art of the Start has advised thousands of people who are making their startup dreams real. From raising money to hiring the right people, from defining your positioning to creating a brand, this book will guide you through an adventure that's more art than science — the art of the start.
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