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Dead to World (Southern Vampire Mysteries v: 4)
Автор: Charlaine Harris Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire—but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
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Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries v: 5)
Автор: Charlaine Harris Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092007-12-10
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Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural — but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time — a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks — unless the killer decides to find her first… I
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Автор: Ursula K. LeGuin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20092001-08-03
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«When «The Left Hand of Darkness» first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, «Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune — and such a world is Winter». Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of «The Left Hand of Darkness» contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin. When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of «male» and «female», he may destroy both his mission and himself.»
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Phule's Paradise
Автор: Robert Asprin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092001-08-23
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Be all that you can be: clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. Phule's Company is the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino from an unlikely criminal takeover... The odds are against the oddballs.
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The Modigliani Scandal
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092005-04-12
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«A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...»
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Cold Copper Tears
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091996-10-21
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She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes...
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The Man from St: Petersburg
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1991 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20091992-06-25
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His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself...
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On Wings of Eagles
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1993 Страниц: 467 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20091994-06-15
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have dared....
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The Pillars of the Earth
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 992 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092004-07-21
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A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic-a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral-stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity.
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Paper Money
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092001-08-31
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«Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of “On Wings of Eagles” and “Lie Down With Lions”. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal Junior Minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough guys all play their parts in a scheme that moves «paper money» around at a dizzying pace.»
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Passport to Russian
Автор: Charles Berlitz Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20091999-09-12
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A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler (which, just in case, includes a section entitled Point to Answer). Organized thematically, common words and expressions are shown in English and Cyrillic with easy-to-decipher phonetic pronunciation.
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The Mist
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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The storm rolled across Long Lake in Maine with a fury, leaving David Drayton and his family with fallen trees, downed power lines, and no electricity. At his wife’s request, David heads to the local supermarket to stock up on supplies, taking his young son and neighbor along for the ride. But the strange white mist that lingered on the lake has followed them to town, stranding them all in the store. Because something in the fog is taking people — and you can hear their screams...
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Visibility
Автор: Boris Starling Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
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Dread Brass Shadows
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20091997-09-10
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Everyone wants to find it — a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. It’s the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master — and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world.
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Sweet Silver Blues
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1990 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20091993-02-24
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It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.
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Bitter Gold Hearts
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091997-09-20
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The Stormwarden's children have been kidnapped and Garrett, P.I. is on the case. But caught between the bewitching beauty of a half-elf and the fearsome power of a horde of ogres, Garrett has to think twice before sacrificing all for a fortune in gold-after all, even in this enchanted land, he's only human.
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Old Tin Sorrows
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 300 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20091996-07-14
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That's what it seems like Garrett has committed himself to when Blake Peters calls in some overdue favors. Someone is trying to kill Peters's boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and maybe poisonous way. Can Garrett keep the general among the living? But Stantnor's mansion holds a host of surprises for a detective who thought he'd seen it all. While the general is dying slowly, his employees are losing their lives at a far speedier rate. And when some of the recently departed try to enlist their comrades in the growing legions of the dead, Garrett knows it's time to call in one of his own troops — in the person of Morley Dotes, the toughest half-elf around. With Morley guarding his back, Garrett has to find a way to get his hands on both the killer and the mansion's two elusive beauties, who are invisible to everyone but Garrett!
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Cruel Zinc Melodies
Автор: Glen Cook Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it’s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade Garrett to help get rid of the paranormal parasites living in the new construction. Garrett agrees because after all, it means free beer and the company of these beautiful girls. What else could a man want? But Garrett doesn’t realize the drama he’s stepping into.
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The Beautiful and Damned
Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20102009-07-21
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Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria.
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One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich
Автор: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112010-05-06
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«One of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia, «One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» is both a graphic picture of World War II work camp life and a testimony to the human spirit.»
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