| |
|
The Help
Автор: Kathryn Stockett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
|
|
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
|
| |
|
Great House
Автор: Nicole Krauss Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
|
|
«During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair among her papers that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer has spent a lifetime reassembling his father's study, plundered by the Nazis from Budapest in 1944; now only one item remains to be found. Connecting these lives is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away. And as the narrators of «Great House» make their confessions, this desk comes finally to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. «Great House» is a story haunted by questions: What do we pass on to our children and how do they absorb our dreams and losses? How do we respond to disappearance, destruction, and change? Nicole Krauss has written a soaring, powerful novel about memory struggling to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.»
|
| |
|
Port Mortuary
Автор: Patricia Cornwell Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
|
|
This is the latest Kay Scarpetta novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. In this fast-paced story, we travel back to the beginning of Scarpettas professional career when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than twenty years later, her secret military ties have brought her back to Dover Air Force Base, and she is confronted with a case that could ruin her both professionally and personally.
|
| |
|
Shape Up, Pup!
Автор: Ed Heck Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 14 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20132013-10-20
|
|
The dog from Goodnight Dog is back, and he keeps drawing shapes in the wrong places, like triangle wheels on a truck. Will he ever get it right?
|
| |
|
Someone Like You
Автор: Dessen Sarah Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 282 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092007-09-14
|
|
Halley and Scarlett have been best friends ever since they met. Halley has always been the quiet one, Scarlett braver and more outgoing. Halley has always turned to Scarlett when things get rough, and Scarlett has always known just what to do. It's the perfect setup. But everything changes at the beginning of their junior year. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident; then Scarlett finds out that she is carrying his baby. For the first time ever, Scarlett really needs Halley. Now Halley has to learn how to be strong for Scarlett. It won't be easy, but Halley knows that she can't let Scarlett down. Because a true friend is a promise you keep forever.
|
| |
|
The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion
Автор: Teen Vogue Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
|
|
Live like you work in fashion. A must-read for anybody interested in fashion. From aspiring designers, stylists, editors, and photographers to fashion obsessives who want behind the — scenes secrets about industry stars and tips on how to live a creative life.
|
| |
|
The Westing Game
Автор: Ellen Raskin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 182 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082006-10-07
|
|
When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will... and what a will it is!
|
| |
|
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Автор: Jon Scieszka Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091997-12-13
|
|
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
|
| |
|
Today is Monday
Автор: Eric Carle Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
|
|
String beans, spaghetti, Zoooop, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken and ice cream are the delicious fare during the week in this popular children's song. Until Sunday. Then, all the world's children are invited to come together and share in the meal. Celebrated artist Eric Carle brings new energy to these much-loved verses as lively animals parade across the page, munching on favorite dishes, and introducing young readers to the names of the days of the week. Both art and song invite children to join in the procession and sing along.
|
| |
|
Thirteen Reasons Why
Автор: Jay Asher Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
|
|
Jay Asher has worked at an independent bookstore, an outlet bookstore, a chain bookstore, and two public libraries. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore. When he is not writing, Jay plays guitar and goes camping. Thirteen Reasons Why is his first published novel.
|
| |
|
Madeline's Christmas (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Ludwig Bemelmans Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092009-10-13
|
|
Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapesa audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, weare adding two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytimea packages. Madelineas Christmas, Ludwig Bemelmansa classic tale of a little French girl named Madeline as she celebrates Christmas, is perfect for this holiday season.These Puffin picture books will be accompanied by a compact disc that features a professional reading of the unabridged story. Perfect for road trips or quiet bedtime reading, as well as story time, preschool, and home school, Puffin Storytime: Madelineas Christmas is sure to please children and parents alike.
|
| |
|
Madeline
Автор: Ludwig Bemelmans Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20092002-05-15
|
|
Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages. No one has ever written more delightful stories than the Madeline books, whose text and pictures are cherished by parents as well as by youngsters, and which have brightened the evening shadows at many a bedtime.
|
| |
|
Fall of Giants
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 944 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20132014-09-24
|
|
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits...An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House....A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when, she falls in love with a German spy... And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families — and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again...
|
| |
|
Loyalty in Death
Автор: J. D. Robb Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1999 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092001-05-16
|
|
With this month's release of the new Eve Dallas thriller, Betrayal in Death, fans will learn the true identity of author J.D. Robb — she's #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. But fans won't feel betrayed — they'll snap up the previous titles in this New York Times bestselling police series... and push it straight to the top.
|
| |
|
Nights of Rain and Stars
Автор: Maeve Binchy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 358 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092008-04-25
|
|
In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together in unexpected ways when sudden tragedy strikes. In her inimitable style, Maeve Binchy shares with readers the lives of these strangers, learning their hopes, dreams, and fears as they move forward, forever changed by their experience. Here is the story of old Andreas, the gentle taverna owner who has spent many years regretting the argument that drove his only son to America; Elsa, the beautiful German reporter who gave up her television career and the man she loves once she learned the secret he hid from her; and Fiona, the Irish nurse and dutiful daughter, who's gone off to travel with the man everyone says is wrong for her, determined to show them all — even if everyone is right. This is also the story of David, the only son who loves his family but not the family business; Thomas, the Californian who is able to cope with his recent divorce but not with sharing his son with his wife's new husband; and Vonni, who rashly left behind her life in Ireland to follow her true love to this village thirty years ago — and who is wise for everyone but herself. A story that only Maeve Binchy could tell, told with the authenticity, charm, and grace that are her trademark, Nights of Rain and Stars will be rightly cherished by her millions of fans around the world.
|
| |
|
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Автор: Victor Pelevin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 333 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112010-12-23
|
|
The worldas first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceapublished to coincide with Halloween. One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinas comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a apsychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.a In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevinas first novel in six years, paranormal meets transcendental with a splash of satire as A Hu-Li, a two-thousand-year-old shape-shifting werefox from ancient China meets her match in Alexander, a Wagner-addicted werewolf whoas the key figure in Russiaas Big Oil. Both a supernatural love story and an outrageously funny send-up of modern Russia, this stunning and ingenious work of the imagination is the sharpest novel to date from Russiaas most gifted literary malcontent.
|
| |
|
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street
Автор: Andrew Ross Sorkin Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 618 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-30
|
|
A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world's economy. We've got to get some foam down on the runway! a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world's financial system would experience. Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were too big to fail, it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail.
|
| |
|
Treachery in Death
Автор: J. D. Robb Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 372 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-14
|
|
In the latest in the New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law-including the ones sworn to uphold it.
|
| |
|
Kidnapped
Автор: Robert L.Stevenson Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
|
|
Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
|
| |
|
Moonstone
Автор: Wilkie Collins Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
|
|
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.
|
| |
