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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
Автор: Julius Lester Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 143 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092007-12-30
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Generations of children have been captivated by the hair-raising adventures and misadventures of Brer Rabbit. Come along as he sneaks into Mr. Man's garden, persuades Brer Wolf to be burned in a hollow log, and kicks Brer Fox's Tar Baby. Jerry Pinkney's lively and humorous illustrations are a perfect match for Julius Lester's contemporary approach, which expertly introduces a modern sense of humor to these forty-eight tales while paying homage to their roots as traditional American folklore.
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Salvation in Death
Автор: J.D.Robb Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 373 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20112011-05-15
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«Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 «New York Times»-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.»
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The Lady in the Lake
Автор: Raymond Chandler Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake...
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The Lake of Dreams
Автор: Kim Edwards Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 380 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20142014-02-26
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At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities, but soon reveal a deeper and more complex family past. Kim Edwards is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER.
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On Grief and Reason: Essays
Автор: Joseph Brodsky Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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«In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and studies of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others. The second volume of essays following «Less Than One», this collection includes Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.»
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Russia's War
Автор: Richard Overy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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«In the course of human history, there has probably been no more terrible place than Eastern Europe in 1941-5. Estimates of total Soviet military and civilian deaths in the period now stand at more than 25 million. In «Russia's War», Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Germany from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians.»
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Bleeding Kansas
Автор: Sara Paretsky Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of FIRE SALE and KILLING ORDERS.
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Year of Wonders
Автор: Geraldine Brooks Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092006-03-08
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A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the mostextraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshirevillage and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, electedto quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
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The Mind Game
Автор: Macdonald Hector Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092006-09-24
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Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford's hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated, betrayed and abandoned to the brutal reality of Africa. Why? Is Ben being played for a fool, or is he in real danger& A nerve-stretching thriller of deceit and manipulation, this is the story of a man forced to play a deadly game — without knowing who the players are, what the prize is, or how to win... The Mind Game: no rules, no limits. Winner takes all.
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Incubus Dreams
Автор: Hamilton Laurell K. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 733 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082006-12-30
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Anita is pushed to her limits-both professionally and passionately — when she is called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer preying on strippers.
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The Bormann Testament
Автор: Higgins Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad-and it's about to get a lot worse. As Hitler's private secretary-and an influential member of the Third Reich-Martin Bormann was one of those rare Nazis who managed to simply disappear at the end of World War II. But the terrible secrets Bormann carried into oblivion are about to be revealed to the world. A manuscript that exposes former Nazis now in hiding is up for grabs, and there are those in power who have much to lose with its discovery. Now, Chavasse must retrieve the Bormann Testament before it is buried forever-and him along with it...
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Murder, She Wrote: Martinis and Mayhem
Автор: Fletcher Jessica Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Cabot Cove, Maine's most famous mystery author, Jessica Fletcher, is excited about promoting her new book in glamourous San Francisco. She can't wait for drinks and dinner on Fisherman's Wharf, a ride on the cable cars, and a romantic rendezvous with Scottish policeman George Sutherland. She doesn't know that solving a murder may be penciled into her agenda.
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Murder, She Wrote: A Pallette for Murder
Автор: Fletcher Jessica Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Jessica Fletcher's mid-summer vacation to New York's famed Hampton beaches turns into a lesson in the art of murder. Indulging in a lifelong passion, she enrolls in an art class, but when the model they had been sketching fails to stir-the victim of a deadly poison-Jessica canvasses the area, chasing down a killer with an artistic flair.
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Sweet Nothings
Автор: Anderson Catherine Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20112009-05-15
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Stealing her abusive ex-husband's expensive stallion, Molly Wells shows up at known horse whisperer Jake Coulter's Oregon horse ranch. Fearful of her ex-husband, Molly escapes with no clothes or money, but she's willing to risk everything to save Sonora Sunset, little realizing she needs to save herself as well. Hoping Jack's talents work their magic on the horse, Molly doesn't expect them to work.
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Sister Carrie
Автор: Dreiser Theodore Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20112010-12-20
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This epic of urban life tells of small-town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? From sweatshop to stage success? And of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.
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A Wish for Christmas
Автор: Thomas Kinkade Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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After serving in Iraq, David returns home to find his widowed father remarried. Jobless and injured, David doesn't have much Christmas cheer. He realizes that he needs to heal not only his body but his heart as well... Meanwhile, Lillian Warwick's daughters and her old friend Dr. Ezra Elliot are concerned about Lillian living on her own. When the tables turn and Ezra needs help, they find they value each other beyond just friendship...
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The Penguin History of the United States of America
Автор: Hugh Brogan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092004-04-07
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This one-volume history — from early British colonization to the fall of President Nixon — captures all the vivid personalities and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Hugh Brogan looks at the period leading to Independence from the American and British points of view, explores the permanent features, both good and bad, of the American character and produces a synthesis of all the current research to show how the USA developed so rapidly from small beginnings to global dominance.
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Notes from Underground and the Double
Автор: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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«Notes from Underground» (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never after wards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart'. «The Double» (1846) is the nightmarish story of Mr Golyadkin, a man who is haunted or possessed by his own double. Is 'Mr Golyadkin junior' really a double or simply a fearful side of his own nature? This uncertainty is what gives urgency and horror to a tale which may be read as a classic study of human breakdown.»
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Автор: Amy Chua Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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After igniting a firestorm of debate across the nation, Amy Chua's daring, conversation-changing memoir is now in paperback. At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother set off a global parenting debate with its story of one mother's journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children's individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future. Achingly honest and profoundly challenging, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua's iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, the Chinese way-and the remarkable, sometimes heartbreaking results her choice inspires.
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Woman Behind the Throne
Автор: Sally Bedell Smith Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20132015-09-14
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This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmatic and admired women in the world. With exclusive access to the Queen's personal letters, close friends and associates, this intimate biography is a treasure trove of fresh insights on her public persona and her private life. Here we see Queen Elizabeth going about her daily duties, preparing for formal occasions, playing with her children at the Palace, crawling on her stomach to stalk deer, donning yellow Marigolds to wash up after Balmoral cookouts, and even changing a car wheel. Here we, at last, get to meet the leader, strategist, and diplomat; the daughter, wife, mother and grandmother — Elizabeth the Queen.
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