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Whiplash
Автор: Coulter Catherine Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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In Connecticut, the murder of a pharmaceutical bigwig brings in Savich and Sherlock, along with local Agent Bowie Richards and P.I. Erin Pulaski. Back in Washington, an important U.S. senator is terrorized by an unknown entity, and is calling for Savich's special skills. When the Vice President is nearly killed it's clear these crimes are linked, and Savich and Sherlock must act fast to stop a killer.
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Haiku for the Single Girl
Автор: Griffenhagen Beth Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20142013-05-12
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An uproarious, uplifting, and brazenly honest celebration of the single girl's life. Unsolicited relationship advice from relatives, disastrous dates, men who wear thumb rings, and the moments of deep satisfaction when a single girl realizes that she can do whatever she wants with her time — it's all here in Haiku for the Single Girl. Reading this brilliantly incisive and wittily illustrated collection, every woman — whether single or not-will laugh until she cries, and then start laughing all over again.
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Автор: Greenberg Paul Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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«A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.» Sam Sifton, «The New York Times Book Review.» Writer and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. «Four Fish» offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.»
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La Muerte De Artemio Cruz
Автор: Fuentes Carlos Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20102009-03-24
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After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.
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Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World
Автор: Moritz Michael Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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«Twenty five years later, revisiting the first authorized biography of Apple and its co-founder and celebrity CEO, Steve Jobs In 1984, «The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer» told the story of Apple's first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now, completely revised and expanded, «Return to the Little Kingdom» is the definitive biography of Apple and its founders from the very beginning. Moritz brings readers inside the childhood homes of Jobs and Wozniak and records how they dropped out of college and founded Apple in 1976. He follows the fortunes of the company through the mid-1980s, and in new material, tracks the development of Apple to the present and offers an insider's profile of Jobs, whose genius made Apple the powerhouse it is today. Required reading for everyone who's ever listened to music on an iPod, «Return to the Little Kingdom» is timely and thorough, and the only book that explains how Steve Jobs founded the company that changed our world.»
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Washington
Автор: Chernow Ron Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20142012-07-11
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«Watch a Video Read «Surprising Facts About George Washington» from» Washington: A Life» by Ron Chernow From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. In «Washington: A Life» celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master. At the same time, «Washington» is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency. In this unique biography, Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, Washington is a magisteri...»
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The Postmistress
Автор: Blake Sarah Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 371 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20122014-02-13
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The New York Times bestseller — A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Stockett. In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it, and doesn't deliver it. Meanwhile, Frankie Bard broadcasts from overseas with Edward R. Murrow. Her dispatches beg listeners to pay heed as the Nazis bomb London nightly. Most of the townspeople of Franklin think the war can't touch them. But both Iris and Frankie know better... The Postmistress is a tale of two worlds-one shattered by violence, the other willfully na ve-and of two women whose job is to deliver the news, yet who find themselves unable to do so. Through their eyes, and the eyes of everyday people caught in history's tide, it examines how stories are told, and how the fact of war is borne even through everyday life.
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Los Cuadernos de Don Rigoberto
Автор: Vargas Llosa Mario Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a sexual encounter between the boy and his stepmother. Rigoberto misses Lucrecia desperately — filling notebooks with his memories, fantasies, and letters he will never send. Meanwhile, Alfonso visits Lucrecia, attempting to both win her love and reunite her with his father. A companion volume to In Praise of the Stepmother — where we were first introduced to these passionate characters — The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is a compelling mix of fantasy and reality that always keep the reader guessing.
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Rain Fall
Автор: Eisler Barry Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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«Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code — he needs no one, trusts no one — until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past Rain kills to order and leaves no trace, but the death at his hand of an old man has unforeseen complications — and soon Rain is trying to protect not just his carefully preserved anonymity but his own life and those of the people he cares for. A stunning, page-turning reinvention of the hitman thriller, «Rain Fall» marks the introduction of a compelling new series character and major new thriller writing career.»
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The Red Room
Автор: French Nicci Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands...After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crimes, the nearer Kit gets to the dark heart of her own terror.
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The House of Gaian
Автор: Bishop Anne Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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In the conclusion of the Tir Alainn Trilogy, the uneasy alliance between Fae and humans may not be enough to defeat the Inquisitors-leaving them no choice but to seek out the witches of the House of Gaian. But can they be trusted?
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Cold Harbour
Автор: Higgins Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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In this Higgins adventure classic, an Allied spy operation is suddenly jeopardized just as it's about to discover Rommel's plans for defeating the D-Day invasion.
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Crime School
Автор: O'Connell Carol Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Police Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. She also recognized the victim...
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Light In Shadow
Автор: Krentz Jayne Ann Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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«Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty-helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget the past and start anew. But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a coat of paint. And when she senses that one of her clients may be hiding a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to find the truth. Working together, they solve the mystery... and barely escape with their lives. But Ethan's exquisite detection skills are starting to backfire on Zoe: she never wanted to let him find out about her former life; she never wanted to reveal her powerful, inexplicable gift for sensing the history hidden within a house's walls; she never wanted him to know that «Zoe Luce» doesn't really exist. She never wanted to fall in love with him. Now, no matter how much she resists, Ethan may be her only hope-because the people she's been running from have found her. And just when Zoe dares to dream of a normal life and a future with the man she loves, her own past starts to shadow her every step-and threatens to take her back into a nightmare.»
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Love Walked In
Автор: De los Santos Marisa Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 307 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082011-08-17
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For 31 year old Cornelia Brown, life is a series of movie moments. When her very own Cary Grant walks through the door of the Philadelphia cafe in which she works, it seems that dreams may come true. Then Cornelia meets 11 year old Clare, and their lives are forever changed in unexpected ways.
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
Автор: McCrum Robert Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. As its power spreads, its language inevitably follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century.
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The Concert Ticket
Автор: Grushin Olga Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 322 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20092009-03-18
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On any given morning, on the street corners of a Russian city, little kiosks suddenly appear. As soon as their shutters open, a queue forms, men and women lining up in the hope of a little bit of luxury: a pair of silk stockings or a box of chocolates. One morning news spreads that the exiled composer, Selinsky, will be returning to the city for one concert only, and there is one kiosk, somewhere, selling tickets to this most magical event of the year. So begins the story of a family, in which a ticket to Selinsky's concert means everything: for Sergei, the father, it holds the promise of an affair with another woman; for his wife, Anna, it offers the hope of winning back her faithless husband; for their son, Alexander, it means the possibility of escaping to the West.
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The Pleasures of Men
Автор: Williams Kate Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20102010-08-11
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It's Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him The Man of Crows. And as Catherine hungrily devours the news, she finds she can channel the voices of the dead... and comes to believe she will eventually channel The Man of Crows himself. But the murders continue to panic the city and Catherine gradually realizes she is snared in a deadly trap, where nothing is as it first appears... and lurking behind the lies Catherine has been told are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her imagination can conjure. With an elegant style and thrilling plot, The Pleasures of Men reveals the dark, beating heart of corrupt London during Queen Victoria's reign.
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The Inheritance of Loss
Автор: Desai Kiran Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20082007-12-07
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«This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be savvy readers of V.S. Naipaul but who are, perhaps, less aware of how fragile their own social standing is — at least until a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides threatening their very lives, the revolution also stymies the fledgling romance between 16-year-old Sai and her Nepalese tutor, Gyan. The cook's son, Biju, meanwhile, lives miserably as an illegal alien in New York. All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a «better life», when one person's wealth means another's poverty.»
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The Moment You Were Gone
Автор: Gerrard Nicci Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 468 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20122009-07-21
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Gaby and Connor have a loving, trusting marriage. They know every detail about each other. And now with their son Ethan about to set off for university, Gaby and Connor will be alone again to spend quality time together. But there is one person missing from Gaby's life. One person who she cannot forgot — Nancy, her best friend since childhood A haunting novel about friendship and secrets that will appeal to fans of Alice Sebold and Maggie O'Farrell. 'Nicci Gerrard writes of ordinary people and gets under their skins — and she'll get under yours too'.
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