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This is Not a Book
Автор: Smith Keri Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142012-12-30
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With intriguing prompts, this book helps you discover: a secret message, a recording device, an instrument. It engages readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, 'If it's not a book, what is it then?' — with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.
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Baby Touch: Moo! Moo! Tab Book
Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20152014-07-14
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Babies and toddlers will love this interactive touch-and-feel Moo! Moo! tab book from the best-selling Ladybird Baby Touch series. It enables them to use the animal-shaped tabs to help turn the pages and find and name the different bright farm-themed pictures throughout, from cow and pig to tractor and barn. There are also big, stimulating touch-and-feel areas to stroke and talk about on every page — which animal feels furry? Which one feels smooth? This Ladybird Baby Touch title is a perfect first word book for all young fans of the farm.
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Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes
Автор: Smith Keri Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance — on purpose. Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet); draw in the dark (or with eyes closed); creatively misspell words; paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm; and, bury this book, then dig it up. This book is unlike any other you've encountered. Mess encourages readers to use accidents and mistakes to venture into territory where they would not normally go and thus to open themselves up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected.
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Автор: Asher Jay Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box, with his name on it, lying on the porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker — his classmate — who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did — and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list — and it'll change Clay's life forever.
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The Tragedy of Mister Morn
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20162017-03-26
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Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midia's husband returns, provoking a duel and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent. The first major work and the only play of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pnin, The Tragedy of Mister Morn is translated and published in English here for the first time, and is a moving study of the elusiveness of happiness, the power of imagination and the eternal battle between truth and fantasy.
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Whores for Gloria
Автор: William T. Vollmann Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20152016-04-07
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From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore — a woman who may or may not really exist.
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Self-Portrait
Автор: Ray Man Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray — painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer — relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s, when any trip to the city was not complete until they had been done by Man Ray's camera. Friend to everyone who was anyone, Ray tells everything he knows of artists, socialites and writers such as Matisse, Hemingway, Picasso and Joyce, not to mention Lee Miller, Nancy Cunard, Alberto Giacometti, Gertrude Stein, Dali, Max Ernst and many more, in this decadent, sensational account of the early twentieth-century cultural world.
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Deaf Sentence
Автор: Lodge David Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-15
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Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an enviably successful new career and is too busy to be endlessly repeating herself. Roles are reversed with his aging father, who resents his son's attempts to help him. And then there's Alex, a student whom Desmond has agreed to help after a typical misunderstanding at a party. But her increasingly bizarre requests cannot all be blamed on his defective hearing. So much for growing old gracefully...
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Vanity of Duluoz
Автор: Kerouac Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Just as Jack's glamorous new adult life begins, so does World War II, and he joins the US Navy to travel the world. As Jack experiences more, he realizes the limits of his former plans and returns to New York at the start of the Beat movement, to a riot of drugs, sex and writing. Vanity of Duluoz was Kerouac's final work published before his death in 1969.
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Satori in Paris
Автор: Kerouac Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20162014-06-23
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This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the Buddhism that came to define his beliefs, contains some of Kerouac's most lyrical descriptions. From his reports of the strangers he meets and the all-night conversations he enjoys in seedy bars in Paris and Brittany, to the moment in a cab he experiences Buddhism's satori — a feeling of sudden awakening — Kerouac's affecting and revolutionary writing transports the reader. Published at the height of his fame, Satori in Paris is a hectic tale of philosophy, identity and the powerful strangeness of travel.
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Maggie Cassidy
Автор: Kerouac Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is Kerouac's poignant tale of teenage romance in New England. The story of Jack and Maggie, in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation, is told with touching simplicity. It skillfully captures both the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications and is a beautiful evocation of growing up in America.
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Автор: Kerouac Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon — neither told the police. For this failing they were arrested. Months later, the two writers — unpublished at the time — collaborated on And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a fictionalized account of the summer of the killing.
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Speaking with the Angel
Автор: Hornby Nick Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his debut as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that have heart, soul and wit. All the writers have given their work free, and Penguin is giving GBP1 per copy sold to the TreeHouse Trust, a charity which is setting up a unique school for autistic children.
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Visions of Cody
Автор: Kerouac Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, this book reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another. Always fixated by Neal Cassady — the Cody of the title, renamed for the book along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs — Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who would inspire much of his work.
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Beautiful Redemption
Автор: Garcia Kami Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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Is death the end... or only the beginning? Ethan Wate always dreamed of leaving the stifling Southern town of Gatlin. But he never dreamt that finding love with Lena Duchannes would drive him away. Lena is a Caster girl whose supernatural powers unveiled a secretive and cursed side of Gatlin, so powerful it forced him to make a terrible sacrifice. Now Ethan must find a way to return to Lena — and Gatlin — as she vows to do whatever it takes to get him back. Even if it means trusting old enemies or risking their loved ones' lives. Can Ethan and Lena rewrite their fate and their spellbinding love story in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series?
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The Race
Автор: Cussler C. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20152015-02-13
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It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates-an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost-and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Frost's violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he knows that the man has made his millions leading gangs of thieves, murderers, and thugs in every city across the country. He also knows that Frost won't be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well. And if Bell takes the case... Frost will be after him, too.
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If I Die Before I Wake
Автор: King S. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20122012-05-06
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Laurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, his occasional work leaves him free to indulge. Bannister himself is bitter — his twisted leg keeps him on the sidelines while his ravishingly beautiful wife endures his moods with saintly patience. Or does she? It's the Bannisters' closest friend, Grisby, who starts stirring, getting Laurence to agree to a crazy plot. It will net him thousands, no strings attached. But is it all too easy?
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This Calder Range
Автор: Daily Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land, where the whisper of riches swept across a sea of buffalo grass. With Lorna at his side, a woman who took the tough ways of the land as her destiny, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of Indian country, and a bustling Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana. With Calder strength, they would harvest their fortune from the rich earth, on the sprawling plains of This Calder Range.
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Without Mercy
Автор: Higgins Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 291 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132010-07-28
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The new bestseller from the original thrill-seeker — Jack Higgins. In Higgins' acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive — but only one of them does. As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, a dark shadow from their past, scarred deep by hatred, steals across the room and finishes the job. Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake, Ferguson and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey upon which they are about to embark — nor of the war which will change them all.
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Little Women: With Good Wives
Автор: Alcott Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20122015-08-03
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«Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth — four «little women» enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of traveling through Europe with old Aunt March and Amy. Future writers have found inspiration in Jo's devotion to her writing. In this simple, enthralling tale, both parts of which are included here, Louisa May Alcott has created four of American literature's most beloved women.»
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