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Brought in dead
Автор: Higgins J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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The second of two classic police thrillers featuring detective Nick Miller, set in London’s seedy underworld. After a long night on the job, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller is on his way home – only to become the first policeman at the scene of a young woman’s mysterious suicide. What’s odd is that it appears she tried to conceal her identity before doing herself in. Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl’s fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man. But the dead girl’s father swears to exact justice with or without the law on his side…
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Cujo
Автор: King Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Cujo, a huge St Bernard, is bitten by a rabid bat and changes from a lovable pet into a ferocious man-eating monster. He slaughters his garage-owning master and, as madness eats at his brain, focuses his deranged attention on Donna Trenton and her five-year-old son, who are trapped in their car.
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All Night Long
Автор: Krentz Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 359 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20112010-07-28
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Krentz's latest fast-paced, well-plotted romantic thriller takes place in the tiny Napa Valley village of Dunster-perhaps named after the Amanda Quick heroine Emma Dunster. A mysterious e-mail from a childhood friend, Pamela Webb, draws big-city reporter Irene Stenson home, but when Irene arrives, Pamela is dead, apparently of a drug overdose. Handsome but damaged ex-Marine Luke Danner, who owns the lodge where Irene is staying, helps her look into the case. The plot thickens when Pamela's house gets torched shortly after she dies, and soon Irene and Luke follow a trail that leads to Pamela's father, a powerful senator who may have played a role in the death of Irene's parents when she was a young girl. When Senator Webb's PR flack is found murdered after getting caught up in a blackmail scheme and Luke and Irene start their predictable but torrid romance, Krentz sets up a series of compelling confrontations, as Irene comes up with information that could jeopardize Webb's impending White House run. The dialogue, which dominates the book, is strong throughout; the plot is tight. Flaws like secondary-character overload and one-dimensional takes on politics aside, this is an impressive page-turner from a master of the genre.
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Автор: Max D.T. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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«In his lifetime, David Foster Wallace was lauded by critics and loved by fans. But even to those who had barely read his work, he was something of a cult figure. Since his suicide in 2008, Wallace has become the Kurt Cobain of the printed word, and his life and death now stand as symbols of a generation's hopes and their despair. In this compelling account of Wallace's evolution from anxious adolescent into post-modern anti-hero, D. T. Max will speak to those who knew him intimately and those who were drawn to him from afar to tell the story of a man struggling to write authentically about «what it is to be a f**king human being» against the frenetic noise of modern life and the cavernous void of American culture. This is a story of drugs and depression, of madness and creativity intertwined, of a man who felt profoundly lost but still found a way to capture this lostness in words and hold it defiantly aloft, like a flag for his generation.»
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A Whole New Mind
Автор: Pink Daniel H. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic right-brain thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.
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Red Mist
Автор: Cornwell P. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20162015-10-11
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out — she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it...
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An Abundance of Katherines
Автор: Green J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun — but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.
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Looking for Alaska
Автор: Green J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092009-03-28
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«John Green attended a boarding school not unlike Alaska’s Culver Creek. After graduating from college in 2000, he worked as a chaplain at a children’s hospital. John’s experiences with patients and their families during intense crises solidified his desire to write for teens about the challenge of confronting loss. John works for Booklist and is also a commentator for National Public Radio’s national afternoon newsmagazine, «All Things Considered,» and Chicago’s NPR affiliate, WBEZ. «Nick» about John’s experiences as a chaplain, appeared on «Driveway Moments» a «best-of» two-CD set, which NPR released in August 2004. John was recently featured in the Tribune’s RedEye edition and on television as one of Chicago’s «Fabulous 20somethings» He lives in New York City.»
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Paper Towns
Автор: Green J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life, he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Автор: Green J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with…Will Grayson! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts, they team up to produce the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in alternating voices from two of the most popular names in young adult fiction, this unique collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart and humour that has won both authors legions of fans. Note: The cover on the book is cut slightly shorter than the actual pages. This is not a defect as this is how the book is binded.
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Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Автор: Greenhalgh C. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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1913, Paris. Coco Chanel present at the first, the presentation of Igor Stravinsky's «rite of Spring». Rhythmic dissonance in music and sometimes shocking choreography cause a storm of indignation. But Koko carries how Igor stirred up the hall. Seven years later, Koko and Igor meet again. Between the designer and composer quickly arise mutual sympathy and affection. Koko invites Igor together with his wife and children to live on her Villa near Paris. In the summer between Koko and Igor start a secret relationship. Their increasing intimacy and benefit their work: Igor starts to compose works in the new, more free-style; and Koko together with his perfumer Ernest Bo creates Chanel no 5.
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The China Price
Автор: Harney A. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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In this landmark work of investigative reporting, former Financial Times correspondent Alexandra Harney uncovers a story of immense significance to us all: how China's factory economy gains a competitive edge by selling out its workers, environment, and future. Harney's firsthand reporting brings us face-to-face with a world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ubiquitous corruption and a lack of transparency to exact a staggering toll in human misery and envionmental damage. This eye-opening expose offers, for the first time, an intimate look at the defining business story of our time.
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A Devil is Waiting
Автор: Higgins J. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182015-07-14
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«The President of the United States is heading to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the «Prime Minister's private army» are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon.»
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James and the Giant Peach
Автор: Dahl Roald Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132012-06-21
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James Trotter loses his parents in a horrible accident and is forced to live miserably with his two wicked aunts. Then James is given some magic crystals that give him hope. But when he accidentally spills these crystals on an old peach tree, strange things begin to happen. A peach starts to grow and grow until James is able to climb inside and escape his awful aunts! And through this adventure, he makes some interesting friends, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede, and finally finds a place where he belongs.
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The Thief
Автор: Cussler Clive Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20162015-10-11
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On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him. But he may already be too late... and the future of the world may just hang in the balance.
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Автор: Rand Ayn Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the student rebellion, and the evils of altruism.
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Faded Steel Heat
Автор: Cook Glen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1999 Страниц: 356 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092001-07-21
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Riots between humans and trolls, elves, and other non-humans have plunged Tunfaire into near chaos. Garrett finds himself pulled into the game when a powerful gang of human rightists tries to shake down his employer?and ends up caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against? Everybody!
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For the New Intellectual
Автор: Rand Ayn Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1963 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20091965-05-22
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This is Ayne Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosphical doctrince of our time and the atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion that they create. One of the most controversial figures on the intellectual scene, Ayn Rand was the proponent of a moral philsophy — an ethic of rational self-interest — that stands in sharp opposition of the ethics of altruism and self-sacrifice. The fundamentals of this morality — a philosophy for living on earth — are here vibrantly set forth by the spokesman for a new class, For the New Intellectual.
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Philosophy: Who Needs it
Автор: Rand Ayn Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1995 Страниц: 228 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091998-02-24
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This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.
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The Romantic Manifesto
Автор: Rand Ayn Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1992 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20091993-06-25
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time.
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