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The Pacific
Автор: Ambrose Hugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20142014-04-19
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Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. The Pacific is the companion book to the HBO miniseries that tracks the intertwined odysseys of U.S. Marines during WWII. Hugh Ambrose is a noted historian and was a consultant on the documentary Price for Peace for which Steven Spielberg and Stephen Ambrose were the Executive Producers.
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Theodore Boone: The Accused
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 271 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20182017-03-24
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Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Streenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer.
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What Happened to Goodbye
Автор: Dessen Sarah Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 402 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20142013-05-25
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«McLean and her father, a restaurant consultant, have spent two years moving from town to town. In the aftermath of her parents' divorce, McLean has opted to stay with her father and has become somewhat estranged from her mother. In Lakeview, the newest town, McLean finds herself putting down more roots that she usually does, making friends, and even enjoying a new romance with her neighbor, Dave. She also begins the process of rebuilding her relationship with her mother. Along for the Ride was a 1 New York Times bestseller in hardcover. «Good night, Gorilla», says the zookeeper. But mischievous Gorilla isn't quite ready to go to sleep. He'd rather follow the zookeeper on his rounds and let all of the other animals out of their cages. Little night owls can sneak along with Gorilla and see who gets the last laugh in this riotous goodnight romp. Practically wordless yet full of expressive art and hilarious, adorable detail, this book is sure to become a beloved part of children's own bedtime rituals.»
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Автор: Dahl Roald Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2014 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20152015-12-20
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'The ultimate children's story ever' — David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No. storyteller! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. The famous story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his amazing chocolate factory. Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, opens his gates of his amazing chocolate factory to five lucky children. Gobstoppers, wriggle sweets and a river of melted chocolate delight await — Charlie needs just one Golden Ticket and these delicious treats could all be his! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total sales are over 100 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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The Drawing of the Three
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092006-09-14
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«After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Sea — each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must «draw» three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. And in 1977, he encounters Jack mort, Death, a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. Has Roland found new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely?»
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Flower Fairies One Hundred Postcards
Автор: Cicely Mary Barker Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20172015-09-14
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A collection of one hundred postcards that features a selection of author's most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings. It includes coverage that ranges from the ethereal seasonal fairies, through to the playful fairy alphabet.
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Reached
Автор: Condie A. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20172014-06-21
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«The final thrilling part of the «New York Times» bestselling trilogy, «Reached» is the sequel to «Matched» and «Crossed» by Ally Condie. After leaving the Society and desperately searching for each other — and the Rising — Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again...In the gripping conclusion to the bestselling «Matched» trilogy Cassia, Ky, and Xander return to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long: the power to choose.»
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Ancient Light
Автор: Banville John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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The story of obsessive young love and the power of grief — the bet novel yet from the Booker prize winner.
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The Chaperone
Автор: Moriarty Laura Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20162015-10-11
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On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime — an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress — but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.
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A Christmas Carol
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20152013-06-23
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Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding . Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Dombey and Son
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 1072 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152013-12-13
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'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light'. Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Through his dysfunctional relationships with his son, his two wives, and his neglected daughter Florence, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the limitations of a society dominated by commercial values and the drive for profit and explores the possibility of moral and emotional redemption through familial love. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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An Abundance of Katherines
Автор: Green John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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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. This title comes from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska , John Green. John has a huge online presence through his 1.1 million Twitter followers and YouTube channel Vlogbrothers, which has been viewed over 200 million times and has 660,000 subscribers, making it one of the most successful online channels in history.
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Автор: Dahl Roald Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero — David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world's No.1 storyteller — Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it — in none other than a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful whooshing noise, Charlie and his family find themselves in splendid orbit around the Earth. A daring adventure has begun, with the one and only Mr Willy Wonka leading the way. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for Shell in Africa. He began to write after a monumental bash on the head , sustained as an RAF pilot in World War II. Roald Dahl died in 1990. Quentin Blake is one of the best-known and best-loved children's illustrators and it's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Автор: Chesterton G.K. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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'A man's brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined... The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions... I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime — the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. Beyond the preoccupying fact of this intriguing crime, however, the novel also offers readers a characteristically Dickensian mix of the fantastical world of the imagination and a vibrantly journalistic depiction of gritty reality. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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The Pocket Scavenger
Автор: Smith Keri Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Instructs readers to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more.
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The Movement of Stars
Автор: Brill Amy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-27
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It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her life — for, as an amateur astronomer, she secretly hopes to discover a comet and win the King of Denmark's prize for doing so.
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Entwined With You
Автор: Day Sylvia Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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The 6 million copy global bestselling Crossfire series from Sylvia Day continues in Entwined with You as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires... From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside — so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. No one knows how much he risked for me. How much I'd been threatened, or just how dark and desperate the shadow of our pasts would become. Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession...
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The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
Автор: London Jack Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel’s abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral philosophers. One of the best sea novels ever written, The Sea-Wolf tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume, “The Law of Life”, “The One Thousand Dozen”, “All Gold Canyon”, and “Moon-Face” offer more riveting action and adventure. In these tales, London’s descriptions of the natives, the northern dogs, and even the tundra capture the essence of the exuberant life he experienced firsthand.
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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Автор: Gogol Nikolai Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest works are his short stories. Together in this collection are collected some of the best of these stories, they include the following: The Diary of a Madman, The Viy, The Mysterious Portrait, The Fair of Sorotchinetz, An Evening in May, Mid-Summer Evening, and The Carriage (The Calash).
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