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Fallen
Автор: Erin McCarthy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered — and all evidence points to him — a foggy Gabriel cannot be sure he didn’t do it. His penance: to be forever denied love. Then in modern-day New Orleans he meets forensic scientist Sara Michaels...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Автор: Kim Edwards Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092009-04-27
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This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted story of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love.
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My Immortal
Автор: Erin McCarthy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily forgotten-or forgiven.
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Russian Debutante's Handbook
Автор: Gary Shteyngart Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092012-03-29
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava—the Eastern European Paris of the '90s—whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat community with the hope of defrauding his young middle-class compatriots by launching a pyramid scheme that's as stupid as it is brilliant. Things go swimmingly at first, but nothing is quite as it seems in Prava, and Vladimir learns that in order to reinvent himself, he must first discover who he really is.
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
Автор: T. S. Eliot Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1998 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092001-09-20
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«This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, «The Waste land», which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. — «The Wast Land» is a modernist literary masterpiece. — Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. — T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. — Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the «New Yorker» and «The New Republic». — Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete.»
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Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed
Автор: Robert Graysmith Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-12-23
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After painstaking investigation, and more than 30 years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes infamous Zodiac killer’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. Includes photos and a complete reproduction of the Zodiac’s letters.
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The BFG
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
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The Beach House
Автор: Jane Green Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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Nan is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that the money she was relying on is running out and her house might be at stake, she knows that something has to change. Nan decides to rent out rooms in her house for the summer and soon people start moving in, filling it with noise, laughter and tears. Among them is Daniel, a recently separated father of two young girls, who's struggling to find out who he really is, and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her mother unreservedly for the divorce. As the house comes to life again, Nan finds her family extending. Her son, Michael, comes home for the summer and then an unexpected visitor turns up, turning all their lives upside down... Compelling, absorbing and poignant, The Beach House is a story of friendship, second chances and those moments that can change your life.
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Black Mischief
Автор: Evelyn Waugh Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092002-07-18
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'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way'. When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill-informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid if Minister of Modernization Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the west — but will it be as simple as that?
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Автор: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a concept that will change the way you look at the world. Black Swans underlie almost everything, from the rise of religions, to events in our own personal lives. A Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principle characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. And why do we always ignore the phenomenon of Black Swans until after they occur? As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reveals, we are hard-wired not to truly estimate risk, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the ‘impossible’. In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know, and shows us how to face the world.
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Born to be Riled
Автор: Jeremy Clarkson Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122008-12-13
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Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees – and then puts the boot in. Among other things, he explains: • why Surrey is worse than Wales • how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest • the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched • that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus Raving politicians, pointless celebrities, ridiculous ‘personalities’ and the Germans all get it in the neck, together with the stupid, the daft and ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Clarkson’s postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended.
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Brazil
Автор: John Updike Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20082009-02-24
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Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....
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As You Like it
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091995-12-20
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«When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves — now a fellow exile — and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, «As You Like It» is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings.»
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Julius Caesar
Автор: William Shakespeare Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1995 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091997-10-20
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«This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the «Penguin Popular Classics» series.»
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Candide
Автор: Voltaire Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092004-09-30
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Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them — earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, murder — sorely testing the young hero's optimism.
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Ginger, You're Barmy
Автор: David Lodge Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
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«When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike «Ginger» Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.»
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Автор: George Gibian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1993 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20091998-08-14
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«The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem «The Bronze Horseman»; Gogol's «The Overcoat»; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and «The Grand Inquisitor» episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry, plays, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays by such writers as Griboyedov, Pavlova, Herzen, Goncharov, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Maksim Gorky. Distinguished scholar George Gibian provides an introduction, chronology, biographical essays, and a bibliography.»
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 1
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 1992 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20091994-10-20
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«These thirty stories, including the piece «Rain», are set in the Pacific Islands, England, France, and Spain.»
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 2
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2001 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20092004-02-24
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«The stories collected here, including «The Alien Corn», «Flotsam and Jetsam», and «The Vessel of Wrath», reconfirm Maugham's stature as one of the masters of the short story.»
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Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 3
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092004-05-26
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Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
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