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Stupid White Men
Автор: Moore Michael Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092007-02-09
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Michael Moore sizes up the new century — and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike's manifesto on malfeasance and mediocrity.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Автор: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092007-06-25
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You only find true love once. When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte, it seems as though he is in paradise. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates Werther's adoration and encourages his friendship. She can never return his love. Broken-hearted, he leaves her home in the country, trying to escape his own desire. But when he receives a letter telling him that she is finally married, his passion soon turns to destructive obsession. And as his life falls apart, Werther is haunted by one certainty. He has lost his reason for living.
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The Day of the Locust
Автор: West Nathanael Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist — and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's desperate passion can only lead to frustration, disillusionment and rage.
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Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her Mother
Автор: Hunniford Gloria Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20082009-09-22
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Gloria Hunniford's daughter, TV presenter Caron Keating, was 34 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Initially, she was declared in the clear but the cancer came back, despite her attempts to fight it off with every therapy going. She died aged 41. This is Gloria's account of Caron's life. It is outstanding from the beginning feels painfully truthful, but is utterly absorbing. It does make you cry endlessly. It is about the difficult bond between mothers and daughters, and about what happens to a family when one of its members gets taken over by a disease. Gloria's honesty in writing this book is extraordinary both Caron and Gloria come across as amazingly strong, loving and inspiring characters — Daily Express. We see Caron as a daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend and a mother, but most of all as a fighter. This is not a story of illness and death rather it's a beautiful, emotional celebration of an extraordinary life that sadly ended far too soon. A beautiful read — Daily Record.
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Prince of Fire
Автор: Silva Daniel Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20082008-07-11
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On a bright morning in Rome, a terrible explosion rips a hole in the Israeli embassy. Moments later, four gunmen cut down survivors as they stagger from the burning building. Gabriel Allon is hastily recalled to Israel and drawn once more into the heart of the secret service he'd hoped to leave behind. For the blast has led to a disturbing revelation: a dossier that strips away Allon's secrets and lays bare his history. A dossier that had fallen into terrorist hands...
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The Savage Altar
Автор: Larsson Asa Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Innocence will be sacrificed... On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled — and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess...
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Eye Contact
Автор: McGovern Cammie Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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For nine years, Adam has been the centre of his mother, Cara's world. And, she thinks, she has been the centre of his, until the day he disappears. When he is found in the woods behind his school, beside the body of a little girl whom Cara has never heard of before, it feels as if her world has been torn apart. As Adam is locked into silence, unable to tell his mother what he has seen, Cara's desperation to understand her little boy becomes fiercer than ever. A heart-rending, utterly unputdownable story of the tangled bond between mother and child, Eye Contact engages the heart and will not let it go.
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The Orpheus Deception
Автор: Stone David Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112009-12-07
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The Orpheus Deception opens with a brutal assassination attempt on the rainy streets of Venice that sets CIA agent Micah Dalton on a collision course with a vengeful Serbian warlord. Picking up where The Echelon Vendetta left off — Dalton is still on the run from the CIA, finding himself ever more entangled in a web of conspiracies. He tries to uncover the links between a savage act of piracy in the South China Sea, the disappearance of a CIA agent, and an elusive ship known only as Orpheus. As he desperately seeks to unlock the shattering secret, Dalton is once again caught up in an international chase that takes him from Italy to Singapore and finally back to his homeland and ever-greater danger to himself...
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The Blood Detective
Автор: Waddell Dan Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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«As dawn breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a windswept Notting Hill churchyard. The killer has left Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his team a grisly, cryptic clue... However, it's not until the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine-chillingly clear. For, it leads Barnes back more than one hundred years — to the victim of a demented Victorian serial killer... When a second body is discovered Foster needs Barnes's skills more than ever. Because the murderer's clues appear to run along the tangled bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right about his blood-history, the killing spree has only just begun... From the author of the bestselling «Who Do You Think You Are?» comes a haunting crime novel of blood-stained family histories and gruesome secrets...»
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Disobedience
Автор: Alderman Naomi Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20102008-12-23
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By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.
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The Atlantis Code
Автор: Brokaw Charles Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142014-08-13
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An ancient artifact is discovered in a dusty antiquities shop in Alexandria, Egypt — the long forgotten trinket soon becomes the center of the most deadly archaeological hunt in history. The 20,000 year-old relic is inscribed with what appears to be the long lost language of Atlantis. Only one man would seem to be able to decode its meaning — the world's foremost linguist, Dr. Thomas Lourdes — but only if he can stay alive long enough! Meanwhile, an earthquake in Cadiz, Spain, uncovers a most unexpected site — one which the Vatican rush to be the first to explore! Perhaps the lost city of Atlantis is finally ready to be found? But is the world ready for her secrets?
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Stones of Fire
Автор: Palov C.M. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20112014-08-14
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Eight hundred years ago a Crusader in the Holy Land discovered a gold box. Under a veil of secrecy it was transported to England and hidden, the clues to its whereabouts embedded in sixteen cryptic lines of verse. For centuries it has been rumoured the treasure was none other than the Ark of the Covenant. When Edie Miller witnesses a brutal murder and the theft of an ancient relic — the Stones of Fire — her life is shattered. The cops are implicated in the murder and Edie is fast running out of places to hide. In a desperate gamble she contacts Caedmon Aisquith, friend of the murder victim and expert in ancient civilisations. Little does she realise, he's also a former MI5 officer and soon finds himself in the crosshairs too. The two join forces, determined to understand why the Stones of Fire, rumoured to be Moses' breastplate, is so crucial. As the layers of deceit peel away, the Ark of the Covenant is revealed to be the true endgame and Edie and Caedmon must follow a trail of puzzles to find it first... before a sinister army of mercenaries uses it to wage war on a terrifying scale. The safety of the world depends upon it.
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Armadillo
Автор: Boyd William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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Lorimer Black — young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression — does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised, is a con game run with the protection of the law. One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent of things to come.
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The Last Pope
Автор: Luis Miguel Rocha Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112010-12-30
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Vatican City, 29 September 1978: the world wakes to the shocking news that Pope John Paul I is dead, just a month after his accession. Thirty years later, in London, young journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a mysterious package. Enclosed is a list of names and a coded message. Moments later a masked assassin attempts to silence her for ever. It seems Sarah holds the key to unveiling a deadly secret — a plot that implicates unscrupulous mercenaries and crooked politicians, and which goes to the very heart of the Vatican. Sarah has no choice but to run, forced into a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse. She can trust no one, especially when her father's name appears on the incriminating list. Sarah finds herself at the centre of a world-wide conspiracy its keepers will stop at nothing to protect.
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Moonraker
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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At M's request, Bond confronts Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission to teach the millionaire and head of the Moonraker project a lesson he won't forget, and prevent a scandal engulfing Britain's latest defence system. But there is more to the mysterious Drax than simply cheating at cards. And once Bond delves deeper into goings on at the Moonraker base he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be.
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Badenheim, 1939
Автор: Appelfeld Aharon Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092006-06-25
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This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumours of war rumble into the resort town, but the characters struggle to convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal.
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Focus
Автор: Miller Arthur Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours — and neither a Hispanic woman abused outside his window nor the persecution of the Jewish store owner he buys his paper from are any of his business. Until Newman begins wearing glasses, and others begin to mistake him for a Jew.
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Journey into Fear
Автор: Ambler Eric Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home — alongside, among others, an entrancing French dancer, an unkempt trader, a mysterious German doctor and a small, brutal man in a crumpled suit — he enters a nightmarish world where friend and foe are indistinguishable. Graham can try to run, but he may not be able to hide for much longer!
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The Death of Grass
Автор: Christopher John Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain they are left alone, and society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it across country to the safety of his brother's farm in a hidden valley, their humanity is tested to its very limits.
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Epitaph for a Spy
Автор: Ambler Eric Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit's identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.
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