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Time After Time
Автор: Tamara Ireland Stone Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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Calling Anna and Bennett's romance long distance is an understatement. She's from 1995 Chicago, and he's a time traveller from 2012 San Francisco. They never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all the odds. It's not perfect, of course. Bennett is forced to skip parts of his own present in order to be with Anna in hers, and he's unable to stay in the past for more than brief periods of time. But they're sure they can make it work, somehow... until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen, and certainly never expected to. Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future that both Anna and Bennett are desperate to avoid?
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A Curious Guide to London
Автор: Leyland Simon Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city, unearthing the capital's secrets and celebrating its rich and colourful history. Brimming with tales about the city's forgotten past, its strangest traditions and its most eccentric inhabitants, this quirky compendium commemorates the unique, the unusual and the unknown. Perfect for tourists, day-trippers, commuters and the millions of people who call London home, this book will make you look at the city in a whole new light.
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Hack Attack
Автор: Davies Nick Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20162017-07-18
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Since 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book now brings us the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. How a network of lawyers, politicians and celebrities worked with Nick to expose the facts and to stand up to Rupert Murdoch, arguably one of the most powerful men in the world; how News International attempted to protect itself with lies and threats and money; how the police and the press regulators failed; how the prime minister ended up with the wrong man inside his office. Hack Attack discloses in detail for the first time the full extent of crimes committed by the corporation, and other Fleet Street papers, and probes the relationship between Murdoch and his network with government. It is also a thrilling, nail-biting account of an investigative journalist's journey, showing us how the quest unfolded, and is a shining example of the might of good journalism. This is not simply a story about journalists behaving badly, this is a story about power and truth. Ambitious, comprehensive, gripping, essential — Hack Attack is the definitive book about the biggest scandal of our age. There will be no other book like it.
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The Indian in the Cupboard
Автор: Lynne Reid Banks Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 227 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-09-02
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Full of magic and appealing characters, this classic novel takes readers on a remarkable adventure. It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian brave. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeletonkey that once belonged to his great-grandmother. Little does Omri know that by turning the key, he will transform his ordinary plastic Indian into a real live man from an altogether different time and place! Omri and the tiny warrior called Little Bear could hardly be more different, yet soon the two forge a very special friendship. Will Omri be able to keep Little Bear without anyone finding out and taking his precious Indian from him?
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Six by Seuss: Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics
Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20091992-12-13
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Dr. Seuss's magic elixir may — or may not — prolong life, but it is a fact that it makes you feel a whole lot better Here in one glorious volume are six of the good doctor's best prescriptions. Not a word or a picture has been omitted or changed. Ranging from his very first book, And to Thing That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, to his prophetic The Lorax, Six by Seuss is the perfect collection to share with the entire family and to pass from generation to generation.
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Wacky Wednesday
Автор: LeSieg Theo Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1974 Страниц: 46 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20091977-02-24
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Illus. in full color. A baffled youngster awakens one morning to find everything's out of place, but no one seems to notice! Beginning readers will have fun discovering all the wacky things wrong on each page while sharpening their ability to observe, as well as to read.
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Changes
Автор: Steel Danielle Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1989 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20091993-03-19
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Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they begin.
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Voyager
Автор: Gabaldon Diana Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 1059 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20091995-12-13
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From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her... the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite — or forever doom — her timeless love.
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The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
Автор: Brown Archie Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders — those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process — are the most successful and admirable. Within authoritarian regimes, a more collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with personal dictatorship where cultivation of the myth of the strong leader is often a prelude to oppression and carnage. Within democracies, although 'strong leaders' are seldom as strong or independent as they purport to be, the idea that one person is entitled to take the big decisions is dangerous nonetheless, and the advantages of a collegial style of leadership are too often overlooked. In reality, only a minority of political leaders make a big difference, by challenging assumptions about the politically possible or setting in motion systemic change. Yet in a democracy that is rare. It is especially when enlightened leaders acquire power in an authoritarian system that the opportunity for radical transformation occurs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, Willy Brandt and Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair are among the leaders whom Brown examines in this original and illuminating study.
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Blood on Snow
Автор: Nesbo Jo Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20172017-10-21
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Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living — terminally — it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She's his boss' wife. And Olav's just been hired to kill her.
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The Long Utopia
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve. Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic, far-distant world. He's convinced they're leading a normal life in New Springfield — they even adopt a child — but it seems they have been guided there for a reason. As rumours of strange sightings and hauntings proliferate, it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world. Millions of steps away, Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery: learning about the father he never knew and a secret family history. But then he receives a summons from New Springfield. Lobsang now understands the enormity of what's taking place beneath the surface of his earth — a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth. To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind, machine and the super-intelligent Next. And some must make the ultimate sacrifice...
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The Nose
Автор: Gogol Nikolai Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 54 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20162017-02-13
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A masterpiece of satire and a key work of the Russian fantastic movement. One of the most celebrated tales in Russian literature. Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but from its clothing it is apparent that the nose has acquired a higher rank in the civil service than he and refuses to return to his face. THE ART OF THE NOVELLAToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers but beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. The Art of the Novella Series celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners. The series has been recognized for its excellence in design by AIGA.
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I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words
Автор: Frith Michael Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 36 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-03-19
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Illus. in full color. Beginning readers can learn 100 different words in this story about a remarkable dog.
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Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Автор: Riggs Ransom Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20172018-09-14
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September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom. Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.
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House Harkonnen
Автор: Herbert Brian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092004-04-07
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds.... As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides — and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice — strive for greatness or be crushed.
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Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer
Автор: Heisler Gregory Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W. Bush (which led to the revocation of Heisler’s White House clearance) to his evocative post-9/11 Time magazine cover of Rudolph Giuliani, to stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Hillary Clinton, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, and many more, Heisler reveals the creative and technical processes that led to each frame. For Heisler’s fans and all lovers of photography, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits offers not only a gorgeous collection of both black-and-white and color portraits, but an engrossing look at the rarely seen art of a master photographer at work. With a foreword by New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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The Lincoln Myth: A Novel
Автор: Berry Steve Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20182016-05-22
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No. 1 internationally bestselling author Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours.
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The Ghost
Автор: Harris Robert Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project — a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him — secrets with the power to kill. Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade.
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Great American Short Stories
Автор: Stegner W. Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1985 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20091990-08-11
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An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
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The Nose Book
Автор: Perkins Al Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092004-06-05
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I see a nose on every face. I see noses every place! Noses come in all shapes, colors, and sizes and are handy to have for sniffling, smelling, and... playing horns? This simple, sometimes silly story offers little ones a first ode to the nose and all that it does.
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