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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Автор: Hynde Chrissie Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20172019-03-29
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From Chrissie Hynde, one of rock's most iconic, alluring, kick-ass, and (let's face it) sexy women, a brilliant, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock life lived to the hilt. Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and frontwoman of The Pretenders in its various incarnations, has for thirty-five years been one of the most admired and adored and imitated figures in rock. This long-awaited memoir tells her life story in full and utterly fascinating detail, from her all-American Ohio fifties childhood to her classic baby-boomer seduction by the rock of the sixties to her sojourn in the crucible of punk that was seventies London to her instant emergence with her band, The Pretenders, in 1980 into stardom as a frontwoman and songwriter. She brings a fantastic eye for detail, a withering and sardonic sense of humor, and a fearless and sometimes naked emotional honesty to her memoir, and every line, every word of it is unmistakably hers. It is sure to be recognized as a classic of rock literature — and, man, is it fun to read.
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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Автор: Esquivel Laura Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091998-09-22
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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story. The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.
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Just One Year
Автор: Forman Gayle Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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After spending an incredible day and night together in Paris, Just One Year is Willem's story, picking up where Just One Day ended. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allyson's own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself.
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Sherlock: The Mind Palace
Автор: Collins Mike Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20172017-07-18
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The visual landscape of the BBC's Sherlock is rich and complex. The Mind Palace is a unique celebration of that world, featuring over 50 intricate pieces of artwork for fans to colour in, including classic scenes, intricate interiors and beautifully illustrated cast shots. For the first time, fans can personalise this world by adding colour to dramatic London skylines, redesigning the interior of 221b Baker street, and completing incredibly detailed cast illustrations. With visually stunning original black and white illustrations by artist Mike Collins, this is an opportunity for fans to create their own mind palace and a perfect gift for the Sherlock fan on your list.
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Автор: Hoeg Peter Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 409 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20162017-10-11
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One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder.She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.
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No-one Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday
Автор: Bloom Tracy Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20182018-03-19
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A very funny romantic novel (... and no. 1 ebook bestseller) Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten... until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby. Love and life are messy, but Katy and Matthew take things to a whole new level as deep emotions begin to resurface and hormones run riot. Never has a one-night-stand led to such chaos!
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A Redbird Christmas
Автор: Flagg Fannie Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20172018-09-30
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Oswald T. Campbell, aged fifty-two, down-and-out in a Chicago winter, is given only months to live unless he moves South... He finds himself in the small town of Lost River, Alabama, where the residents are friendly if feud-prone and eccentric to a fault. One of them, Roy, keeps a red cardinal, a once wounded bird called Jack. Patsy, a sad, sweet little kid with a crippled leg, from the trailer park up in the woods, takes to dropping by the store — and falls in love with Jack. Flagg takes us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the lives and hearts of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter.
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A Week in December
Автор: Faulks Sebastian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20202017-10-23
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Powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.
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Dickens at Christmas
Автор: Dickens Charles Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20172017-10-21
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A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful edition It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and these pages certainly hold all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity, and goodwill. This elegant collection gathers together not only Dickens' Christmas Books but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and the hilarious festive episodes from The Pickwick Papers. A must-have for Christmas, this book is as necessary to seasonal festivities as holly, mistletoe, and silver bells.
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The Life-changing Magic of Tidying: A Simple, Effective Way to Banish Clutter Forever
Автор: Kondo Marie Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20172019-08-11
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Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan's expert declutterer and professional cleaner Marie Kondo will help you tidy your rooms once and for all with her inspirational step-by-step method. The key to successful tidying is to tackle your home in the correct order, to keep only the things you really love and to do it all at once — and quickly. After that for the rest of your life you only need to choose what to keep and what to discard. The KonMari Method will not just transform your space. Once you have your house in order you will find that your whole life will change. You can feel more confident, you can become more successful, and you can have the energy and motivation to create the life you want. You will also have the courage to move on from the negative aspects of your life: you can recognise and finish a bad relationship; you can stop feeling anxious; you can finally lose weight. Marie Kondo's method is based on a 'once-cleaned, never-messy-again' approach. If you think that such a thing is impossible then you should definitely read this compelling book.
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Автор: Finn Peter Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20182018-02-29
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The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West. 1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world — a highly dangerous act. 1958. The life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal. With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world. This is a Spectator and Sunday Times Book of the Year.
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A Spool of Blue Thread
Автор: Tyler Anne Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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This book is Short-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015. Sunday Times best-seller 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family home. They've all come, even Denny, who can usually be relied on only to please himself. From that porch we spool back through three generations of the Whitshanks, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define who and what they are. And while all families like to believe they are special, round that kitchen table over all those years we also see played out our own hopes and fears, rivalries and tensions — the essential nature of family life.
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The Grownup
Автор: Flynn Gillian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 63 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20092008-04-25
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«Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the «psychic» visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan’s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan’s teenage stepson, doesn’t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it. The Grownup, which originally appeared as What Do You Do? in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world’s most original and skilled voices in fiction.»
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Автор: Long Laurel Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20172016-10-13
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You may think you know this carol, but the breathtaking talent of Laurel Long brings it to life as never before. Readers will pore over every page, searching for golden rings, turtledoves, and the many other secrets tucked into each stunning illustration. Laurel Long's unparalleled style makes this exquisite volume a treasure to be cherished and the perfect gift for the Christmas season.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Автор: Strayed Cheryl Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
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Catherine, Empress of All the Russias
Автор: Cronin Vincent Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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Catherine II, Empress of all the Russias, was the archetypal Enlightenment monarch. She reigned for more than 30 years, and during that time, as politician, diplomat, commander-in-chief, educator, builder, picture-collector, lover, mother, playwright, writer of fairy stories, autobiographer and indefatigable correspondent, she reformed and developed her largely unenlightened and backward country. Yet this woman, who at the age of 33, after 17 years of unhappy marriage, placed her deposed and murdered husband's crown on her own head, had begun life as an insignificant German princess. Catherine is interesting today not only as one of the most effective sovereigns of the late eighteenth century, but also as a determined career woman and head of government who dominated a vast empire as easily as she did her lovers and her court.
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Christmas Holiday: Vintage Christmas
Автор: Maugham W. Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20172020-08-11
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At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimore, his oldest friend.Yet Paris is not what he expects. And in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the horror and ugly drama of its underworld. Published before the outbreak of war in 1939, Maugham's purpose in Christmas Holiday was to warn the complacent, insular British middle-class of the immense upheavals taking place on the Continent.
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Batman: Graveyard Shift. Volume 6
Автор: Snyder Scott Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20192016-12-16
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In the wake of the death of his son Damian, Batman is in danger of losing his humanity. However, the foes of this grief-ridden Dark Knight mean to strike him when he's at his weakest. Has Batman's worst foe become... Bruce Wayne? Plus, three pivotal chapters from the epic Zero Year storyline! From the critically acclaimed, New York Times (numbered) 1 best-selling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo comes the next genre-defining graphic novel in their monumental run. This title collects Batman numbered 0, numbered 18-20, numbered 28, numbered 34, and Batman Annual numbered 2.
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Forever Evil
Автор: Johns Geoff Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20162017-09-20
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The Justice League is dead! And the villains shall inherit the Earth! In a flash of light, the world's most powerful heroes vanish as the Crime Syndicate arrives from Earth-3! As this evil version of the Justice League takes over the DC Universe, no one stands in the way of them and complete domination... no one except for Lex Luthor! By New York Times number 1 best-selling creators Geoff Johns and David Finch, Forever Evil is the first universe-wide crossover of The New 52. This hardcover graphic novel collects the Forever Evil numbered 1-7.
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John Constantine Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell. Volume 8
Автор: Ennis Garth Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162017-02-24
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John Constantine heads towards a final showdown with a revenge-crazed Satan during a raging race riot, and in addition to desperately trying to save his dwindling number of living friends, Constantine also has one final reunion with his lost love Kit. This re-cut volume features Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's final John Constantine, Hellblazer arc, collecting issues numbered 78-83, as well as the special one-shot Heartland.
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