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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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'It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks'. The long-haired poet — 'Mad Shelley' — and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is over-turning long-cherished beliefs. Perhaps there is no God. In which case, where is the divine spark, the soul? Can it be found in the human brain? the heart? the eyes? Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office in Clarendon Street provides corpses — but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. And, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men — the resurrectionists. He pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by ... until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars and sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water....
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Blood Magic
Автор: Jennifer Lyon Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112010-12-07
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In the days when powerful witches used their magic to shield humanity from demons, their allies and guardians were a group of men gifted with preternatural abilities of their own – the witch guardians. But when a band of witches traded their humanity for demonic power, the ancient bond was broken, and the guardians became the hunters. Darcy MacAlister knows nothing of demons or magic. But this beautiful young woman is about to discover the truth about her past... and her future. For she is a witch – not just any witch, but the key to breaking the curse that has plagued witches and the men who hunt them. For if a hunter kills an innocent witch by mistake, the price is no less than a piece of his soul. Axel Locke, gorgeous leader of the Wing Slayer Hunters, has sworn never to shed the blood of the earth witches who have resisted the temptation of demonic power. But when his sister is cursed by a demon witch, he discovers that Darcy MacAlister may hold the cure – if she can master her newfound powers in time. When the chase begins and Axel and Darcy come face-to-face, this hunter must weigh his soul against his honor – and against his heart.
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Hop on Pop
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 22 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092006-05-24
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A condensed, board book version of the classic bestseller, perfect for babies and toddlers. Introduces the youngest readers to the wonderful world of Seussian word play.
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Ages 3-7 (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20082008-09-27
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In 1957, Dr. Seuss published the very first Beginner Book, The Cat in the Hat, and made a major impact on the world of education, proving that learning to read can indeed be fun. Now, for the first time, children can hear their favorite Beginner Books on compact disc.
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Dragonfly in Amber
Автор: Diana Gabaldon Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1993 Страниц: 976 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20091994-06-25
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«From the author of «Outlander»... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....»
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Gai-Jin
Автор: James Clavell Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 1248 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20091997-02-23
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The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell’s latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan–an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.…
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Simply Perfect
Автор: Mary Balogh Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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Against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of four teachers at an elite academy for young ladies. As headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, Claudia Martin long ago resigned herself to a life without love. Until Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, arrives unannounced and tempts her to toss away a lifetime of propriety for an affair that can only lead to ruin, embarking on a plan of seduction that leaves them both yearning for more. But Claudia knows she has no place in Joseph’s aristocratic world. And now that world is about to be rocked by scanda.…An arranged marriage, a secret that will shock the ton, and a man from Claudia’s past conspire to drive the lovers apart. But Joseph is determined to make Claudia his at any cost—even if that means breaking every rule for a love that is everything he has ever wanted.…
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First Comes Marriage
Автор: Mary Balogh Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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Against the scandal and seduction of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces an extraordinary family—the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is the second daughter, proud and daring, a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it? The arrival of Elliott Wallace, the irresistibly eligible Viscount Lyngate, has thrown the country village of Throckbridge into a tizzy. Desperate to rescue her eldest sister from a loveless union, Vanessa Huxtable Dew offers herself instead. In need of a wife, Elliott takes the audacious widow up on her unconventional proposal while he pursues an urgent mission of his own. But a strange thing happens on the way to the wedding night. Two strangers with absolutely nothing in common can’t keep their hands off each other. Now, as intrigue swirls around a past secret—one with a stunning connection to the Huxtables—Elliott and Vanessa are uncovering the glorious pleasures of the marriage bed…and discovering that when it comes to wedded bliss, love can’t be far behind.
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The Devil's Alternative
Автор: Frederick Forsyth Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1982 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20091984-10-27
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Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace — and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear destruction. Yet every way out means certain death and the countdown has already begun.
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The Negotiator
Автор: Frederick Forsyth Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092005-06-18
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Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man — Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet — can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician... until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all — and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths — to save not only the victim but the entire free world.
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O Jerusalem
Автор: Laurie R. King Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092003-02-13
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«With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created «lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company», according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of «The Beekeeper's Apprentice» and «The Moor» — the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A Grave Talent) — unfolds a hitherto unknown chapter in the history of Russell's apprenticeship to the great detective. At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England's green and pleasant land, Russell and Holmes enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes' enigmatic brother, Mycroft. «Gentlemen, we are at your service». Thus Holmes greets the two travel-grimed Arab figures who receive them in the orange groves fringing the Holy Land. Whatever role could the volatile Ali and the taciturn Mahmoud play in Mycroft's design for this land the British so recently wrested from the Turks? After passing a series of tests, Holmes and Russell learn their guides are engaged in a mission for His Majesty's Government, and disguise themselves as Bedouins — Russell as the beardless youth «Amir» — to join them in a stealthy reconnaissance through the dusty countryside. A recent rash of murders seems unrelated to the growing tensions between Jew, Moslem, and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant that he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. His singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous inns, cliff-hung monasteries — and into mortal danger. When her mentor's inquiries jeopardize his life, Russell fearlessly wields a pistol and even assays the arts of seduction to save him. Bruised and bloodied, the pair ascend to the jewellike city of Jerusalem, where they will at last meet their adversary, whose lust for savagery and power could reduce the city's most ancient and sacred place to rubble and ignite this tinderbox of a land.... Classically Holmesian yet enchantingly fresh, sinuously plotted, with colorful characters and a dazzling historic ambience, «O Jerusalem» sweeps readers ever onward in the thrill of the chase.»
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The Game
Автор: Laurie R. King Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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«Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes. It’s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleeting—for a visit with Holmes’s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O’Hara—indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s famed Kim. An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the “Great Game” of border espionage, he’s gone missing and is feared taken hostage—or even killed. When Russell learns of Holmes’s own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an “accident” that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognito—no small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games must be played out until their deadly end. Showcasing King’s masterful plotting and skill at making history leap from the page, «The Game» brings alive an India fraught with unrest and poised for change—and an unpredictable mystery with brilliance and character to match.»
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Say Goodbye
Автор: Lisa Gardner Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 452 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122010-06-23
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Come into my parlor... For FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy it starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly is too horrifying to be true. But prostitutes are disappearing, leaving behind no bodies and no explanations —except one only Kimberly, herself four months pregnant, is willing to believe. Could a sadist be hunting the streets for vulnerable young girls and using spiders to do his dirty work? Said the spider to the fly... Either a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder or Kimberly is following clues to a crime that never happened. In fact, Kimberly’s caught in a web more lethal than any spider’s, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly she’s trapped. She’s already close — too close — to a psychopath who makes women’s nightmares come alive. And like her mother and sister before her, both victims of a serial killer, it won’t be long before it’s Kimberly’s time to say goodbye with her dying breath...
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The Foot Book: Dr: Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites (board book)
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091997-06-05
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«A toe-tapper babies will love — the classic Seussian book about opposites: «Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot...»
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There's a Wocket in my Pocket! Dr: Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091997-06-05
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«There's a Wocket in My Pocket» is filled with bizarre creatures and rhymes: the nupboard in the cupboard, ghairs beneath the stairs, and the bofa on the sofa!»
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Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Автор: Steve Levine Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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«In «Putin’s Labyrinth», acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a penetrating narrative that recounts the lives and deaths of six Russians, LeVine portrays the growth of a “culture of death”—from targeted assassinations of the state’s enemies to the Kremlin’s indifference when innocent hostages are slaughtered. Interviews with eyewitnesses and the families and friends of these victims reveal how Russians manage to negotiate their way around the ever-present danger of violence and the emotional toll that this lethal maze is exacting on ordinary people. The result is a fresh way of assessing the forces that are driving this major new confrontation with the West.»
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The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Автор: Solomon Volkov Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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«From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, «The Magical Chorus» is the definitive account of a remarkable era in Russia's complex cultural life.»
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Aus Versehen verliebt
Автор: Susan Elizabeth Phillips Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20112010-12-20
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Liebe hat nie ein Drehbuch ... Es ist nicht leicht, ein Star mit dem Image einer mutigen, romantischen Heldin zu sein, wenn man vor den Trümmern seiner Ehe und seiner Filmkarriere steht. Aber was hat sich Georgie York nur dabei gedacht, in Las Vegas spontan Bram Shepard, ihren grässlichen Filmpartner zu heiraten? Die schlimmste Fehlbesetzung ihres Lebens! Und es gibt nicht mal ein Drehbuch, an das sich Georgie jetzt halten kann. Oder entpuppt sich der Mann mit den strahlend blauen Augen und dem teuflisch schwarzen Herzen doch als versteckter Traummann?
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Knochen zu Asche
Автор: Kathy Reichs Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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Thrill hoch 10! — Worte können lügen. Knochen nicht Das vermisste Mädchen hat Tempe Brennan nie vergessen. Auch wenn es damals noch kein Fall für sie war. Tempe war 13 Jahre alt, als ihre beste Freundin Evangéline ohne Abschied spurlos verschwand. Nun liegen Jahre alte Knochen eines weiblichen Teenagers zur forensischen Untersuchung vor Tempe und reißen alte Wunden auf. Hängt dieser Skelettfund mit Evangélines Verschwinden zusammen? Haben die Parallelen zu einer Reihe von Mädchen, die in den letzten Jahren in Quebec verschwanden, etwas zu bedeuten? War Evangéline das erste Opfer eines Serientäters? Tempe findet unerwartete Antworten an unerwarteter Stelle: in einem besonders dunklen Kapitel der Geschichte Kanadas …
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Die Täuschung
Автор: Charlotte Link Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112010-12-30
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Mörderische Provence ... Peter Simon, geschätzt als erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann und geliebt als fürsorglicher Ehemann und Vater, verschwindet spurlos auf einer Reise in der Provence. Als seine junge Frau Laura verzweifelt vor Ort recherchiert, stößt sie nicht nur auf eigenartige Widersprüche, sondern muss schließlich erkennen, dass ihr Mann nicht der war, für den sie ihn hielt. Und dass die Wahrheit mit tödlicher Gefahr verbunden ist ...
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