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Colonization: Down to Earth
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092003-07-14
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Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. These books take place 20 years after the Worldwar series. The story begins with the arrival of the alien colonization fleet, and a new phase of the invasion brings thousands of extraterrestrials to Earth.
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Cry to Heaven
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 566 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091997-10-27
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They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!
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Dark Prince
Автор: David Gemmell Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-12-23
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The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it — and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him.But there was another world, where the creatures of Greece's legends still flourished. There, the chaos spirit already ruled, through a demon king. In this Greece, there was a prophecy that a child of great power, the legendary golden child, would come and restore the fading magic of the land to the creatures of myth. The demon king believed also that devouring the heart of this fabled child would give him immortality. He believed Alexander, with the power of the chaos spirit within him, to be that child. And so he called Alexander into his world...Only Parmenion, guided by the seeress Derae, his lost love from another life, could hope to save Alexander from the demon king. But who could save the young prince from the chaos spirit that threatened to conquer his soul? From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dating Game
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20082009-08-24
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«One of America's most cherished novelists takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around. Poignant and wickedly funny, «Dating Game» is about tackling life and love with both courage and laughter — told as only Steel can tell it.»
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Devil May Care
Автор: Sebastian Faulks Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 386 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20132011-07-04
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Bond is back in this electrifying new novel of intrigue and suspense. A masterful continuation of the James Bond legacy, Devil May Care picks up right where Ian Fleming left off-at the height of the Cold War, with a story of almost unbearable tension. An Algerian drug runner is brutally executed on the desolate outskirts of Paris and Bond is assigned a new task — to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical magnate. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal. After finding a willing accomplice in the shape of a glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava, Bond rushes to stop a chain of events that threaten to lead to global catastrophe.
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Eragon
Автор: Christopher Paolini Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 756 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20092009-07-11
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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy — until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save or destroy the Empire.
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Fox in Socks (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Dr Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20082008-09-27
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A collection of tongue twisters for the young reader to read by himself is accompanied by a sound disc.
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1987 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091991-03-08
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Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it...
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The Halloween Tree
Автор: Ray Bradbury Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092002-09-02
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«A fast-moving, fairytale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings.»
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Happy Birthday to You!
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 12 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092006-09-17
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Today is your birthday! Today you are you!...There is no one alive that is younger than you! Six pages of rollicking pop-ups animate this simple adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. It's the best-of-the-best way to say...Happy Birthday to You!
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In Balance: Alternate History of Second World War
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20091996-06-25
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Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. The series takes place during WWII and the warring Allied and Axis powers are forced to combine resources in order to combat an invading alien species that threatens to conquer the entire planet.
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Автор: Douglas Adams Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 232 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20082008-09-22
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«The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert «universal» Armageddon and save life as we know it and don't know it!»
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Dragon of the Red Dawn
Автор: Mary Pope Osborne Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 108 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20102010-05-25
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Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic tree house on another magical and historical adventure. Their mission: discover one of the four secrets of happiness. Their journey to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo), in ancient Japan in the 1600s. Their tools: a research book to guide them and a magic wand with three special rules. In Dragon of the Red Dawn, Mary Pope Osborne transports readers back to the splendor, rich culture, and magic of traditional Japan.
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Mostly Harmless
Автор: Douglas Adams Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092002-07-18
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The fifth hilarious novel in the classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series follows the exploits of Arthur Dent, who has to adjust to a new life when his spaceship crashes on a remote planet. If you were hoping for more of the zany, nonsensical, mayhem produced in the earlier books, you're in luck.
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The Mummy
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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The reader is held captive, and, ultimately, seduced. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Ramses the Great has awakened in Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. Although he pursues voluptuous aristocrat Julie Stratford, the woman for whom he desperately longs is Cleopatra. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger....
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Mystical Paths
Автор: Susan Howatch Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1993 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20091996-09-14
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Told with all of Susan Howatch's drama, intelligence, and emotional depth, Mystical Paths is a breathtaking novel about the powerful, often painful, but finally indestructible ties between parent and child. And like its four highly praised predecessors in the Church of England series, this novel celebrates the redeeming power of self-knowledge and faith.
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Obsession
Автор: Jonathan Kellerman Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 458 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122010-10-21
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Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty — the only real mother she's ever known — has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex's help...
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One Fish, Two Fish, Three, Four, Five Fish
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20082007-07-14
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One fish, two fish, three, four, five...This one has a car to drive...This bouncy counting board book comes with five beads shaped like Seussian fish that toddlers can move across the top of the book as they count along. Based on Dr. Seuss' s celebrated classic, this sturdy board book will be a hit with all the little fish in your family.
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Striking the Balance (Worldwar 4)
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092000-04-19
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Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. Alternate History with Science Fiction. The series takes place during WWII and the warring Allied and Axis powers are forced to combine resources in order to combat an invading alien species that threatens to conquer the entire planet.
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Tilting the Balance (Worldwar 2)
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091999-04-22
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An alternative World War II takes an unexpected turn when a race of lizard-like space aliens sweep down to conquer Earth, causing the Allied and Axis forces to combine atomic bomb technologies.
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