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Fallen
Автор: Lauren Kate Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross... only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall...
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The Firework-maker's Daughter
Автор: Philip Pullman Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 119 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092006-07-24
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More than anything else in the world, Lila wants to be a Firework-Maker. But every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Can Lila possibly survive? Especially when she doesn't know she needs special protection to survive his flames... The exciting and heart-warming story of Lila's journey to face the fearful fire demon fizzes with fun and drama.
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Generation A
Автор: Douglas Coupland Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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From the author of JPod and Generation X, the bestselling generational classic, comes a dazzling new work that reimagines the very act of reading and storytelling in a crazed digital world.
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Georgia
Автор: Lesley Pearse Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20102010-09-17
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From the seedy backstreets of London's Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then — on her fifteenth birthday — she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her. Penniless, sleeping rough, Georgia is soon introduced to the sleazy Soho world of brassy strippers, sweat shops, camaraderie and hardship. Fired by a fierce ambition, blessed with an extraordinary voice, her long struggle for fame and fortune begins. But even when she reaches the top she finds that the scars of the past can open up to ruin her-Steeped in atmosphere and raw emotion, Georgia is the story of a determination to succeed against all the odds and of a burning first love.
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Indignation
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?
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Johnny and the Dead
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 199 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092006-05-25
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Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies... Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead aren't going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were... well... alive. Particularly if they break a few rules...
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The Last Dickens
Автор: Matthew Pearl Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel, Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sands, to await its arrival.
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London
Автор: Edward Rutherfurd Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 1302 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122012-10-17
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Here is Edward Rutherfurds classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant citys long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the world.
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Mother Night
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20091993-12-13
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A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.
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The Path to Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need
Автор: Deepak Chopra Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 340 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092002-07-23
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A guide to returning depth, meaning and spirituality to personal relationships, showing how a rich, meaningful love can be rediscovered by restoring the missing element of spirituality. Chopra presents the timeless laws of love, together with suggestions for bringing them into daily use.
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The Pelican Brief
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092001-04-24
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Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders are connected only in one mind, and in one legal brief conceived by that mind. Brilliant, beautiful and ambitious, New Orleans legal student Darby Shaw little realises that her speculative brief will penetrate to the highest levels of power in Washington and cause shockwaves there. Shockwaves that will see her boyfriend atomised in a bomb blast, that will send hired killers chasing after her, that will propel her across the country to meet investigative reporter Gray Grantham, the one man who is as near the truth as she is.
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Автор: Ian Mortimer Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.
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Timequake
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Time-quake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, suicide, the Great Depression and World War II as the last generated character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.
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Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code
Автор: Ministry of Top Gear Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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Shows you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, or a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush.
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Traitors of the Tower
Автор: Alison Weir Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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More than four hundred years ago, seven people — five of them women — were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller. Through her vivid writing, history comes alive.
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Wedding Season
Автор: Katie Fforde Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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Sarah is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. Or, not for herself anyway. And now with all her working hours spent planning the wedding of the year, she certainly doesn't have time to even think about love... Or does she? From the Hardcover edition.
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years
Автор: Jared M. Diamond Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
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Thames: Sacred River
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-02-19
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Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.
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Who's Sorry Now?
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20082006-02-26
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Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.
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Coming from Behind
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...
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