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The Cat in Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Wings and Paws and Fins and Claws
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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Hop in the Thinga-ma-jigger and explore the world of mammals, birds, sea creatures, and much more in this deluxe colouring book! With 96 pages of pictures to colour and a fun rhyming text this will keep any fans of The Cat in the Hat occupied for hours! The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!
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Cutting for Stone
Автор: Abraham Verghese Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20132012-09-24
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Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them.
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New York
Автор: Edward Rutherfurd Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 1040 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20132012-07-23
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A novel that tells the story of New York city — from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived at breakneck speed.
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A Time to Kill
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092010-04-17
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«When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. 'The best thriller writer alive' — Ken Follett, «Evening Standard». 'Grisham is a natural storyteller' — «Daily Telegraph». 'A giant of the thriller genre' — «Time Out». 'Leaves one eager for more' — «Spectator».»
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The Thief
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132012-06-21
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From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for Quick Reads — books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK's World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006. What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Автор: Steve Hockensmith Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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The story opens with newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating unmentionables. But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a raging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the only acceptable course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she hears rumours of a miracle antidote being developed in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love — and for everyone to live happily ever after.
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Operation Napoleon
Автор: Arnaldur Indridason Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved — but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in great danger, leading her on a long and hazardous journey in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck
Автор: Dan Heath Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In the course of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath have established what it is that determines whether particular ideas or stories stick in our minds or not, and Made to Stick is the fascinating outcome of their painstaking research.Packed full of case histories and thought-provoking anecdotes, it shows, among other things, how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'd discovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filled with bacteria, how a gifted sports reporter got people to watch a football match by showing them the outside of the stadium, and how high-concept pitches such as 'Jaws on a spaceship' (Alien) and 'Die Hard on a bus' (Speed) convince movie executives to invest vast sums of money in a project on the basis of almost no information. Entertaining and informative by turns, this is a fascinating and multi-faceted account of a key area of human behaviour. At the same time, by showing how we can all use such cleverly devised strategies as the 'Velcro Theory of Memory' and 'curiosity gaps', it offers superbly practical insights, setting out principles we all can adopt to make sure that we get our ideas across effectively.
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I Shall Wear Midnight
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20112014-03-08
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Tiffany Aching, the young witch from The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith is back in a new adventure featuring Discworld characters both familiar to fans (such as Tiffany, the Wee Free Men, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) and new (meet Wee Mad Arthur, the Nac Mac Feegle on the City Watch whose only previous appearance was a brief cameo in Feet of Clay and city witch Mrs. Proust — a fabulous Pratchett creation). Oh, and there's a magic book or two, a twist through time, a Cunning Man — and a Giant Man of chalk...
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Grantchester Grind
Автор: Tom Sharpe Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion — previously head porter, now elevated to Master — is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet. Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle — or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap. But will those be enough?
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Glubbslyme
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-04-25
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'Glubbslyme. You're magic'! When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend — a huge, warty toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad. Hundreds of years old, he can talk and — best of all — he can work magic. Maybe, just maybe, he can help Rebecca be best friends with Sarah again?
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The Dare Game
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082010-03-28
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I'm Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares — and I dare you to read a more brilliant story than this! I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story, of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie; no designer clothes, when I really need them; a pokey flat, and a horrible new school. No wonder I bunk off... Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than Tracy Beaker!
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Dancing Girls
Автор: Margaret Atwood Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers — and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
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The City of Ember
Автор: Jeanne DuPrau Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 270 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112010-10-30
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NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau's instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, designed as a last refuge for the human race. But when the storerooms run out of food and the lights begin to fail, it's up to two teens, Lina and Doon, to decipher the fragments of an ancient parchment and find a way out of Ember.
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American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D: Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Автор: Nigel Hamilton Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20132014-04-29
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«The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the lives of the twelve men, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, who presided over America's imperial fortunes — the good, the bad and the truly awful. How did these American Caesars reach the White House? What were the challenges they faced when they got there and how did they meet them? And who were these men in their private lives? Compulsively readable, packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories, lessons and revelations, «American Caears» is essential reading for our times.»
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Is Discworld ready for educated rats? Set in the Discworld, a brand new and marvellously eccentric fantasy tale for young readers. Maurice, an amazing cat, who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart — smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around; rats that have been eating wizards' rubbish and can now talk. And Maurice is also smart enough to get a pretty amazing idea when he spots a kid playing the flute. Now he has his very own Pied Piper to go with his plague of rats. And Maurice's money-bags are getting fuller and fuller. That is, until the group reaches the far flung village of Bad Blintz.
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Pygmy
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful, to bring this big dumb country's fat inhabitants to their knees.
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Crime
Автор: Irvine Welsh Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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«Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety. Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina on the Gulf of Mexico, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet's nest: a gang of organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh.His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality, as well as his own mental fragility, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder and the emotions it unleashes in him? A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, «Crime» is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.»
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The Wee Free Men
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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A wonderful new novel from the Carnegie Medal winner. A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel. Up on the chalk downs known as The Wold, witches are banned — ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk is no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching — a wise shepherd — might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening. There's a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new hag. These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'. When Tiffany's young brother goes missing, Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies. From the Hardcover edition.
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The Throwback
Автор: Tom Sharpe Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing — in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.
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