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The Lilac Bus: Stories
Автор: Maeve Binchy Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20091994-10-17
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The Journey... Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor's daughter, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination... Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long. And this weekend, when the bus pulls in, the riders find the unexpected waiting for them... as each of their private lives unfolds to reveal a sharp betrayal of the heart, a young man's crime, and a chance for new dreams among the eight intriguing men and women on... Plus a special bonus in this volume... Maeve Binchy's DUBLIN 4 tales — a truly unforgettable collection of stories about today's Ireland that captures the profound intimacy and drama of ordinary lives.
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The Icarus Agenda
Автор: Robert Ludlum Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1992 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20091995-09-12
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Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of officequietly — when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepestsecret... that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man whocourageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silentlydisappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by theterrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved hislife, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, wherefrightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick'slife — and the fate of the free world — may ultimately rest in the powerful handsof a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi.
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Ford County: Stories
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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«In his first collection of short stories, John Grisham takes readers back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, «A Time to Kill.» Available in a tall Premium Edition.»
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Family Ties
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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«From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, #1 «New York Times» — bestselling author Steel weaves a powerfully compelling story that reminds readers how challenging and unpredictable life can be — and how the bonds of family hold them together.»
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The Duel
Автор: Aleksandr Kuprin Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-23
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This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer — here presented in a dazzling new translation — is an absorbing account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles toward a startling conclusion, it reveals itself to be a luminous depiction of the end of an era.
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The Chancellor Manuscript
Автор: Ludlum Robert Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1984 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20091985-12-07
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A secret group of Washington's most powerful men have J. Edgar Hoover killed in order to reach his secret files only to discover there is someone else capable of using these personal dossiers for blackmail and extortion.
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Carrie
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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King's #1 bestseller about a shy teenage girl who's bullied at school — but whose secret power allows her to exact revenge on her tormentors at prom.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Автор: Max Brooks Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20142016-08-24
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«Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody «The Zombie Survival Guide», tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.»
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Firefly Summer
Автор: Maeve Binchy Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1989 Страниц: 10 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20091994-08-14
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«It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget. «Totally engrossing... Unforgettable... An absolutely grand story... A lyrical and compelling family drama... Mountfern and its residents come vibrantly alive.» — «The Plain Dealer.» «The secrets hidden behind lace curtains, a young girl's first kiss, children's summer games, unexpected pregnancies, sudden deaths. She makes us feel as if we also know the place and the people... One of those good old-fashioned stories that are as comfortable and comforting as home itself.» — «The Philadelphia Inquirer».»
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The Confession
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-11
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An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. Tried, convicted and sentenced, Drumm was sent to death row: his fate had been decided. Nine years later, Donte Drumm is four days from execution. Over 400 miles away in Kansas, Travis faces a fate of his own: an inoperable brain tumour will soon deliver the end. Reflecting on his miserable life, he decides to do what's right. After years of silence he is ready to confess. But how can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians that they're about to execute an innocent man?
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The Painted Veil
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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«Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First published to a storm of protest, «The Painted Veil» is a classic story of a woman's spiritual awakening.»
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Light a Penny Candle
Автор: Maeve Binchy Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20102007-12-26
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Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals. Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder — not even the man who threatened to come between them forever.
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The Rum Diary: A Screenplay
Автор: Bruce Robinson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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«This title comes with an introduction by Johnny Depp. This is a screenplay based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson. It's 1960. In a highrise hotel not far from the beaches of San Juan, a man is recovering from an animal of a hangover. Paul Kemp is an alcoholic journalist who's barely seen better days, arriving at the only job he can get: writing horoscopes for failing rag «The Daily Star». His fellow hacks are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting, so Kemp fits in perfectly. But when he meets the impossibly gorgeous Chenault and her flashy boyfriend Sanderson, Kemp finds himself in way over his head — party to shady business deals, in hair-raising car chases with enraged Puerto Ricans, experimenting with a hitherto unknown hallucinogen — and finally discovers a mad, desperate devotion to the truth. Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S. Thompson's novel to the big screen with all the brilliance, wild humour and fierce energy associated with the acclaimed writer and director of «Withnail & I» and «The Killing Fields».»
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Red Dragon
Автор: Thomas Harris Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112012-04-07
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«Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic — the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself... The Red Dragon. Special agent Will Graham has been assigned to similar cases before, cases where he was able to see and feel with the madmen, anticipate their moves and, most terrifying of all, be vulnerable to their horrifying brutality. Now Graham is reluctantly lured out of retirement, to find an opening to the evil mind of the Red Dragon. «Red Dragon» is quite probably the most suspenseful, utterly compelling thriller ever written.»
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I am a Chechen!
Автор: German Sadulaev Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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«I Am a Chechen!» offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings dead friends back to life again, revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, and their quests for martyrdom. And he immerses us in the intoxicating beauty of his homeland's mountains, blossoms and the flocks of migratory swallows that fill its skies. This is an intensely personal journey through the carnage of the war, exploring the pain, the challenge, and above all the meaning of being a Chechen.»
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The Dogs of Riga
Автор: Henning Mankell Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the Baltic Sea, to Riga in Latvia, where he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats, and lies. Doomed always to be one step behind the shadowy figures he pursues, only Wallander's obstinate desire to see that justice is done brings the truth to light.
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Doctor Who: The Tardis Handbook
Автор: Steve Tribe Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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«As the Eleventh Doctor and Amy embark on all-new adventures in time and space, «The TARDIS Handbook» gives you the inside scoop on 900 years of travel aboard the Doctor's famous time machine. Everything you need to know about the TARDIS is here — where it came from, where it's been, how it works, and how it has changed since we first encountered it in a London junkyard in 1963. Including photos, design drawings, floor plans and instruction manuals from different eras of the series, this handbook explores the ship's endless interior, looking inside its wardrobe and bedrooms, its power rooms and sick bay, its corridors and cloisters, and revealing just how the show's production teams have created the dimensionally transcendental police box, inside and out. «The TARDIS Handbook» is the essential guide to the best ship in the universe.»
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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«Welcome To The Monkey House» is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as «The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction» and «The Atlantic Monthly» what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.»
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Автор: Jennifer Egan Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 382 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20122015-03-29
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From the award-winning and bestselling author Jennifer Egan, a dazzling, shape-shifting new work of fiction that spans fifty years and stars an aging record executive and the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.
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Star Wars: A New Hope
Автор: George Lucas Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1986 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20091989-04-25
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Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies. But he got much more than he bargained for...
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