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In the President's Secret Service
Автор: Kessler Ronald Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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After conducting exclusive interviews with more than 100 current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.
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Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street
Автор: Ellis Warren Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 142 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20102011-05-26
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«Now in a new edition, «Transmetropolitan» chronicles the exploits of 21st-century outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, who returns to The City after five years of self-imposed exile.»
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The Fifth Woman
Автор: Mankell Henning Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered — the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered — strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallander's strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.
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The Tin Man
Автор: Brown Dale Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought. His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep across the nation. The police and the government seem powerless to stop him. And one of the first casualties in this war is a rookie cop — McLanahan's brother. McLanahan has plenty of experience in war. And so does arms expert Jon Masters. Using Masters's deadliest weapon yet, McLanahan becomes a one-man army, known on the streets as the Tin Man. But this time, technology is a double-edged sword — and his war of revenge may destroy McLanahan himself... and everything he stands for.
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Wits and Wives
Автор: Chisholm Kate Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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Dr Johnson is often thought of as a strident, overbearing conversationalist, a man who famously asserted that Women have all the liberty they should wish to have. In this book, the author argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said.
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The Devils of Loudon
Автор: Huxley Aldous Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-09-20
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In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world.
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I, Michael Bennett
Автор: Patterson James Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132014-07-11
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Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City — and to get revenge on Michael Bennett. Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this widening organised violence, he realises that not only is he being targeted, the lives of everyone he loves are under threat.
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Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore
Автор: Weir Alison Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has given rise to rumours and misconceptions that have been embroidered over the centuries. In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers the facts about one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. Her extensive, forensic research has facilitated a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore or the 'hackney' whom the King of France famously boasted of riding. Weir also presents compelling new evidence that almost conclusively determines the paternity of Mary's two oldest children. In this astonishing and riveting book, Alison Weir shows that Mary's story had a happy ending and that she was by far the luckiest of the Boleyns.
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Norwegian Wood
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire — to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
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1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 816 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20152016-03-08
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Haruki Murakami is an international phenomenon. When Books One and Two of his latest masterpiece, 1Q84, were published in Japan, a million copies were sold in one month, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. Readers were transfixed by the mesmerising story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. Then, one year later, to the surprise and delight of his readers, Murakami published an unexpected Book Three, bringing the story to a close. In order to reflect the experience of 1Q84's first readers, Harvill Secker is publishing Books One and Two in one beautifully designed volume and Book Three in a separate edition. A long-awaited treat for his fans, 1Q84 is also a thrilling introduction to the unique world of Murakami's imagination. This hypnotically addictive novel is a work of startling originality and, as the title suggests, a mind-bending ode to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. (The number 9 in Japanese is pronounced like the letter 'Q'). The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true? Both Aomame and Tengo notice that the world has grown strange; both realise that they are indispensable to each other. While their stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, the two come closer and closer to intertwining.
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Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel
Автор: Morris Jonathan Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn't want to live there. In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. Then he receives a battered envelope, posted in eight years ago, containing a set of instructions and a letter with a simple message: You can save her. Later that night, while picking up a takeaway, Mark glances at a security monitor — to see himself, standing in the restaurant in grainy black and white. And behind him there's a stone statue of an angel. Covering its eyes, as though weeping... Except, when Mark turns, there's nothing there. As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it's up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon... A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Dr: No
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
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'The first shot had been fired. There would be others. And whose finger was on the trigger? Who had got him so accurately in their sights?' Crab Key island is desolate and remote. So why is Dr No defending it so ruthlessly? Only Bond can uncover the truth, in Fleming's sixth 007 adventure.
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The Technologists
Автор: Pearl Matthew Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20152017-03-16
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It's spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts — clocks, windows, eyeglasses. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population. The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow, the first woman at MIT, who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. Together, they are The Technologists. In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.
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Goldfinger
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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'You're stale, tired of having to be tough. You want a change. You've seen too much death' In Fleming's seventh 007 novel, a private assignment sets Bond on the trail of a criminal mastermind — Auric Goldfinger. But greed and power have created a deadly opponent who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
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From Russia with Love
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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'We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired and whose ignominious destruction would cause dismay' A beautiful Soviet spy. A brand-new Spektor cipher machine. Smersh has set an irresistible trap that threatens the entire Secret Service. In Fleming's fifth 007 novel Bond finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of cross and double cross.
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East, West
Автор: Rushdie Salman Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out in a violent world fantasies hatched by Star Trek; and Christopher Columbus dreams of consummating his relationship with Queen Isabella. The stories in East, West show the extraordinary range and power of Salman Rushdie's writing.
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The Christmas Wedding
Автор: Patterson James Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the presents are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married — and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day — she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. But the wedding isn't the only surprise — there is one more unexpected gift, and it could change all their lives for ever. With deeply affecting characters and the emotional twists of a James Patterson thriller, The Christmas Wedding is a fresh look at family and the magic of the festive season.
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Diamonds are Forever: James Bond 007
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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The twentieth century looked out at him from the piece of newsprint and bared its teeth in a sneer From the diamond mines of Sierra Leone to the jewellers of Hatton Garden, from race track to casino... Bond must infiltrate and destroy the criminal network of the Spangled Mob in Fleming's fourth 007 adventure.
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Live and Let Die
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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You start to die the moment you are born. Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming's second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.
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The Pregnant Widow
Автор: Amis Martin Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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Summer 1970 — a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing — twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel — is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), but it wasn't bloodless — and now, in the twenty-first century, the year 1970 finally catches up with Keith Nearing. The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risque. It is the most eagerly anticipated novel of the year and Martin Amis at his fearless best.
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