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The Queen's Knickers
Автор: Allan Nicholas Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091999-12-13
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A charming, hilariously funny and genuinely affectionate picture book from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Jesus' Christmas Party. A little girl is looking forward to the Queen's visit to her school — and wonders what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear! Will they be her 'at home' knickers — adorned with corgis — or her garden party knickers, or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones? Whichever choices from the Official HM Knicker Guide the Queen decides upon, the girl is determined that the royal visitor will feel at home at her school. Both children and adults will love this very special and endearing insight into a child's imagination.
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Tower
Автор: Jones Nigel Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury, record office, observatory and the most visited tourist attraction in the country, the Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in our island's story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place which has stood at the epicentre of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years. Now historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national — and international — events. In a monumental history drawn from primary sources he pictures the Tower in its many changing moods and a bewildering array of functions. Here, for the first time, is a thematic portrayal of the Tower of London as more than an ancient structure. The fortress is a living symbol of the nation itself in all its kaleidoscopic colour and rich diversity. Incorporating a dazzling panoply of political and social detail, Tower puts one of Britain's most important buildings firmly at the heart of our national story.
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Автор: Robert M. Edsel Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20162015-06-23
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What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes? What if I told you there was a group of men on the front lines who didn't carry machine guns or drive tanks; a new kind of soldier, one charged with saving, not destroying. This book tells their story.
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Solo: A James Bond Novel
Автор: William Boyd Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.
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Bleeding Edge
Автор: Thomas Pynchon Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20162015-06-23
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Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists.
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Grandville Bete Noir
Автор: Talbot Bryan Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20172014-12-20
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The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of horribly beweaponed automaton soldiers. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist, mysteriously stabbed to death in his locked and guarded studio, is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, placing him and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi, in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. Bete Noire signals the welcome return to anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction of master storyteller and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot with the third stand-alone volume of the Eisner and Hugo Award nominated Grandville series. As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control, aided by his brilliant deductive abilities and innate ferocity, LeBrock battles against outrageous odds in this funny, high octane thriller, an adventure shot through with both high art and comic book references, a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming — with animals! Follow the Badger!
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Grandville Mon Amour
Автор: Talbot Bryan Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20132013-02-19
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Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville, Grandville Mon Amour pits Detective Inspector Archie LeBrockof Scotland Yard against an old adversary and ruthless urban guerrilla, Edward 'Mad Dog' Mastock.
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Fodor`s England
Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 880 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20142014-10-30
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Full-color guide • Make your trip to England unforgettable with illustrated features, maps, and color photos. Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Convenient overview of each region and its highlights • Top experiences & attractions • Practical advice for getting around • Easy-to-read color regional maps Explore London, the Cotswolds, Cornwall, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on pubs, gardens, food and drink, Stonehenge, Lake District walks • Best castles, stately homes, charming villages Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s England-based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Revised annually to provide the latest information
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DC Comics: The 75th Anniversary Poster Book
Автор: Schnakenberg Robert Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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The Covers Collection celebrates 75 years of DC Comics history by showcasing hundreds of their most famous covers — including 100 full-size posters that are perforated and ready-to-frame. Arranged in chronological order, each poster honors a milestone in DC Comics history with a full-page perforated poster of a famous cover-like Action Comics number 1, easily the most sought-after comic book of all time. The reverse of the poster will feature brief commentary along with smaller images of related covers, concept sketches, and other archival material.
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The Beatles: The BBC Archives: 1962-1970
Автор: Howlett Kevin Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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BBC radio and television played crucial roles during The Beatles' initial breakthrough and subsequent global domination. This book reveals how the relationship between the UK's foremost broadcasting organization and the world's most celebrated pop group developed between 1962 and 1970. This in-depth account of The Beatles' BBC appearances features transcripts of broadcast interviews plus previously unseen photographs of the group and fascinating documents from the archives. From the unprecedented excitement of Beatlemania to the mature reflection of the last interviews before the group's split, it was all seen and heard on the BBC. Experience the history of The Beatles the way it really happened.
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Автор: Anderson C. Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to a massive increase in the range of participation in everything digital — the world of bits. Now the same is happening to manufacturing — the world of things. Chris Anderson, bestselling author of The Long Tail, explains how this is happening: how such technologies as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result. Whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality. Just as Google, Facebook and others have created highly successful companies in the virtual world, so these new inventors and manufacturers are assuming positions of ever greater importance in the real world. The next industrial revolution is on its way.
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A Game of Thrones: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons (количество томов: 5)
Автор: Martin George R.R. Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2013 Страниц: 5216 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-25
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Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse — unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister — the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki — whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.
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Demons
Автор: Dostoevsky Fyodor Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-09-24
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Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country`s revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.
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Selected stories
Автор: Munro Alice Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 418 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20091999-07-11
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This book contains the first ever selection of her stories, from her earliest published work in 1968 to her latest in 1994. Her star is in the ascendant — winner of the 1994 W. H. Smith Award, shortlisted for the second time in 1995 for the Irish Times International Fiction Award. This wonderful selection of the greatest stories will demonstrate her genius, her versatility, her extraordinary humanity, and will delight new readers as well as her fans.
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Worst: Person. Ever
Автор: Douglas Coupland Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id. He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show. Along the way, Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to re-enact the 'Angry Dance' from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war. We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, as well as Raymond's ex-wife, Fiona, herself 'an atomic bomb of pain'. Even though he really puts the 'anti' in anti-hero, you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character.
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The Zombie Tarot: An Oracle of the Undead with Deck and Instructions
Автор: Kepple Paul Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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«You've never seen tarot cards quite like these. Imagine the celebrated Rider Deck infused with the horrors of «Night of the Living Dead», and the result is «The Zombie Tarot» — a crazy, campy interpretation of a classic divination system. In this zombified parallel universe, wands become limbs, pentacles are biohazard symbols, and the Major Arcana is full of shambling corpses. Along with the 78-card deck, readers will receive instructions in a 96-page full-color book; its contents explain how to survive the zombie apocalypse and forecast your future using one of three different card layouts. The secrets of «The Zombie Tarot» await you!»
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Charlotte Gray
Автор: Faulks Sebastian Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him. In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated, Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love. In the delicacy of its writing, the intimacy of its characterisation and its powerful narrative scenes of harrowing public events, Charlotte Gray is a worthy successor to Birdsong.
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Dance of the Happy Shades
Автор: Munro Alice Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092002-07-18
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Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspirations.
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Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia
Автор: Russell Gary Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Completely revised and updated, the Doctor Who Encyclopedia is the ultimate fan's guide to all things Doctor Who. Packed with photos, concept drawings, illustrations and artwork, and including the Christopher Ecclestone, David Tennant, and Matt Smith incarnations of the Doctor, learn every fact and discover every figure from every episode.
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Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos
Автор: Russell Gary Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her family and generally giving them all the gossip about her journeys. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed — he's discovered a new star and had it named after him. He takes the Doctor, as his special guest, to the naming ceremony. But the Doctor is suspicious about some of the other changes he can see in Earth's heavens. Particularly that bright star, right there. No not that one, that one, there, on the left... The world's population is slowly being converted to a new path, a new way of thinking. Something is coming to Earth, an ancient force from the Dark Times. Something powerful, angry, and all-consuming...Featuring the Doctor and Donna as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit series from BBC Television.
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