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Paleo
Автор: Yvonne Navarro Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2000 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092001-06-23
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Prehistoric Hysteria Buffy Summers and her gang know that Sunnydale is a haven for outsiders, whether of the supernatural or strictly adolescent variety. Shy transfer student Kevin Sanderson is no exception. But Kevin instantly finds a mentor in Daniel, a paleontologist and fellow dino-phile at the Sunnydale Museum of Natural History. When Buffy starts hearing rumors of alligators in the sewers, she has to wonder about Kevin and Daniel's hobbies. Meanwhile, the Slayerettes are having extracurricular excitement of their own. Alysa, a hotshot talent agent, wants to represent the Dingoes, and she's offering the Scooby Gang fame and fortune. If she's legit, it could be Oz's big break. But Buffy's too busy to run a background check — Daniel and Kevin have reanimated an ancient creature with a new agenda... an agenda that begins and ends with the destruction of the Slayer...
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Shadow Prowler
Автор: Alexey Pehov Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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After centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring. An army is gathering: thousands of fellcreatures joining forces from across the Desolate Lands, united for the first time in history under one black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Nameless One and his forces will be at the walls of Avendoom.Unless Shadow Harold, master thief, can stop them. Epic fantasy at its best, Shadow Prowler is the first in a trilogy that follows professional thief Shadow Harold on his quest for a long-lost artefact that will save the Kingdom of Siala. Bound by oath to fulfil his commission, even if he dies trying, Harold is accompanied on his quest by a mysterious elfin princess, ten Wild Hearts — the most dangerous fighters in the world — and the King's court jester (who may be more than he seems... or less). His journey will lead Harold towards a destiny greater and more perilous than he could imagine...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Автор: Stephen Chbosky Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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A powerful and perceptive coming-of-age story, in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye, from a talented young filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist.
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Good In Bed
Автор: Jennifer Weiner Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this... 'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world', Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie — who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman, or thought that loving her was an act of courage — is plunged into misery, and the most amazing year of her life.
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Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha
Автор: Mineko Iwasaki Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20092006-02-16
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'I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.' Emerging shyly from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion. Madam Oima is mesmerized by the child's black hair and black eyes: she has found her successor. And so Mineko is gently, but firmly, prised away from her parents to embark on an extraordinary career, of which she will become the best. But even if you are exquisitely beautiful and the darling of the okiya, the life of a geisha is one of gruelling professional demands. And Mineko must first contend with her bitterly jealous sister who is determined to sabotage her success... Captivating and poignant, GEISHA OF GION tells of Mineko's ascendancy to fame and her ultimate decision to leave the profession she found so constricting.
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Amy and Isabelle
Автор: Elizabeth Strout Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame Isabelle feels about her own past. Throughout one long, sweltering summer as the events of the small town ebb and flow around them Amy and Isabelle exist in silent conflict until a final act leads ultimately to the understanding they both crave.
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The Edge of Madness
Автор: Michael Dobbs Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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The world is peering into the terrifying chasm of a new kind of conflict, where computers take over from missiles and global damnation comes at the click of a button. Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown, while on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seabord is plunged into darkness. Nobody knows — yet — who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world — and they must do it alone. Meanwhile something serious is going on in Beijing: it looks as though the Chinese are preparing for the final thrust against their old enemies, bringing them to their knees without a single shot being fired...
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The Executioner
Автор: Chris Carter Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 472 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20132013-05-28
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Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert Hunter believes that this is a ritualistic killing. But as more bodies surface, he is forced to reassess. All the victims died in the way they feared the most. Their worst nightmares have literally come true. But how could the killer have known? And what links these apparently random victims? Hunter finds himself on the trail of an elusive and sadistic killer, somone who apparently has the power to read his victims' minds. Someone who can sense what scares his victims the most. Someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted aim.
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A Most Wanted Man
Автор: John Le Carre Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 491 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20132013-02-23
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«A half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career — and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank — and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the «War on Terror» the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, «A Most Wanted Man» is a work of deep humanity with uncommon relevance to our times.»
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The Thirteen Secrets
Автор: Harrison Michelle Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put her past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn't as easy as she had hoped... Hounded by fairy messengers who are trying to convince her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch's cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who threatens revenge against her. Her past is about to catch up with her — can Tanya and Fabian prevent it consuming her altogether?
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Bridge of Spies
Автор: Whittell Giles Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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Bridge of Spies is a gripping, entertaining, hair-raising and comical story, which moves effortlessly from the hardware of high-flying planes and new missiles to the geopolitics of the nuclear stand-off and through the poignant personal stories of its central protagonists: Powers, the all-American hero, blacklisted for not having killed himself on his descent to earth; a KGB spy who has spent aimless and lonely years achieving nothing in the US; and the opposing leaders Khrushchev and Eisenhower, both trapped in a spiral of confrontation neither wants. Telling the true story that inspired Le Carre's famous scene, Bridge of Spies is a brilliant take on the absurdity and heroism of the Cold War days that will appeal to a new generation of readers unfamiliar with the history but drawn in by the compelling and vividly recreated narrative.
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Three the Hard Way: Erotic Novellas
Автор: Harrison William Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092007-04-27
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«Erotic Novellas by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky Pull down the shades and settle in for pleasure with this trio of erotic novellas handpicked by Susie Bright, showcasing stories that are hot and masterful. Susie Bright, hailed by The New York Times as «the avatar of American erotica», is the undisputed grandmaster of the genre. Now she has handpicked three rising stars, new masters, whose stories will delight, arouse, and captivate you. Connected by a central theme, the idea that one sexual moment can change a person forever, each story is wildly different from anything you have read before. Tsaurah Litzky's undaunted story about a woman's coming-of-age from her adolescence in the 1960s In «Shadow of a Man», Emmy Award-winning writer William Harrison takes us to South Africa, where a photographer who thinks he's seen and done it all begins an intense affair with the daughter of a famous general. «The Motion of the Ocean» is to the over-the-top sexuality of the 1990s. Greg Boyd's «The Widow» is about the consequences that transpire when a husband reads an erotic novel that his wife has been writing in secret. In it, she has fantasized the outrageous sexual experiences of a widow. Sensual, provocative, funny, and profound, Three the Hard Way is a pleasure trove of great finds discovered by America's most trusted name in erotica.»
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Tutankhamun: The Last Secret
Автор: Jacq Christian Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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The latest intriguing thriller from one of historical fiction`s best-known writers.
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
Автор: Fried Stephen Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092010-08-03
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At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval—and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character—and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
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Lost Girls
Автор: Shuman George Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2009 Страниц: 306 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20132011-10-17
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Now in a mass market edition, George D. Shuman’s third riveting thriller featuring Sherry Moore, a blind psychic who can see the final moments of a dead person’s life. Blind psychic Sherry Moore is summoned to the Caribbean by a mysterious and powerful philanthropist to find the murderous kingpin of a human trafficking network. Frantically searching for clues in the remote jungles of Haiti, she finds a legendary voodoo priest—a man with abilities eerily similar to her own.
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Hell Hath No Fury
Автор: Weber David Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 976 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112011-04-07
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«It began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun. War between the universes is the last thing responsible leaders on either side want. But the fury of their respective populations, xenophobic fear of the unknown, and cries for «justice» (or vengeance), are all driving both sides towards the brink. And unscrupulous, power-hungry men—and Arcana and Sharona alike—have agendas of their own. The fuse has been lit, and a war stretching across the universes, fought between dragons, spells, and crossbows and repeating rifles, machine guns, and artillery is erupting in white-hot rage and fury. Where it will end—and how—no one knows»
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The Wandering Hill: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2
Автор: McMurtry Larry Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 406 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092006-04-29
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry continues his epic four-novel telling of The Berrybender Narratives with a new adventure that is both a grand literary achievement and riveting entertainment as forged by a master wordsmith.... The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild West of 1830s America and suffer the harsh realities of the untamed wilderness, including sickness, brutal violence and death, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing hardships of daily life in a land where survival is never certain. Filled with larger-than-life legendary figures such as mountain men Jim Bridger and Kit Carson, vividly rendered action, irresistible good humor, and an ever-changing cast of characters that readers will treasure, The Wandering Hill proves again that Larry McMurtry still reigns as the first statesman of the Old West.
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Skinny-dipping
Автор: Cruz Melissa Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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Not-so-poor-anymore Eliza has traded babysitting for velvet-rope-sitting. And Jacqui, in an odd twist, is doing all the babysitting because Mara's up every night doing her best second-rate party girl impression at the hot club where Eliza works. At first it's annoying, but the new au pair, Philippe, is sexy and French but off-limits to Jacqui, who claims she's sworn off guys. Your favorite bikini-clad au pairs are back. But this summer, if it's possible, they will have more fun, more sun, and more romance than they know how to handle.
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The Daily Carrot Principle: 365 Ways to Enhance Your Career and Life
Автор: Gostick Adrian Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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«From the authors of the smash bestseller The Carrot Principle comes an inspiring and lively page-a-day guide to harnessing the remarkable power of the carrot—taking yourself and your team to new heights of success in work and life.Based on their twenty years of experience teaching leaders at Fortune 100 companies, as well as one of the largest research studies ever conducted on workplace satisfaction, Gostick and Elton share a wealth of wisdom about simple but amazingly effective ways to boost your productivity and work satisfaction by setting clear goals, communicating effectively, building trust, and offering recognition in ways that make others feel appreciated and motivated.Each engaging page of The Daily Carrot Principle features a core kernel of wisdom, enlivened by thoughtful and witty quotes from the likes of Thomas Edison, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Collins, and Oprah Winfrey, plus a bonanza of insights from standout managers and employees the authors have studied. An easy-to-implement «carrot action» ends each page, providing the simple steps to begin applying this wealth of wisdom immediately. Whether you are a business leader, team member, student, mom or dad, or anyone hoping to achieve more in your life, this book will be an inspiring and practical guide to unleashing your hidden potential and leading a richer life.»
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Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!
Автор: Klause Annette Curtis Жанр: Simon and Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 331 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20102008-12-20
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If this is a dream, why does she seem so real? Though Abel Dandy was born to circus performers and grew up in a troupe of odd and inexplicable people, he has never felt limited by his normalcy--until now. Realizing he'll never be more amazing than the talented oddities around him, Abel can only dream of living a life richer than his own. But in his dreams a mysterious woman beckons him, calling him passionately by a name he doesn't know and speaking in a language he's never heard, but fully understands. Compelled by these visions and yearning to be more than ordinary, Abel embarks on a journey more frightening and wondrous than he ever imagined....
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