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Angels and Demons (Ангелы и демоны) (на английском языке)
Автор: Brown Dan Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 622 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092002-06-11
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When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati — an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Catholicism — the race is on to prevent a tragedy.
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The Long Road Home
Автор: Стил Даниэла Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092003-03-08
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From her perch at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old Gabriella watches the guests arrive at her parents lavish Manhattan home. The click, click, click of her mother`s high heels strikes terror into her heart. Her word is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal and pain, and she knows that there is no safe place for her to hide.
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The Afghan
Автор: Frederick Forsyth Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-04-15
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The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before – pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs – pass off Martin as the trusted Khan. It will require extraordinary preparation, and then extraordinary luck, for nothing can truly prepare Martin for the dark and shifting world he is about to enter. Or for the terrible things he will find there...
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The Best A Man Can Get
Автор: John O'Farrell Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092003-05-12
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«Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life — he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can have it all, until is deception is inevitably exposed...»The Best a Man Can Get» is written with the hilarious eye for detail that sent John O'Farrell's first book, «Things Can Only Get Better», to the top of the bestseller lists. It is a darkly comic confessional that is at once compelling, revealing and very, very funny.»
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A Brief History of Time
Автор: Stephen Hawking Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1989 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20091992-02-26
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«A Brief History of Time», published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro and the macrocosmic world — observations that have confirmed many of Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why «A Brief History of Time» has transformed our view of the universe.»
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Can You Keep a Secret?
Автор: Sophie Kinsella Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 329 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20082008-02-16
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Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She's always been a very nervous flyer. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her — quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to notice — all her innermost secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she's read them. How she does her hair up like Princess Leia in her bedroom. How she's not sure if she has a G-spot, and whether her boyfriend could find it anyway. How she feels like a fraus at work — everyone uses the word 'operational' all the time but she hasn't a clue what it means. How the coffee at work is horrible. How she once threw a troublesome client file in the bin. If ever there was a bare soul, it's hers.
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Carpe Jugulum
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20092002-09-20
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«Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything — Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg...and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. «Carpe Jugulum» is Terry Pratchett's twenty-third «Discworld» novel — but the first to star vampires.»
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The Colour Of Magic
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1985 Страниц: 237 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20091990-08-11
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On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet...
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Coming Out
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life? No challenge was too great, or so she thought...All round high-flier Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has it all, a busy legal career, a solid marriage and a perfect family. She manages her life with grace and energy and there seems to be no challenge to which she cannot rise. Until one day she opens an invitation for her twin daughters to attend an exclusive coming out ball and her good fortune is changed irrevocably. Chaos ensues as conflicting feelings emerge about the ball and Olympia finds herself at the heart of a severe family feud. Devastated, and pulled in all directions, Olympia is more determined than ever to steer her family through the event. Yet, events unravel at an alarming speed and Olympia is poised to surrender when suddenly a series of events result in several changes of heart, old wounds are healed and new traditions born. Can an evening of heartbreak and misery make way for an evening of growth, acceptance and love? In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family — finding new ways of letting go, stepping up and coming out ...in the ways that matter most.
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Crisis Four
Автор: Andy McNab Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092006-05-22
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Nick Stone, ex SAS, now working for British Intelligence, is tough, resourceful, ruthless. Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, intelligent. As the pair are purued through the backwoods of the American South, Stones mission becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy to which only Sarah hold the key.
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Dead Famous
Автор: Ben Elton Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092005-02-29
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«From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of «Popcorn» and «Inconceivable», a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame. One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then suddenly, there are some new ones. Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?»
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Die Trying
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 548 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092002-04-07
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«On a Chicago street in bright sunshine, Jack Reacher, is strolling nowhere and sees an attractive young woman, struggling on crutches. Naturally, he stops to offer her a steadying arm. And then he turns around to see a handgun aimed straight at his stomach. Locked in a dark, stifling van racing across America, chained to the woman, Reacher needs to know why he's there. The kidnappers are saying nothing. The woman claims to be an FBI agent. She's tough enough to be one. But at their remote destination, will raw courage and cunning be enough to overcome the hopeless odds? Full of non-stop action and gritty suspense, «Die Trying» is a tightly plotted thriller starring one of the most exciting action heroes in today's fiction, the redoubtable, romantic, footloose former army cop, Jack Reacher.»
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The Enemy
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 389 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20092007-07-14
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You're in the army now, son... New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending. Soon America won't have any enemies left. The army won't have anybody to fight. Things are going to change. Jack Reacher is the Military Police duty officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier in a hot-sheets motel. Reacher tells the local cops to handle it — heart attacks happen all the time I don't know but I've been told.. But why is Reacher in North Carolina, instead of Panama, where the action is? Then the dead man turns out to have been a two-star general who should have been in Europe. And when Reacher goes to the general's house to break the news, he finds another corpse: the general's wife. What is he dealing with here? The last echoes of the old world...Or the first shocks of the new? Lee Child's new stomach-churning, palm-sweating thriller turns back the clock to Jack Reacher's army days. For the first time we meet a younger Reacher, a Reacher not yet disillusioned with military life. A Reacher with family. A Reacher in dogtags and starched uniform who imposes army discipline, if only in his own pragmatic way. A Reacher as far from the no-credit card, no-last-known-address drifter of the previous eight novels as is possible to imagine.
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Equal Rites
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1987 Страниц: 282 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20091989-10-31
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«The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex...This is a third hilarious adventure by the author of «The Colour of Magic» and «The Light Fantastic.»
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Feet Of Clay
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1997 Страниц: 414 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092000-04-17
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There's a werewolf with the pre-lunar tension in Ankh-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who's begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start...There's treason in the air. A crime has happened. He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers.
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The Fifth Elephant
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 499 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092005-08-31
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«Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now, he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves — and they're catching up. «The Fifth Elephant» is Terry Pratchett's latest installment in the «Discworld» cycle, this time starring dwarfs, diplomacy, intrigue and big lumps of fat.»
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The First Casualty
Автор: Ben Elton Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 443 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20132009-06-18
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From Ben Elton, author of the hugely successful Past Mortem, a gut-wrenching historical drama which forces us to handle the truth. Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, is charged with his murder. Douglas Konig is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction in the case. Forced to conduct his investigations amid the hell of the third Battle of Ypres, Konig soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama that explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle? As the gap between legally sanctioned and illegal murder becomes ever more blurred, Konig quickly learns that the first casualty of war is Truth.
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Freedom Next Time
Автор: John Pilger Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092010-04-17
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«John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include «Heroes and Hidden Voices», have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In «Freedom Next Time», he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. In Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa, there has been the promise of hope, and even an 'official' freedom, but the reality of these divided societies is that they are still waiting for real freedom. In Palestine, the cycle of violence continues with no resolution in sight. And the island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, is a microcosm of the ruthlessness of great powers. The island was sold by the British to the American military in the 1960s. The indigenous population, descended from slaves, were forcibly removed to the slums of Port Louis in Mauritius. They have continued to fight for the return of their homeland ever since — three years ago the High Court granted them the right of return, but this has subsequently been blocked. The island remains the US's third biggest military base; a base from which they are able to launch attacks against the Middle East. Once again, John Pilger gives a voice to the people living through these momentous times and, in gripping detail, shows us the lives behind the headlines.»
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Global Village Idiot
Автор: John O'Farrell Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092006-03-16
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«This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair». Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for «The Guardian» and «The Independent», which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the prestigious British Liars Awards. Among many other things, he claims that the only conviction in the Tory Party was when Jeffrey Archer got sent to prison; that scientists have created a genetically superior monkey which will advertise lapsang souchong instead of PG Tips; and that with the election of George W. Bush, the global village has finally got its own global village idiot.»
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Going Postal
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 429 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092006-12-30
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Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...
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