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In One Person
Автор: Irving John Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092008-02-16
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A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love — tormented, funny, and affecting — and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect', a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 — in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases', The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers — a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'.
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The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour De France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
Автор: Hamilton Tyler Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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On a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner at a restaurant in Boulder, Colorado. The two had met five years before while Coyle was writing his bestselling book, Lance Armstrong: Tour de Force. But this time, Tyler had something else on his mind. He finally wanted to come clean, about everything: the doping, the lying, his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate on U.S. Postal, his decade spent running from the truth. 'I'm sorry', he told Coyle. 'It just feels so good to be able to talk about this. I've been quiet for so many years'. Over the next eighteen months, Hamilton would tell his story — and his sport's story — in explosive detail, never sparing himself in the process. In a way, he became as obsessed with telling the truth as he had been with winning the Tour de France just a few years before. The result of this determination is The Secret Race, a book that pulls back the curtain and takes us into the secret world of professional cycling like never before. A world populated by unbelievably driven — and some flawed — characters. A world where the competition used every means to get an edge, and the options were stark. A world where it often felt like there was no choice.
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A Wanted Man
Автор: Child Lee Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092008-04-22
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When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher — and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose — it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers — two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything — and there's a police roadblock ahead.
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The Colour of Magic
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20142014-10-20
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In the beginning there was... a turtle. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it's carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc's very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world's first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. Unfortunately, the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard...
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Wedding Night
Автор: Kinsella Sophie Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement — just a straight wedding march to the altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember... or one to forget?
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A Wanted Man
Автор: Child Lee Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20162016-04-25
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When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher — and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape — it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers — two men and a woman.
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Headstone
Автор: Bruen Ken Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken. Most would see a headstone as a marker of the dead, but this coterie of evil intends to act as a death knell to every aspect of Jack's life as an act of appalling violence alerts him to the horror enveloping Galway. Accepting the power of Headstone, Jack realizes that in order to fight back he must relinquish the remaining shreds of what has made him human — knowledge that may have come too late to prevent an act of such ferocious evil that the whole country would be changed forever — and in the worst way. With awful clarity, Jack knows that not only might he be powerless to stop it but that he may not have the grit needed to even face it.
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The Boy Who Fell to Earth
Автор: Lette Kathy Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son — who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising her adorable yet challenging child, Lucy doesn't have room for any other man in her life.
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The Streets of Ankh Morpork: Being a Concife and Possibly Even Accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1993 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091994-06-05
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A full-colour fold-out map (A1 size) detailing the streets of the Discworld's most important city, Ankh-Morpork. It includes all the landmarks of the novels, including the Unseen University, the Shades and the Mended Drum.
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Friends Forever
Автор: Steel Danielle Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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Five children meet on their first day of school, one bright September morning. Drawn by that magical spark of connection that happens to the young, Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy and Sean — each bursting with their own personality, all with strikingly different looks and diverse talents — soon become an inseparable group, known to everyone else as the Big Five. As they grow up, their seemingly perfect lives are altered by families falling apart, unfortunate mistakes, and losses and victories great and small. Throughout their adolescence, the five are able to turn back to their trusted group to regain their footing and steady their course. But as they emerge from school, their futures seem neither safe nor clear. As their lives separate, the challenges and risks they face become greater, the losses sharper, and it becomes much harder to know the right path to choose. But despite life's ups and downs, together they are able to face up to challenges with the help of the important bonds forged all those years ago. And the five realise just how lucky they are to treasure valuable friendships that last a lifetime.
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The Last Continent
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20082008-07-11
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'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future'. There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics: especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately in the hands of such an inept and cussed group of individuals, the sensitive issue of causality is sadly only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another...
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Last to Die
Автор: Gerritsen Tess Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132014-07-11
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Evensong is a school for orphaned children who've been traumatized by violent crime. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles have connections with two of its students, but they discover that even a school protected by locked gates and acres of forest cannot shut out a gathering threat. As Jane and Maura struggle to interpret the clues, the resourceful students of Evensong are also investigating...
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The Long Earth
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive — some said mad, others dangerous — scientist when she finds a curious gadget — a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a ... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. And that's an understatement if ever there was one... The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter.
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Wyrd Sisters
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092005-12-20
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Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this tainted throne is a more complicated affair than you might imagine, particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off and you're facing a future with knives in it...
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The Absolutist
Автор: Boyne John Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092010-08-03
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It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul: one that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as despair and pain. The Absolutist is a novel that examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young soldiers, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship.
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A Tourist Guide to Lancre
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091999-12-13
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Between Uberwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Widdershins Ocean, lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain in all Discworld. This is a map of Lancre, where Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick live.
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Two Brothers
Автор: Elton Ben Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20152014-12-20
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Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice... Which one of them will survive? Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour.
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The Sins of the Mother
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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After building an empire that has made her a legend in business, Olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoy. This summer she has arranged a dream trip on a luxurious yacht in the Mediterranean, which she hopes will be the most memorable of all. More than anything, she hopes to express her love and her regret at all the important times she missed during her children's early years. But her younger daughter, Cassie, a hip London music producer, refuses the invitation altogether as she does every year. Liz, her older daughter, is preoccupied with a chance to recapture her dream of being a writer and is terrified of failure, again. And her sons John and Phillip work for her, for better or worse, with wives who wish they didn't. Immersed in the splendour of the Riviera, this should be a summer to remember, but old resentments die hard, and Olivia is still running the business full-time. As each of these individuals confront the past and the challenges of the present and future, they also learn to accept the enduring, unconditional love of their family — and a mother who is strong enough to take more than her fair share of the blame, and loving enough to accept them as they really are. The question is: can they do the same for her?
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My Brief History
Автор: Stephen Hawking Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20182016-04-12
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant cosmologists of our time, and author of the 10 million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time, one of the iconic books of its generation. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of his own life in his own words, in a book expanded from a lecture of the same name. When you are faced with an early death, writes Stephen Hawking, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do. From his post-war childhood in London through his undergraduate years at Oxford, Hawking was smart but (according to him) undistinguished, not even the brightest child of his brilliant, eccentric parents. A great lover of jokes and bets, he made an art of doing as little work as possible. All that changed, however, when Hawking received a diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, or ALS, at the age of twenty-one, and began his transformation into the (still fun-loving) explorer and explainer of the universe that we know today. Written with wit, humility, and warmth, My Brief History gives us a candid examination of a life well-lived, including insight into his marriages and family life as well as a portrait of his intellectual evolution. The result is an unprecedented glimpse inside the mind of one of the most world-changing people of our time.
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A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with Terry's inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
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