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Unseen Academicals
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork — not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!
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Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain
Автор: John O'Farrell Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?'. An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945; leaving the Twenty-First Century reader feeling fantastically smug for having the benefit of hindsight.
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Beach Babylon
Автор: Imogen Edwards-Jones Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? And how does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere else? This work takes you behind the scenes at a five-star tropical island resort.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Автор: Kate Atkinson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092000-05-28
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Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster.
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Cocktails for Three
Автор: Madeleine Wickham Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover u and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her. Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with u motherhood. Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes u until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...
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The Darkest Room
Автор: Johan Theorin Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. And the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him.
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Echo Burning
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 571 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092005-09-12
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Jack Reacher is adrift in the heat of a Texan summer, hoping to hitch a ride. Carmen is the beautiful, young, rich woman who picks him up. Carmen and her little girl are in trouble. At Carmen's ranch in Echo County, the group encounter hostility, Can Reacher rescue this lady in distress.
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Enough to Make a Cat Laugh
Автор: Deric Longden Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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Throughout 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a painful business. She hardly trips over them, but they are always in danger of being mistaken for a cardigan, or locked away in the cellar.
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Автор: Richard Dawkins Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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«Charles Darwin's masterpiece, «On the Origin of Species», shook society to its core on publication in 1859. This title takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.»
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The Hard Way
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092010-02-29
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Late at night, in a New York cafe, Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. So he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no or a case he couldn't solve. But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Doing it the hard way, until what started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. With Reacher striding alone in the shadows, armed and dangerous.
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Human croquet
Автор: Kate Atkinson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20092001-04-22
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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe — a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. Now the Fairfaxes have dwindled and are hardly any family at all.
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Icons of England
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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This is a hymn to what makes England, especially the English countryside, so special, in a collection of passionate, eclectic and thought-provoking pieces. It includes Bill Bryson on seaside piers, Michael Palin on crags, Eric Clapton on Newlands Corner, Bryan Ferry on Penshaw Monument, Sebastian Faulks on pub signs, Kate Adie on deer parks, Kevin Spacey on canal boats, Gavin Pretor-Pinney on clouds, Richard Mabey on marshland, Simon Jenkins on English country houses, John Sergeant on Great Tew, Benjamin Zephaniah on the Malvern Hills, Joan Bakewell on estuaries, Antony Beevor on the north downs in Kent, Libby Purves on Harbour Walls, Jonathan Dimbleby on the beach at West Wittering, and many more.
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The Lost Symbol
Автор: Dan Brown Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 670 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20132013-02-19
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«Six years in the writing, «The Lost Symbol» is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, «Angels & Demons» and «The Da Vinci Code». Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, is once again called into action. Expertly researched and written with breakneck pace, «The Lost Symbol» once again demonstrates why Dan Brown is the world's bestselling thriller writer.»
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Natasha's Dream
Автор: Mary Jane Staples Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate, she quickly falls for his kind and caring nature. But when further threats are made on her life, Philip finds himself at the heart of another mystery. What is it that links Natasha to this mysterious, damaged woman? And will her love for Philip survive the secrets that will be unearthed?
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One Good Turn
Автор: Kate Atkinson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092010-03-24
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«It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident — an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander — until he becomes a suspect. With «Case Histories», Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In «One Good Turn», she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self. Unputdownable and triumphant, «One Good Turn» is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.»
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Paws in the Proceedings
Автор: Deric Longden Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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«Deric's gentle tales of life in Huddersfield with his wife Aileen and their menagerie of playful cats have won him thousands of loyal fans. And after a few years break Deric returns with the latest, and eagerly awaited, instalment of his memoirs. Deric is getting on a bit now and so are his cats. Life chez-Longden has adjusted to a slower pace, but everyday is still full of opportunities for the sort of mischief, mishaps and adventures that come with sharing your house and life with a troop of small cats with big personalities. «Paws in the Proceedings» has all of Deric's trademark charm, homespun wisdom and gentle wit. His remarkable eye for the humorous detail and the keen observation are very much in evidence, and this is another comic gem that will delight Deric's loyal fans and bring him to a bigger audience than ever before.»
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Tripwire
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092002-10-30
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Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions. Determined to keep out of trouble, he conceals his identity. But when Costello is found dead Reacher has two questions: who was Costello's employer, and why is she determined to find him.
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The Visitor
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 502 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092004-04-07
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Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
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What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Автор: Eric Berne Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1975 Страниц: 475 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20091977-10-20
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What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script — a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in... What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending...
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Dragon's Kin
Автор: Anne McCaffrey Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization.
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