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The Death of Bunny Munro
Автор: Cave N. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement, The Death of Bunny Munro is also an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
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The Taste of Apple Seeds
Автор: Hagena K. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 241 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142015-05-22
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For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother's garden, a place where redcurrants turned to pale tears on the branches of trees and beautiful Aunt Inga shook sparks from the tips of her fingers. But now her grandmother is dead and, along with inheriting the property, Iris finds that she also inherits her family's darkest secrets. Reluctant to keep it, but reluctant to sell, Iris spends one more summer at the house. By day she swims at the local lake, where she rediscovers a childhood companion. Alone at night she roams through the familiar rooms, exploring the tall black shadows of the past. In the flicker between remembrance and forgetting, Iris recalls an enigmatic grandfather who went to war and came back a different man, the night her cousin Rosmarie fell through the conservatory roof and shattered her family's lives, and a moment of love that made all the trees in the orchard bloom over night.
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Play Time: A Simon's Cat Book
Автор: Tofield Simon Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20152018-08-17
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A pocket-sized collection of play-themed Simon's Cat cartoons selected from the first three Simon's Cat books. In full colour and featuring a selection of brand new cartoons, Simon's Cat is back, smaller, cheaper and cuter, but still up to his usual tricks.
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The Bumper Book of Simon's Cat
Автор: Simon Tofield Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 408 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20152014-06-05
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In the last five years, Simon's Cat has become a national treasure and a global phenomenon. Star of over twenty-five films, which have been watched over 300 million times, and winner of a dozen major industry awards, Simon's Cat has captured the hearts of a global audience. In this first major paperback edition author, animator and illustrator Simon Tofield brings together the best cartoons from the first three bestselling books, with exclusive new material and a unique 'How to Draw' section. This really is The Bumper Book of Simon's Cat.
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A Tale for the Time Being
Автор: Ozeki Ruth Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2013 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20162015-10-11
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Within the pages of this book lies the diary of a girl called Nao. Riding the waves of a tsunami, it is making its way across the ocean. It will change the life of the person who finds it. It might just change yours, too. Crossing generations and continents, from World War Two to present day Japan, A Tale for the Time Being tells an unforgettable story, as wondrous as it is wise.
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Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Автор: Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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'No matter what, you cannot change human nature', exclaims a soldier in the final story of this collection, 'even under socialism'. Apricot Jam and Other Stories presents a series of astonishing portraits of Russian life before, during and after Soviet rule. In 'The New Generation', a professor promotes a student purely out of good will. Years later, the same professor finds himself arrested and, in a striking twist of fate, his student becomes his interrogator. In 'Nastenka', two young women with the same name lead routine, ordered lives — until the Revolution exacts radical change on them both. With an unforgettable cast of displaced family members, military commanders and imprisoned activists, these stories play out the moral dilemmas and ideological conflicts that defined Russia in the twentieth century.
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Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements
Автор: White Matthew Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2012 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20132015-09-14
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In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist' Matthew White considers man's inhumanity to man across several thousand years of history. From the First Punic War and the collapse of Mayan rule to the reign of Peter the Great and the cataclysmic events of the Second World War, White's epic book spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent events in human history. If we study history in order to avoid the mistakes of the past, then there can be no more important place to start.
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To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing and Influencing Others
Автор: Pink Daniel H. Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2014 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20182019-08-03
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We're all in Sales now. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Match.com profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be. The low road of deceit and trickery is no longer a viable option, and success in persuasion now depends on being more, not less, human.
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The Crane Wife
Автор: Ness Patrick Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2014 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20152017-09-24
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The extraordinary happens everyday. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. The next day, a beautiful woman called Kumiko walks into his shop and begins to tell him the most extraordinary story. Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.
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Under The Skin
Автор: Faber Michel Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2014 Страниц: 296 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20152015-12-10
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Isserley spends most of her time driving along empty, winding Highland roads in her red Toyota. She is interested in hitchhikers — so long as they are male, well-muscled and alone. But once she has coaxed them into her car, what she does to them is truly astonishing. Meeting Isserley is only the beginning of their journey, and a gateway to a new world. Cutting across different genres, Under the Skin is a wildly inventive, bold and beautifully written book that launched Michel Faber's international career and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Book Award. And in Isserley, Faber created one of the most memorable and singular heroines of modern times.
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Serena
Автор: Rash Ron Жанр: Canongate Издательство: Canongate Год: 2014 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162017-02-24
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George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together. Unlike any woman the timber empire has ever seen, Serena oversees crews, hunts rattlesnakes and even saves her husband's life in the wilderness. But when Serena learns she will never bear a child, it sets in motion a course of events that will change the lives of everyone in the community.
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