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The State We're In
Автор: Parks Adele Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20162019-08-27
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This is the stunning, emotionally powerful new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks. Meet Jo. She's an incurable romantic, ever hopeful that life will bring her the things she wants most: a husband, children — a family. She wants what her parents have had — the happiest marriage ever. Meet Dean. He's a self-made, self sufficient man, who doesn't believe in happy-ever-afters. Why would he when his father walked out on his mother and sister and left them to fend for themselves? A chance phone call, a reckless decision and a twist of fate bring these two utterly different people together — neither of them will ever be the same again...
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The Invention of Wings
Автор: Sue Monk Kidd Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20162019-08-27
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The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins... A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Автор: Gaiman Neil Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 260 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20162015-12-16
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THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac — as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark — from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed — within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
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Burn
Автор: Baggott Julianna Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Страниц: 458 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092003-07-14
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An epic tale for fans of Justin Cronin, THE HUNGER GAMES and Cormac McCarthy. The final part in the PURE trilogy. Inside the Dome, Partridge has taken his father's place as leader of the Pures. His struggle has led him here, intent upon bringing down the Dome from the inside, with the help of a secret resistance force. But things are not as simple from his new position of power and he finds himself tempted by his father's words: perhaps if the world is to survive it needs the Dome — and Partridge — to rule it...As Partridge's resolve weakens, Pressia and Bradwell continue piecing together the clues left to them from the time before the Detonations. It is their hope that they will be able to heal the Wretches, and free them from their monstrous fusings and the Dome's oppression once and for all. But everything depends, too, on Partridge. Separated by distance and history, can they still trust their friend and ally? Or is the world doomed to an eternity of war and hardship?
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The Mask of Troy
Автор: Gibbins David Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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Jack Howard becomes part of a terrifying legacy and a race against time, in the action-packed new adventure from bestselling author David Gibbins. Greece. 1871. Heinrich Schliemann, the great archaeologist, raises the Mask of Agamemnon and makes a mind-blowing discovery. Determined to keep it a secret until the time is right, he then dies. Germany. 1945. The liberation of a concentration camp reveals clues to lost antiquities stolen by the Nazis. But the operation is covered up after a deadly secret surfaces. Northern Aegean. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard discovers a shipwreck, part of the war fleet of Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, and soon becomes embroiled in a desperate chase across Europe against a ruthless enemy...
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Pharaoh
Автор: Gibbins David Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20152018-08-23
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1334 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharoah rules supreme in Egypt. The young Tutahkhamun is groomed to be his successor. But then Akhenaten disappears and his legacy is seemingly swallowed up by the sands that lie under modern Cairo and the great pyramids of Giza... AD 1885: A half-crazed man appears claiming to know of a vast lost labyrinth beneath modern Cairo, of canals and palaces and tombs. His story won't be believed for almost thirty years, with the discovery of Tutahkhamun's tomb in 1924. Present-day: Jack Howard and his team are excavating one of the most amazing underwater sites they have ever encountered. They hear the story of the crazed engineer. What follows is a rollercoaster ride of adventure and action, as they dive into the Nile into a world three thousand years back in history, inhabited by a people who have sworn to guard the greatest secret of all time...
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The Gods of Atlantis
Автор: Gibbins David Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-15
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A thrilling standalone sequel to ATLANTIS, David Gibbins' international bestseller of high-action adventure, marine archaeology and the exploration of one of history's most fascinating and enduring mysteries. A lost Nazi bunker in a forest in Germany contains a dreadful secret. But is there a horrifying new dimension — another ingredient in the Nazi's rule of terror? Marine archaeologist Jack Howard returns to the lost island of Atlantis in the Black Sea to answer questions about the Atlantis priests that have plagued him. Then by tracking down the 1930s expeditions of Himmler's Ahnenerbe — the Nazi's Department of Cultural Heritage — and its link with Atlantis, Jack realises he is not just on the trail of the greatest lost relics from the past. Could there possibly be a terrifying new version of Atlantis, a priesthood of evil? Jack must uncover the truth before it is too late.
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Guilt
Автор: Kellerman Jonathan Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 408 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20152014-06-05
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The new complex and masterfully plotted psychological thriller from Jonathan Kellerman, the No. 1 bestselling author and creator of Alex Delaware — The Crime Reader. When a young couple takes possession of their dream home, they can't wait to remodel the neglected mansion. That is until they make a gruesome discovery of a rusted metal strongbox containing two rotting leather doctor's bags. And inside each bag, swaddled in sheets of sixty-year-old newspaper, lies a tiny human skeleton. The case hits the media, and theories abound. The most likely culprit is a mysterious woman, employed as private nurse to wealthy L.A. families during World War Two and Lieutenant Milo Sturgis consults psychologist Alex Delaware for insight into the perpetrator's motives. But the horror is just beginning. Two more bags are discovered, but this time the infants inside have been dead less than a month. Is a copycat at work? Or is there a link between the two finds which goes back decades? By the time both cases close, Alex and Milo will have confronted unprecedented narcissism, cruelty, deceit and a cold but fiendish objectification of the human spirit that shakes both men to the core...
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The Serpent's Tooth
Автор: Rutherford Alex Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2013 Страниц: 421 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20162016-09-20
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The new Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan reigns over a colossally wealthy empire of 100 million souls. Yet to gain his throne he has followed the savage throne or coffin traditions of his ancestors — descendants of Genghis Khan and Tamburlaine. Ever since the Moghuls took India, brother has fought brother and sons their fathers for the prize and Shah Jahan has been no exception. As his reign dawns, now is the time for Shah Jahan to secure his throne by crushing his enemies. Instead, devastated by the death of his beautiful wife Mumtaz, he becomes obsessed with building an epic monument to their perfect love — the Taj Mahal. His overwhelming grief isolates him from his sons and he does not see the rivalries, indeed hatreds, building between them. When he falls ill, civil war breaks out — ruthless, murderous and uncontrollable — and the foundations of the empire itself begin to shake.
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The Tainted Throne
Автор: Rutherford Alex Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 438 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20162014-05-12
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The brutal battle for power continues in the fourth book in the epic Empire of the Moghul series. Agra, India, 1606. Jahangir, the triumphant Moghul Emperor and ruler of most of the Indian subcontinent, is doomed. No amount of wealth and ruthlessness can protect him from his sons' desire for power. The glorious Moghul throne is worth any amount of bloodshed and betrayal; once Jahangir raised troops against his own father; now he faces a bloody battle with Khurram, the ablest of his warring sons. Worse is to come. Just as the heirs of Timur the Great share intelligence, physical strength and utter ruthlessness, they also have a great weakness for wine and opium. Once Jahangir is tempted, his talented wife, Mehrunissa, is only too willing to take up the reins of empire. And with Khurram and his half-brothers each still determined to be their father's heir, the savage battle for the Moghul throne will be more ferocious than even Timur could have imagined...
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Killer
Автор: Kellerman Jonathan Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2014 Страниц: 387 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20152019-08-13
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The latest addictive thriller from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman, the master of psychological suspense, in his acclaimed series featuring Doctor Alex Delaware. Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't be from the Beverley Hills doctor, for Connie is soon discovered brutally slain. When her sister Cherie and the baby disappear, apparently on the run, Alex's search for answers leads him to aged rockers, charming homeboys and even Machiavellian judges. As the darkest of secrets are peel away, and a cruel system churns through family lives, Alex seeks to stop a vicious killer and save a child from a life of nightmares... or worse.
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By the Light of the Moon
Автор: Koontz Dean Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 472 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20122011-07-28
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Dylan O'Conner is launched onto a nightmarish odyssey when he is seemingly randomly attacked and injected with a mysterious substance. What follows, as he and his autistic brother try and figure out what has happened, will take them into the path of another victim of the «doctor» who injected Dylan, and together they find themselves on the run, with only 24 hours to escape from the fleet of black, unmarked vehicles that is pursuing them.
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Seize the Night
Автор: Koontz Dean Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 1999 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092003-03-08
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Moonlight Bay, California. A safe, secluded small town that is at its most picturesque in the gentle night-times that inspired its name. Now, somewhere in the night, children are disappearing. The police cannot be trusted since they were long ago corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow, victim of a rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light, believes the lost children are still alive and is convinced the disappearances have everything to do with the catastrophic effects of secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. Forced to live in the shadows, he knows the night world better than anyone, and sets out to find the missing five-year-old son of a former sweetheart. Never before in Dean Koontz's phenomenal writing career has he created a character quite like Christopher Snow — a creation so complex, so fascinating that the author has felt compelled to return to him. Readers of Fear Nothing already know why. Those who meet him for the first time in Seize the Night will soon join leagues of others whose imaginations have been touched by this unique character and the extraordinarily eerie world of Moonlight Bay.
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Fear Nothing
Автор: Dean Koontz Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 440 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20142012-09-14
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Christopher Snow suffers from a rare genetic disorder — xeroderma pigmentosum — which means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight, so his life begins at midnight. Set in the town of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty and haunting strangeness, Fear nothing is a startling and compulsive masterpiece of tension.
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Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
Автор: Beaton M.C. Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092005-05-18
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Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise class, afloat in a rain-swollen river, dressed in a bridal gown, and clutching a wedding bouquet. Agatha's policeman friend Bill Wong suggests she leave this macabre murder to the Worcester CID. Pah What do they know? Once she enlists the aid of the bachelor mystery writer next door, puts on a disguise, and interviews some likely suspects, Agatha will be her brash, redoubtable self again unless she becomes the killer's next victim first...
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Playing Away
Автор: Parks Adele Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20152015-02-13
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Connie has been married for a year to her gentle, loving husband Luke. She thought she couldn't be happier. But she's just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He's a walking stag weekend. He's a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He is about to destroy Connie's peace of mind, but she can't resist. She's playing with fire. And playing against the rules...
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Battle of Britain: July — October 1940
Автор: Parker Matthew Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2001 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092005-03-16
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A thrilling oral history of the «Finest Hour» of British history, tying in to a major TV documentary.
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Movie Girl
Автор: Lace Kate Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Pinning tight clothing to unnervingly handsome actors — now there's a job fashionista Gemma would be crazy to pass up. That's why she's delighted to find herself working as assistant wardrobe mistress on a huge, lavishly produced film. And the movie's sexy star, A-lister Jono Knighton, has taken a real shine to her, so life just gets better and better. There's just the small matter of Jono's wife, the petrifying Rowan, to consider!
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Accidental Virgin
Автор: Frankel Valerie Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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»You're almost a virgin again»: When Stacy Hamilton's best friend points out how long it's been since Stacy broke up with her last boyfriend she can't believe it. In college, a dry month had seemed unbearable. So what's happened? You'd think her job at Thongs.com concocting sexy lingerie would get her in the mood. But the guys she's been dating recently aren't exactly enticing. Stacy decides drastic action is required. It's time to widen her search for the ideal man!
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Romancing the Dead
Автор: Hallaway Tate Жанр: Headline Publishing Издательство: Headline Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Having dealt with the skeletons in her closet — the Vatican witch hunters who wanted her dead and the FBI agents who wanted her to spend life in prison — Garnet Lacey is feeling pretty darn good about her life. But things are about to go wrong. Very wrong. Just as Garnet is finally starting to feel settled in Madison and daydreaming about what «forever» might mean to Sebastian Von Traum, her daylight-tolerant vampire lover, he suddenly goes missing. As if that isn't enough, Matyas, Sebastian's half-vampire son who is cursed to be a perpetual teenager, shows up looking for his dad. At the same time, Garnet begins to sponsor the incredibly gorgeous Micah as a new member of her coven. Garnet is determined to keep things professional while she searches for her missing boyfriend but Lilith, her inner goddess, has other ideas...
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