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Don't You Forget About Me
Автор: Cecily von Ziegesar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments. We aren't always the nicest people in the world, but we make up for it in looks and taste.' «The Gossip Girl» series is the ultimate in glamour and cool. Set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way).
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Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me
Автор: Cecily von Ziegesar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112011-02-19
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'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive private schools. We aren't always the nicest people in the world, but we make up for it in looks and taste.' «The Gossip Girl» series is the ultimate in glamour and cool. Set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side, the narrative follows the thrills and spills of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way). In this second novel, they are interviewing for college (Ivy League only, naturally).
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Nothing Can Keep Us Together
Автор: Cecily von Ziegesar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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It's almost graduation and the lives of New York's private high school elite are really heating up. Everyone's got into college and it's clearly time to party — not that they haven't been doing plenty of that already. This is the eighth book in this series.
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Let the Great World Spin
Автор: Colum McCann Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and, Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.
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M is for Magic
Автор: Neil Gaiman Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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In this collection of wonderful stories, which range between fantasy, humour, science fiction and a sprinkling of horror, the reader will relish the range and skill of Neil Gaiman's writing. Be prepared to laugh at the detective story about Humpty Dumpty's demise, spooked by the sinister jack-in-the-box who haunts the lives of the children who own it, and intrigued by the boy who is raised by ghosts in a graveyard in this collection of bite-sized narrative pleasures.
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The Popcorn Pirates
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20082010-08-23
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Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog, Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! The pirates aren't just after more popcorn they want new recruits too! Will three children — and a dog — defeat the greediest gang of grub-guzzling pirates ever to sail the high seas?
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Someday Angeline
Автор: Louis Sachar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is put up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher and her tropical fish and another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-and-turns of plot and lovely humour, this delightful novel is thought-provoking and brilliant.
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Sorceress
Автор: Celia Rees Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20092007-03-12
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The sequel to «Witch Child», this title reveals what happens to Mary Newbury, who has disappeared into the forest. Alison finds out from Agnes Hearnethat Agnes is a descendent of Mary's and has a special skill which allowsher to be in touch with Mary in the spirit world.
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Witch Child
Автор: Celia Rees Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2003 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092005-05-18
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During the witch hunts of the mid-1600s, many young Englishwomen died on the gallows, innocent victims of false or hysterical accusations of witchcraft. But what of those women who actually claimed the name «witch» as their own? In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it is like to live in a climate of mistrust and piety in which differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan. With a sure hand, she describes her beloved grandmother's trial and hanging as a witch, her own rescue by a mysterious noblewoman, and her eventual passage to the New World and the forest settlement of Beulah. There Mary falls under a curtain of suspicion when she willingly chooses to explore the dark woods shunned by the fearful colonists and makes friends with some of the spiritual native people. When several girls in the community begin to shriek and swoon, and the same minister who damned Mary's grandmother comes to search for signs of witchcraft, Mary is subjected to close and deadly scrutiny.
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Автор: Kingsley Amis Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk — all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know — how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.
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Happy Families
Автор: Carlos Fuentes Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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A choral novel on the hopes, disillusionments and betrayals of family life in Mexico. A rich Catholic rancher wants his four sons to become priests, while the boys themselves have other plans; a bereaved mother explains her daughter's life to the man who killed her; three daughters meet up around their father's coffin for the first time in ten years; a middle-aged couple meet by chance on a cruise-ship and wonder if they were once young lovers. The result is a picture of contemporary Mexico seen through a violently fragmented narrative, not unlike the internationally successful film Amores Perros. The stories are punctuated by a chorus, commenting as if in a Greek tragedy, crudely and unsentimentally on the underbelly of modern Mexican life, offering a raw but richly textured glimpse of the inequalities of that society — street children, junkies, dead rock icons, the ideal wife, a honeymoon gone wrong, a child suicide, a man faking his death and beginning a new life — that throw the middle-class dramas of the linked stories into harsh relief. Happy Families is a dramatic polyphony of the many conflicting strands of Latin America and the modern urban world.
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Hell's Cartel: Making of Hitler's War Machine
Автор: Diarmuid Jeffreys Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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In 1925, six of Germany's leading chemical companies banded together in a cartel to protect their business from increasing international competition. Twenty years later the directors found themselves on trial at Nuremberg, accused of being 'the magicians who made the fantasies of Mein Kampf come true'. How had one of the world's leading companies, whose knowledge and expertise were the envy of the world, become Hitler's creature, directly involved in the Holocaust with their experimental I. G. Monowitz plant at Auschwitz? In this brilliantly researched and compelling book, Diarmuid Jeffreys shines a bright light on I. G Farben's Faustian pact with the Third Reich to reveal in shocking detail the story of the original military-industrial complex.
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The Little Friend
Автор: Donna Tartt Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2005 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092009-03-12
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Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by Captain Scott, Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dark and dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
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Physik
Автор: Angie Sage Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20102010-10-13
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When Silas Heap unseals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself ever-lasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus' disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And, if Queen Etheldredda's plot involves Jenna and Septimus, then Dark adventure awaits. With heart-stopping action and endless wit, Angie Sage continues the fantastical journey of Septimus Heap.
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Sovay
Автор: Celia Rees Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics, this action-driven novel shows once again that Celia Rees is one of our very best writers for teenage readers. Wild and beautiful, spoilt and wilful, Sovay finds that her cosseted life in rural England has not prepared her for life as a highway robber, for defending the honour of her family or for trying to save herself from corruption and evil. As Sovay becomes more and more embroiled in adventures she could scarcely have imagined, a story of dark intrigue, thwarted passions and sinister intentions is revealed to her. Will she be able to survive, and if she does so, at what cost?
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Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking
Автор: Kate Colquhoun Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112012-03-18
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From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food. Taste tells a story as rich and diverse as a five-course dinner.
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While I Was Gone
Автор: Sue Miller Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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Perhaps it's best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that's dear to you Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered. Now Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters and a beautiful home. But when an old friend settles in her small town, the fabric of Jo's life begins to unravel, as she enters a relationship that returns her to the darkest moments of her past, imperilling all that she loves.
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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
Автор: Chris Priestley Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But soon that journey turns out to be more of a challenge than anyone could have imagined as the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and a mysterious woman in white helps the boy while away the hours by telling him stories — stories with a difference.
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The Battle of the Sun
Автор: Jeanette Winterson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.
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Tanglewreck
Автор: Jeanette Winterson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it! In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and frightening changes in time. When Silver goes on the run to try and protect herself and the Timekeeper, a remarkable and compelling adventure unfolds, full of brilliance and wit, as is befitting an author with the imagination and style of Jeanette Winterson.
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