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The Great Life Photographers
Автор: Life Magazine Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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The Great LIFE Photographers is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever published, featuring the best work of every staff photographer who worked for the famous magazine, and that of a handful of others who shot for LIFE. It was always the photographers who made LIFE great, and this is the most vivid and exciting portrait of those men and women that has ever been produced. The book offers more than 100 portfolios including those of Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and Joe McNally, whose work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of the magazine. Each portfolio includes a short biography, offering an intimate look at the people behind the lens. Here are the defining moments of the 20th century, including MacArthur wading ashore by Mydans, Capa's D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and, of course, Eisenstaedt's sailor kissing the nurse. Here are the first pictures taken from inside the womb and the first taken from outer space. Here are powerful scenes from Tiananmen Square and from the American South during the Civil Rights movement. LIFE helped make icons of Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and Michael Jackson, and those indelible photographs are here too. This attractive new paperback edition is an affordable way to own some of the most memorable photographs ever made, stunningly reproduced in black and white and full color.
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The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Автор: Kelly Knauer Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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Join the editors of TIME to observe the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in a richly illustrated chronicle of the confl ict that changed America. It's an immense subject-a battle between freedom and slavery, waged across the breadth of the still-expanding nation over a period of four years-and TIME has created an oversized volume to tell the story in the grand style it deserves. To bring the tale to life, the book focuses on little-seen photographs and original artifacts from the period: sketches from soldier's diaries, unusual and rare military and political memorabilia. And it brings us face-to-face with those who lived through the period, presenting scores of excerpts from the letters and diaries of soldiers, offi cers and statesmen. Yet the book also captures the full sweep of the war, telling the tale in chronological fashion, as the war evolves from a quiet beginning to become a mammoth struggle that consumed the divided nation. Here are the great generals: Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Here are the great battles, from Bull Run and Antietam to Gettysburg and Shiloh. Here are the latest discoveries and analysis by scholars of the conflict. And here are fascinating, informative graphics that reveal the war in fresh, clarifying detail. Here is a larger-than-life conflict, reported and illuminated in a larger-than-life oversized edition from TIME.
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13 Treasures
Автор: Michelle Harrison Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 355 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20142014-02-23
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Tanya is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's mother sends her away to live with her grandmother at Elvesden Manor, a secluded countryside mansion on the outskirts of a peculiar Essex town. There is plenty to explore, as long as Tanya stays away from Hangman's Wood — a vast stretch of forest, full of catacombs and notorious for people losing their lives. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods, a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. As Tanya learns more about this girl, she finds herself dangerously close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever. Debut author Michelle Harrison weaves an intricate mystery into a beautiful and haunting fantasy that captures a rich world of fairy lore where only the color red can offer protection.
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The Bride Collector
Автор: Ted Dekker Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 466 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20142014-02-19
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FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted. It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls... or inside. As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?
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A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
Автор: Cressida Cowell Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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It's Hiccup's birthday, but that's not going to keep him from getting into trouble. To save his dragon, Toothless, from being banished, Hiccup must sneak into the Meathead Public Library and steal the Viking's most sacred book. But the Vikings see books as a dangerous influence, and keep them locked up and under heavy guard. To save his friend, Hiccup must brave the Hairy Scary Librarian and his dreadful army of Meathead Warriors and face off against the formidable Driller-Dragons. Will he make it out and live to see his next birthday?
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How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
Автор: Cressida Cowell Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, everyone's favorite reluctant Viking hero, has three months, five days and six hours to discover America, get back to Berk, save his father, battle Polarserpents, and win the annual Inter-Tribal Friendly Swimming Race. Can he do it?
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Hungry Monster ABC: An Alphabet Book
Автор: Susan Heyboer O'Keefe Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2009 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112011-10-13
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Ten hungry monsters visit school today. They're here to learn the alphabet the hungry monster way. Watch out! The ten naughty visitors from the bestselling One Hungry Monster counting book have escaped! When they sneak into school, will they sit quietly at their desks to study? Not a chance! As a young boy tries to teach his unusual classmates (and keep himself out of trouble), the alphabet comes to life in a mischievously monstrous way. Though the lesson starts out innocently, soon the desks get soaked in bubbles, they bring the trampoline into the classroom, and the most difficult letters in the alphabet (X, Y & Z) are visited by an X-ray man, a yeti, and a zombie. This hilarious classroom rumpus is A-B-C-Dee-lightful!
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Like Dandelion Dust
Автор: Karen Kingsbury Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Jack and Molly Campbell are right where they want to be, enjoying an idyllic life with their four-year-old son Joey, and the close family and friends who live in their small hometown just outside Atlanta. Then the phone call comes from the social worker the Campbells never expected to hear from again. Three states away in Ohio, Joey's biological father has just been released from prison. He is ready to start life over, but not without his son. A judge's quick decision deals a devastating blow to the Campbell family: Joey must be returned to his biological parents. The day after the ruling, in the silent haze of grief and utter disbelief, they watch their son pick a dandelion and blow the feathery seeds into the wind. In the days that follow the ruling, Jack Campbell has a desperate and dangerous thought. What if they can devise a way out? Then they could take Joey and simply disappear...
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Mr: Popper's Penguins
Автор: Richard Atwater Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20142013-05-12
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The lovable Mr. Popper dreams of being an intrepid Antarctic explorer, living life among the penguins alongside his hero, Admiral Drake. So he is shocked one day when the admiral responds to his fan letter by sending him a real, live penguin! Soon, this penguin is joined by another and before long Mr. Popper has an ice-rink in the basement and a dozen delightful penguins living in his house. With barely enough money to feed his family and an increasing demand for raw fish and canned shrimp, what can the wonderfully imaginative Mr. Popper do but train his penguins and then take the show on the road!
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This Book Is Not Good For You
Автор: Pseudonymous Bosch Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you... and this story is particularly scrumptious! In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the evil dessert chef and chocolatier, Senor Hugo! The ransom...the legendary tuning fork. Can Cass and Max-Ernest find the magical instrument before it's too late? Will they discover the evil secret ingredient to Senor Hugo's chocolate success? If you're tempted, take a taste, but just remember... this book is not good for you.
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
Автор: Mary Ann Hoberman Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2007 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092009-10-13
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Here's a book with something new — you read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page to one another — you'll read one side, I the other. A unique book 'in two voices' that uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Each of the twelve short stories fit on one spread and features childlike themes — family, friendship, pets and seasons.With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain.
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You 2: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together
Автор: Mary Ann Hoberman Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2009 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112011-10-13
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Do you like your mind all jumpy? Do you like your skin all bumpy? If you do, then take a look At the stories in this book! Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley's award-winning picture book featuring scary stories is now available in an affordable paperback edition — just in time for Halloween! With clear, colour-coded type and clever illustrations, this fourth You Read to Me, I'll Read to You book uses traditional teaching techniques to invite young children to read along with the text.
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Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes
Автор: Katharine Turner Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-10-13
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With simple, engaging text and dynamic, vivid illustrations, these readers retell stories from the new Transfomers movie, opening in theaters on July 1, and ensure learning through action and adventure. Includes punch-outs. Full color. Consumable.
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The Shack: When Tragedy Confronts Eternity
Автор: Wm Paul Young Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 279 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20132016-08-11
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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Saint George and the Dragon
Автор: Margaret Hodges Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 1990 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091993-02-13
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This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land. Featuring a fresh new cover design — with artwork that highlights the dragon adventure within — and distinctive embossed gold Caldecott Award sticker, this is the perfect way to introduce the classic tale to a whole new generation of readers.
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Holidays on Ice
Автор: David Sedaris Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2010 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20142013-04-25
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David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French (Jesus Shaves); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm (Let It Snow); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations (Six to Eight Black Men); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like (The Monster Mash); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry (Cow and Turkey). No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called one of the funniest writers alive (Economist).
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La Cabana: Donde la Tragedia Se Encuentra Con la Eternidad
Автор: William Paul Young Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2008 Страниц: 270 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112010-10-30
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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10th Anniversary
Автор: James Patterson Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 412 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20162012-12-20
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For every secret Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals — but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. For every lie At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life — a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct? There's a different way to die Lindsay's every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby begins interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if she'll ever be able to start a family. With James Patterson's white-hot speed and unquenchable action, 10th Anniversary is the most deliciously chilling Women's Murder Club book ever.
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The 9th Judgment
Автор: JAMES PATTERSON Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 330 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-19
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A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence — a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich — and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women's Murder Club.
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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Автор: Seth Grahame-Smith Жанр: Hachette Livre Издательство: Hachette Livre Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years.
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