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The Dealer and the Dead
Автор: Gerald Seymour Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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A bold revitalization of this legendary author, which began with THE COLLABORATOR — one of the 5 'best thrillers of the year' — Observer, 2009.
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This Body of Death
Автор: Elizabeth George Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20142014-09-17
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DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isabelle Ardery, his temporary replacement at the Met, the chance to make her mark with a high profile murder investigation. Persuading Lynley back to work seems the best way to guarantee a result: Lynley's team is fiercely loyal to him and Isabelle needs them — and especially Barbara Havers — on side. The Met is twitchy: a series of PR disasters has undermined its confidence. Isabelle knows that she'll be operating under the unforgiving scrutiny of the media, so is quick — perhaps too quick — to pin the murder on a convenient suspect. The murder trail leads Lynley and Havers to the New Forest, and the eventual resolution of the case. Its roots are in a long-ago act of violence that has poisoned subsequent generations and its outcome is both tragic and shocking.
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The Last Letter from Your Lover
Автор: Jojo Moyes Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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From the bestselling author of «Me Before You» and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband — and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything — her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for. Ellie and Jennifer's stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel — interspersed with real 'last letters'.
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Before I Fall
Автор: Lauren Oliver Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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As compelling as The Lovely Bones and as memorable as Jenny Downham's Before I Die, this will become a word-of-mouth phenomenon.
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How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man
Автор: James May Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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Being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him fifty ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds made James May certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact. He reckons there are nine vital things that a chap should be able to do. Not stuff you can download from the internet, but really important things. You never know when you might need to land an A330 Airbus, or deliver twins. And there may well be a moment when being able to play a bit of classical music on the piano is absolutely crucial to your success with women. So read, learn and be prepared — you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Автор: Selina Hastings Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20122012-05-18
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For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels — several of which are now established classics — Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predominantly homosexual, and deeply in love with the charming but dissolute Gerald Haxton, he made a disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome which he would escape by travelling and writing extensively in the Far East. A talented linguist, during both world wars Maugham worked for British Intelligence. In between he moved in literary and theatrical circles in London, New York and Hollywood and entertained lavishly at his luxurious villa in the south of France. Outwardly his life was richly rewarding, but privately he suffered anguish from an unrequited love affair and a shocking final betrayal. Acclaimed biographer Selina Hastings has had access to Maugham's extensive private correspondence as well as to important family testimony, which sheds a fascinating new light on this complex and extraordinary man.
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Water for Elephants
Автор: Sara Gruen Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits — the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth — a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. Jacob, a veterinary student who almost earned his degree, is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.
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Unmentionables: From Family Jewels to Friendly Fire — What We Say Instead of What We Mean
Автор: Ralph Keyes Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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We say a lot about ourselves by what we don't say. Words and phrases like 'collateral damage', 'wardrobe malfunction', 'vertically challenged', and old favourites like 'unmentionables' (trousers, apparently) or 'lady of the night' — all are ways of not using particular words. UNMENTIONABLES is a rollicking exploration of the history of euphemistic usage, looking at how taboos connected to sex, death, religion, war, politics, business and matters of status have produced an extraordinary linguistic creativity, and how euphemistic speech has changed over the centuries. It looks at how euphemisms are born, and how they die (or 'experience a negative outcome') and it explores why it is that we create euphemisms, and the different purposes — from the benign to the sinister — that they serve. (Is 'euphemism' a euphemism for lying?) Lively, entertaining, and crammed with fascinating nuggets of information, UNMENTIONABLES is a celebration of the richness of language. Why have just one word for something when you can have ten other words instead?
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Theodore Boone: The Abduction
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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Following on from John Grisham's first massively successful foray into the children's market, Theodore Boone 2 will once more feature his loveable, know-it-all young lawyer solving another tricky legal case in his native Strattenburg.
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Theodore Boone
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Half the man, twice the lawyer In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk — and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than he expected. Because he knows so much — maybe too much — he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served. Brimming with the intrigue and suspense that made John Grisham a number one international bestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller, Theodore Boone will keep readers guessing and pages turning.
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Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers
Автор: Gyles Brandreth Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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The fourth of Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more interested in Rex LaSalle, a young actor, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire... However, what begins as a diverting evening ends in tragedy. As the guests are leaving, the Duchess is found murdered, two tiny puncture marks in her throat. No one has entered the house; no one has left. Desperate to avoid another scandal, the Prince of Wales asks Oscar to investigate the crime. What he discovers threatens to destroy the very heart of the Royal Family...
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The Life of an Unknown Man
Автор: Andrei Makine Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story — one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love — he considers unremarkable. To Shutov it is a revelation, the tale of an unsung hero that puts everything into perspective and suggests where true happiness lies.
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Hand Me Down World
Автор: Lloyd Jones Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border. The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother searching for her child. This is a novel you cannot stop thinking about.
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Full Dark, No Stars
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2012 Страниц: 453 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20172017-08-03
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Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime? For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger.Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness — if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival.And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets — he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading home... Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.
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The Emperor's Tomb
Автор: Steve Berry Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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Hearing that his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble, Malone follows the few clues he has and realises that they are in the middle of something huge, involving Russian and US oil interests and a centuries-old secret. After stumbling across two dead bodies and into the crosshairs of his former boss, Malone finds himself in a race to unravel the mystery of an emperor's tomb, a sinister society, and a deadly battle between two ruthless men for supremacy in China — and the world.
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The Burning Wire
Автор: Jeffery Deaver Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan's electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack... and more are planned. While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault. But all is not what it seems. Electricity can be as lethal as it is vital, and Lincoln Rhyme soon finds he's up against a merciless killer with a unique weapon — one that can be found in everyone's home and office. And in the meantime, one of the few criminals to have ever slipped Rhyme's net is under surveillance in Mexico. The deadly assassin known as the Watchmaker has set his murderous sights on innocent victims, whose identity is as yet unknown... Lincoln Rhyme must race against the clock, juggling the two investigations, as they hurtle headlong toward their deadly outcomes.
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Body Work
Автор: Sara Paretsky Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires V.I. to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago's South Side.
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Ape House
Автор: Sara Gruen Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but animals she gets — especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans ...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks the lab, severely injuring Isabel and liberating the apes, John's human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime, one he'll risk his career and his marriage to follow. Then a reality TV show, Ape House, featuring the missing apes debuts under mysterious circumstances, and it immediately becomes the biggest — and unlikeliest — phenomenon in the history of modern media. Ape House delivers great entertainment, but it also opens the animal world to us in ways few novels have done, securing Sara Gruen's place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before.
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Teach Yourself Complete Spanish (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Juan Kattan-Ibarra Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122011-12-07
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Are you looking for a complete course in Spanish which will take you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Spanish Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The course is structured in 25 thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Learn effortlessly with full colour text, easy-to-read page design and interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. GRAMMAR TIPS Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding. USEFUL VOCABULARY Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking. DIALOGUES Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast. PRONUNCIATION Don't sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Spain. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
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Teach Yourself Complete English as a Foreign Language (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Sandra Stevens Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122011-12-07
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The complete course for a fun and effective way to learn English as a foreign language. This best-selling course comprises a book and audio support which is easy to download to your MP3 player or iPod (components available separately).
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