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The Elephant to Hollywood
Автор: Michael Caine Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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It's been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite — born with rickets in London's poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle — to the bright lights of Hollywood.With a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, the man now known to us as Michael Caine looks back over it all.Funny, warm, honest, Caine brings us his insider's view of Hollywood (where there's neither holly nor woods). He recalls the films, the legendary stars, the off-screen moments with a gift for story-telling only equalled by David Niven.Hollywood has been his home and his playground. But England is where his heart lies. And where he blames the French for the abundance of snails in his garden.A plaque now celebrates him at the Elephant in London. His handprint is one of only 200 since 1927 to decorate the hallowed pavement outside that mecca of Hollywood stars, Grauman's Chinese Theatre. A very British star, The Elephant to Hollywood is the remarkable full circle of Michael Caine's life.
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Men at Work: Quick Read
Автор: Mike Gayle Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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Ian Greening loves his job at the Department of Work and Pensions. It might not be the best paid job in the world but it gives him lots of scope for fun. He loves his girlfriend, Emma, too. But when Emma is made redundant, and gets a temping job in Ian's office, he doesn't like it at all. Emma only knows Home Ian — and Work Ian is a different kettle of fish. Spending twenty-four hours a day together is too much of a good thing. But how can he tell her that without hurting her? Ian comes up with a plan to get things back the way they were. But it puts his relationship at risk and forces Ian to decide which really matters most: the job, or Emma. A sweet, funny novel about love and work.
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The Recruit
Автор: Robert Muchamore Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2004 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20092005-12-16
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A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on her PC, and copied all the numbers in her phone book. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB is not James Bond. There are no master criminals or high-tech gadgets. CHERUB kids live in the real world. They slip under adult radar and get information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail. For official purposes, these children do not exist.
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Five Go to Mystery Moor
Автор: Enid Blyton Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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What is so mysterious about Mystery Moor? Enid Blyton's The Famous Five mean to find out. Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the Dog have to risk the treacherous mists and follow the trail across the moor. This edition features a new cover and revised text to bring the dialogue up to date for a whole new generation of readers.
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Jessie Hearts NYC
Автор: Keris Stainton Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Jessie's just arrived in New York, hoping to forget about her awful ex. New Yorker Finn is in love with his best friend's girlfriend. They might be perfect together, but in a city of eight million people, will they find each other?
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Pegasus and the Fight for Olympus
Автор: Kate O'Hearn Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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Reborn as the Flame, Emily has saved Olympus from destruction. The Olympic flame now burns strong, and peace has been restored. But not for long... When the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the conflict as old grudges are unearthed and new enemies are discovered. And all the while, Emily yearns for her father, still a prisoner of the sinister CRU, somewhere in New York. Join Emily astride the magnificent winged-stallion, Pegasus, as she embarks on a new flight of adventure through worlds both old and new. 'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic fantasy.' Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series.
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Ultraviolet
Автор: R. J. Anderson Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one minute she was fighting with Tori — the next she disintegrated. Into nothing. But that's impossible. Right?
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Incendiary
Автор: Chris Cleave Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never break, and it means you're stronger than the things they do to you. I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the proof that love survives. I am not a perfect mother but I will tell you the perfect truth, because this is you and me talking. This is my story.
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Our Game
Автор: John Le Carre Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 414 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092007-06-25
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At forty-eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in a premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma.
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Up in the Air
Автор: Walter Kirn Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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Ryan Bingham`s job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but loves `Airworld, finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp wit, and wisdom, `Up in the Air` combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the modern mind. It is a story for unsettled times.
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Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Автор: C. W. Gortner Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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The truth is, not one of us is innocent. We all have sins to confess. So reveals Catherine de Medici, the last legitimate descendant of her family's illustrious line. Expelled from her native Florence, Catherine is betrothed to Henri, son of Francois I of France. In an unfamiliar realm, Catherine strives to create a role for herself through her patronage of the famous clairvoyant Nostradamus and her own innate gift as a seer. But in her fortieth year, Catherine is widowed, left alone with six young children in a kingdom torn apart by the ambitions of a treacherous nobility. Relying on her tenacity, wit, and uncanny gift for compromise, Catherine seizes power, intent on securing the throne for her sons, unaware that if she is to save France, she may have to sacrifice her ideals, her reputation, and the secret of her embattled heart.
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The Litigators
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave up his lucrative career at Chicago's leading law firm for this: the chance to help the little guy stand up to the big corporations. But if Finley & Figg have right on their side, why do his new partners feel the need to carry guns in their briefcases? David thought he was used to cut-throat law from his days at Rogan Rothberg, but this is something else. He knows he was right to get out. He just may live to regret his new choice of firm...
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11: 22. 63
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 928 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20162013-10-07
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WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot — unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 — from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life — a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
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Something from Tiffany's
Автор: Melissa Hill Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2012 Страниц: 404 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20132014-05-28
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Doesn't every girl dream of getting... something from Tiffany's? On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he's left his shopping far too late. Whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special — an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life. But when the two men's shopping bags get confused, and Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan's ring, the couples' lives become intertwined. As Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for, he discovers this isn't that easy. Does fate have other ideas for the couples? Or is there simply a bit of Tiffany's magic in the air...
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Skeleton Crew
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 784 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092011-03-19
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King's exciting collection contains twenty short stories, a short novel, THE MIST, and two poems, each tale showing the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's early work. We meet GRAMMA — who only wants to hug little George, even after she's dead; a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite in THE RAFT; an innocent-looking monkey with evil powers in MONKEY and a host of other memorable King creations as he takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark, shadowy areas of our innermost fears.
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Single and Single
Автор: John Le Carre Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20082011-08-21
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A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder. SINGLE & SINGLE is a thrilling journey of the contemporary human heart — intimate, magical, riotous and subtly architected, showing us John le Carre at the height of his dramatic and creative powers.
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The Shining
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 498 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20122013-10-07
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Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel — and that, too, is beginning to shine...
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Rose Madder
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20132014-04-29
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Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight — with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting... A brilliant, dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.
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Outpost
Автор: Adam Baker Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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When the end of the world comes, Do you want to be the first to go? Or the last to survive?
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Needful Things
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 944 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20132014-09-24
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There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale...
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