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The Naive and Sentimental Lover
Автор: John Le Carre Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092010-03-22
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Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
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Misery
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her — with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news was that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul's Number One Fan. And when she found out what Paul had done to Misery, she didn't like it. She didn't like it at all. And now he had to bring Misery back to life. Or else...
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Killer Elite
Автор: Sir Ranulph Fiennes Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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The deaths of four British soldiers, two of them ex SAS, appear at first to be accidental. In fact, they have been targeted by a group of hired assassins, known as the Clinic. This group of contract killers is systematically tracking down elite servicemen and killing them one by one... Desperate to stop the murders, a group of four men, the Feather Men, are recruited to hunt down the Clinic and avenge the soldiers' deaths. But will they get to them in time and what's driving the Clinic's own brutal form of justice? Ranulph Fiennes, himself a former SAS officer, uses his unique knowledge to craft this amazing thriller, now a major film, featuring Robert De Niro, Jason Statham and Clive Owen. Previously published as The Feather Men. The film KILLER ELITE is released in the UK on the 23rd September 2011.
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It
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 1392 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-17
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To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw — and felt — what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
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A History of England in 100 Places
Автор: John Julius Norwich Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part exploration of our national heritage, his wide-ranging selection of sites will stimulate, entertain, inform — and certainly provoke — a debate about the most significant moments in English history.
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Hell's Bells: Samuel Johnson Vs the Devil
Автор: John Connolly Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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Samuel Johnson — with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd — has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down. When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two policemen. Can this eccentric gang defeat the forces of Evil? And is there life after Hell for Nurd?
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Hearts in Atlantis
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20162012-12-13
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'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war — and the protests against it — had flooded America's living rooms for a decade.Hearts in Atlantis is composed offive linked stories set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Hearts in Atlantis will take some readers to a place they have never been... and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 238 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20162013-10-17
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'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.' Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it's just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There's something else in the woods — watching. Waiting...
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Gerald's Game
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt. He wasn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams. Alone. Except for the voices in her head that had begun to chatter and argue and sneer...
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From a Buick 8
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like... There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years — terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system.Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father — recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick.And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir...
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Firestarter
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-15
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'You're a firestarter honey... just one big zippo lighter'A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy... Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising... and menacing.
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Edge
Автор: Jeffery Deaver Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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When a Washington, D.C. police detective is targeted by Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Loving is a ruthless 'lifter', hired to extract information from his victims, and he will use whatever means necessary including kidnapping, torturing or killing their family. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. He also knows just how brutal the lifter can be — six years earlier, Loving killed someone close to him. The situation soon escalates into a deadly contest between protector and lifter as each tries to outwit the other...
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The Afrika Reich
Автор: Guy Saville Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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1952. It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Gleaming autobahns bisect the jungle, jet fighters patrol the skies. The brutal presence of the SS is visible everywhere. Now, however, the demonic plans of Walter Hochburg — architect of Nazi Africa — threaten Britain's ailing colonies. In England, ex-mercenary Burton Cole is offered one last contract. Burton jumps at the chance to settle an old score with Hochburg, despite the protests of the woman he loves. If Burton fails, unimaginable horrors will be unleashed in Africa. No one — black or white — will be spared. But when his mission turns to disaster, Burton is forced to flee for his life. His flight takes him from the unholy killing ground of Kongo to SS slave camps and on to war-torn Angola, finally reaching its thrilling climax in a conspiracy that leads to the dark heart of the Afrika Reich itself. Guy Saville combines meticulous research with edge-of-the seat suspense to produce a superb novel of alternate history.
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The Broken Window
Автор: Jeffery Deaver Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122011-10-31
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Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people has been wrongly convicted because the true killer knows every single detail about the lives of the victims he kills and the men he sets up to take the fall for those crimes. This allows him to get close to the victims under false pretenses, murder or rape, and escape safely. And then he sets up others to take the fall for his crimes, planting incontrovertible evidence — Rhyme, Sachs and the rest of the team have to find out who at the huge, ominous data mining company is getting access to this information. Meanwhile the villain — known only by a number to us — realizes he's being pursued and turns his knowledge of data and information into a weapon. Oh, and lest things seem too delicate, he also gets information through good old-fashioned murder and torture too.
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The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides
Автор: Andy Riley Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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The Book of Bunny Suicides and Return of the Bunny Suicides have introduced millions of people around the world to those cute bunnies always looking for new ways to end it all. Published for the first time in a unique paperback format, with a dozen new cartoons, this is the ultimate collection for fans of the fluffy little bunnies who just don't want to live any more.
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The Burning Soul
Автор: John Connolly Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies...
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The Dark Tower
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20082008-07-14
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The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland's band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone! You've come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.
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The Dark Tower: v: 7
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20082008-07-14
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The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland's band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone! You've come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.
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Dawn of the Bunny Suicides
Автор: Andy Riley Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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From the author of the cult bestsellers THE BOOK OF BUNNY SUICIDES and RETURN OF THE BUNNY SUICIDES comes another unmissable collection of rabbit-related self destruction... The bunnies are back — and there's only one thing on their minds. In this new collection, follow the continuing adventures of the fluffy little rabbits who just don't want to live any more...
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Delirium
Автор: Lauren Oliver Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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What if love were a disease? There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it. Then, at last, they found the cure. Now, everything is different. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy. But then, with only ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable.
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