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Dinner for Two
Автор: Mike Gayle Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092005-02-29
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Thirty-two-year-old music journalist Dave Harding has got a nice house, a cushy job and in Izzy, his partner, the ideal companion for an intimate dinner for two. But when friends of Dave announce they're having a baby the biological clock he never knew existed starts ticking. Loudly. When the magazine Dave works for folds he is forced to take the worst job in journalism — Agony Uncle for Teen Scene. Suddenly cooler-than-cool Dave is knee deep in the adolescent outpourings of his teenage readership. One letter out of thousands however turns his life upside down. Thirteen-year-old Nicola O'Connell doesn't want advice about boys — she wants to know about Dave because she's convinced that Dave Harding is her dad. And she's got the facts to prove it.
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The Fourth Bear
Автор: Jasper Fforde Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20102009-07-21
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The Gingerbreadman — psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit — is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?
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Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain
Автор: Charles Cross Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2002 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092003-12-20
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Alongside the death of Elvis Presley and the assassination of John Lennon, Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994 ranks as one of the generational milestones of American life — an epochal event in both rock 'n' roll and youth culture. This book is the story of Kurt Cobain's life, from abject poverty to unbelievable wealth, power and fame. It traces the journey from his humble origins in Aberdeen to becoming lead singer of Nirvana, the most popular rock band in the world from 1991 to 1994, and the most influential band of this decade. The beautifully written text is complimented by 16 pages of photographs. Based on over one hundred interviews, Charley Cross allows us to understand Kurt Cobain's personality. This is an incredible tale of a strange, tortured and very talented man.
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The King Maker: The Man Who Saved George VI
Автор: Geordie Greig Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert. Greig's influence helped to guide the prince from a stammering, shy schoolboy to become one of the most respected constitutional monarchs, seeing the nation through the Second World War and bringing the monarchy closer to the people. King George's true character was portrayed so memorably in the Oscar winning film, The King's Speech. In an intimate and balanced portrayal of a friendship which lasted almost half a century, The King Maker is the compelling story of two lives inextricably linked, and how this helped to form the remarkable character of the King. Geordie Greig, grandson of Louis Greig, has drawn on private family papers and public archives to reveal this remarkable previously untold story.
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
Автор: Henry Hitchings Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values — to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of 'proper' usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Which of today's bugbears and annoyances are actually venerable? Who has been on the front line in the language wars? THE LANGUAGE WARS examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role of electronic media in reshaping language. It also takes a look at such niggling concerns as the split infinitive, elocution and text messaging. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, H.W.Fowler and George Orwell as well as the more disparate figures of Lewis Carroll, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lenny Bruce, THE LANGUAGE WARS is an essential volume for anyone interested in the state of the English language today or intrigued about its future.
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The Last Dragonslayer
Автор: Jasper Fforde Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it's a surprise when the visions start. Not only do they predict the death of the Last Dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer, they also point to Jennifer, and say something is coming. Big Magic...
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One Day
Автор: David Nicholls Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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'I can imagine you at forty', she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now'. He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then'. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.
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Please Forgive Me
Автор: Melissa Hill Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again — somewhere no one knows her or the secret she's running from. Settling in to her new apartment she happens upon a bundle of love letters, all written by a man called Nathan to an unknown woman, and all intriguingly ending with the same three words 'Please forgive me'. Moved by Nathan's heartfelt words, Leonie sets out to uncover the mystery behind the couple and what went wrong between them. If she reunites the letters with their rightful owner, might the love of Nathan's life find it in her heart to forgive him? And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her own...
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The Poison Tree
Автор: Erin Kelly Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20122013-10-30
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It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something terrible is about to happen, and someone's going to end up dead. Already drawing comparisons to Barbara Vine, Tana French and Sophie Hannah, Erin Kelly is an extraordinarily talented new author.
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Sing You Home
Автор: Jodi Picoult Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then — to Zoe's surprise — blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child... SING YOU HOME is accompanied by a soundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber.
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Stairways to Heaven
Автор: Lorna Byrne Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledge that God and the angels were giving her. When Lorna's husband died, her world fell apart. In Stairways to Heaven she tells the story of how she pulled her life back together and how she, an uneducated mother of four, broke her silence and started to spread the angels' message to the world. Lorna tells us of the future that God envisages for us — and some possible other futures, depending on the decisions we make. 'Everyone must play their part', she says. She reveals some of the most extraordinarily detailed information about angels and the way they work in the world, that has ever been written down. She also introduces us to the Guardian Angel of the Earth and explains why it is so important that we listen to him. She tells the tragic love story of two spirits who she met first as a young child. These spirits stayed close to her for twenty years using Lorna's spiritual gifts to heal those who had done them wrong — and also to heal the descendants of those wrongdoers, whose lives were still being overshadowed. The overwhelming reaction of readers to Lorna's writing — regardless of religious belief — is that it gives them hope, helping them to realise that no matter how alone they might feel they have a guardian angel by their side.
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Автор: John Vaillant Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region. This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; and the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Film Tie in
Автор: John Le Carre Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 442 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-17
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It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? The man he knew as Control is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement — especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a small, loyal cadre, Smiley traces the breach back to Karla-his Moscow Centre nemesis-and sets a trap to catch the traitor. The first novel in John le Carry's celebrated Karla trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a heart-stopping tale of international intrigue. With an Introduction by the Author.
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To Kill a Tsar
Автор: Andrew Williams Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a pretty dark haired young woman in a heavy coat walk purposefully away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries and this is just one of many assassination attempts on the unpopular Tsar Alexander II. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, part of the Anglo-Russian establishment with a medical practice dependent on the patronage of the nobility, politics is a distraction. But when he meets the passionate idealist Anna Petrovna, he finds himself drawn in to living a dangerous double life... Set in a world of stark contrasts, from glittering ballrooms to the cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the grandeur of the British Embassy to the underground presses of the young revolutionaries, TO KILL A TSAR is both gripping thriller and passionate love story.
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The Dead Zone
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 596 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-11
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The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask... Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil in men's souls. He's had these hunches since he had an ice-skating accident as a child. Now he has an ability to see into the future. An ability which will bring him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and dangerous man...
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The Dark Half
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 482 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20142012-12-30
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Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be... The sparrows are flying again. The idea — unbidden, inexplicable — haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind.Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever.And yet... the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.
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Cujo
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20142016-08-24
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine... He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop... Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats.And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him...
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Christine
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20162013-07-23
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A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called Christine.Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.There was still power in her — a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into Possession.
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Carrie
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20142013-05-24
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An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie — the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her...
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011
Автор: Melvyn Bragg Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War in the seventeenth century to the American Civil War two centuries later and it has been carried into battle in innumerable conflicts since then. Its influence on social movements — particularly involving women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries — and politics was profound. It was crucial to the growth of democracy. It was integral to the abolition of slavery and it defined attitudes to modern science, education and sex. As THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH explored the history of our language, so THE BOOK OF BOOKS reveals the extraordinary and still-felt impact of a work created 400 years ago.
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