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Breakfast with the Nikolides
Автор: Godden Rumer Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability, and it is through the Nikolides that Emily is exposed to a world of adult deceit and attrition. And when her beloved dog dies, the event forces a confrontation and reveals to Emily that nothing in the town is quite as it seems...
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Sweet William
Автор: Bainbridge Beryl Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092007-05-15
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People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls. Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions — more or less — while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William's past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.
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The Baroness
Автор: Rothschild Hannah Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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The fascinating, intimately told story of the wild and romantic life of Pannonica Rothschild, the author's great aunt, which moves from London to Africa during World War II and finally to the postwar jazz world of New York City.
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
Автор: Colgan Jenny Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20182016-09-17
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As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the pavements of the great city start to come to life, Claire Stanton is already awake and at work; already mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate to be found anywhere; made entirely by hand and sold for a fortune in tiny amounts to the grandes dames of Paris. It is a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in back home in the north of England. Determined to seize the day, she moved out to Paris in a blaze of glory, thrilled at landing the job of her dreams. But now here she is, four years later, slaving in the back room every day from dawn till dusk; living in a garret; hardly a friend in the world. Claire feels she can barely continue. Should she give up her dreams of becoming a chocolatier? Because following your dreams can sometimes take a little more than buying a Eurostar ticket...
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A Cottage by the Sea
Автор: Matthews Carole Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2014 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-07-24
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Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick forever. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time. When Ella invites them to stay for a week in her cottage in South Wales, Grace jumps at the chance to see her old friends. She also hopes that the change of scenery will help her reconnect with her distant husband.
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Автор: McCall Smith Alexander Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 261 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20162015-07-18
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Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occurring around the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, not least with the construction of her new home. At Speedy Motors the irreproachable Fanwell finds himself in trouble with the law and, even more dramatically, the indomitable Mma Potokwani, defender of Botswana's weak and downtrodden, disappears from her post at the orphan farm. It is into all this that there steps the tall stranger of Mma Ramotswe's dream — now revealed as none other than Mr Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Detection and keeper of a surprising secret. Mma Ramotswe is not easily frightened, and armed with courage, kindness and a keen instinct for the truth, she and Mma Makutsi venture into unknown territory to pursue the guilty and restore.
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Автор: Mawer Simon Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status — and fluent French — will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west France, her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris, where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier, once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new and terrifying weapon, he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange, lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion, what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor fatherland may be trusted. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of love.
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Survivor
Автор: Phelan James Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Jesse is alone. His friends are gone. His supplies are gone. And the chasers, the zombies, are getting bolder. So when he starts to see signs of life, of other humans, he can't believe his luck. But in post-incident New York, the only thing more dangerous than the chasers, are the survivors.
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Silent Mercy
Автор: Fairstein Linda Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is one of the first on the shocking scene. Alex has seen some gruesome crimes committed in New York, but the barbarity of this latest discovery leaves her nauseous. With NYPD cop Mike Chapman, Alex begins to investigate, but before long another woman is slaughtered and found on the steps of a Catholic church in Little Italy; her throat slashed and her tongue cut out. It becomes clear there is a zealous serial killer on the loose. Now Alex and Mike must keep one step ahead of a religious fanatic bent on silencing the women he believes are bringing shame to his beliefs ? before he kills anyone else.
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The Great Gatsby Unbound
Автор: F. Scott Fitzgerald Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-15
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Nick Carraway, a young virgin from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to find love. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich — a group prone to garish, extravagant parties full of wild, erotic activities. And Nick's next-door neighbour is the worst of them all: a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who throws open the doors of his gigantic Gothic mansion every Saturday night to house the most opulent, seductive sexual encounters. A carnal, sensual world is revealed to Nick, led by the beautiful, alluring, golf champion, Jordan Baker who is devoid of all love and wants to make him another of her playthings. But who is Jay Gatsby? And what will happen when Nick steps into his raunchy, wild mansion? Things will never be the same again in this erotic retelling of The Great Gatsby.
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The Lifeboat
Автор: Rogan Charlotte Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner suffers a mysterious explosion en route to New York City, Henry Winter manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for his new wife Grace. But the survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity and could sink at any moment. For any to live, some must die. Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers on the lifeboat plot, scheme, gossip and console one another while sitting inches apart. Their deepest beliefs are tested to the limit as they begin to discover what they will do in order to survive.
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Doughnut
Автор: Holt Tom Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-09-20
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The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money. Before Theo has time to fully appreciate the pointlessness of his own miserable existence, news arrives that his good friend Professor Pieter van Goyen, renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, has died. By leaving the apparently worthless contents of his safety deposit to Theo, however, the professor has set him on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity itself. This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny — and a doughnut.
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The Bone Bed
Автор: Cornwell Patricia Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino and FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.
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The Company She Keeps
Автор: McCarthy Mary Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, through her experiences and lost loves in a time of coming war. On publication in 1942, its bold insight, sly wit and virtuoso style won Mary McCarthy immediate recogntion as one of the most accomplished, versatile and penetrating writers in America.
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The Quarry
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20162015-05-28
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Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends — or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul — the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol — friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care. But what will happen to Kit when Guy is gone? And why isn't Kit's mother in the picture? As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies, affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.
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The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Автор: Rodriguez Deborah Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan — and fast — to keep her cafe and customers safe. YAZMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets. CANDACE, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil. ISABEL, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life. And HALAJAN, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules. As these five women discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul is the heart-warming and life-affirming fiction debut from the author of the bestselling memoir The Kabul Beauty School.
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The Time Keeper
Автор: Albom Mitch Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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In this stunning new novel, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure time. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more years for themselves. At last, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world — now dominated by the obsession with time he so innocently began — and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so. Gripping, simply told and filled with deep human truth, this unforgettable story will inspire readers everywhere to reconsider their own notions of time, how they spend it and how precious it truly is.
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The Last Boyfriend
Автор: Roberts Nora Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20162014-12-13
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The historic hotel in BoonsBoro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother... and they are uncovering secrets from the hotel's past. The new manager of the Inn starts work — and sparks fly with one of the brothers...
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The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
Автор: Colfer Chris Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20142016-09-27
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Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairytales. The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.
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An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding
Автор: Jones Christina Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20092008-09-30
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Life simply couldn't be better for Erin Bentley. At twenty-seven, she is engaged to the simply divine Jay Keskar — and every minute of her day currently revolves around planning the wedding of her dreams. Until, that is, Jay's parents announce that they want to discuss things — and this is when Erin's wedding heaven turns into her wedding hell... Tavish and Deena are Indian and have very firm beliefs about the form of wedding their only son should have. Of course, they say, Erin will be wearing a sari. And of course all the Indian pre-wedding ritual ceremonies — including tilak, mehendi, sangeet — will be observed. As Bollywood comes to Berkshire, can East eventually meet West in perfect harmony? And if not, will Erin and Jay's dream wedding even take place?
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