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Little, Brown and Company
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The Witness
Автор: Roberts Nora Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20152015-07-23
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A brand new novel — and a stunning new heroine — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and letting a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house far away. The events that followed changed her life for ever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems — and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. But Abigail's reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something — and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that needs to be revealed.
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Live by Night
Автор: Lehane Dennis Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20172014-06-21
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Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma — and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America... A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.
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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century
Автор: Hobsbawm Eric 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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A collection of studies on the history of the classical arts and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by one of Britain's foremost political historians, taking in subjects as diverse as religion, manifestos and the myth of the America cowboy.
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Xenocide
Автор: Orson Scott Card 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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Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is Demosthenes, whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender... As a child, Ender commanded a warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life could be his fight to stop it happening again. It might be his tragedy that he cannot. Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender, his family, two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet carries an order to destroy. To commit xenocide.
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Speaker for the Dead
Автор: Orson Scott Card 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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Three thousand planet-bound years have passed while Ender the star-traveller remains young. In that time his name has become anathema, for he is the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings. No other has been found — until Lusitania is discovered. The young race there offers mankind a chance to redeem the previous destruction. The only humans allowed near are trained xenobiologists. But once again there are tragic misunderstandings. And when Ender, as Andrew Wiggin, is called to Lusitania to speak for the dead — to present to the community the terrible truth of why men have been killed by aliens — his actions can, and will, reverberate through an entire galactic empire.
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Sex and the City
Автор: Bushnell Candace 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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Relationships in New York are about detachment, so how do you get attached when you decide you want to? Honey, you leave town. Meet Carrie, Miranda, Sam and their stylish friends. Successful, attractive, thirty-something career women living the high life in New York; blazing a glorious cocktail trail from the Bowery Bar to the Baby Doll Lounge; holidaying in the Hamptons and going to Aspen by Lear Jet. But they have more in common than just their enviable lifestyle; they're all searching for lasting love. Finding it is easier said than done in a town full of gorgeous, single, rich men, none of whom want to settle down. Toxic bachelors and serial daters are a perennial problem — but maybe Mr. Big will be different?
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Generation X
Автор: Coupland Douglas Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20182015-10-30
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Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation — Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working in no future McJobs in the service industry. Underemployed, overeducated and intensely private and unpredicatable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows, Elvis moments and semi-disposible Swedish furniture...
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Safe Haven
Автор: Sparks Nicholas 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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Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her...
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Under the Never Sky
Автор: Rossi Veronica Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its protected space, she's never though to dream of what lay beyond its doors. Until she's banished for a crime she didn't commit and thrown out into what her people call The Death Shop. Perry and his tribe have always struggled to survive in The Death Shop of the outside. Though their lives are simple they are increasingly under threat from an unknown — and unhuman — enemy. But when Perry saves Aria after one of these attacks she realizes that she might just be able to survive in the outside after all. And that this one sheltered girl might hold the secret to the survival of Perry's whole people.
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She's Leaving Home
Автор: Bakewell Joan Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Liverpool late 1950s. This is a story of three people: a suppressed mother; a father, projectionist at the local cinema which has seen better days; and their daughter Martha. It is a time of many escapes: Nureyev defects in London; Gagarin escapes the earth's atmosphere to be the first man in space; the Beatles escape the dreariness of Liverpool to seek their fortune in Hamburg. In Britain the drab 50s are giving way to the lively 60s and the young sense it. With shades of Billy Liar, and Absolute Beginners, this novel brilliantly captures that longing for freedom. Sixteen year old Martha is leaving home.
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The Casual Vacancy
Автор: Rowling J.K. Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20152017-03-16
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When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
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The Bridge
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, THE BRIDGE is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.
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The Business
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20152016-02-23
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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length. To take control, she has to do The Business.
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Canal Dreams
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-24
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Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello... CANAL DREAMS is a novel of deceptive simplicity and dark, original power: stark psychological insights mesh with vividly realised scenarios in an ominous projection of global realpolitik. The result is yet another major landmark in the quite remarkable career of an outstanding modern novelist.
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Complicity
Автор: Banks Iain 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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COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act. A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source — could be big, could be very big — in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance-abusing. Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago — only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it than he'd care to admit... Involvement; connection; liability — Complicity is a stunting exploration of the morality of greed, corruption and violence, venturing fearlessly into the darker recesses of human purpose.
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The Crow Road
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20172014-06-21
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From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach'. Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...
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Dead Air
Автор: Banks Iain 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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Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesn't work, a blown loudspeaker, beanbags, other unwanted furniture... Then they get carried away and start dropping things that are still working, while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But mobile phones start ringing and they're told to turn on a TV, because a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Centre... At ease with the volatility of modernity, Iain Banks is also our most accomplished literary writer of narrative-driven adventure stories that never ignore the injustices and moral conundrums of the real world. His new novel, displays his trademark dark wit, buoyancy and momentum.
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The Doll: Short Stories
Автор: Du Maurier Daphne Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142012-12-30
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»I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror — too much despair... I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream». In «The Doll», a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its narrator is a mystery. Many of the stories in this haunting collection have only recently been discovered. Most were written early in Daphne du Maurier's career, yet they display her mastery of atmosphere, tension and intrigue and reveal a cynicism far beyond her years.
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Espedair Street
Автор: Banks Iain 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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Daniel Weir used to be a famous — not to say infamous — rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be). Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him or just disgusted — and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone. As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future — well, the future is something else.
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Haunted in Death: Eternity in Death
Автор: Robb J.D. 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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Fear, revenge and deadly superstition collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories. Haunted in Death Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a very recent corpse shows up in a haunted abandoned nightclub, alongside the bones of the famous missing singer, Bobbie Bray, everyone is spooked — especially the new owner. Did Bobbie's ghost finally get her revenge, or is there a more earthly explanation? Eternity in Death When notorious it-girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the murder looks to everyone like a vampire attack — everyone but the ever-practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas. As the hysteria spreads, Eve must act fast. Discovering Tiara's secret lover, a Dark Prince, Eve and her team are led on a chase into the darkest corners of the city and deep into their own fears.
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