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A Good Year (film tie-in)
Автор: Peter Mayle Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will — an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France. What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle's, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde Californian arrives unexpectedly at the chateau. Peter Mayle's delightful novel will enchant the audiences who bought A Year In Provence and Toujours Provence in their millions.
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The Heartbreaker
Автор: Susan Howatch Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092008-08-17
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The City of London in the 1990s is a dark, adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession, where sex is just another commodity and keeping one's integrity is a daily struggle. Gavin Blake is riding high. He's up to his neck in money, sex and sleaze, but he's young, and handsome and he's making a lot of money. Carta Graham wants nothing more than to forget her life as a high-flying lawyer, so she's buried herself in a fund-raising project for the City Church of St Benet's. When she meets Gavin, she thinks the only thing they share is a temporary sexual attraction, but she's wrong. They are about to change each other's lives forever. For Gavin comes to see that in order to survive he must escape from the harrowing world he inhabits. His fight for freedom will be hard and fierce, but Carta, searching for her own freedom from the past, is with him every step of the way…
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The High Flyer
Автор: Susan Howatch Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20082007-04-07
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When You Live The Dream, You Live The Consequences… Cool, blonde Carter Graham is a successful lawyer who believes she is well on the way to reaching all the goals listed in her glamorous life plan: first-class job, a stylish flat in London, and marriage to the man of her dreams, Kim Betz. But Carter forgot that sometimes the best laid dreams turn into nightmares. Kim's ex-wife Sophie starts to stalk her and Kim turns from being the self-contained, controlled husband into a man who lies not only about his past but about his present. Carter finds herself drawn into an expanding web of deceit, corruption and evil which eventually threatens not only her sanity but her life. What is it that Sophie is trying so hard to tell her? Who is the sinister Mrs Mayfield, who has such an influence on Kim? And what is the significance of the other new man in Carter's life, her secretary Eric Tucker? Carter seeks help from the healers of St. Benets, the enigmatic Nicholas Darrow, the eccentric Lewis Hall, and kind, thoughtful Alice but even they cannot save her from a searing ordeal as she struggles to uncover the truth about the tormented man she has married.
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The Horse Whisperer
Автор: Nicholas Evans Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20082007-06-25
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In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating. Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way that none of them at first understands, their destiny comes to depend on Pilgrim's. So mutilated and traumatised is he that even the vet who saved him wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him put down, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die too. Then Annie hears about a man called Tom Booker, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job, Annie sets off across the continent with Grace and Pilgrim to find him. Under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed for ever.
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The House on the Strand
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20092006-02-16
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Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before...
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Ice Road
Автор: Gillian Slovo Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092008-04-22
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Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to turn against their city. When the life of his beloved daughter Natasha is threatened and his old friend Anton saves a skinny little orphan he finds on a Moscow train, Boris' faith in his ideals are put to the test. While Irina, watching it all, must learn the power of loyalty and love.
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Автор: Edward Luce Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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India is poised to become one of the world’s three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the world's next major conflict. And if you call anyone — from your bank to rail enquiries — your query may well be dealt with by a graduate in Gujarat. Any way one looks at it, India's fate matters. Edward Luce, one of the most incisive and talented journalists of his generation, assesses the forces that are forging the new nation. Cutting through the miasma that still clouds thinking about India, this extraordinarily accomplished book takes the measure of a society that is struggling to come to grips with modernity. Drawing on historical research, existing literature and his own unparalleled access as the New Delhi-based, South Asia correspondent of the FT, this is a book that will enthral as well as educate and will remain the definitive book on the country for many years.
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Ireland: A Novel
Автор: Frank Delaney Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20082006-06-28
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One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves, he devotes his life to finding him again. It is a search that uncovers both passions and mysteries, in his own life as well as the old man's, and their solving becomes the thrilling climax to this tale. But the life of this boy is more than just his story: it is also the telling of a people, the narrative of a nation, the history of Ireland in all its drama, intrigue and heroism. Ireland travels through the centuries by way of story after story, from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of tourist brochures and news headlines. Along the way, we meet foolish kings and innocent monks, god-heroes and great works of art, shrewd Norman raiders and envoys from Rome, leaders, poets and lovers. Each illuminates the magic of Ireland, the power of England and the eternal connection to the land.
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Jamaica Inn
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092007-03-08
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On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls — and tempted to love a man she dares not trust.
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The Killing Dance
Автор: Laurell K. Hamilton Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2000 Страниц: 387 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092002-10-07
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The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Eventually, I found out that the word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what's a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it's not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But I'm beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one...
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Lady Oracle
Автор: Margaret Atwood Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1994 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20091997-09-14
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From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband — Joan Foster is confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian seaside resort to take stock of her life. But first she must plan her death.
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Lipstick Jungle
Автор: Candace Bushnell Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block, Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production and Nico is the editor of Bonfire magazine. The trouble is, from where Victory, Nico and Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed and Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible, and as she follows them through the minefield of work, love and life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet.
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Long Way Round
Автор: Ewan McGregor 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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From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads. And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride more than twenty thousand miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. Long Way Round is the result of their adventures — a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream
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Look to Windward
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2001 Страниц: 403 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20092004-09-24
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It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
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Los Alamos
Автор: Joseph Kanon Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20082008-07-11
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In the closing weeks of the war in Europe a security guard on the Manhattan Project is murdered near the Hill. Michael Connolly is sent to Los Alamos from Washington to make sure his death really is the result of a casual homosexual encounter and not connected with espionage. The Nazi regime may be near the end of its reign, but the new enemy of communism has created an atmosphere of paranoia as Oppenheimer and his team come ever closer to concluding the experiment. Connolly is intrigued by the characters on the Hill, by the mixed European backgrounds, of the victim and, passionately, by the English wife of one of the scientists. He is caught up in the moral dilemmas which the Project is creating, and discovers that there is a difference between professional and personal beliefs.
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The Love Machine/Once is Not Enough Omnibus
Автор: Jacqueline Susann Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 511 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092005-12-16
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THE LOVE MACHINE In a time when steak, vodka and sleeping pills were the staples of a healthy diet and when movie stars wore wigs to bed, the TV set was known as ‘the love machine’, creating dreams, promising fame, bringing success. But for supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, ‘the love machine’ meant something else — Robin Stone, brilliant, dynamic, magnetic… ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was a place that never slept, as magazine editors, models and pop stars visited ‘vitamin doctors’ for the shots that would allow them to work all day and play all night. In this world, January Wayne goes from poor-little-rich-girl to grown-up swinger, as she searches New York and Los Angeles for a guy like Mike Wayne, the glamorous movie producer who also happens to be her father…
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The Loving Spirit
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 420 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092007-02-16
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A powerful, exuberant romance through three generations, of Cornwall, of passion and drama, of sailing ships and the glory of wind and sea. Janet Coombe was born with the loving spirit and she passed it on to her son Joseph. In Janet's great-granddaughter Jennifer, it again reappeared, to break down the barrier of years. Wild and eerie, it was something that carried them beyond all prudence in their need to love and be loved.
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The March: A Novel
Автор: E.L. Doctorow Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major manoeuvres to bring the war to its conclusion. THE MARCH ranges widely over a diverse set of characters — each of whom is brilliantly realised — so that we see the war through the eyes of both white-skinned Pearl (daughter of slave and slave owner) and General Sherman; a deserting confederate who sets himself up as a photographer; a ruthless army surgeon who enjoys his reputation as an amputator; and the two brothers of a brutal slave owner who find themselves in uniforms facing Sherman's forces. Doctorow's narrative brilliantly blends the intimate and the epic, sweeping the reader along the route of Sherman's notorious march and making us care deeply about each individual's fate.
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A Morbid Taste for Bones
Автор: Ellis Peters Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1994 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091996-10-21
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In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales and they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killings, but he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the wages of sin may be scandal — or his own ruin.
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My Cousin Rachel
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20092007-03-12
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I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn... Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries — and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the new widow — Philip's cousin Rachel — turns up in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious woman like a moth to the flame. And yet...might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death?
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