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Hungry Hill
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102009-12-30
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I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten... but this hill will be standing still to confound you’. So curses Morty Donovan when ‘Copper John’ Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks’ success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by rights. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence...
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S: Thompson
Автор: Jann Wenner Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2007 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092010-04-29
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Few American lives are stranger or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channelling his energy into such landmark works as «Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas» — and his provocative style revolutionised writing. Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed Thompson's friends, family and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger, to Ralph Steadman, to Jack Nicholson, more than 100 members of Thompson's inner circle bring into vivid focus the life of a man who was more complicated and talented than any previous portrait has shown. It's all here: the creative frenzies, the love affairs, the drugs, booze and guns, and, ultimately, the tragic suicide. As Thompson was fond of saying, «Buy the ticket, take the ride».
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Consider Phlebas
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1988 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091991-04-24
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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very starsThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. Consider Phlebas — a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination.
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Feersum Endjinn
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1995 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20091998-09-20
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Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
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Inversions
Автор: Iain M. Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1999 Страниц: 393 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092001-05-26
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In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. He also has at least one person he cares for deeply and who cares for him, though neither can risk saying so. Spiralling round a central core of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal, two stories — linked more closely than even those involved can know — climb to a devastating climax. «Inversions» is a spectacular work of science fiction, brilliantly told and wildly imaginative. It is destined to become a classic of the genre.
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Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Автор: Tom Holt Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 308 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20092006-05-18
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Once upon a time (or last Thursday, as it’s known in this matrix) everything was fine: Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and the wicked queen plotted murder most foul. But the humans hacked cried havoc, shut down the wicked queen’s system (mirrors 3.1) and corrupted her database — and suddenly everything was not fine at all. But at least we know that they’ll all live happily ever after. Don’t we? Computers and fairy tales collide to hilarious effect in the latest sparkling cocktail of mayhem, wit and wonder from the master of comic fantasy.
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Tipping the Velvet
Автор: Sarah Waters Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2002 Страниц: 472 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092004-05-25
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Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.
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Affinity
Автор: Sarah Waters Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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Affinity is a tale of power and possession that Henry James himself might admire. In her first novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters explored secrets and longing — capping off this lesbian romp with a utopian-socialist vision. Her intricate follow-up is just as sensual but infinitely darker, its moral more difficult to descry. Its stylistic and psychological rewards, however, are visible at every turn, the author's persuasive imagination matched by her gift for storytelling. In late September 1874, Margaret Prior makes her way through the pentagons of London's Millbank Prison, a place of fearful symmetry and endless corridors. This plain woman on the verge of 30 has come to comfort those behind bars, several of whom Waters brings to instant, sad life. And our Lady Visitor plans to take her role dead seriously, having recovered from two years of nervous indolence in her family's Chelsea house. One person, however, makes her job a passion. Opening an inspection slit (or «eye» as these devices are known), Margaret hears «a perfect sigh, like a sigh in a story». Peering inward, she's confronted by the most erotic of visions — a woman turned toward the sun, caressing her cheek with a forbidden violet: «As I watched, she put the flower to her lips, and breathed upon it, and the purple of the petals gave a quiver and seemed to glow...» Selina Dawes may indeed have the face of a Crivelli angel, but this medium is in for fraud and assault, her last session having gone very badly indeed. Suffice it to say that the first full encounter between these two very different women is enthralling. «You think spiritualism a kind of fancy», Selina riddles. «Doesn't it seem to you, now you are here, that anything might be real, since Millbank is?» And soon enough Margaret receives several viable signs of the supernatural: a locket disappears from her room, flowers mysteriously appear, and her dazzling friend knows everything about her. Strangest of all, Selina seems to love her. As Margaret records her weekly prison forays, her own past comes into focus, notably her plans to travel to Italy with her first love (who is now her sister-in-law). But her current journal, she convinces herself, is to be very different from her last one, which «took as long to burn as human hearts, they say, do take.» Meanwhile, Waters offers a narrative two-for-one, placing Margaret's diary cheek by jowl with Selina's chronicle of her pre-Millbank existence. This dispassionate, staccato record initially suggests that we can separate truth from desire. Or can we? What Waters's haunting creation leaves us with is a more painful reality--that knowledge and belief are entirely different things.
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Breaking Dawn
Автор: Stephenie Meyer Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2008 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112011-02-29
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To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life — first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE — seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
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It's Not Easy Being Mean
Автор: Lisi Harrison Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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After getting expelled for VERY bad behaviour on a class field trip, the Pretty Committee is back. But returning to school is a piece of fat-free cake compared to Massie’s next goal — finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room on campus. Alpha eighth-grader Skye Hamilton and her clique have hidden it under the mattress of a mysterious Briarwood boy — but which one? Meanwhile Claire’s finding that being famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Her constant meetings with movie execs are eating into her time with the P.C. and with Cam! Is being a Hollywood starlet worth the Gucci-high price tag?
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Sealed with a Diss
Автор: Lisi Harrison Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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Massie Block stands at the threshold of a huh-yuge secret: a hidden room at Octavian Country Day. But to prove the Pretty Committee is worthy of the key, the girls need to find dates to Skye Hamilton’s ‘famous couples’ costume party. On top of that, Massie has to convince her old crush, Chris Abeley, to be Skye’s date... or else the PC can kiss the room — and their popularity — goodbye. Luckily for the girls, alpha status just happens to come with ESP. Not the actual superpower, but a secret weapon that shows them exactly what their crushes are thinking. The question is, do they really want to know?
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Crossings
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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At journey’s end would a new life begin? When Liane crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Europe, the future seemed bright and beautiful. Only the image of a face haunted her new life in France. Then the Second World War sent her on a fateful crossing, leaving her husband far behind. Suspended between two worlds, Liane was swept into a passionate affair, a bright brief moment of total happiness. Would the voyage seal her love for ever, or leave her stranded on the shores of heartbreak and despair?
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Cry Wolf
Автор: Patricia Briggs Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Charles Cornick is his pack’s enforcer and lives a harsh life, doing jobs other wolves can’t — or won’t. And his most recent task was rescuing Anna Latham from a life of brutality. This leaves him shot and wounded, but he’s happy to pay the price. Charles is strongly drawn to Anna, and her growing ‘Omega’ powers will see his people through dangerous times. Anna desperately needs her new mountainous home to be safer than the life she’s left behind. But when a rogue werewolf starts murdering hikers, Charles and Anna are sent into the winter forests to investigate. Charles is still weak and will need Anna’s strength as they discover a web of witchcraft that could drag down the whole pack. Including its leader Bran, Charles’s father, head of a vast network of wolves. And if Bran weakens, dark madness could run like a fever through half a continent.
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Drowning Man
Автор: Michael Robotham Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2006 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20082011-08-21
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Vincent Ruiz (a supporting character in Robotham's debut, Suspect) is hauled out of the Thames with a bullet wound in his leg and no memory of a shooting, let alone how he wound up in the water in Robotham's fine, moody second thriller. Keebal, a nasty cop from internal affairs, hounds Ruiz from the start, and everyone seems to know something Ruiz doesn't. When psychologist Joe O'Loughlin (the protagonist of Suspect) shows Ruiz a picture of young Mickey Carlyle—a seven-year-old girl kidnapped three years earlier whom everyone but Ruiz thinks is dead—he figures there must be some connection between her case and his shooting. Despite his injuries, Ruiz retraces this investigation with the help of his partner, a young Sikh woman named Ali. The past returns in dribs and drabs and none too gently. Mickey is the daughter of a Russian-born crime lord, Aleksei Kuznet; a cache of diamonds and a man known as a «grooming paedophile» also figure prominently in the splintered plot. The warm relationship between Ruiz and Joe, who suffers from Parkinson's, counterpoints the main story line's grit. Robotham works some good wrinkles into Ruiz's relationship with Ali and an empathetic nurse, too. The result is a thoughtful and subtle thriller, with convincing, three-dimensional characters.
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Free Love and Other Stories
Автор: Ali Smith Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1998 Страниц: 149 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092000-07-18
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A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in FREE LOVE are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith examine show things come together and how they break apart. She disconcerts and affirms with the lightest touch, to make us love and live differently.
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Good German
Автор: Joseph Kanon Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2004 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20092005-06-25
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Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable — streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. But in the way she would not leave with him before the war, Lena won't join him now without finding her husband and Emil has disappeared from the safe care of the Americans who, turning a blind eye to his links with Hitler, want his expertise as a rocket designer for themselves. Trawling through the shambles of the city, through the illegal night clubs and the thriving black market, Jake discovers that the twilight war of intrigue between west and east has already begun and that he could quite easily be one of its first casualties. This is a novel of war, an action thriller, a tale of raw emotion and survival. Above all it is a tour de force of the triumph of humanity over man's depravity.
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I am Ozzy
Автор: Ozzy Osbourne Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-05-12
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Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne’s? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, Ozzy endured a tough upbringing. Music was his salvation and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the music scene forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs and Ozzy fell into a long relationship with addictive substances. The stories of Ozzy’s days on the road are legendary — biting the head off a live bat, losing his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoades in a tragic plane crash — but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of excess. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Kelly, Jack and Aimee. In his highly anticipated autobiography, Ozzy comes clean: in all senses.
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Matter
Автор: Iain M Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 594 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20112012-09-22
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In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one — maybe two — people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she’d thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture’s Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity — and her particular set of abilities — might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else’s war is never a simple matter.
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New Moon
Автор: Stephenie Meyer Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2009 Страниц: 497 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20112011-07-23
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Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it's not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella's emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than Twilight yet just as exciting, New Moon will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.
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Smallville: Animal Rage
Автор: David Weiss Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092005-07-24
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Before the legend …Before the icon …There was the teenager Clark Kent — a Freshman doing all the usual High School stuff — wrestling with classwork, hanging with his mates, and trying to get a dream date with the drop-dead-gorgeous Lana Lang. Oh, and attempting to master his developing superpowers well enough to save Smallville from a succession of freakish events and deadly mutants!
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