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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Автор: Katherine Howe Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692... and the infamous witchcraft trials.
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Girl Friday
Автор: Green Jane Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092008-09-20
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When Kit and Adam separated after almost fifteen years of marriage, Kit felt like she had lost her lover, her best friend and her identity all in one fell swoop. But now, a year on from the divorce, Kit has found herself again and she loves her life in the idyllic Connecticut town of Highfield. She has the perfect job — working for Robert McClore, the famous novelist — two wonderful children, a good relationship with her ex-husband and time to enjoy yoga with her friends. Then Tracy, Kit's yoga instructor and close friend, introduces her to Steve — attentive, charming, the perfect gentleman — and, for the first time in years, Kit thinks she may have found the right one. But is Steve really as perfect as he seems? And why does it bother Kit when Tracy starts dating Kit's reclusive boss, Robert? What no one knows is that Tracy is hiding a secret — one that threatens to ruin her new-found happiness with Robert and her friendship with Kit. And now Tracy must decide whether to keep her past hidden from them both for ever or whether she should reveal the truth before it's too late...
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Alone in Berlin
Автор: Hans Fallada Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks...
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Decline of the English Murder
Автор: George Orwell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112010-06-21
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Contains essays that explore the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning). This book also unfolds the author's views on things from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.
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The First Men in the Moon
Автор: H.G. Wells Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092009-03-28
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When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever.
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The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories
Автор: H.G. Wells Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20112009-05-15
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions, yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.
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Silks
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 344 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112013-03-18
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Although an amateur, Geoff Mason is well-known among pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow — the top two pros. So when Barlow is murdered, with Mitchell's pitchfork, Geoff finds himself pulled into the case. The problem is, which side is he on? Dick Francis is the author of more than forty books, including New York Times-bestseller UNDER ORDERS.
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Arctic drift
Автор: Clive Cussler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 415 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20142012-09-10
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A foundered Victorian ship looking for the fabled Northwest Passage holds a secret in its icy grave... When Dirk Pitt of NUMA is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases — but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet? But there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There, he and NUMA colleague Al Giordino must battle for survival against the hostile elements and an evil megalomaniac who is about to plunge the North American continent into war.
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How to be Good
Автор: Nick Hornby Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 244 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20122013-04-25
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According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good — properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good — Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a number 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
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Fever Pitch
Автор: Nick Hornby Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 239 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20122011-06-18
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This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, «Fever Pitch» has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.
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High Fidelity
Автор: Nick Hornby Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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This Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.
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Slam
Автор: Nick Hornby Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 292 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20142013-02-29
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'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up'. Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is — has he got what it takes to confront them?
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Eating Animals
Автор: Jonathan Safran Foer Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 341 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20112012-05-06
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»Eating Animals» is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before. Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, «Eating Animals» is as much a novelistic account of an intellectual journey as it is a fresh and open look at the ethical debate around meat-eating. Unlike most other books on the subject, «Eating Animals» also explores the possibilities for those who do eat meat to do so more responsibly, making this an important book not just for vegetarians, but for anyone who is concerned about the ramifications and significance of their chosen lifestyle.
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Jamie Does
Автор: Jamie Oliver Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20122011-12-30
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This cookbook will celebrate the vibrant food of six very different countries. Cheap, short-haul flights and long weekend getaways have become increasingly popular and within a few short hours of the UK there are new and exciting worlds of food waiting to be discovered as Jamie finds out. Each chapter will focus on a different city or region: Marrakech, Athens, Venice, Andalucia, Stockholm and the Ardeche region of France. The food in each chapter will be a mixture of classic dishes and new recipes inspired by the things Jamie learns on his travels. Beautiful reportage photography of the faces, places and ingredients will accompany each chapter. Jamie says: 'The food I've embraced on each trip is a mixture of what you could call the cliched star dishes — the tagines of Morocco, the flamboyant paella of Spain and the zingy fresh flavours of a classic Greek salad — and the recipes that I've been inspired to make after walking through the markets and soaking up the vibes of each place. What you'll find in this book is fun, optimistic, escapist food you can actually cook and enjoy in your own home'.
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How Hard Can It Be?
Автор: Jeremy Clarkson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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This is Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson series. Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again. En-route he discovers how rhubarb will become the new crack, that a comb over will end anyone's quest for global domination and what unites a Filipino chambermaid in Abergavenny with Prince Andrew. For anyone who's ever woken up and thought the time has come to stop the nonsense and celebrate the sensational, read on. Because seriously, how hard can it be?
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The Fry Chronicles
Автор: Stephen Fry Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 438 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20132012-07-11
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Thirteen years ago, «Moab is My Washpot», Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director and presenter. In January 2010, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This dazzling memoir promises to be a courageously frank, honest and poignant read. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you and, above all, surprise you.
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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The troubled life of Adrian Mole continues in this sequel to «The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4». Adrian continues to struffle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life.
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The Killing Dance
Автор: Hamilton Laurell K. Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1997 Страниц: 388 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092000-09-02
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Anita Blake's messy life becomes more complicated when someone puts a price on her head. As both a vampire hunter and zombie reanimator, Anita has made a lot of enemies-both human and otherwise.
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Long Lost
Автор: Harlan Coben Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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Harlan Coben's millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He's had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese finds her husband has been murdered, leaving her as a prime suspect. Then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese's long-buried family secrets in the most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help. Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, he must tear apart the city — and eventually the globe — fighting for answers to unfathomable questions that will take Myron, and Harlan Coben's readers, where they have never gone before.
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The Shakespeare Curse
Автор: Jennifer Lee Carrell Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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Macbeth is a famously cursed play, fraught with gruesome violence and supernatural evil. Some of Kate Stanley's friends question her choosing to direct its production for the 400th anniversary of its first performance, but Kate's expertise in the little-known secrets and obscure mysteries of Shakespeare make her a natural. However, bizarre ritual objects begin to turn up at rehearsals, and it becomes clear someone is using the production to send a message in the form of very dark ancient magic. The cast is unnerved both by the gruesome pranks and the historical creepiness of this play, and consider abandoning the production. But a local young boy, the namesake of the 17th-century actor who first played the role of Lady Macbeth, is abducted, and the puzzling ransom notes make the boy's survival dependent upon making the play happen. As opening night approaches, Kate digs deep into the obscure and magical allusions in Macbeth, and draws on all her skill and knowledge of occult Shakespeare to decipher the ransom note riddles and save the kidnapped boy.
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