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Moscow Rules
Автор: Daniel Silva Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the gold standard (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers. Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage as worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le CarrA and Gabriel Allon as one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Now the death of a journalist leads Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. This is not the grim, gray Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and choked with bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where power resides once more behind the walls of the Kremlin and where critics of the ruling class are ruthlessly silenced. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire, however, is a more lucrative and deadly business: Kharkov is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia as most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 and the clock is ticking fast. Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East and Silva's finest novel yet.
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Daddy Long Legs: And, Dear Enemy
Автор: Jean Webster Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 357 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092007-09-24
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One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters, follows the progress of Judyas former orphanage now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life. Full of irrepressible female characters that both recall Alcottas Jo March and anticipate the popular heroines of contemporary literature, Websteras novels are witty, heartfelt, and delightfully modern.
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Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar
Автор: Thomas Cathcart Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for those who know not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously.
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Churchill
Автор: Paul Johnson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122014-03-16
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Chinese edition of the bestseller Churchill, a biography of the political figure whose work impacted the entire world. Paul Johnson is a consummate biographer who doesn't hide the fact that he likes Churchill, but the biography is first rate, scholarly as well as entertaining. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Eat, Pray, Love
Автор: Elizabeth Gilbert Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 450 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20122013-04-29
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The #1 New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture, staring Academy Award winners Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, and Golden Globe winner James Franco.
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The Help: A novel
Автор: Kathryn Stockett Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared. Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town — to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day.
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Even Money
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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The «New York Times» — bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel. On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder.
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Spartan Gold
Автор: Clive Cussler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 387 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132013-02-09
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The husband-and-wife treasure hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo stumble across a WWII German U-boat in a Delaware swamp. Inside they found a curious bottle supposedly from Napolean's «lost cellar». While they look for the rest of the collection, millionaire Hadeon Bondaruk, who claims to be direct descendant of Persian emperor Xerxes the great, is also looking for that bottle. He is interested only in the label of the bottle, which holds a treasure map leading to the golden columns stolen from the Greeks by Xerxes.
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U Is for Undertow
Автор: Sue Grafton Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory — of something that may never have happened. (Grafton's) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.
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Wrecker
Автор: Clive Cussler Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 451 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20122013-09-30
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In this sequel to The Chase, Detective Isaac Bell returns to try and stop the mysterious saboteur of the Southern Pacific railroad known as The WRECKER. Who is he? What does he want? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, The WRECKER knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, The WRECKER is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. Clive Cussler is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of Medusa, Spartan Gold, and The Lost Empire.
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Anthem: 50th Anniversary
Автор: Ayn Rand Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 253 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20091999-02-09
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In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.
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Firestarter
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1997 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20091998-06-25
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Eight-year-old Charlie was born with the most destructive personality power a human being has ever commanded.
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Eyes of the Dragon
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1994 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20091997-09-27
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The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.
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The Fountainhead
Автор: Ayn Rand Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 1996 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20092000-03-19
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When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosphy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rands' own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero — and about those who try to destroy him.
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Love in the Time of Dragons
Автор: Katie Macalister Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 343 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20152011-06-15
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Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom — except she's just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they're dragons — and that she's one too...
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Deeper Than The Dead
Автор: Tami Hoag Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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California, 1984: three children make a gruesome discovery in the woods: a partially buried female body. Their teacher, Ann Navarre, is shocked at the discovery which marks the end of innocence for the whole community due to the acts of a serial killer. Tami Hoag is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Daddy's Girl and Pandora's Daughter, among others.
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In the Company of Vampires
Автор: Katie Macalister Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 343 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20152011-06-15
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When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god, Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex, Benedikt, is there, full of secrets-and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds-and the woman who claimed Ben's heart. It's a good thing Fran's no ordinary mortal...
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Turn Coat
Автор: Jim Butcher Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 563 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132013-04-29
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Jim Butcher's Breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller. The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council-and there's only one final punishment for that crime. He's on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Like Harry Dresden. Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake could cost Harry his head...
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The Invisible Man
Автор: H. G. Wells Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 186 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20122012-10-21
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Two of Wells's masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions. Along with annotated texts, they feature scholarly introductions and appendixes, bibliographies, illustrations, and indexes. Though they are perhaps a tad pricey for most public libraries, academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in these volumes.
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Committed: A Love story
Автор: Gilbert Elizabeth Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 344 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122013-02-19
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living, in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) to never marry. However, when Felipe was unexpectedly kicked out of the United States by U.S. Immigration officials, the couple was faced with a strict ultimatum: get married or Felipe could never enter America again. Over the next ten months, as Elizabeth and Felipe wandered Southeast Asia waiting for permission to return home and wed, the author searched far and wide for wisdom, advice, and perspective on the subject of romantic commitment. Infused with her singular wit, intelligence,-and compassion, Committed is a fascinating meditation on compatibility, fidelity, and family, and — ultimately — an enthralling celebration of love.
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