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A Fraction of the Whole
Автор: Steve Toltz Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20142011-12-26
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From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset — mostly unintentionally — an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and bad kinds), one labyrinth, first love, a handbook for criminals, a scheme to make everyone rich and an explosive suggestion box, Steve Toltz's «A Fraction of the Whole» is a hilarious, heartbreaking story of families and how to survive them.
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Fantastic Mr: Fox: A Play
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20122015-08-17
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This is a short dramatization — perfect for schools — of Dahl's immensely popular story for younger readers in which clever Mr Fox outwits the three nasty farmers: Boggis. Bunce and Bean. With staging advice on props, lighting etc at the end of the book.
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En El Tiempo de Las Mariposas
Автор: Julia Alvarez Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 427 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20102007-10-27
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In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Alvarez brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in an extraordinary novel.
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Dog Days
Автор: Jeff Kinney Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Now in paperback — this is the next mega-selling instalment in the hilarious «Diary of a Wimpy Kid» series. Greg's mom has a vision of 'family togetherness' that really doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. But there's a brand-new addition to the Heffley family to contend with and it looks like Greg might be outnumbered. It could be a real dog of a summer...
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Do-it-yourself Book
Автор: Jeff Kinney Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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Now everyone can have their own Wimpy Kid diary! Draw your own Wimpy-Kid-style cartoons, fill in facts and lists, check out the full-colour comics inside and even write your own Wimpy Kid journal, just like Greg. This title now comes with dozens of pages of new content and a brand new cover.
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Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa
Автор: Dambisa Moyo Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it. Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. Dead Aid shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works — and make charity history.
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Crimea
Автор: Orlando Figes Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20132014-04-29
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land. Orlando Figes' major new book reimagines this extraordinary war, in which the stakes could not have been higher and which was fought with a terrible mixture of ferocity and incompetence. It was both a recognisably modern conflict — the first to be extensively photographed, the first to employ the telegraph, the first 'newspaper war' — and a traditional one, with illiterate soldiers, amateur officers and huge casualties caused by disease. Drawing on a huge range of fascinating sources, Figes also gives the lived experience of the war, from that of the ordinary British soldier in his snow-filled trench, to the haunted, gloomy, narrow figure of Tsar Nicholas himself as he vows to take on the whole world in his hunt for religious salvation.
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Conan the Barbarian
Автор: Michael A. Stackpole Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 296 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20162015-03-08
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Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria lost his father and village when they were slaughtered by the cruel warlord Khalra Zym. Wandering the world alone, Conan was forged into a peerless warrior by hardship and bloodshed.
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
Автор: Niall Ferguson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20132014-02-09
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If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe — Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland — would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six 'killer applications' that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. «Civilization» takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world — from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.
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Blue Monday
Автор: Nicci French Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets... The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.
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Between Shades of Gray
Автор: Ruta Sepetys Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. For her future. For love — first love, with the boy she barely knows but knows she does not want to lose... Will hope keep Lina alive? Set in 1941, Between Shades of Grey is an extraordinary and haunting story based on first-hand family accounts and memories from survivors.
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Banker
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 308 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122011-12-20
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When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then, as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into a deadly deal of violence and murder.
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The Baby Trail
Автор: Sinead Moriarty Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby — but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.
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The BFG: Plays for Children
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112010-06-21
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Following the success of his stage adaptation of The BFG, David Wood has now written a series of scenes, or playlets for performance by children in schools and other amateur groups. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, these plays can be performed with the minimum of experience or resources.
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Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
Автор: Oliver Bowden Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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Niccolo Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life — the story of Altair, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary Assassins. Altair embarks on a formidable mission — one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader, Robert de Sable. Altair's life story is told here for the first time: a journey that will change the course of history; his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; and, the ultimate betrayal of an old friend.
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Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
Автор: Oliver Bowden Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20122011-10-31
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'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. I am an Assassin...' Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, a young man embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honour, he will learn the art of the assassins. Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli — knowing that survival is bound to the skills by which he must live. To his allies, he will become a force for change — fighting for freedom and justice. To his enemies, he will become a threat dedicated to the destruction of the tyrants abusing the people of Italy. So begins an epic story of power, revenge and conspiracy. Truth will be written in blood.
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Автор: Oliver Bowden Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20122015-08-03
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'I will journey to the black heart of a corrupt Empire to root out my foes. But Rome wasn't built in a day and it won't be restored by a lone assassin. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. This is my brotherhood'. Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family. Only one man can free the people from the Borgia tyranny — Ezio Auditore, the Master Assassin. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. Cesare Borgia, a man more villainous and dangerous than his father the Pope, will not rest until he has conquered Italy. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere, even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself...
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Troublesome Words
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find out.
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Автор: Mary Roach Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre.
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A Room with a View
Автор: E. M. Forster Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you...' Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart? «A Room with a View» is a sunny, brilliantly witty comedy of manners.
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