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Enduring Love
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 250 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092006-10-07
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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them — something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.
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England, England
Автор: Julian Barnes Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092009-12-07
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As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it... One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs. fiction, reality vs. art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.
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Everyman
Автор: Roth Philip Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the personification of mankind. The fate of Roth's Everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers and during his hospitalisation as a nine-year-old surgical patient through the crises of health that come close to killing him as a vigorous adult, and into his old age, when he is undone by the death and deterioration of his contemporaries and relentlessly stalked by his own menacing physical woes. A successful commercial advertising artist with a New York ad agency, he is the father of two sons who despise him and a daughter who adores him, the beloved brother of a good man whose physical well-being comes to arouse his bitter envy, and the lonely ex-husband of three very different women with whom he's made a mess of marriage. Everyman is a painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.
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The Fall of Troy
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. 'Archaeology is not a science', Obermann says. 'It is an art'. Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology — perhaps too good at it. The amosphere at Troy is tense and mysterious. Sophia finds herself increasingly baffled by the past ... not only the remote past that Obermann is so keen to share with her in the form of his beloved epics of the Trojan wars, but also his own, recent past — a past that he has chosen to hide from her. But she, too, is very good at the art of archaeology ...
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Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People’s Game
Автор: Marc Bennetts Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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The birthplace of Tolstoy, Lenin and Lev Yashin, notorious for corruption and political intrigues, modern Russia remains an enigma, seeking to throw off its past and realize its true potential. As the country reinvents itself in the post-Soviet era, isolated by language and culture, politics and geography, an absorbing insight into this most extraordinary of nations can be found in the dramatic story of the decline and rise of Russia's football. In «Football Dynamo», Marc Bennetts embarks on a quest to find the football managers, oligarchs, players, pundits and fans that define the Russian Premier league, the fastest-growing and most extreme football league in the world. Unwittingly uncovering shocking revelations about racism and hooliganism, but also the true beauty of the game and the nation, Bennetts skilfully decodes the chaos of modern Russia as reflected in its football.
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George And The Dragon (+ DVD)
Автор: Chris Wormell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-10-13
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Far, far away in the darkest cave in the deepest valley amongst the highest mountains there lives a huge and terrifying dragon. He can fly higher than the clouds and faster than the birds; he can burn down a forest with one blast of his fiery breath; he can smash a castle wall with a flick of his mighty tail and he can brush away an army with a sweep of his monstrous wing. This awesome beast fears no man... but he is afraid of just one thing — mice! Enter George: he may not look like much of a hero, but a hero he turns out to be! This ever popular tale is now accompanied by a brilliant DVD narrated by Brian Blessed, which brings the exciting illustrations to life.
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Girls Out Late
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Ellie has a boyfriend! Interested in her — not in her best friends, Magda and Nadine! She and Russell are made for each other — drawn together by their shared enjoyment of art. If only Dad thought Russell was perfect too... And as Ellie runs into trouble with a parent who thinks his daughter is too young for after-dark trysts in the park with oh-so-gorgeous Russell, Magda has a crush on a teacher — and Nadine’s falling for slimy Liam again. What they need is a girls’ night out — Girls Out Late!
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Girls Under Pressure
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20122010-04-17
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Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and ‘gothic’ and Ellie, well, Ellie is just plain normal. The three girls have been best friends ‘forever’ but now Ellie is convinced she’s fat; Nadine wants to be a model; and Magda worries that her appearance is giving guys the wrong idea… They all long to change their looks and they’re all under pressure!
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Girls In Love
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20102008-06-05
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REASONS TO READ MY BOOK, NUMBERS 1 TO 9 1. It’s about three girls in Year Nine 2. You can learn all sorts of secrets about me (I’m Ellie) 3. Ditto my best friend Nadine 4. Ditto my equally best friend Magda 5. You can see if your nine all-time heros/heroines match up with mine 6. You can squirm at my most embarrassing moments 7. You can have lots of laughs (mostly at me!) 8. You might even cry a bit, too 9. PLUS, you get to find out a lot more about BOYS!
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Girls in Tears
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20082009-05-15
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Ellie, Magda and Nadine are back — but they're not very happy! Ellie's glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she still had a hamster!). And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone on the Internet. She thinks her e-mail boyfriend sounds wonderful! Buckets of tears are wept and hundreds of tissues sniffled into. Can the girls' friendship survive these testing times? A superb fourth instalment in the «Girls» series, following «Girls In Love», «Girls Under Pressure» and «Girls Out Late». This book is a perfect read for older fans from the best-selling author, Jacqueline Wilson.
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Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World
Автор: Bill Clinton Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations — and by individuals — to solve problems and save lives both 'down the street and around the world'. Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, 'regardless of income, available time, age, and skills', can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important. Bill Clinton’s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving.
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How Life Imitates Chess
Автор: Garry Kasparov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one’. Garry Kasparov Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world’s most intellectually challenging game – lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life’s toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. ‘Unfortunately, the number of ways to do something wrong always exceeds the number of ways to do it right’. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only from the most intense and decisive moments of his greatest games, but also from his wide-ranging and perceptive reading, Kasparov reveals the strategic ways of thinking that always give a player – in life as in chess – the edge. We learn about the great figures of the game, and how their contests have shaped chess history; from Capablanca and Alekhine to Bobby Fischer and Kasparov’s nemesis, Vladimir Kramnik. ‘It’s much better to be a little over-confident than the opposite. As Churchill wrote, “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. If we trust in our abilities they will repay us”. With a raconteur’s engaging charm, Garry Kasparov takes us inside a brilliant strategic mind. As Sun-Tzu distilled the secrets of the art of war and Machiavelli unveiled the lessons to be learned from courtly intrigue, Kasparov – a player whose record is likely never to be rivalled – reveals how and why the game of chess is a fitting and powerful teacher of how to be prepared for, and how to win in, even the most competitive situations. ‘I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Not I attack because I know it works best’.
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I Married a Communist
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092006-12-26
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Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in ruins. I Married a Communist is the story of Iron Rinn's denunciation and disgrace. It is also a story of cruelty, humiliation, betrayal and revenge — an American tragedy as only Philip Roth can conceive one — fierce and funny, eloquently rendered and deadly accurate.
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
Автор: J.M. Coetzee Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Following on from «Stranger Shores», which contained J.M. Coetzee’s essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005. Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several — Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai – lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siècle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Coetzee further explores the work of six of twentieth-century German literature's greatest writers: Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin (the Arcades Project), Joseph Roth, Gunter Grass, W.G. Sebald, and the poet Paul Celan in his 'wrestlings with the German language'. There is an essay on Graham Greene’s «Brighton Rock» and on the short fiction of Samuel Beckett, a writer whom Coetzee has long admired. American literature is strongly represented from Walt Whitman, through William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller to Philip Roth. Coetzee rounds off the collection with essays on three fellow Nobel laureates: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez and V.S. Naipaul.
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Invisible Cities
Автор: Italo Calvino Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20092000-09-24
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In «Invisible Cities» Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like «Invisible Cities», perfectly irrelevant’.
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Italian Neighbours
Автор: Tim Parks Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092004-04-25
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In the bestselling “Italian Neighbours”, Tim Parks explores the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture. When Parks moved to Italy he found it irresistible; this book is a testament to his love of Italy and his attention to the details of everyday Italian life. “Italian Neighbours” is travel writing at its best; infused with an objective passion and an eye for the details and the peculiarities of culture.
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Jacky Daydream
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112010-07-24
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Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson’s best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover... ...how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in «Dustbin Baby». ...how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in Love Lessons. ...how she sat entrance exams like Ruby in Double Act. But most of all how Jacky loved reading and writing stories. Losing herself in a new world was the best possible way she could think of spending her time. From the very first story she wrote, «Meet the Maggots», it was clear that this little girl had a very vivid imagination. But who would’ve guessed that she would grow up to be the mega-bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson! Jacqueline Wilson takes a look back at her own childhood in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, toys, parents and much more. She explores her early years with the same warmth and lightness of touch that imbues her novels and covers such difficult issues as her parents' extra-marital affairs with delicacy. With photographs and new illustrations by Nick Sharratt, this book is a delight for all of Jacky's fans, and a treat for any new readers too.
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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2012 Страниц: 238 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20172015-09-17
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The beefy ‘Stilton’ Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament – which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not like men who he thinks are trifling with his fiancée’s affections. Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a moustache, and Jeeves strongly disapproves – which is unfortunate, because Jeeves’s feudal spirit is desperately needed. Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia is trying to sell her magazine Milady’s Boudoir to the Trotter Empire and still keep her amazing chef Anatole out of Lady Trotter’s clutches. And Bertie? Bertie simply has to try to keep his moustache and survive to the end of the novel.
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Jeeves in the Offing
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he’s away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he’s astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia’s establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie’s nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop. With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts.
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Joy in the Morning
Автор: P.G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiancé ‘Stilton’ Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All Bertie’s forebodings are fully justified. For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact only Jeeves can save him…
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