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A Word Child
Автор: Iris Murdoch Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092003-12-20
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Hilary Burde, saved by education from a delinquent childhood, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, cherishes his obsessive guilt and disappointment in a dull, orderly civil service job. When the man whom he has harmed and betrayed reappears as head of his department, Hilary hopes for forgiveness, even for redemption and a new life, but finds himself haunted by a ghostly repetition.
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The Worry Website
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20102010-07-21
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Is anything bothering you? Problems in class or at home? Don't know where to turn for help? Log on to the Worry Website! Type in your worry and wait for the good advice to flow in. At least that's the plan when Mr Speed sets up his super-cool new Worry Website for the class. Holly, Greg, Natasha and the rest feel that they've got shedloads of worries. But, as they find out, sometimes the best advice comes from the most unexpected place. Lots of the kids in Mr Speed's class have something to worry about. From a new stepmum to coping with Maths, everyone has their own private concerns and it's sometimes difficult to discuss them — even when you need advice. So Mr Speed sets up the Worry Website on the classroom computer. Anybody in the class can anonymously enter their worry and anyone else can type in advice to help out.
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Affluenza
Автор: Oliver James Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092009-10-11
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There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world — an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses — that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading. Cities he visited include Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York and Shanghai, and in each place he interviewed several groups of people in the hope of finding out not only why this is happening, but also how one can increase the strength of one's emotional immune system. He asks: why do so many more people want what they haven't got and want to be someone they're not, despite being richer and freer from traditional restraints? And, in so doing, uncovers the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. In other words, how to be successful and stay sane.
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The Temple Of Dawn
Автор: Yukio Mishima Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092001-05-25
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The story of one mans obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, «The Temple Of Dawn» powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience form the eve of World War II through the postwar era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess — an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit, and undertakes a long, arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India, where, in the climatic scene, he encounters her once more, only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning.
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Runaway Horses
Автор: Yukio Mishima Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092002-04-24
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The second book in Mishima's landmark «The Sea of Fertility» sequence, this is the chronicle of a conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.
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Portnoy's Complaint
Автор: Philip Roth Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092000-07-21
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The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
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Piranha To Scurfy And Other Stories
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092004-04-07
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The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact. Life for Ribbon, without his mother now, is lonely and obsessive. He still keeps her dressing table exactly as she had left it, the wardrobe door always so that her clothes can be seen inside, and her pink silk nightdress on the bed. There is one book too that he associates particularly with her — volume VIII of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Piranha to Scurfy. It marked a very significant moment in their relationship.In the other stories, Ruth Rendell deals with a variety of themes, some macabre, some vengeful, some mysterious, all precisely observed. The second novella, «High Mysterious Union», explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer.
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Voyager
Автор: Diana Gabaldon Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 1072 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20091996-12-07
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This is an epic historical novel following on from the bestselling «Dragonfly in Amber.» Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time, pregnant with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746. Now their daughter has grown up and Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Drawn back across the chasm of time she seeks once more the man she could never forget, the destiny she cannot ignore...
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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Автор: Italo Calvino Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092010-02-24
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You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer’s error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the real hero is you, the reader.
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The Sandcastle
Автор: Iris Murdoch Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092007-03-08
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The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself enchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a 'great love' be purchased at too high a price?
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The Tree of Hands
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092007-04-24
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Once, when Benet was about fourteen, she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport, looking drab and colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate her. But the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder. Domestic dramas exploding into deaths and murders ...threads are drawn tightly together in a lethal last pattern.
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Dead Babies
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 223 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20112010-07-28
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Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp descends to disastrous depths.
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Wilt In Nowhere
Автор: Tom Sharpe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092008-02-23
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Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.
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The Road Home
Автор: Rose Tremain Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved with his story, as he struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through Lev's eyes, and we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his friendships, old and new; his joys and sufferings; his aspirations and his hopes of finding his way home, wherever home may be.
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Never Say Never
Автор: Melissa Hill Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092009-04-27
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Sometimes hopes and dreams don't go according to plan — sometimes, real life gets in the way. On a mild May evening, a group of friends on the verge of graduating speculate on what the future holds. Will Leah be a chef? Robin an accountant? And Olivia the one who holds it all together? The one thing they know is that they'll always be friends — no matter what — but they make a pact to meet up in five years, just in case fate intervenes. Years later it's clear that life has not gone according to plan. Why is Robin in New York determined never to go back to Dublin? Why is Olivia grieving? And why does Leah feel so left out as she heads towards the big three-o? When Robin is forced to return, they all find themselves face to face with the past — suddenly nothing can ever be the same again. And they start to realize that sometimes it's best never to say never ...
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Автор: Anna Gavalda Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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Following the publication of Anna Gavalda's international bestseller, «Hunting and Gathering», this book introduces us to Anna Gavalda's witty and dazzling collection of stories, «I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere», together with her heartbreaking and poignant novella, «Someone I Loved» — both published in the UK for the first time. «I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere» explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfect date is spoilt by a single act of thoughtlessness. In those crucial moments Gavalda demonstrates her almost magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing, and loneliness. «Someone I Loved» is a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet sometimes valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals involved. A simple tale, yet long in substance, «Someone I Loved» ends like most great love affairs, forever leaving you wanting just one more moment.
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Ring for Jeeves
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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Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all round tough guy, should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem. In fact they’re not bookies at all, but the impoverished Bill Belfry, Ninth Earl of Rowcester and his temporary butler, Jeeves. Bertie Wooster has gone away to a special school teaching the aristocracy to fend for itself ‘in case the social revolution sets in with even greater severity’. But Jeeves will prove just as resourceful without his young master, and brilliant brainwork may yet square the impossible circle for all concerned.
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Not in the Flesh
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows it will be a difficult job to identify the corpse. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. People disappear at an alarming rate – hundreds each day. When another body is found nearby, the detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the deaths are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.
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The Cement Garden
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092000-09-10
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In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
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Bee Season (film tie-in)
Автор: Myla Goldberg Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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The tie-in edition to the new film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer mother, Miriam. But when Eliza discovers an aptitude for competitive spelling, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul ushers her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks on a lone quest for spiritual fulfilment that leads him to the Hare Krishna. And when the unveiling of Miriam's secret life triggers an almighty explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Myla Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unravelling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented American writer
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