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Tick Tock
Автор: Dean Koontz Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20092003-04-15
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Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It’s a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll’s heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan’s reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can’t destroy. It wants Tommy’s life, and he doesn’t know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance—or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy’s computer screen: «The deadline is dawn».
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The Game
Автор: Laurie R. King Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes. It’s the second day of the new year, 1924, and Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes. But the fragile peace will be fleeting—for a visit with Holmes’s gravely ill brother, Mycroft, brings news of an intrigue that is sure to halt their respite. Mycroft, who has ties to the highest levels of the government, has just received a strange package. The oilskin-wrapped packet contains the papers of a missing English spy named Kimball O’Hara—indeed, the same Kimball who served as the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s famed Kim. An orphaned English boy turned loose in India, Kim long used his cunning to spy for the Crown. But after inexplicably withdrawing from the “Great Game” of border espionage, he’s gone missing and is feared taken hostage—or even killed. When Russell learns of Holmes’s own secret friendship with Kim some thirty years before, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But even before they arrive, danger will show its face in everything from a suspicious passenger on board their steamer to an “accident” that very nearly claims their lives. Once in India, Russell and Holmes must travel incognito—no small task for the English lady and her lanky companion. But after a twist of fate forces the couple to part ways, Russell learns that in this faraway place it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games must be played out until their deadly end. Showcasing King’s masterful plotting and skill at making history leap from the page, «The Game» brings alive an India fraught with unrest and poised for change—and an unpredictable mystery with brilliance and character to match.
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Locked Rooms
Автор: Laurie R. King Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092009-04-27
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Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King’s highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. And this time the first couple of detection pair up to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again–lost somewhere in Russell’s own past. After departing Bombay by ship, Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are en route to the bustling modern city of San Francisco. There, Mary will settle some legal affairs surrounding the inheritance of her family’s old estate. But the closer they get to port, the more Mary finds herself prey to troubling dreams and irrational behavior–a point not lost on Holmes, much to Russell’s annoyance. In 1906, when Mary was six, San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake and a raging fire that reduced the city to rubble. For years, Mary has denied any memory of the catastrophe that for days turned the fabled streets into hell on earth. But Holmes suspects that some hidden trauma connected with the “unforgettable” catastrophe may be the real culprit responsible for Mary’s memory lapse. And no sooner do they begin to familiarize themselves with the particulars of the Russell estate than it becomes apparent that whatever unpleasantness Mary has forgotten, it hasn’t forgotten her. Why does her father’s will forbid access to the house except in the presence of immediate family? Why did someone break in, then take nothing of any value? And why is Russell herself targeted for assassination? The more questions they ask of Mary’s past, the more people from that past turn out to have died violent, unexplained deaths. Now, with the aid of a hard-boiled young detective and crime writer named Hammett, Russell and Holmes find themselves embroiled in a mystery that leads them through the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent’s marriage and the tragic car “accident” that a fourteen-year-old Mary alone survived–an accident that may not have been an accident at all. What Russell is about to discover is that even a forgotten past never dies…and it can kill again.
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Spin State
Автор: Chris Moriarty Жанр: Научная фантастика Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092008-03-18
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From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware... Spin State UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining “accident” that is starting to look more and more like murder... Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.
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The Purrfect Murder (Mrs: Murphy Mysteries)
Автор: Rita Mae Brown Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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It’s autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia — a time for golden days, crisp nights…and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted “come-here” set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no feeling for country ways. She’s determined to make her new house the envy of all her well-heeled friends — and enemies — and she’s hired architect Tazio Chappers to build it. From the start, the project — and Mrs. Paulson — are a major headache for all involved. But no one could foresee that it would end with Mrs. Paulson stabbed to death at a gala fund-raiser with Harry’s friend Tazio standing over her, holding the knife. Now Harry must solve what seems to everyone else an open-and-shut case. Her four-legged partners — sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker — see it Harry’s way. But will they have to choose between catching the purrfect killer and saving Harry?
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Say Goodbye
Автор: Lisa Gardner Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 452 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20122010-06-23
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Come into my parlor... For FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy it starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly is too horrifying to be true. But prostitutes are disappearing, leaving behind no bodies and no explanations —except one only Kimberly, herself four months pregnant, is willing to believe. Could a sadist be hunting the streets for vulnerable young girls and using spiders to do his dirty work? Said the spider to the fly... Either a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder or Kimberly is following clues to a crime that never happened. In fact, Kimberly’s caught in a web more lethal than any spider’s, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly she’s trapped. She’s already close — too close — to a psychopath who makes women’s nightmares come alive. And like her mother and sister before her, both victims of a serial killer, it won’t be long before it’s Kimberly’s time to say goodbye with her dying breath...
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The Killing Hour
Автор: Lisa Gardner Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
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Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered—a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked—salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared...and the clock is ticking. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows the killer’s deadline can be met. But she’ll have to break some rules to beat an exactingly vicious criminal at a game he’s had time to perfect. For the Killing Hour has arrived....
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
Автор: Truman Capote Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20091996-10-23
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The tale of a fun-loving, amoral playgirl in New York City is accompanied by «House of Flowers», «A Diamond Guitar» and «A Christmas Memory».
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Transparent Things
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Литература русского зарубежья Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20102010-07-21
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»Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero — sullen, gawky Hugh Person — to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later — following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment — Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects» — Martin Amis
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Литература русского зарубежья Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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»The Real Life of Sebastian Knight» is a perversely magical literary detective story — subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax — about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer than a dozen knew of the two love affairs that so profoundly influenced his career, the second one in such a disastrous way. After Knight's death, his half brother sets out to penetrate the enigma of his life, starting with a few scanty clues in the novelist's private papers. His search proves to be a story as intriguing as any of his subject's own novels, as baffling, and, in the end, as uniquely rewarding.
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The Enchanter
Автор: Vladimir Nabokov Жанр: Литература русского зарубежья Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20091992-12-30
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»The Enchanter» is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom.
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The English Patient
Автор: Michael Ondaatje Жанр: Зарубежная литература первой половины 20 века Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
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The Foot Book: Dr: Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites (board book)
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091997-06-05
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A toe-tapper babies will love — the classic Seussian book about opposites: «Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot...»
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Dr: Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Учебники: доп. пособия Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091997-06-05
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With Dr. Seuss as your guide, learning the alphabet is as easy as A, B, C.
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There's a Wocket in my Pocket! Dr: Seuss's Book of Ridiculous Rhymes
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091997-06-05
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»There's a Wocket in My Pocket» is filled with bizarre creatures and rhymes: the nupboard in the cupboard, ghairs beneath the stairs, and the bofa on the sofa!
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The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
Автор: Dr. Seuss Жанр: Учебники: доп. пособия Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091998-06-05
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»The shape of you, the shape of me, the shape of everything I see..» In this board book featuring bright new colors and the original whimsical text, Dr. Seuss introduces the concept of shapes to babies and toddlers.
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A Passion for Blue and White
Автор: Carolyne Roehm Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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Legendary designer Roehm conducts a private tour of her dazzling homes with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs that showcase her favorite color combination: blue and white.
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Forgotten Realms: Paths of Darkness: The Silent Blade
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092001-05-15
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Salvatore's chronicle of the adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden, Wulfgar, and their greatest foe, the assassin Artemis Entreri, comes alive in this reissued volume in the Legend of Drizzt series.
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Forgotten Realms: Paths of Darkness: Sea of Swords
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092003-12-30
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After finding the mark of Aegis-fang branded on the back of an outlaw, Drizzt Do'Urden fears that his long-missing friend Wulfgar is in danger and sets out with Cattie-brie and Bruenor to find Wulfgar and ensure his safety.
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Forgotten Realms: Hunters Blades 1: The Thousand Orcs
Автор: R.A. Salvatore Жанр: Сказочная фантастика (фэнтези) Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092004-12-30
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Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do'Urden, as an invasion of orcs sweeps across the Spine of the World, separating him from the friends on whom he has long relied and forcing him to draw on his own inner resources.
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