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The Truth About Melody Browne
Автор: Lisa Jewell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092010-08-03
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When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took with it all her memories — Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in a council flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody doesn't mind, she's better off on her own. She's made a good life for herself and her son and she likes it that way. Until one night something extraordinary happens. Whilst attending a hypnotist show with her first date in years she faints — and when she comes round she starts to remember. At first her memories mean nothing to her but then slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. Her journey takes her to the seaside town of Broadstairs, to oddly familiar houses in London backstreets and to meetings with strangers who love her like their own. But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody begins to wonder if she'll ever know the truth about her past...
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The Twilight Watch
Автор: Sergei Lukyanenko Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Night Watch Agent Anton Gorodetsky's holiday is abruptly shortened when an urgent call from Gesar — his boss and Night Watch head — forces him to return to work. Gesar has received an anonymous note, stating that an Other has revealed the full truth about their kind to a human, and intends to convert the human in an Other. The note has also been sent to the Day Watch, and to the Inquisition — but only the very highest-level Others know the addresses. So the Inquisition orders the cooperation of Night and Day Watch in an effort to unmask the culprit...
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The Very Bloody History of Britain: Pt: 2
Автор: John Farman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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From post-war rationing to the glut of the Thatcher years, from Harold Macmillan's famous 'You've never had it so good' to the winter of discontent, this book contains the essential stuff of modern history. As Britain gets the bomb, CND starts up to ban it. As the cold war years roll on, many a politician is caught with a face as red as the Russian flag. Further afield there's trouble in Cyprus, a crisis over Suez and a serious argument brewing over Icelandic cod! At home the poor old royal family spirals inexorably towards their annus horribilis.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Автор: Maurice Sendak Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092001-12-10
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The story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things are has become an acknowledged classic of children's books. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964.
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Young Men in Spats
Автор: P. G. Wodehouse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20122010-12-30
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A P.G. Wodehouse collection Meet the Young Men in Spats — all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes — that's when they're not recovering from driving their sports cars through rather than round Marble Arch. These stories are the essence of innocent fun. In them you'll encounter some of Wodehouse's favorite characters — including, for the first time, his future hero Uncle Fred. The collection is widely regarded as one of Wodehouse's best and includes one of his own favorites, The Amazing Hat Mystery.
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Youth
Автор: J.M. Coetzee Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
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Twinkle Sews (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Wenlan Chia Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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This book features 25 gorgeous sewing projects that bring the author's runway designs to life. Every garment's pattern is on the accompanying CD, which readers can print out, tape together, cut out and get to work! The book helps you create stunning clothes at a fraction of the boutique price and made to fit perfectly, from tops to dresses. In Twinkle Sews, Wenlan Chia offers 25 skirt, top, tunic and dress sewing projects — based on her runway designs. Wenlan teaches readers the core techniques of home sewing — how to sew a seam, insert a zipper, interface fabric, create buttonholes, hem and so on. She also covers the differences between various fabrics, how to properly preshrink and prepare fabric; how to pick the best fabric for each project, plus lots of styling suggestions and sewing tips. Best of all, this book includes a CD of full-size printable patterns for every project — each in 5 different sizes.
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The 158-Pound Marriage
Автор: John Irving Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1990 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20091993-02-19
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»Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning — after implications.» The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving's cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive. «One of the most remarkable things about John Irving's first three novels, viewed from the vantage of The World According to Garp, is that they can be read as one extended fictional enterprise...The 158-Pound Marriage is as lean and concentrated as a mine shaft.»
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The Angel of Darkness
Автор: Caleb Carr Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-09-24
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A turn-of-the-century doctor tracks a cunning killer in the New York Times bestselling sequel to the acclaimed historical thriller The Alienist.
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The Apprentice
Автор: Tess Gerritsen Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 366 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092005-10-11
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The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns — and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent...and all-too-deadly. It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her — literally and figuratively — she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence...even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta... Filled with superbly created characters — and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark — The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.
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The Best Man to Die
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1987 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091991-03-08
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Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer...
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Body Double
Автор: Tess Gerritsen Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 391 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20102008-09-22
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Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match-and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations-in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day-many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression dead ringer rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table been her own. Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura's home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura's mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew...an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible forgiving Maura life-and who just may have a plan to take it away.
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Christ the Lord: Road to Cana
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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Anne Rice's vivid and hugely ambitious continuation of the life of Christ the Lord tells of the last winter of Jesus' «hidden years» — his thirtieth — and ends with His first great miracle — the turning of water into wine at the marriage of Cana. Based on the Four Gospels and scrupulously researched.
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Colonization: Down to Earth
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092003-07-14
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Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first wife), history might have taken another path altogether. These books take place 20 years after the Worldwar series. The story begins with the arrival of the alien colonization fleet, and a new phase of the invasion brings thousands of extraterrestrials to Earth.
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Colonization: Second Contact
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092003-09-24
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Twenty years after the Allied and Axis forces had united to repell marauding extraterrestrial invaders, the social unrest of the 1960s threatens to ignite global war, a situation that is further complicated by the arrival of an alien colization fleet.
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Colonization: Aftershocks
Автор: Harry Turtledove Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2000 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092003-09-14
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World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the 1960s begin, one of Earth's great powers launches a nuclear strike against the Race's colonization fleet-and the merciless invaders find themselves confronting a far more complex and challenging species than any they have encountered before. Ultimately, only superior firepower may keep Earth under the Empire's control-or it may destroy the world. While uprisings and aftershocks of war shake the planet, one nation plots a stunning counterattack... Hugo winner Turtledove lives up to his billing as the grand master of alternative history...This novel is altogether excellent.
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Cry to Heaven
Автор: Anne Rice Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 566 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20091997-10-27
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They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!
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Dark Prince
Автор: David Gemmell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-12-23
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The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it — and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him.But there was another world, where the creatures of Greece's legends still flourished. There, the chaos spirit already ruled, through a demon king. In this Greece, there was a prophecy that a child of great power, the legendary golden child, would come and restore the fading magic of the land to the creatures of myth. The demon king believed also that devouring the heart of this fabled child would give him immortality. He believed Alexander, with the power of the chaos spirit within him, to be that child. And so he called Alexander into his world...Only Parmenion, guided by the seeress Derae, his lost love from another life, could hope to save Alexander from the demon king. But who could save the young prince from the chaos spirit that threatened to conquer his soul? From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Dating Game
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20082009-08-24
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One of America's most cherished novelists takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around. Poignant and wickedly funny, «Dating Game» is about tackling life and love with both courage and laughter — told as only Steel can tell it.
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Death Notes
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1986 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20091989-04-25
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Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death — but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of two suspects — one, the victim's fiancee, who is too young to be true, the other his daughter who may be no kin and even less kind...
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