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Before She Met Me
Автор: Julian Barnes Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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Graham Hendrick, an historian, has left his wife Barbara for the vivacious Ann, and is more than pleased with his new life. Until, that is, the day he discovers Ann's celluloid past as a mediocre film actress. Soon Graham is pouncing on old clues, examining her books for inscriptions from past lovers, frequenting cinemas and poring over the bad movies she appeared in. It's not that he blames Anne for having a past before they met, but history has always mattered to him...
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Bleachers
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092005-12-26
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Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
Автор: Tom Wolfe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20122013-09-22
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Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down. «The Bonfire of the Vanities» is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
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The Brethren
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092009-05-25
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Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends.
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Brighton Rock
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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This title includes an introduction by J.M. Coetzee. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Graham Greene's gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in 1947 starring Richard Attenborough as the razor-wielding Pinkie.
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The Broker
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. It seems that Backman, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.
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Catalina
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092002-06-25
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Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But in the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, the Church is apt to take a serious view of such an ostentatious claim. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
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Catch-22
Автор: Joseph Heller Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20122015-08-03
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Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, «Catch-22» is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him.
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The Child in Time
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092002-08-23
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Stephen Lewis, an author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, he spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
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Death at La Fenice
Автор: Donna Leon Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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The twisted maze of Venice's canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer — poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Even Commissario of Police, Guido Brunetti, used to the labyrinthine corruptions of the city, is shocked at the number of enemies Wellauer has made on his way to the top — but just how many have motive enough for murder? The beauty of Venice is crumbling — and evil can seep through its decaying stones.
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Death in Venice and Other Stories
Автор: Thomas Mann Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful ageing writer, travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner in his hotel, Aschenbach notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy. Soon his days begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to pay attention to the ominous rumours that have begun to circulate about disease spreading through the city. Italian director Luchino Visconti also wrote the screenplay for his 1971 adaptation of Mann's novella and travelled all over the world in search of a suitable actor for the role of Tadzio. Dirk Bogarde considered retiring after playing the part of Aschenbach, believing he could never hope to give a better performance in a better film.
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Digging to America
Автор: Anne Tyler Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092010-09-27
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Friday August 15th, 1997 — The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family 'only one generation removed from the bazaar) and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American. While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong — as well they may — she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her 'outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, «Digging to America» is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes — it's about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds. And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.
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Doctor Who: Apollo 23
Автор: Justin Richards Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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'For a few moments this afternoon, it rained on the moon'. An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping centre. Maybe it's a publicity stunt. A photo shows a well-dressed woman in a red coat lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon — beside her beloved dog 'Poochie'. Maybe it's a hoax. But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centres on a secret military base on the moon — that's where Amy and the TARDIS are. The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there's no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens. Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23. This is a thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army
Автор: Brian Minchin Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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'Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack'. New York is one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race, even though they're only seven centimetres high. With the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien force field, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn't, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? This is a thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Night of the Humans
Автор: David Llewellyn Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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'This is the Gyre — the most hostile environment in the galaxy'. 250,000 years' worth of junk is floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all — the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the countdown has already started. There's a comet in the sky, and it's on a collision course with the Gyre...When the Doctor is kidnapped, it's up to Amy and 'galaxy-famous swashbuckler' Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here? This is a thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092002-09-10
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Mr Jones, a quiet unprepossessing man who works as a translator in a Swiss chocolate factory, meets and falls in love with Anna-Luise, many years his junior and the daughter of Doctor Fischer, the notorious toothpaste millionaire.
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DropZone
Автор: Andy McNab Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone B.A.S.E. jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in the adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He's a natural, so it's no surprise when he's invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes? The team's involved in covert military operations — missions that require a special kind of guts, missions so secret even MI5 denies all knowledge.
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The End of the Affair
Автор: Graham Greene Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092005-06-15
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The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.
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Faceless Killers
Автор: Henning Mankell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112012-09-14
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One frozen January morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes racial hatred. Kurt Wallander is a senior police officer. His life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now, with winter tightening and his activities being monitored by a tough-minded district attorney, Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time and against mounting xenophobia.
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Fight Club
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on a world where cancer support groups have the corner on human warmth.
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