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Player One
Автор: Douglas Coupland Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species — and that there is no turning back.
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Автор: Tony Judt Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 960 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20132011-12-13
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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. This work tells of Europe's recovery from the devastation and of the decline and fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of the EC and EU.
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Tara
Автор: Lesley Pearse Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 720 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092008-06-25
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In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life on her own terms. To have both, she must battle against the legacy these two women have left her, the deep prejudices and dangers of Whitechapel in the 1960s — with its gang leaders, rogues, market traders and dolly birds — and the passionate love she has had since girlhood for the charming wideboy and villain, Harry Collins.
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
Автор: Ian Mortimer Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.
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Timequake
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20122012-02-19
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According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Time-quake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, suicide, the Great Depression and World War II as the last generated character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.
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Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code
Автор: Ministry of Top Gear Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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Shows you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, or a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush.
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Traitors of the Tower
Автор: Alison Weir Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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More than four hundred years ago, seven people — five of them women — were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller. Through her vivid writing, history comes alive.
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Vonnegut Omnibus: Welcome to the Monkey House, Palm Sunday
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091996-07-14
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Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as One of the best living American writers, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work — essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.
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Wedding Season
Автор: Katie Fforde Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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Sarah is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. Or, not for herself anyway. And now with all her working hours spent planning the wedding of the year, she certainly doesn't have time to even think about love... Or does she? From the Hardcover edition.
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years
Автор: Jared M. Diamond Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.
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Birdsong
Автор: Sebastian Faulks Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092010-02-29
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Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
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Thames: Sacred River
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-02-19
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Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.
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Who's Sorry Now?
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20082006-02-26
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Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.
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Coming from Behind
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...
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The Last Juror
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092005-06-18
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life', and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
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Snuff
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must — have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic'. 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' — Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera with six hundred men, Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
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Kalooki Nights
Автор: Howard Jacobson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092010-04-17
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Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Автор: Xiaolu Guo Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112010-07-24
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Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.
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The Dogs and the Wolves
Автор: Irene Nemirovsky Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind.
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The Pyramid
Автор: Henning Mankell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112010-12-30
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When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to solve a murder off-duty; witness the beginnings of his fragile relationship with Mona, the woman he has his heart set on marrying; and learn the reason behind his difficulties with his father. These thrilling tales provide a fascinating insight into Wallander's character, and demand to be read in one sitting. From the stabbing of a neighbour in 1969 to a light aircraft accident in 1989, every story is a vital piece of the Wallander series, showing Mankell at the top of his game. Featuring an introduction from the author, The Pyramid is an essential read for all fans of Kurt Wallander.
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