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You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles
Автор: Peter Doggett Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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When Paul McCartney told the world in 1970 that he had no plans to work with the Beatles again, it was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy by the media and public alike. This title tells the story of the Fab Four post 1969. It also charts the almost Shakespearean rivalry of the Lennon and McCartney families.
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Staring at the Sun
Автор: Julian Barnes Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20142013-03-18
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Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
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Witch and Wizard
Автор: James Patterson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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The world is changing — the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress life, liberty, and the pursuit of being a normal teenager. Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents — and maybe the world?
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The Tenth Chamber
Автор: Glenn Cooper Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20112014-03-08
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Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring.
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Look at the Birdie
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20122012-10-07
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Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In Confido, a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In Ed Luby's Key Club, a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In Look at the Birdie, a quack psychiatrist turned 'murder counsellor' concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour. Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut's early style.
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A Week in December
Автор: Sebastian Faulks Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 550 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20132013-02-29
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London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop.
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Hypothermia
Автор: Arnaldur Indridason Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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The latest thrilling instalment in Indridason's CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series. One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. Driven by a need to find answers that even he does not fully understand, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.
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Goodnight, Baby Bat!
Автор: Debi Gliori Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-10-13
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'Bed time, Baby Bat. Time to brush your teeth and your face. Have you washed behind your wings? Thought not'. Baby Bat is full of beans and he does not want to go to bed. At least not until Snail, Caterpillar, Spider and the Moon are tucked in and he thinks the whole world is sleeping. Will Mummy Bat ever manage to get Baby Bat off to sleep?
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20142013-04-25
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Suitable for younger readers, this book covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the frequently bizarre and often obsessive scientists and the methods they used, and the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction).
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Canticle for Leibowitz
Автор: Walter M. Jr. Miller Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 313 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20102008-12-26
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In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself — for meaning, for truth, for love--that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.
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Mona Lisa Overdrive
Автор: William Gibson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1997 Страниц: 308 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20091999-10-17
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William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Enter Gibson's unique world — lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting — where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.
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Naked Sun
Автор: Isaac Asimov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1991 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20091992-12-20
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A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots — unthinkable under the laws of Robotics — or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
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Acquired Tastes
Автор: Peter Mayle Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1993 Страниц: 229 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20091998-08-03
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Internationally bestselling author of A Year in Provence, Mayle comes out with a new bestseller about the true pleasure of fine living.
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Elvis 1956
Автор: Alfred Wertheimer Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112010-06-21
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In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career. Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star for a one-day assignment that quickly developed into an odyssey. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in Elvis' life during March and July of 1956, the pivotal year that made Elvis' career — taking him from virtual obscurity to the verge of international stardom and his crowning as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll'. Wertheimer's unobtrusive photographs of Elvis in performance, with his fans, in the recording studio as well as at home with his family, present a unique look at one of the world's most famous cultural figures. These images represent the first and the last unguarded look at Elvis, and are an extraordinary portrait of a charismatic young man who would go on to become a legend.
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Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self
Автор: Deepak Chopra Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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This important book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering work Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Having revealed the connection between our health and our thoughts, Dr Chopra shows us how to create a whole new self — the self we want to be — in this revolutionary sequel. Dr Chopra explains how the body is a reflection of the mind, 'a symbol in flesh and blood of everything you think and feel'. From early childhood each one of us has invented our bodies and our personalities through our beliefs, conditioning and responses to everyday stress. But we have mostly done this unconsciously, which is why we may now feel unfulfilled. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul will help us to reconnect with our ideal sense of self, guiding us one step at a time through a remarkable process of renewal and discovery. Chopra invites us all to live from the soul, to satisfy our deepest desires in a life rich with joy and meaning. 'You are inventing your body in every moment of life', he reasons. 'Why not take control and reinvent it from the highest level?'
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The Confession
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20112014-03-08
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An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm.
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Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches
Автор: Anna Politkovskaya Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta. She won international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian state corruption. Nothing but the Truth is a collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writing for Novaya gazeta, published between 1999 and 2006. Beginning with a brief introduction by the author about her pariah status, it contains material which characterises the self-effacing Politkovskaya more fully than she allowed in her other books. Nothing but the Truth presents a solid overview of her highly professional reportage, and will also stand as a tribute to her matter-of-fact personal courage, disclosing information Anna Politkovskaya glossed over, or omitted completely, about the dangers she faced and the threats she received in the course of her work. Elsewhere, there are illuminating accounts of interviews and encounters with Western leaders including Lionel Jospin, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and such exiled figures as Boris Berezovsky, Akhmed Zakaev, and Vladimir Bukovsky. And additional sections contain her non-political writing, revealing her delightful personality, and detail international reactions to her murder.
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I am a Chechen!
Автор: German Sadulaev Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings to life his friends — now reduced to pieces of flesh — revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, their quests for martyrdom. And he immerses us in the intoxicating beauty of his homeland's mountains, blossoms and the flocks of migratory swallows that fill its skies. I Am a Chechen! is an intensely personal journey through the carnage of the war, exploring the pain, the challenge, and above all the meaning of being a Chechen.
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The Oligarch's Wife
Автор: Anna Blundy Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20112012-07-18
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A wonderfully rich and vibrant novel that tells the story of one of Russia's post-Communist Oligarchs and the two women who marry him, from impoverished boyhood, through unimaginable power and wealth, to the moment when he finally overreaches himself.
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Rebel Heiress
Автор: Fiona Mountain Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20122014-03-22
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A glorious historical novel based on the 17th century life of Eleanor Glanville who was destined to become one of the most famous entomologists in history. But not before she had endured a life of extraordinary vicissitude: two marriages and an all-consuming love which would prove her undoing.
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