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Broken
Автор: Karin Slaughter Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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Karin Slaughter's internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life... When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she's already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton's passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver's death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets-and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed. Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a man's determination to expose the most painful of human truths-no matter how deeply they're hidden... Or how devastating.
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The Island of Dr: Moreau
Автор: H.G. Wells Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20091996-10-07
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Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing smarter human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.
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Breathless
Автор: Dean Koontz Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 394 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20132011-12-13
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The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless. In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him. He takes his friend Cammy Rivers to bear witness to the phenomenal presence. As a scientist, she is stunned and awed. She emails photos to colleagues in far places to try and find a name for the wonderful beings. Before they know what is happening, Homeland Security has quarantined the wilderness around them and sent in assorted scientists to track down and 'neutralize' the threat to the known world. Grady and Cammy aren't sticking around to be mere witnesses to this atrocity — determined to prevent it, they go on the run, and a pursuit of hair-raising suspense is under way, with no happy ending in prospect! Breathless is a unique and riveting thriller from the master of suspense.
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The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mistery
Автор: Alan Bradley Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 364 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20132014-03-08
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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over — and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who'd do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she's letting on? What about Porson's charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve — without Flavia's help. But in getting so close to who's secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?
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Super Sad True Love Story
Автор: Gary Shteyngart Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 334 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20122011-06-25
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New York, Summer, Very near future, Economic collapse, tanks in the streets, riots in Central Park, defeat in Venezuela, books are quaint artefacts, what's left of the indebted United States is about to be parcelled out to the rising nations of Finance-London and China-Worldwide, and what's left of interpersonal relations can be summarized by a couple of flashing statistics on attractiveness and wealth. But Lenny Abramov is too in love to notice any of it. The son of working-class Russian immigrants, a bumbling minor functionary in a company that just may hold the secret to eternal life, and the reluctant star of a show called «101 People We Need To Feel Sorry For», he has fallen way too hard for the imperious Eunice Park, a blistering, beautiful Korean-American, a seductive shopper and brilliant money-spender who still knows how to speak in sentences, and a true child of her times. As the country around them explodes into a million glittering pieces, the two will discover whether love is still possible in a world where words have lost their meaning, and where every touch, embrace and kiss could be mistaken for a commodity.
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Sizzle
Автор: Julie Garwood Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20142014-04-24
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»New York Times» — bestselling author Garwood weaves magnificent stories of passion, adventure, and intrigue. Now she raises the heat and combines scorching romance with thrilling suspense as she introduces a new family: the Prescotts.
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Last Night in Twisted River
Автор: John Irving Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River — John Irving's twelfth novel — depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'. From the novel's taut opening sentence — 'The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long' — to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice — the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: 'We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly — as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth — the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives'.
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Noah's Compass
Автор: Anne Tyler Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 292 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20142013-02-29
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Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises — a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, «Noah's Compass» chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic «The Accidental Tourist» (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on his first night. Widowed, re-married, divorced and the father of three daughters, Liam is a man who is proud of his recall but has learned to dodge issues and skirt adventure. An unpleasant event occurs, though, to jolt him out of his certainty. Obsessed with a frightening gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happened, and finds instead an unusual woman with secrets of her own, and a late-flowering love that brings its own thorny problems. His ex-wife (sensible Barbara) and daughters worry about him but Liam blunders on, His teenage daughter Kitty is sent to stay — though it's not clear who is minding whom. His middle daughter, Louise, is a born-again Christian with a son called Jonah, but her certainties leave Liam still more perplexed. «Noah's Compass» is about memory and its loss, about incidents and relationships which open up sight lines into a painful past long dead for a man who becomes aware that merely trying to stay afloat may not be enough.
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The Passage
Автор: Justin Cronin Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 896 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20142012-12-20
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Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row. He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming. It is. THE PASSAGE. Deep in the jungles of eastern Colombia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for — and wishes to God he hadn't. In Memphis, Tennessee, a six-year-old girl called Amy is left at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy and wonders why her mother has abandoned her. In a maximum security jail in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again, while he waits for a lethal injection. In a remote community in the California mountains, a young man called Peter waits for his beloved brother to return home, so he can kill him. Bound together in ways they cannot comprehend, for each of them a door is about to open into a future they could not have imagined. And a journey is about to begin. An epic journey that will take them through a world transformed by man's darkest dreams, to the very heart of what it means to be human.
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Mord im Gurkenbeet
Автор: Alan Bradley Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Dieser außergewöhnliche All-Age-Krimi hat die Herzen von Lesern, Buchhändlern und Kritikern aus aller Welt im Sturm erobert! Die junge Flavia de Luce staunt nicht schlecht, als sie im ersten Morgenlicht das Opfer eines Giftmordes in ihrem Gurkenbeet entdeckt! Da jeder ihren Vater, den sanftmütigen Colonel de Luce, für den Mörder zu halten scheint, nimmt die naseweise Flavia persönlich die Ermittlungen auf. Hartnäckig folgt sie jeder noch so abwegigen Spur — bis sie einsehen muss, dass ihr Vater tatsächlich ein dunkles Geheimnis hütet. Und so befürchtet Flavia schließlich, dass sie vielleicht eine zu gute Detektivin ist...
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Nein! Ich will keinen Seniorenteller
Автор: Virginia Ironside Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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Ein bezauberndes, witziges Lesevergnügen für alle, die sich so alt fühlen, wie sie sind. Herbst des Lebens? Generation Silber? Unsinn! Marie Sharp wird demnächst sechzig und damit schlicht alt. Ein Grund zum Feiern, wie sie findet. Schon wegen all der Dinge, die sie jetzt nicht mehr tun muss, wie etwa Volkshochschulkurse besuchen. Nichts hasst Marie so sehr wie umtriebige Senioren, die nur so alt sind, wie sich fühlen — sie stürzt sich lieber kopfüber in das Vergnügen, nicht mehr jung sein zu müssen. Dazu gehört ihre neue Rolle als Großmutter und eine alte Liebe. Denn Maries Jugendschwarm ist wieder zu haben. Vom Vergnügen, endlich nicht mehr jung sein zu müssen.
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The Devil Wears Prada
Автор: Lauren Weisberger Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 360 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092005-07-28
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The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30.
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So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein
Автор: Christoph Schlingensief Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Wie weiterleben, wenn man von einem Moment auf den anderen aus der Lebensbahn geworfen wird, wenn der Tod plötzlich nahe rückt? Christoph Schlingensiefs bewegendes Protokoll einer Selbstbefragung ist ein Geschenk an uns alle, an Kranke wie Gesunde, denen allzu oft die Worte fehlen, wenn Krankheit und Tod in das Leben einbrechen. Eine Kur der Worte gegen das Verstummen — und nicht zuletzt eine Liebeserklärung an die Welt.
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A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov
Автор: Aleksandr Orlov Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase — Simples! — can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to Russia, the low-down on his life as entrepreneur and founder of comparethemeerkat.com and his love of grubs and cravats. 'My name is Aleksandr Orlov. I live and make work in Moscow. I have a success business. I have a mansion decorate with many fine things. I have a naturally majestic posture. But I would have none of these things if it were not for my family. This book is dedicated to them. I also wish to inspire next generation of young businesskats. I am hope that this book will show what can come of courage, hard work and a good fur-care regime. I am also hope that with royalties I will be able to re-marble roof on Orlov family mansion'.
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Black Dogs
Автор: Ian Mcewan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20102009-05-25
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Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.
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Money: A Suicide Note
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage, this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money, the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Автор: Harper Lee Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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Saturday
Автор: Ian Mcewan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world — the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures, his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised.
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The Ice Queen
Автор: Alice Hoffman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20082009-04-29
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Alice Hoffman is at her electrifying best in this fairy tale for grown-ups. The story begins with a little girl who makes a wish one snowy night and ruins her life. She grows up with a splinter of ice in her heart until one day, standing be her kitchen window, she is struck by lightning.
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Автор: Guy Deutscher Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is — yes. On an odyssey that takes us from Homer to Darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of Yale to the rivers of the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water — a 'she' — become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind.
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