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The Midnight House
Автор: Alex Berenson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at best...
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London Fields
Автор: Martin Amis Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 470 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102010-07-24
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The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Taking a small pocket of time and a richly diverse part of London, Martin Amis dissects the nature of a society as it hurtles towards the millennium.
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In Between the Sheets
Автор: Ian Mcewan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20082008-07-11
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A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled First Love, Last Rites.
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First Love, Last Rites
Автор: Ian Mcewan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092007-06-25
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Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.
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The Comfort of Strangers
Автор: Ian Mcewan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092011-08-31
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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.
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100% The Vampire Diaries: The Unofficial Guide
Автор: Evie Parker Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20132013-09-27
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Get your teeth into The Vampire Diaries — the phenomenal television show which has a fanghold on TVs around the world. Based on the hit book series by L.J. Smith, the show sees two smouldering vampire brothers, Paul Wesley (Everwood) and Ian Somerhalder (Lost), at war with each other over the soul of high school girl Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Generation). Quench your thirst for blood with this incredibly detailed unofficial guide — full of behind the scenes facts, season one episode guide, character profiles and huge free poster.
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WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
Автор: David Leigh Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world's greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination. Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh's London house. Now, together with the paper's investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.
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Short Stories
Автор: W. Somerset Maugham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20122012-05-18
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Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as Rain, The Letter, The Vessel of Wrath and The Alien Corn, Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.
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Torment
Автор: Lauren Kate Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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In Torment fallen angel Daniel and his mortal love Lucinda think they are safe but evil forces are massing against them. As Luce learns more about her past, and discovers that the lives she's already lived hold the key to her future happiness; she starts to wonder if Daniel has told her the whole truth. What if his version of events isn't the way things happened? What if that means that she's really meant to be with someone else?
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The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
Автор: Lauren Kate Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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Lauren Kate's irresistible first novel, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, features the most ruthlessly ambitious heroine since Lady Macbeth. Natalie is utterly determined to cement her position at the top of the high school social ladder by becoming prom queen. When it looks like an interfering ex-boyfriend might get in her way, she devises a little prank to humiliate him. But when the prank goes devastatingly wrong, Natalie starts to lose control of her life. Caught in a web of dark secrets, shame and abuse of power, it's not guilt that eventually defeats Natalie. It's fate: the only thing she can't control...
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
Автор: Chip Heath Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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I want to change my boss' mind, but he won't listen. I want to change the way we operate around here, but there are too many obstacles. I want to make some changes in my life, but I'm scared they might not work out. All too often our desire to improve things is undermined by the scepticism of others and by our own caution and fear. In Switch, best-selling authors Chip and Dan Heath delve deep inside the human psyche to explain why this should be so, but they also argue that once we understand how our minds function, there are practical steps we can take to overcome our inbuilt resistance to change. And the results can be extraordinary.
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The Making of a Royal Romance
Автор: Katie Nicholl Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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William and Harry is a fascinating insight into the lives and loves of two extraordinary young men who have captured not only the hearts and minds of not only the British public, but those the world over. This is the definitive book about the princes, bringing their story right up to date. It is the tale of two brothers who have carried the legacy of their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, into the twenty-first century and on whom the future of the House of Windsor largely depends. Drawing on her unique set of contacts Katie Nicholl recounts the royal brothers' extraordinary lives and reveals William and Harry's real characters as they become front-line soldiers and modern princes. Through her network of sources, some of whom have agreed to speak for the very first time, Katie tells the story of one of Prince William's earliest romances, and his struggle with his destiny as a future King of England. As a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton seems more probable, Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to the couple who reveal how their love affair really started at St Andrews, the hurdles the pair overcame and the challenges they still face. She recounts the story of Harry's time at Eton, his relationship with Chelsy Davy, and his three months he spent on the front line in Afghanistan. She analyses William and Harry's complex relationship with their father, and the woman who will one day become Queen Camilla. She talks to their friends, contemporaries and confidants to paint a unique and revealing portrait of the two most famous brothers in the world.
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Bis dein Zorn sich legt
Автор: Asa Larsson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 347 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20132013-09-10
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Rebecka Martinsson, Staatanwältin im nordschwedischen Kiruna, wird in einen besonders grausamen Mordfall hineingezogen: Beim winterlichen Tauchen in einem See stirbt ein junges Pärchen, weil ein Fremder eine Holztür über das Loch schiebt, das sie ins Eis gehackt hatten, um nach einem versunkenen Wrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu tauchen. Wofür wurden die beiden mit dem Tod bestraft? Bei ihren Nachforschungen entdeckt Rebecka ein gefährliches Netz aus Angst, Schuld und Verrat. Und Schritt für Schritt begreift sie, dass auch 60 Jahre nach dem Ende des Krieges in Kiruna unversöhnliche Konflikte weiterschwelen. Konflikte, die auch sie in tödliche Gefahr zu bringen drohen...
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The Summons
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20102009-07-21
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Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Ray reluctantly heads south. But the meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.
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Tigerlilys Orchids
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20132012-06-18
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When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their lives... Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell. And Mr and Mrs Font, the worried parents, will have even more cause for concern about their handsome but hopelessly naive son. Darkly humorous, piercingly observant of human behaviour, Ruth Rendell has created here another compelling fable of our lives and crimes.
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Broken
Автор: Karin Slaughter Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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When the body of a young woman is discovered in Lake Grant, a note points to suicide. But soon it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal murder. Former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. But when she arrives at the local police station to see the chief suspect, he is lying dead.
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Postcard Killers
Автор: James Patterson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 516 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-26
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NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action, Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.
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Clean Break
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122011-09-12
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Em adores her funny, glamorous dad — who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em Unfortunately, he's got another surprise in store — he's leaving them.
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Chasing Beauty
Автор: Michael Cunningham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20132012-05-12
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I'm in constant search of chasing beauty, chasing hope — I'm not interested in the dark. The celebrated photographer Richard Phibbs, known for his celebrity portraits and iconic ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and more, has an unwavering eye for beauty. Many theorists argue that beauty is subjective, a product of individual preference, but the images from Phibbs' archive of work from 1997-2009, edited, sequenced, and collected in Chasing Beauty, may put that argument to rest. The book is a deeply personal labor of love, affirming Phibbs' belief that photographs can change, inspire, and motivate. Alfredo Paredes, one of the creative minds behind Polo Ralph Lauren, approached Phibbs with the idea of making a monograph — with one caveat: Phibbs was to step back and relinquish control. Paredes had a vision in mind of taking Phibbs' aesthetic and selecting images that would realize his unique eye for beauty. The result is a fascinating juxtaposition of photographs that excite, tantalize, shock, and surprise. A delicate and gorgeous rose is followed by the rawness of a dirty rugby player; a pair of horses is set beside a female nude. These combinations highlight undeniable beauty of both natural and human origin, and show us that if you only look beauty can be found anywhere. Sometimes things cannot be expressed in words — that's what is so expressive, emotional, or revealing about a photograph. Just look and enjoy it. It reveals that exact fleeting moment in time — that's all. When I lose my breath a bit, I know that's the picture.
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Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop
Автор: Scott Ligon Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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Demonstrates the potential of digital art, from a 'fine art' perspective. This title presents an overview of the fundamentals of visual language, and shows how to apply those principals to digital art. It also includes a step-by-step summary of the basics of the Photoshop environment.
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