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Vintage Stuff Vintage Stuff
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 2009
   In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings and general mayhem.
 
To Save a People To Save a People
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 2014
   »New York Times» bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler — Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews, at unimaginable risk and great cost to himself. As a Holocaust survivor said, 'Schindler saved hundreds. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands.' This is the story of how he achieved this and of his personal duel with Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel charged with obliterating Hungarian Jewry, who sent half a million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz. This confrontation reaches its climax in 1944 when Soviet and German troops are fighting hand-to-hand through the suburbs of Budapest and Eichmann's push for the Final Solution is personally opposed by Wallenberg. This book also sheds new light on Wallenberg's fate — he disappeared into the Soviet Union after the war to a highly controversial and disputed death. (The Americans were so determined to discover what happened to him that they made him an honorary citizen in order to prise information out of the Russians.) It's an inspiring story which moves at the pace of a master thriller-writer, but the truth behind it is heartbreaking.
 
The Throwback The Throwback
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 2013
   First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing — in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.
 
The Street Lawyer The Street Lawyer
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 2009
   Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers, no time to walk around them on the sidewalk, and no time for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this homeless man? Michael did some digging and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for twenty years. Then, Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney. The fast track derailed; and the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted from the firm, and took a top secret file with him. He landed in the streets, a poverty lawyer, a street lawyer, an advocate for the homeless, and a thief.
 
The Story of Tracy Beaker The Story of Tracy Beaker
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 2014
   'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.' Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
 
Sonnets Sonnets
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 2013
   INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER. Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — others unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary meditation on the nature of love, lust, beauty and time.
 
Something Borrowed Something Borrowed
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 2013
   Rachel Miller and Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They've shared birthdays, the horrors of high school and even boyfriends, but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it, Rachel has always played by the rules and watched her stunning best friend steal all the limelight. The one thing Rachel's always had over Darcy is the four-month age gap which meant she was first to being a teenager, first to drive, first to everything — but now she's about to be first to thirty. And Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm and the perfect boyfriend, while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney and remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or, looking back at their friendship and their lives together, is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicates everything, and it's time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. And she's suddenly forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price...
 
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2008
   Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman. For more than half a century, Chanel's life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumour. This title pieces together Chanel's hidden years, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the Liberation. It uncovers the truth of Chanel's anti-Semitism.
 
Riotous Assembly Riotous Assembly
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 2013
   When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon upon the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorbale transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Vekramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstable Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their race. In the course of the strange events which follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison.
 
Pulse Pulse
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 2013
   The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And at a series of evenings at 'Phil & Joanna's', the topics of conversation range from the environment to the Britishness of marmalade, from toilet graffiti to smoking, as we witness the guests' lives in flux. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the English seaside in winter, the stories in «Pulse» resonate and spark.
 
The Probable Future The Probable Future
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 2009
   When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late — the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Her mother Jenny, on the other hand, can read other people's dreams, but so often misinterprets them, to her own cost. Hoffman unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices — usually the wrong ones — about foresight and consequences, all suffused with the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer evening.
 
Princess Poppy: Twinkletoes (+ Audio CD) Princess Poppy: Twinkletoes (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 2009
   When Poppy and her best friend Honey go to Riverside Stables, they fall in love with a gorgeous chesnut pony called Twinkletoes. But poor Twinkletoes is not well, and the girls must help to get him better before they can ride him. But it takes for ever. Will Poppy and Honey ever get to be proper pony princesses?
 
Princess Poppy: The Birthday (+ Audio CD) Princess Poppy: The Birthday (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Жанр: Литература на иностранных языках Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 2012
   Children can now enjoy their favorite Poppy story, time and time again with this brilliant picture book and CD set, read by Tamzin Outhwaite. It's Poppy's birthday and she's really excited. She simply can't wait to be a birthday princess! But everyone seems so busy — it's as if no one cares about her enough to remember her special day. They can't all have forgotten... can they?
 
Porterhouse Blue Porterhouse Blue
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 2009
   Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cachet it confers on the athletic sons of county families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter — with hilarious and catastrophic results.
 
Player One Player One
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 246 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 2014
   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 more questions than 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.
 
Paradise News Paradise News
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 2014
   Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.
 
Nice Work Nice Work
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 2013
   When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds — and about themselves.
 
Morgan's Run Morgan's Run
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 912 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 2009
   It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts — and their equally isolated guards — occupy the centre of Colleen McCullough's compelling new epic. Richard Morgan — convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man — finds the will to survive, experience the joys of love, and finally make an indelible mark upon the new frontier. A thoroughly researched historical saga rich in romance, adventure and unforgettable characters, Morgan's Run has the makings of a modern classic.
 
The Milkman in the Night The Milkman in the Night
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 2013
   Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. After waking to find his boots and overcoat damp on several mornings in a row, Semyon realises his excursions are a nightly occurrence. Concerned for his own safety and for the security of his marriage, he asks his friend and business partner Volodka to follow him on his nocturnal wanderings. The next morning, Volodka gives Semyon a full report. He left the apartment a little after 2 a.m. and walked several blocks until he encountered a tall blonde, whom he kissed and accompanied to her door. But when he visits the address in the daytime, the bemused Semyon doesn't recognise the location. And stranger yet, someone has been watching Volodka watching Semyon. As the adventure unfurls, an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother provides breast milk for an unusual recipient, and a vengeful cat is on the loose. All in all, there are some very strange goings-on in Kiev.
 
The Merry-go-round The Merry-go-round
Автор: Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 2011
   Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman's adulterous passion for a young rascal, and finally, an honourable man's decision to take virtue to extremes.
 


 

 

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