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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: I Love the Nightlife
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 16 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20152012-12-23
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Are you ready for night-time adventures in the Forest of Wagamaroo? Then jump on board the Thinga-ma-jigger to help Sally and Nick find the Cat's lost hat in this rhyming story packed with nocturnal animals and glow in the dark stickers that's just perfect for bedtime. This fun rhyming text with charming illustrations (part of a brand new series featuring classic children's character The Cat in the Hat) will have children enthralled for hours. The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!
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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Show Me the Honey
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20132014-09-12
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When Nick and Sally run out of honey there's only one thing to do — pay a visit to Queen Bee Priscilla Buzzoo — and The Cat in the Hat knows just how to do it. Together they embark on a thrilling rhyming adventure that shows them just how beed make honey. This is a sweet and funny story that all early readers will want to gobble up! The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!
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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: The Thinga-ma-jigger is Coming Today!
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20142013-05-06
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Hop on board the Thinga-ma-jigger in this riotous rhyming adventure with The Cat in the Hat! «Flick the jiggermawhizzer and we will start zinging and binging and banging and ring-a-ding-dinging!» Packed with wonderfully zany rhyming words and bright and exuberant illustrations, this book (part of a brand new series featuring classic children's character The Cat in the Hat) will have children enthralled for hours. The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!
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The Cat in Hat Knows a Lot About That!: Wings and Paws and Fins and Claws
Автор: Tish Rabe Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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Hop in the Thinga-ma-jigger and explore the world of mammals, birds, sea creatures, and much more in this deluxe colouring book! With 96 pages of pictures to colour and a fun rhyming text this will keep any fans of The Cat in the Hat occupied for hours! The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!
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Cutting for Stone
Автор: Abraham Verghese Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20132012-09-24
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Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them.
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I Still Dream About You
Автор: Fannie Flagg Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect — she's beautiful, charming and successful, just as you'd expect of a former Miss Alabama. But, in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should have been living in an elegant house with an adoring husband and 2.5 children. Instead, she makes a living selling that dream to others — though her estate agency business has lately been going from bad to worse. But then Maggie comes up with the perfect plan. And that's when strange things start happening. As Maggie finds herself catapulted into one surprising discovery after another, she learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life and the dangers of impossible dreams. She also learns that everybody, dead or alive, has at least one little secret...
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New York
Автор: Edward Rutherfurd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 1040 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20132012-07-23
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A novel that tells the story of New York city — from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived at breakneck speed.
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On Chesil Beach
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112010-05-25
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In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
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Possession: A Romance
Автор: A. S. Byatt Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-11
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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.
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A Time to Kill
Автор: John Grisham Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2007 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092010-04-17
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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. 'The best thriller writer alive' — Ken Follett, «Evening Standard». 'Grisham is a natural storyteller' — «Daily Telegraph». 'A giant of the thriller genre' — «Time Out». 'Leaves one eager for more' — «Spectator».
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London Quiz
Автор: Travis Elborough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132011-06-23
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Even the most devoted Anglophile will learn something new from these four hundred fun and wide-ranging trivia questions about London's history, monuments, architecture, famous residents, place-names, notable events, and more. A delightful way to explore the city on foot or via armchair, this fun book is a perfect stocking stuffer, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating, often humorous histories. Here's a sample: Where is the only cross-eyed statue in London and who does it depict? a) Next to the Royal Exchange in the City of London; George Peabody, the nineteenth-century American-born philanthropist b) At the point where Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane converge; John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century politician c) Islington Green; Sir Hugh Myddleton, the seventeenth-century entrepreneur Answer: b) John Wilkes really did have a severe squint, as reproduced in the statue, but despite his looks, he was a legendary and eloquent womanizer who once said that, when meeting an attractive woman, it took him only ten minutes to talk away his face.
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The Thief
Автор: Ruth Rendell Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132012-06-21
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From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for Quick Reads — books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK's World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006. What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. She steals something. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such terrifying results.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After
Автор: Steve Hockensmith Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20132013-07-14
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The story opens with newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating unmentionables. But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a raging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the only acceptable course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she hears rumours of a miracle antidote being developed in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love — and for everyone to live happily ever after.
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The People of Sparks
Автор: Jeanne DuPrau Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn't long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town's resources are limited and it isn't long before resentment begins to grow between the two groups. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it's up to Lina and Doon to discover who's behind the vandalism and why, before it's too late. From the Hardcover edition.
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Passion
Автор: Lauren Kate Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 422 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20132012-06-21
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This third book in the Number 1 best-selling Fallen series serves up what readers are dying to know... Passion not only gives answers and insight into who Luce and Daniel were before we first met them, but also seamlessly moves ahead the main plot, setting up an incredibly thrilling and climactic introduction to the fourth and final chapter in the Fallen series — coming in 2012.
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Operation Napoleon
Автор: Arnaldur Indridason Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved — but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in great danger, leading her on a long and hazardous journey in search of the key to the riddle about Operation Napoleon.
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One Good Turn
Автор: Chris Ryan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102010-07-23
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1917, Western Front, Ypres. A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can't get out. He is covered in mud.His skin is badly burned. And he can't remember anything. But his nightmare doesn't end there. He is tried and found guilty of cowardice, impersonating a fellow soldier and theft. He can barely speak, let alone defend himself. As the verdict is passed and he learns that the death sentence awaits him, he remembers two things: that he took something from a dead man in the trenches, and that the name his accusers have been calling him is not his. With time slipping away, Chris Ransom must try to remember the events that have led him to this moment, so that he can clear his name and save himself.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck
Автор: Dan Heath Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In the course of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath have established what it is that determines whether particular ideas or stories stick in our minds or not, and Made to Stick is the fascinating outcome of their painstaking research.Packed full of case histories and thought-provoking anecdotes, it shows, among other things, how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'd discovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filled with bacteria, how a gifted sports reporter got people to watch a football match by showing them the outside of the stadium, and how high-concept pitches such as 'Jaws on a spaceship' (Alien) and 'Die Hard on a bus' (Speed) convince movie executives to invest vast sums of money in a project on the basis of almost no information. Entertaining and informative by turns, this is a fascinating and multi-faceted account of a key area of human behaviour. At the same time, by showing how we can all use such cleverly devised strategies as the 'Velcro Theory of Memory' and 'curiosity gaps', it offers superbly practical insights, setting out principles we all can adopt to make sure that we get our ideas across effectively.
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London Under
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20132014-02-19
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From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London. Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Tube stations. The depth below is hot, warmer than the surface, and tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness, real and fictional — rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. There is a Bronze Age trackway under the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves were found under St Paul's, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. In Kensal Green cemetery a hydraulic device lowered bodies into the catacombs below — 'Welcome to the lower depths' — while a door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge leads to a huge tunnel, packed with cables for gas, water and telephone lines. When the Metropolitan Line was opened in 1864 the guards asked for permission to grow beards to protect themselves against the sulphurous fumes, and called their engines by the names of tyrants — Czar, Kaiser, Mogul — and even Pluto, god of the underworld. 'The vastness of the space, a second earth', writes Peter Ackroyd, 'elicits sensations of wonder and of terror. It partakes of myth and dream in equal measure.' Going under London is to penetrate history, to enter a hidden world.
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Little Darlings
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 410 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-12
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Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant nagging, intensive media scrutiny and no real friends. Destiny, on the other hand, is an only child living on a rundown estate with a sickly but devoted mum who constantly tells her that she's really the daughter of a famous former rock star... When the two girls meet in unlikely circumstances, they are surprised to find in each other something they've been missing all their lives...
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