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Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Автор: Diana Gabaldon Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter). A young diplomat is killed in the street as he begs Lord John for help. Witnessing the murder, Grey vows to avenge the young man, as the trail leads to the notorious Hellfire Club and the dark caves beneath Medmenham Abbey. In Lord John and the Succubus, Grey's assignment as liaison to a Hanoverian regiment in Germany finds him caught between two threats: the advancing French and Austrian army, and the menace of a mysterious 'night-hag', who spreads fear and death among the troops. Acknowledging that he is unlikely to fall victim to a succubus, Lord John is obliged to contend with the marauding night-hag before the enemy arrives. This tale with a touch of the supernatural bridges the action between Gabaldon's two full-length Lord John tales. Finally, in Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Lord John is called to the Arsenal at Woolwich to answer a Royal Commission of Enquiry's questions regarding a cannon that exploded during the battle of Krefeld (a central action in Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade). Accusations ensue, and Lord John finds himself knee-deep in a morass of gunpowder, treason, and plot — haunted by a dead lieutenant, and followed by a man with no face.
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London: The Biography
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 822 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20092003-07-14
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives — in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions — showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.
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Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
Автор: Jonathan Phillips Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings — on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties — to throw a brilliant new light on people and events we thought we knew well. Although the notion of fighting for one's faith fell into disrepute in the Enlightenment, Phillips traces the crusading impulse from the bloody conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade and the titanic struggle between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin up to the present day — to George W. Bush's characterisation of the war on terrorism as a crusade.
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Headhunters
Автор: Jo Nesbo Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a magnificent house. And to maintain this lifestyle, he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position with one of Roger's high-profile clients, he is also in possession of 'The Calydonian Boar Hunt' by Rubens, one of the most sought-after paintings in the world. Roger sees his chance to be rich beyond his wildest dreams and starts planning his boldest heist yet. But soon, he runs into trouble — and this time money is the least of his worries...
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A Hat Full Of Sky
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die... Wise, witty and wonderful, A Hat Full of Sky is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany and the Wee Free Men — the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever. They'll fight anything. And even they might not be enough to save Tiffany...
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The Happy Home for Broken Hearts
Автор: Rowan Coleman Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her 'happily ever after' moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her husband's tragic death leaves her alone with their soon-to-become-a-teenager son, faced with a mountain of debt, and on the verge of losing the family home. On the brink of bankruptcy, Ellie finally succumbs to her sister's well-meant bullying and decides to rent out some rooms. And all too soon the indomitable Allegra with her love for all things lavender, Sabine on secondment from Berlin and estranged from her two-timing husband, and unreconstructed lads' mag aficionado Matt enter her ordered but fragile existence — each with their own messy life in tow. And Ellie finds herself forced to step out of the pages of the romantic novels she hides behind, and learn to live — and love — again. Maybe a new chapter is about to begin for them all...
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The Grass Crown
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 1072 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20092006-02-19
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In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival — first against her neighbouring Italian states, then against the barbaric Asian conqueror. Births, deaths, prophecies and rivalries combine to create a whirlwind of drama, and a remarkable insight into the passion and torment of ancient Rome.
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Fortune's Favourites
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 1056 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-03-16
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»Fortune's Favourites» witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic Rulers of Rome — Sulla, returning from exile, and the 22-year-old Pompey, who designates himself Magnus «The Great». And in the background is the young soldier, Caesar, who begins to show the expert qualities that will one day culminate in him becoming the unparalleled leader of ancient Rome. And at the heart of this sumptuous tale is the unforgettable story of Spartacus and his doomed slave revolt — the true story, as no modern reader has ever before encountered it.
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First Man in Rome
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 1056 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-03-16
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Here are the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched — men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Great events and mortal frailties, a vast and vivid cast of unforgettable men and women, kings, commoners, lovers, soldiers and senators are woven effortlessly into a rich densely embroidered tapestry and bring a remarkable era to magnificent life.
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Fen
Автор: Freya North Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20092005-02-19
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Fenella McCabe works alone in the archive section of Trust Art, housed in one of the corridors of the Tate Gallery. She is hoping to trace a piece of art stolen in the 1930s and simultaneously trying to decide between two men.
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The Fear Index
Автор: Robert Harris Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman's hedge fund — built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or «Fear Index» — generates astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harris's new novel — a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent contemporary thriller, The Ghost. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?
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Enigma
Автор: Robert Harris Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
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March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
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Elizabeth
Автор: David Starkey Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2001 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092004-02-19
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin — Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years — from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 — and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition — and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, «Elizabeth» is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.
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Damned
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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»Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison», declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of «Damned», Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari-juana overdose — and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone's favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won't buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where «The English Patient» plays on end-less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.
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Changing Places
Автор: David Lodge Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
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Caesar's Women
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 872 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092007-03-12
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»Caesar's Women» is the story of Gaius Julius Caesar's relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68BC. He comes prepared to dominate a new battlefield — the Roman Forum. But his victories are not limited to the Forum: he also conquers Rome's noble women. To Caesar, love is just another weapon in his political arsenal, and he is willing to sacrifice any woman on the altar of his ambition if it will advance his ultimate goal.
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Caesar
Автор: Colleen McCullough Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 1056 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092007-03-16
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Rome's leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This magnificent novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar's magnificent victory over fierce people. His conquest is in the name of Rome, but when the senate refuse to give Caesar his due he marches upon his own country, an army prepared to die for him at his back.
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The British Museum is Falling Down
Автор: David Lodge Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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»The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Автор: Timothy Snyder Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields — today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast — an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of deliberate policies unrelated to combat. In his revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler and, using scholarly literature and primary sources, pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. The result is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine the greatest tragedy in European history and re-think our past.
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Atonement
Автор: Ian McEwan Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092005-02-29
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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
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