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Skinny-dipping
Автор: Cruz Melissa Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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Not-so-poor-anymore Eliza has traded babysitting for velvet-rope-sitting. And Jacqui, in an odd twist, is doing all the babysitting because Mara's up every night doing her best second-rate party girl impression at the hot club where Eliza works. At first it's annoying, but the new au pair, Philippe, is sexy and French but off-limits to Jacqui, who claims she's sworn off guys. Your favorite bikini-clad au pairs are back. But this summer, if it's possible, they will have more fun, more sun, and more romance than they know how to handle.
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Hell's Gate
Автор: Frey Stephen Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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It’s fire season in Montana... A disillusioned litigator forges a new life in Big Sky Country and stumbles onto the toughest case of his career in this electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey. When lawyer Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the New York City rat race that has made him rich but cost him his marriage, he escapes to beautiful but isolated Fort Mason, Montana. He befriends a Fire Jumper—one of an elite corps of firefighters—and gets a terrifying firsthand look at vast tracts of forest being reduced to ash in seconds. In this tiny town where everyone seems to have a secret, Hunter suspects these fires are anything but accidental. As he follows his instincts, Montana becomes a crucible where good and evil collide—and where one man, running from his past, must expose the guilty before he’s sacrificed to the inferno.
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The Daily Carrot Principle: 365 Ways to Enhance Your Career and Life
Автор: Gostick Adrian Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20122012-05-24
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From the authors of the smash bestseller The Carrot Principle comes an inspiring and lively page-a-day guide to harnessing the remarkable power of the carrot—taking yourself and your team to new heights of success in work and life.Based on their twenty years of experience teaching leaders at Fortune 100 companies, as well as one of the largest research studies ever conducted on workplace satisfaction, Gostick and Elton share a wealth of wisdom about simple but amazingly effective ways to boost your productivity and work satisfaction by setting clear goals, communicating effectively, building trust, and offering recognition in ways that make others feel appreciated and motivated.Each engaging page of The Daily Carrot Principle features a core kernel of wisdom, enlivened by thoughtful and witty quotes from the likes of Thomas Edison, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jim Collins, and Oprah Winfrey, plus a bonanza of insights from standout managers and employees the authors have studied. An easy-to-implement «carrot action» ends each page, providing the simple steps to begin applying this wealth of wisdom immediately. Whether you are a business leader, team member, student, mom or dad, or anyone hoping to achieve more in your life, this book will be an inspiring and practical guide to unleashing your hidden potential and leading a richer life.
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Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!
Автор: Klause Annette Curtis Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 331 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20102008-12-20
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If this is a dream, why does she seem so real? Though Abel Dandy was born to circus performers and grew up in a troupe of odd and inexplicable people, he has never felt limited by his normalcy--until now. Realizing he'll never be more amazing than the talented oddities around him, Abel can only dream of living a life richer than his own. But in his dreams a mysterious woman beckons him, calling him passionately by a name he doesn't know and speaking in a language he's never heard, but fully understands. Compelled by these visions and yearning to be more than ordinary, Abel embarks on a journey more frightening and wondrous than he ever imagined....
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The Marriage Game
Автор: Fern Michaels Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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In a dazzling celebration of the power of friendship and love, acclaimed bestselling author Fern Michaels brings her trademark wit and warmth to an action-packed story featuring a group of diverse women who bond Survivor-style under the most unlikely of circumstances...and find romance along the way. When Samantha Rainford, newly wed to Douglas Cosmo Rainford III, returns home from her honeymoon to find divorce papers waiting, she's shocked and heartbroken. Then she discovers that she's not the first to be abandoned. She's one of four (or maybe more) ex-Mrs. Rainfords and decides it's time to put into practice that old truism: Don't get mad, get even. With the help of her longtime girlfriend Slick, a glamorous fashion model, Sam gathers together a highly unlikely team: Mrs. Kayla Rainford, an architect who moonlights as an exotic dancer; Mrs. Zoe Rainford, a plumber; and Mrs. Olivia Rainford, a former cheerleader and cartoon artist. Sam and Slick flunked out of FBI training school, but they still learned a few things there like how to plan a mission. And the fivesome is determined to do whatever it takes to bring down Douglas Rainford III. Whatever it takes means attending a top-secret private special-ops training camp in the North Carolina mountains, where Sam meets fiercely disciplined ex-CIA operative Kollar Havapopulas. Six feet three and handsome as a Greek god, «Pappy» is the best at what he does transforming civilians into highly skilled fighting teams. What he's less adept at, however, is telling a woman how he feels, and before long he discovers he's developing some very warm feelings for Samantha Rainford, an attraction that seems fated to be a total disaster. Two personalities as strong as Sam and Pappy are sure to strike sparks, but will the fire that burns between them consume everything in its way?
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Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose
Автор: Hilton Paris Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2006 Страниц: 178 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20082008-07-28
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Her name is on everyone's lips, but can she help it if she was born rich and famous? Here's a bird's eye view of the fast, fun world of Paris Hilton, packed with enough photos, advice and inside scoop to help anyone become an heiress and live a privileged life. Socialite, fashion icon, television and movie star, recording artist and just plain celebrity: Twenty-two year old Paris Hilton is the great granddaughter of hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and is estimated to be worth USD30 million. The world first became aware of Paris Hilton through a Vanity Fair profile in 2000. Since then, she has graced the pages of countless magazines, newspapers, and tabloids; modeled on the runways of top designers; appeared on television shows as herself ('Saturday Night Live', MTV Music Awards) and as fictional characters (the new Sky One show 'Las Vegas'); had small parts in movies like 'The Cat in the Hat', 'Win a Date with Tad Hamilton' and the upcoming 'The Hillz'; has begun work on an album; and starred in a hit reality series, 'The Simple Life' (shown here on Channel 4). She has been romantically linked with current boyfriend Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Rick Solomon (of the notorious sex tape), and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41.
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Alternate Generals
Автор: Turtledove Harry Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1998 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20091999-06-05
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Leadership makes all the difference! At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run, and Lincoln had become a Confederate prisoner? The possibilities are endless....
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Advance and Retreat
Автор: Turtledove Harry Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092006-07-28
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When Avram became King of Detina, he announced his intention to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, and set brother against brother. The northern provinces, dependent on the labour of their serfs, seceded, choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king. To save the kingdom, Avram sent armies clad in grey against the north, battling Geoffrey's army, arrayed in blue. Though King Avram held more land and wealth than Geoffrey, Geoffrey's men were better soldiers and the north had better and more powerful wizards. Still, as the war raged on, the tide turned against the north. Even so, the war is far from over. Earlier, the north had held an almost impregnable position — but was overrun when an overconfident sorcerer's spell went awry. Use of sorcery was often unpredictable, and in the more mundane aspects of the war, battle plans could also go awry. The south seemed to be winning, but the outcome was far from certain...
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
Автор: Rule Ann Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 704 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092005-04-24
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In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush, a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.
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Breakfast in the Ruins
Автор: Malzberg Barry Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20102009-07-21
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Barry N. Malzberg reflects back over four decades of writing science fiction, giving an insider's view of the field during that time which few can match, both for its authority and for the sharp and witty way he describes the highs and lows of one science fiction writer's career. He also writes vivid profiles of writers and editors, ranging from the titans who transformed the field, such as John W. Campbell, to once popular writers who are now all but forgotten, such as Hugo Award-winner Mark Clifton. If there is any particular cachet to my perspective, he writes, it comes because my career is, perhaps more than some, metaphoric. The original, shorter version of the book was widely praised, as by the «San Francisco Chronicle»: contains literary criticism ranging over the whole history of the field... this is a mordant, brilliant book and makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else. «Breakfast in the Ruins» is an indispensable book for every science fiction reader.
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Competitive Advantage
Автор: Porter Michael Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092006-05-12
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Porter`s value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies in activities and in the way they relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities.
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Truth and Consequences (Charmed)
Автор: Dokey Cameron Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2003 Страниц: 196 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092006-09-20
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Cole is working late, and her sisters are having a girls' night in, so on the spur of the moment, Phoebe accepts what seems like an innocent date with a friendly stranger. But good intentions are quickly misconstrued when Cole leaves work early to surprise Phoebe and is stunned to find her sharing a meal with another man. Cole can't believe that Phoebe would betray him, and Phoebe can't believe Cole would even think she'd betray him. Their escalating argument quickly highlights some fundamental trust issues they each harbor. But soon they discover themselves trapped in the underworld, at the center of a lovelorn demon's plot to destroy the Power of Three. If Cole and Phoebe can't reconcile their suspicions and insecurities, there's more than their own relationship at risk!
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The Virgin's Lover
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2005 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20082007-07-14
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The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival. Philippa Gregory's «The Virgin's Lover» answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Intelligent, romantic, and compelling, «The Virgin's Lover» presents a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them.
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El Angel Perdido: Una Novela
Автор: Sierra Javier Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-15
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Mientras trabaja en la restauracion del Portico de la Gloria de Santiago de Compostela, Julia alvarez recibe una noticia devastadora: su marido ha sido secuestrado en una region montanosa del noreste de Turquia. Sin quererlo, Julia se vera envuelta en una ambiciosa carrera por controlar dos antiguas piedras que, al parecer, permiten el contacto con entidades sobrenaturales y por las que estan interesados desde una misteriosa secta oriental hasta el presidente de los Estados Unidos. Javier Sierra, autor bestseller del New York Times, nos sumerge en un mundo en el que historia, magia, tecnologias ancestrales y ciencia de vanguardia se aunan en un thriller tan evocador y documentado como original. Una obra que deja atras todos los convencionalismos del genero, reinventandolo y empujando al lector a una aventura que no olvidara.
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Bones to Ashes
Автор: Reichs Kathy Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 388 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20102011-09-12
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Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Evangeline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person in Tempe's eight-year-old world. When Evangeline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was dangerous. Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the young girl? Meanwhile, Tempe's beau, Ryan, investigates a series of cold cases. Three girls dead. Four missing. Could the New Brunswick skeleton be part of the pattern? As Tempe draws on the latest advances in forensic anthropology to penetrate the past, Ryan hunts down a serial predator.
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The Book of Lost Things
Автор: Connolly John Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 339 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20142015-03-24
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High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things. An imaginative tale about navigating the journey into adulthood, while doing your best to hang on to your childhood.
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Cryoburn
Автор: Bujold Lois Mcmaster Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-26
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Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. All well and good, so long as they kept to themselves. But now the Kibou-daini are attempting to franchise out their Fountain of Youth wares to the rest of the galaxy and the Barrayar Galactic Empire is none too pleased with the implications. Cue Miles Vorkosigan, malformed royal troublemaker — but also heir and savior of empire. On Kibou-daini, Miles unearths a war of generations as the oldsters in charge refuse to die and their descendants threaten outright patricide, matricide and maybe even genocide — the prize being a big fat slice of the immortality pie. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping-something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and Miles is up to his neck in trouble and adventure once more.
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Dreamcatcher
Автор: Stephen King Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2001 Страниц: 882 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092005-03-26
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Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Dreamcatcher. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy — now men with separate lives and separate problems — reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But when a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented and mumbling something about lights in the sky, chaos erupts. Soon, the four friends are plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world where their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past — and in the Dreamcatcher. Never before has Stephen King contended so frankly with the heart of darkness. Dreamcatcher, his first full-length novel since Bag of Bones, is a powerful story of astonishing range that will satisfy fans both new and old.
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Duma Key
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 784 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20112011-02-19
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No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a geographic cure, a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. — Edgar, does anything make you happy? — I used to sketch. — Take it up again. You need hedges... hedges against the night. Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural — Stephen King gives us anovel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.
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Free Will
Автор: Harris Sam Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality — as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement — without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
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