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Morgan's Run
Автор: McCullough Colleen Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 848 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092004-10-31
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Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion. It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown continent with the criminals of English society. For Richard Morgan, twelve months as a prisoner on the high seas would be just the beginning in a soul-trying test to survive in a hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. From the dank cells of England's prisons to the unforgiving frontier of the eighteenth-century outback, Morgan's Run is the epic tale of one man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future.
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Tehanu
Автор: Le Guin Ursula K. Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 277 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20132014-07-24
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Book Four of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan — she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Once, when they were young, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger and shared an adventure like no other. Now they must join forces again, to help another in need — the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
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The Garden of Eden
Автор: Hemingway Ernest Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1995 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20091998-09-22
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A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. A lean, sensuous narrative... taut, chic, and strangely contemporary, The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master doing what nobody did better (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).
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Bear Stays Up for Christmas
Автор: Wilson Karma Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 34 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132012-12-16
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Bear's friends are determined to keep Bear awake for Christmas! So they wake Bear up and have him help them find a Christmas tree, bake cakes, hang up stockings, and sing Christmas songs. Bear stays up-by discovering that giving is one of the best Christmas presents!
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A House for Hermit Crab
Автор: Carle Eric Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1991 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091992-12-13
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A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.
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The Armchair Economist
Автор: Landsburg Steven E. Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The 'obvious' answer is that the owner has a monopoly, but if that were the whole story, there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop and prices skyrocket, journalists point to the 'obvious' exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power, they'd have raised prices before the frost. Why don't concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction and others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why don't firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong, reveals better answers, and illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar, filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it.
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Beautiful Disaster
Автор: McGuire Jamie Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20152013-12-10
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Suffering from Fifty Shades withdrawal symptoms? Then meet Travis...Good Girl. Abby Abernathy doesn't drink or swear and she works hard. Abby believes she has created enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college, her dreams of a new beginning are quickly challenged by the university's walking one-night stand. Bad Boy. Travis Maddox, handsome, built, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs — and wants — to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight club, and his days as the notorious college Lothario. A disaster waiting to happen...Intrigued by Abby's resistance to his charms, Travis tricks her into his life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain celibate for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis' apartment for the same amount of time. Or the start of something beautiful? Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match. Or that this is the start of an obsessive, intense relationship that will lead them both into unimaginable territory...
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Mary and Carol Higgins Clark Christmas Collection: The Christmas Thief, Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Автор: Clark Carol Higgins Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 704 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20122013-02-09
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Three days before Christmas, Alvirah Meehan — the famous lottery winner and amateur detective — and Regan Reilly try to meet the harsh demands and tough deadlines of the kidnappers who have held Reilly's father for a $1,000,000 ransom. To make matters worse, a winter storm is gathering, putting their lives in greater danger. DECK THE HALLS is filled with twists and turns, intrigue and danger, as well as a hearty dose of holiday cheer. In HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING, Sterling receives his summons into heaven a few days before Christmas. In order to be deemed fit to enter heaven this year he is sent back to earth and given an opportunity to prove his worthiness by helping someone else. That someone is seven-year-old Marissa. She has been separated from her father and grandmother who have, following the threats of two mobsters, both been forced into the Witness Protection Program. Filled with suspense and humour, this is a delightful and warm-hearted tale of perseverance, redemption and love. Alvirah Meehan and Regan Reilly join forces once again in THE CHRISTMAS THIEF to solve a Christmas mystery. The time they must track down the beautiful ninety-foot tree that is hijacked on its way to the Rockefeller Centre for the Christmas season.
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Автор: Yergin Daniel Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2002 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092005-09-17
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The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets — and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for understanding the struggle over the new rules of the game for the twenty-first century.
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The Dovekeepers
Автор: Hoffman Alice Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets — about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. There is Yael, the assassin's daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true path in the ruins of the desert; Revka, the baker's wife who loses her dearest treasure on earth and yet finds the strength to protect her family; Aziza, the warrior's beloved who leads a secret life not even those closest to her could imagine; and Marit, beautiful witch of Moab, a woman as loyal as she is dangerous.
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace
Автор: Bessel Richard Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been murdered; survivors had lost their families; cities and towns had been reduced to rubble and were littered with corpses. Yet people lived on, and began rebuilding their lives in the most inauspicious of circumstances. Bombing, military casualties, territorial loss, economic collapse and the processes of denazification gave Germans a deep sense of their own victimhood, which would become central to how they emerged from the trauma of total defeat, turned their backs on the Third Reich and its crimes, and focused on a transition to relative peace. Germany's return to humanity and prosperity is the hinge on which Europe's twentieth century turned. For years we have concentrated on how Europe slid into tyranny, violence, war and genocide; this book describes how humanity began to get back out.
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In Her Shoes
Автор: Weiner Jennifer Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called. She dreams of fame and fortune — and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. Funny and poignant, richly detailed and wrenchingly real, In He Shoes will speak to anyone who's endured the bonds of sisterhood, and to everyone who's dreamed of trying something else on for size.
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Killer Heels
Автор: Chance Rebecca Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20142015-09-22
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From the boardroom to the bedroom, the catwalk to the kerbside... Starry-eyed ingenue Coco Raeburn is passionately ambitious. She will do anything — and anyone — to get her own editorship at a top fashion magazine. And her ruthless boss Victoria Glossop, editor at top UK fashion magazine Style, will do everything in her power to stop her... But Victoria has her own ambitions — she wants the top job at Style's US headquarters, and nothing will come between her and her dream. Uber-svengali Jacob Dupleix, media magnate, owner of Style, and one of the most powerful men in New York and London, is used to controlling all he sees. But when Victoria demands that he give her the US Style editorship, he gives in, little realizing that his empire could be about to fall apart. In New York, mentor and voice of calm in a storm, Mereille watches the shifts of power with detached amusement. If only they knew quite how much power she could wield if she had to...
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The Love Killers
Автор: Collins Jackie Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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Beth, Lara and Rio — three exotic women with a common cause and vengeance in their hearts. They're out to avenge a murder and they'll go to any lengths. Their targets: the heirs of the Bassalino crime family. Their weapon: sex. The result: a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the lethal corridors of organized crime. Three beautiful women set out to prove that when it comes to revenge, the female is far deadlier than the male — especially when they're THE LOVE KILLERS.
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One Perfect Summer
Автор: Toon Paige Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20142015-09-22
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'And you still love him?' 'Every second of every minute of every hour of every day'... While on holiday in Dorset one summer, Alice meets Joe, a guy working at the local pub. She's eighteen and on the brink of starting university, while Joe's life is seemingly going nowhere. But despite their differences, the pair fall in love. And then summer comes to an end and they are dramatically torn apart. Alice heads off to university in Cambridge where she gets a part-time job punting on the River Cam and slowly picks up the pieces of her broken heart. One day Lukas — a gorgeous golden boy from Cambridge University — spies her and it's not long before Alice falls for his charms. Months turn into years, but then Joe comes back into Alice's life again in a way that she could never have imagined. While Alice lives her humdrum life with Lukas, she has to watch from the sidelines as Joe's life becomes evermore extraordinary. She never stopped loving him, but he's out of her reach now, surely? And what about Lukas?
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Автор: Schwarzenegger Arnold Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 656 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20152013-12-07
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's TOTAL RECALL is a larger-than-life portrait of his illustrious, controversial and entertaining life in and out of the public eye. Total Recall is the unbelievably true story of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Within ten years, he was a millionaire business man. After twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star. In 2003, he was Governor of California and a household name around the world.
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Blood Line
Автор: La Plante Lynda Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis returns in the seventh installment of her popular series of thrillers from award-winning and international bestselling author La Plante, author of the Prime Suspect novels.
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The Bro Code for Parents
Автор: Stinson Barney Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20152016-03-26
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Congratulations! You're about to have a kid? Well, Bro, you might be asking yourself a series of important questions: Will I ever be able to do awesome things again? Will I be able to afford this? Can I ever have sex again? Will I be a good parent? Am I able to love this child as much as I love my own life? Well, the answer to all of these questions is a rock solid no. But just because your life is now a petrifying turd on the canvas of life doesn't mean your kid has to be as lame as you're about to become. Which is why Barney has written this book.
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The English Monster
Автор: Shepherd Lloyd Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20152013-12-10
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London, 1811. The twisting streets of riverside Wapping hold many an untold sin. Bounded by the Ratcliffe Highway to the north and the modern wonders of the Dock to the south, shameful secrets are largely hidden by the noise and glory of Trade. But two families have fallen victim to foul murder, and a terrified populace calls for justice. John Harriott, magistrate of the new Thames River Police Office, must deliver revenge up to them and his only hope of doing so is Charles Horton, Harriot's senior officer. Harriott only recently came up with a word to describe what it is that Horton does. It is detection. Plymouth, 1564. Young Billy Ablass arrives from Oxford armed only with a Letter of Introduction to Captain John Hawkyns, and the burning desire of all young men; the getting and keeping of money. For Hawkyns is about to set sail in a ship owned by Queen Elizabeth herself, and Billy sees the promise of a better life with a crew intent on gain and glory. The kidnap and sale of hundreds of human beings is not the only cursed event to occur on England's first officially-sanctioned slaving voyage. On a sun-blasted islet in the Florida Cays, Billy too is to be enslaved for the rest of his accursed days. Based on the real-life story of the gruesome Ratcliffe Highway murders, The English Monster takes us on a voyage across centuries, through the Age of Discovery, and throws us up, part of the human jetsam, onto the streets of Regency Wapping, policed only by Officer Horton.
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Happy Hippo, Angry Duck: A Book of Moods
Автор: Boynton Sandra Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 8 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20142012-06-11
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Bestselling author Boynton is back in this all-new board book about moods. Boynton's clever animals exemplify a wide range of emotions in this hilarious story about different feelings. Full color.
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