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Numbers: A Silly Slider Book
Автор: Boynton Sandra Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 12 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132016-08-17
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Take a numerical safari with Numbers: A Silly Slider Book, the second book in Accord's Silly Slider Book series. Designed especially for beginning counters, Numbers teaches youngsters how to count from one enormous elephant to ten sparkly dragonflies, with a whole zoo-full of critters on the pages in between. As young counters move the sliders, they'll learn to count-and spell from one to ten. Each page presents a featured numeral and a host of number-specific critters. And, with just one slip of a slider, both the numeral and its spelling are suddenly revealed. Magical!
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The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
Автор: Duffy Michael Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 656 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20152016-09-02
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The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents — the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief. The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower's inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed — and to this day — the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. Its members are bound forever because of their stints in the Oval Office, yet are immortal rivals for history's favor. Some presidents needed their predecessors to keep their secrets; others needed them to disappear. Most just needed help getting the job done. Truman enlisted Hoover to help him save Europe; Kennedy turned to Ike with Cuba; Nixon sought Johnson's advice on getting reelected, but then tried to blackmail him; Bush put his father and Clinton to work and they became like father and son; and Obama and Clinton became quiet rivals for the same crown. Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy unravel the secret confidences, the shared scars, and the private cease-fires from Hoover to Obama. A fascinating, inside look at a hidden world, The Presidents Club will change the way we think about the presidency.
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Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns
Автор: Weisberger Lauren Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20162015-10-11
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The sequel you've been waiting for: the follow-up to the sensational #1 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada. Eight years have passed since Andrea Andy Sachs quit the job a million girls would die for working for Miranda Priestly at Runway Magazine — a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Now Andy's on the top of the world: she's writing and reporting to her heart's content; running The Plunge, her wildly successful high fashion bridal magazine with Miranda's other ex-assistant, Emily; and most importantly, getting married to the scion of a storied media family and the love of her life. But the night before her wedding, Andy can't sleep. As happy as she is — as happy as she should be — she's still haunted by the specter of her former boss. Maybe it's survivor syndrome? Or maybe it's justifiable, self-inflicted, paranoia. From the start, Andy and Emily have felt entitled to use their rolodex of contacts — Miranda's contacts — from Runway as they make their way in the magazine world. As The Plunge succeeds, Andy and Emily realize they'll soon come face to face with their former tormenter at industry functions, award ceremonies, and even weddings. Still, Andy can hardly anticipate the horrifying reality that's approaching — a reversal so profound that she will be squarely in Miranda's crosshairs once more. Karma's a bitch. And Andy's efforts to build a bright new life have led her directly to the one she fled — and into the path of the Devil herself.
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Soft Target
Автор: Hunter Stephen Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20132015-04-27
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Black Friday America's largest shopping mall Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall--a giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Stephen Hunter's hyper-drive, eighth-gear new thriller, Soft Target, chronicles the day when the unthinkable happens: twelve gunmen open fire in the mall corridors, driving the pack before them. Those on the upper floors take cover or get out any way they can; but within a few minutes the gunmen have herded more than a thousand hostages into the amusement park. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter's last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiancee and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killing — but among the trapped thousands, he's the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed Brigade Mumbai. Now all he needs is a gun. FBI Sniper Dave McElroy has a gun. But positioned on the roof of the vast building, looking down through one of its thickly paned Great Lakes-shaped skylights, and without explosives or fuses — or the go-ahead from his superiors — he is effectively cut off from his targets and forced into the role of witness to the horror unfolding below. Set during the four hours of the terrifying event, the story follows both hostages and gunmen, detailing the complex strategic police response, the full-press media saturation coverage, even the politics of SWAT as both the Minnesota State Police and the FBI struggle to control, confront, and ultimately defuse the crisis. Having learned the lessons of Columbine, the feds believe that immediate action is the only solution. But Douglas Obobo, the charismatic and ambitious commandant of the state police, orders cooperation, tolerance, communication, and empathy for the gunmen. He feels that with his superior negotiating skills, he can make contact with the shooters and gently nudge them into surrender. But what if their goal all along has been unparalleled massacre — and they're only waiting for prime time? With unrelenting suspense and vivid scenes of violence and chaos in the center of a terror-crazed afternoon in Middle America, thriller master Stephen Hunter takes us into the belly of the softest of soft targets.
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Spongebob Pops Up
Автор: Banks Steven Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 16 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082005-12-23
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Ah, another glorious day in Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob is ready to bring it around town. Watch him spring out of bed, bound off to work, juggle Krabby Patties, chase jellyfish, and more in this eye-popping story about a day in the life of one sailorific sponge!
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St Petersburg: A Cultural History
Автор: Volkov Solomon Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1997 Страниц: 648 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20091999-07-14
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A compelling portrait of a city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy — written by a cultural historian who has known some of the greatest figures of modern St. Petersburg, including Balanchine, Shostakovich, Akhmatova, and Brodsky. A rich and enjoyable work.
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Автор: Foster Alan Dean Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20152014-12-07
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The official movie tie-in novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2009's blockbuster feature film “Star Trek”. When the crew of the “Enterprise” is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization that has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis.
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Pearls Before Swine: This Little Piggy Stayed Home
Автор: Pastis Stephan Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2004 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092009-08-21
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Pearls Before Swine is an impressive comic strip success story. In syndication for less than two years, it currently appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide, was nominated as Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society in its debut year-an unprecedented achievement-and its first book collection, BLTs Taste So Darn Good, has sold through four printings. This Little Piggy Stayed Home continues the adventures of Rat and Pig, who couldn't be more different-or more surprising. Rat is your typical Everyrodent: scheming, self-centered, and more than occasionally manipulative. By contrast, Pig is sensitive, kindly, and-even on his best days-just plain stupid. Together with Zebra and Goat, they confront the strange and wonderful world around them, a place that looks suspiciously like our own. By turns thoughtful and subversive, silly and sophisticated, This Little Piggy Stayed Home is one of the funniest comic collections of the year.
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Transfer of Power
Автор: Flynn Vince Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2010 Страниц: 641 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20132012-10-31
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What if America's most powerful leader was also its prime target? On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered as terrorists gain control of the executive mansion, slaughtering dozens of people. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. One man is sent in to take control of the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, determines that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. Moving among the corridors of the White House, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail.
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The Wasp Factory
Автор: Banks Iain Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 1998 Страниц: 184 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20092001-04-07
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Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
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First Impressions
Автор: Roberts Nora Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 411 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20142015-04-17
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Escaping the traps of gold-digging women, wealthy businessman Vance Banning moves to rural Maryland. All he wants is peace, quiet and to keep away from women. The last thing he needs is his sassy, sexy neighbor Shane Abbott. But he has no idea how determined Shane will be when it comes to giving a helping hand — or a loving heart. When small-town girl Hilary Baxter is offered a prestigious six-month modeling contract by Bret Bardoff, handsome, charming and the owner and publisher of fashionable Mode Magazine, the sky is the limit. Thrust into a glamorous career in New York, Hilary knows she has it all... except for the one thing she really wants: Bret's love.
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Changeling
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 315 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20182018-08-31
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Dark myths, medieval secrets, intrigue, and romance populate the pages of the first-ever teen series from #1 bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Italy, 1453. Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous — and accused of heresy. Cast out of his religious order for using the new science to question old superstitious beliefs, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate evil and danger in its many forms, and strange occurrences across Europe, in this year — the end of days. Isolde is a seventeen-year-old girl shut up in a nunnery so she can't inherit any of her father's estate. As the nuns walk in their sleep and see strange visions, Isolde is accused of witchcraft — and Luca is sent to investigate her, but finds himself plotting her escape. Despite their vows, despite themselves, love grows between Luca and Isolde as they travel across Europe with their faithful companions, Freize and Ishraq. The four young people encounter werewolves, alchemists, witches, and death-dancers as they head toward a real-life historical figure who holds the boundaries of Christendom and the secrets of the Order of the Dragon. The first in a series, this epic and richly detailed drama is grounded in historical communities and their mythic beliefs. It includes a medieval map of Europe that will track their journey; and the interior will include relevant decorative elements as well as an interior line illustration. And look for a QR code that links to a note from the author with additional, detailed information about the setting and the history that informed the writing. With Philippa Gregory's trademark touch, this novel deftly brings the past — and its salacious scandals — vividly and disturbingly to life.
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The Green Hills of Earth: The Menace from Earth
Автор: Heinlein Robert A. Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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Two of the Grand Master's finest: The saga of the opening of the space frontier as courageous men and women risked their lives to build the first space station and colonize the Moon and Venus, while praying for one last landing on the globe that gave them birth, to return to The Green Hills of Earth. «From a mysterious region on Earth, where a more advanced lifeform may be studying the interesting creatures called «humans», to the first moon colony, where a young girl's relationship with her boyfriend is endangered by the beautiful Menace from Earth».
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The Iron Breed
Автор: Norton Andre Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 442 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20152014-06-18
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Johnny has always loved and protected by People, bearlike inhabitants on planet he calls home. But when a starship arrives carrying Johnny's original species, humans — humans who seek to exploit People for their own ends — Johnny is forced to choose between loyalty to creatures he considers his family, and need to reconnect with his lost heritage.
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The Kingmaker's Daughter
Автор: Gregory Philippa Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 532 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20152018-08-17
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The Kingmakers Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his two daughters as pawns in the political games and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of two fascinating young women.At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Still only a girl she is married and then left widowed and fatherless, with her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. She manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family, and will cost the lives of those she loves most in the world, including her precious only son, Prince Edward. Ultimately, the kingmakers daughter will achieve her fathers greatest ambition.
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Oz: The Complete Collection. Volume 3
Автор: Baum L.Frank Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 702 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20162014-06-05
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The seventh, eighth, and ninth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkins Unc Nunkie and Ojo the Unlucky call on the Crooked Magician, who introduces them to his latest creation: a living girl made out of patchwork quilts and cotton stuffing. But when an accident leaves beloved Unc Nunkie a motionless statue, it is up to Ojo to save him. Can the mighty Wizard of Oz help? In Tik-Tok of Oz, Betsy Bobbin and her loyal mule, Hank, wash up on the shores of an unknown fairyland during a storm. There they meet the clockwork man Tik-Tok and find themselves trapped in a battle with the king of the Nomes. In The Scarecrow of Oz, Cap’n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrow the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland, who has been busy gathering an army for an invasion of Oz. Will they be able to stop the invasion?
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Protect and Defend
Автор: Flynn Vince Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2008 Страниц: 403 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20112012-03-26
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In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran's second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran's bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood. Enter Mitch Rapp, America's top counterterrorism operative. Used to employing deception, Rapp sees an opportunity where others see only Iranian reprisals that could leave thousands of Americans dead. Rapp convinces President Josh Alexander to sign off on a risky operation that will further embarrass the Iranian government and push their country to the brink of revolution. As part of the plan, CIA director Irene Kennedy is dispatched to the region for a clandestine meeting with Azad Ashani, her Iranian counterpart. But Rapp isn't the only one hatching plans. Iran's President Amatullah has recruited Hezbollah master terrorist Imad Mukhtar to do his dirty work. For decades Mukhtar has acted as a surrogate for Iran, blazing a trail of death and destruction across the Middle East and beyond. When Kennedy's meeting with Ashani goes disastrously wrong, Rapp and Mukhtar are set on a collision course that threatens to engulf the entire region in war. With the clock ticking, Rapp is given twenty-four hours, no questions asked, to do whatever it takes to stop Mukhtar, and avert an unthinkable catastrophe.
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Sixth Column
Автор: Heinlein Robert A. Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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Six Against Six Million for Freedom! It’s six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all. The counterinsurgency for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option. A perfect Heinlein near-future adventure with a new introduction and afterword by popular military SF writer Tom Kratman!
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We Three Kings
Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2007 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20102008-06-05
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Written in 1857, We Three Kings has been a favorite Christmas carol for more than a century. Renowned artist Gennady Spirin brings the ageless story of the three wise mens journey to life, in a lavish picture book that celebrates meaning, not commercialism. Full color.
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Автор: Michelle Hodkin Жанр: Simon & Schuster Издательство: Simon & Schuster Год: 2012 Страниц: 452 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20152016-03-24
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Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted—all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and “strong, inventive tale” (Kirkus Reviews). Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong. After Mara survives the traumatizing accident at the old asylum, it makes sense that she has issues. She lost her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s sister, and as if that weren’t enough to cope with, her family moves to a new state in order to give her a fresh start. But that fresh start is quickly filled with hallucinations—or are they premonitions?—and then corpses, and the boundary between reality and nightmare is wavering. At school, there’s Noah, a devastatingly handsome charmer who seems determined to help Mara piece together what’s real, what’s imagined—and what’s very, very dangerous. This fast-paced psychological—or is it paranormal?—thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer.
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