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Setting Free the Bears Setting Free the Bears
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 2015
   It is 1967 and two Viennese university students decide to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. The eccentric duo, Graff and Siggy, embark on an adventure-filled motorbike tour of Austria as they prepare for 'the great zoo bust'. But their grand scheme will have both comic and gruesome consequences, as they are soon to find out.
 
Tripwire Tripwire
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2000 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2009
   Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions. Determined to keep out of trouble, he conceals his identity. But when Costello is found dead Reacher has two questions: who was Costello's employer, and why is she determined to find him.
 
The Visitor The Visitor
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 502 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 2009
   Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
 
What Do You Say After You Say Hello? What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1975 Страниц: 475 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 2009
   What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script — a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in... What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending...
 
A Widow for One Year A Widow for One Year
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2009
   From the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, a novel about an acclaimed writer which examines three critical moments of her life. The first part deals with an incident in the Hamptons when she is a toddler, the second is concerned with a crisis in her romantic life, and the third with her adjustments to motherhood and life without her husband.
 
Dragon's Fire Dragon's Fire
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 2009
   When Masterharper Zist takes over as Harper for Natalon's coal-mining camp, he takes with him his apprentice, the orphaned Pellar, and Pellar's fire-lizard Chitter. Pellar has become a gifted tracker and Zist gives him his own mission — to find out if the thefts of coal are the work of the criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.
 
Dragon's Kin Dragon's Kin
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 2008
   Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization.
 
Dragonheart Dragonheart
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 2011
   When Fiona, the only surviving member of Lord Holder Bemin's family, impresses a queen dragon, she doesn't begin to realize the perils and privileges that come with her new role. As she grows into a young woman and her dragon reaches her full growth, she faces the possibility of losing her dragon to the sickness that has claimed so many others.
 
Dragon's Blood Dragon's Blood
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 2010
   Pern AL 50: the geneticist Wind Blossom is nearing the end of her long life and is painfully aware that the colonists are running out of the modern technology the settlers brought with them to Pern and that they are forgetting how to use what they do have. Society is beginning to revert to a feudal system.
 
Girl from the South Girl from the South
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 2010
   Gillon — red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable — comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit.
 
The Skies of Pern The Skies of Pern
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 586 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 2009
   A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit of the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past. But now comes a fresh and terrible catastrophe — a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected.
 
61 Hours 61 Hours
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 492 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 2013
   GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNT-DOWN OF YOUR LIFE. HOUR # SIXTY-ONE — Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat. HOUR # THIRTY-ONE — A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice. If she's going to live to testify, she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her. HOUR # ZERO — Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.
 
The American The American
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 2012
   The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla — Mr Butterfly. He is a discreet gentleman who spends his time studying rare butterflies. But Farfalla's real profession is deadly. He considers himself an artisan, not for the butterflies he paints but for the guns he creates for assassins. Farfalla has resolved to make his next job his last. Then, perhaps, he can settle down comfortably in the Italian village he has grown to love and enjoy the remainder of his life without constantly looking over his shoulder. But a treacherous circle is closing in on him...
 
Divine Misdemeanors Divine Misdemeanors
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 2011
   Some know her as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Others as Merry Gentry, LA private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, her life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among her own kind, she has confronted enemies, endured the treachery and malevolence of her kith and kin, and honoured her duty to conceive a royal heir...all so she could claim a throne. But now she's turned her back on court and crown in favour of exile in the human world. However, while she may have rejected the throne, she cannot abandon her people. Someone is killing the fey. The LAPD are baffled and Merry is worried: her kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. And it's not just these murders that concern her. It appears mortals who she once healed with magic are now able to perform miracles themselves — a phenomenon that's wreaking havoc on relations between man and fey and provoking suspicions of forbidden powers. So much for leaving blood and politics behind her. Merry had dreamed of a quiet life, but evil knows no borders and it seems nobody lives forever — not even the immortal...
 
Friday Nights Friday Nights
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 2010
   Friday nights. Eleanor had started them, scooping up Paula and Lindsay, both single mothers who looked as though they needed some adult company, and welcoming them to her untidy, comfortable Fulham house where she had lived alone for fifty years. Soon they were joined by others — Blaise, smart, single and successful, her business partner Karen, the breadwinner for a chaotic young family in which her artist husband promised much but did little, and Jules, Lindsay's confused younger sister. A group of women, different in age and circumstances but with the same needs. It was a warm, inclusive sisterhood — until Paula got herself a new man, Jackson, and somehow the Friday nights weren't the same any more...
 
The Grey Man The Grey Man
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 2009
   This is a stunning action thriller from a real-life hero. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he'd like a night out himself. And he's not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He's going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown. For once, he's going to stop being the grey man...
 
Mini Shopaholic Mini Shopaholic
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 2015
   Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true — a shopping friend for life! But it's trickier than she thought — two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. She hires taxis at random, her favourite word is 'Mine', and she's even started bidding for designer bags on ebay. On top of everything else, there's a big financial crisis. People are having to Cut Back — including all of Becky's personal shopping clients — and she and Luke are still living with Becky's Mum and Dad. To cheer everyone up, Becky decides to throw a surprise birthday party — on a budget — but then things become really complicated. Who will end up on the naughty step, who will get a gold star and will Becky's secret wishes come true?
 
Paperboy Paperboy
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 2012
   Superman, Dracula, The Avengers, Treasure Island... when you're ten years old, you can fall in love with any story so long as it's a good one. But what if you're growing up in a house without books? Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets — anything that might reveal a story. But it's 1960, and after fifteen years of post-war belt-tightening, his family is not ready to indulge a child cursed with too much imagination... Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words. His parents try to understand their son's peculiar obsessions, but fast lose patience with him — and each other. The war of nerves escalates to include every member of the Fowler family, and something has to give, but does it mean that a boy must always give up his dreams for the tough lessons of real life? Beautifully written, this rich and astute evocation of a time and a place recalls a childhood at once eccentric and endearingly ordinary.
 
The Rector's Wife The Rector's Wife
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 2011
   For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life...
 
A Year in the Merde A Year in the Merde
Автор: Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 382 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 2009
   Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job — and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after pétanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories.In his first novel, Stephen Clarke gives a laugh-out-loud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France. Less quaint than A Year in Provence, less chocolatey than Chocolat, A Year in the Merde will tell you how to get served by the grumpiest Parisian waiter; how to make perfect vinaigrette every time; how to make amour — not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside.
 


 

 

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