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Tales Of The City
Автор: Armistead Maupin Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092010-02-24
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San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous — unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin.
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The Templar Revelation
Автор: Lynn Picknett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20102010-09-17
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In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church. These were the beginnings of a quest through time and space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies and such bodies as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar and the Cathars and finally back to the ideas and beliefs of the first century AD and a devastating new view of the real character and motives of the founder of Christianity and the roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. They reveal nothing less than a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals, whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Church.
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Thief Of Time
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092003-12-07
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Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems. Thief Of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).
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Thud!
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20102007-06-15
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Koom Valley — that was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh...and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read «Where's My Cow?», with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.
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The Traveller
Автор: John Twelve Hawks Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20102007-12-26
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What lies ahead is already here...America is a difficult place to live below the surface. But Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are trying to do just that. Since childhood, the brothers have been shaped by the stories that their father has told them about the world in which they live. After his mysterious disappearance, they have been living 'off the grid' — that is, invisible to the intrusive surveillance networks that monitor our modern lives. But no-one is as invisible as they would like to believe. Nathan Boone, a mercenary, has been tasked to hunt down the brothers. The only person who stands between them and certain death is Maya, a tough young woman playing at leading a normal life. But her background is anything but normal. She has been trained to fight and survive at whatever cost. When she is summoned to protect the brothers, she must leave everything behind if she is to succeed...
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The Truth
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 443 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20092005-03-16
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William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it’ s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’ s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’ s life – people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.
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The Undomestic Goddess
Автор: Sophie Kinsella Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 415 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20082009-02-29
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Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership.She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day… she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it’ll wreck her career. She walks right out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they’ve hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 – Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. Disaster ensues. It’s chaos as Samantha battles with the washing machine…the ironing board…and attempts to cook a cordon bleu dinner.But gradually, she falls in love with her new life in a wholly unexpected way. Will her employers ever discover the truth? Will Samantha’s old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back?
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Until I Find You
Автор: John Irving Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 960 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20082009-09-10
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Jack Burns’ mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy’s father, William, a virtuoso organist, who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the North Sea as she tracks her four-year-old son’s errant father. But Alice is a mystery, and William can’t be found. And even Jack’s memories are subject to doubt. Jack returns to the United States, and studies in Canada and New England, but his life is still shaped by the events of his childhood quest, in particular his relationships with older women. It is only when he becomes a Hollywood actor that what he has experienced in the past comes into telling play in his present...
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The Venus Conspiracy
Автор: Michael Cordy Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20102007-06-15
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How can a drug that makes people fall madly in love be a bad thing? So thinks Professor Bacci when he inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love, and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing. Determined that the world should benefit from his discovery, he seeks funding and business advice from a private Swiss bank, owned by the secretive Kappel family. Unknown to Bacci, however, Helmut Kappel sees love as a sickness to be exploited, and has his own plan for abusing the drug's power — a cynical nightmare of breathtaking arrogance far removed from Bacci's naive dream of spreading love around the world. Ripped from tomorrow's headlines, «The Venus Conspiracy» is Michael Cordy's latest glimpse of a compelling future where even human emotions can be bought and where true love can be faked...
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A Walk In The Woods
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 350 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092000-05-12
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From the author of «Notes from a Small Island» and «The Lost Continent» comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail is the longest continuous footpath in the world, and it snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in America.
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The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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»The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld» is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. Guaranteed to transport you back to your favourite or forgotten Discworld moments it is the perfect book for die-hard Pratchett fans, as well as anyone coming to the Discworld for the first time.
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Witches Abroad
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1992 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20091993-12-20
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The twelfth Discworld novel — It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least — up until now.
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Without Fail
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092004-06-21
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Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down, because she needs a hand with her new job. Her task? Protecting the Vice President of the United States from someone threatening to kill him. And so Reacher, with nothing but his toothbrush and the clothes he stands up in, enters a very exclusive club at the very heart of Washington power: the offices of the United States Secret Service. Here, he must literally put himself in the line of fire, pitting his native cunning, surly charm and instinctive but controlled violence against the wiliness of bureaucrats and the ghosts from his own past — as well as the brutal ruthlessness of the mystery assassin.
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The World According To Garp
Автор: John Irving Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1986 Страниц: 591 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091989-02-26
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Garp is a book that captivates all who read it. Peopled with the most extraordinary characters you will ever meet, here is a novel that will make you laugh, make you weep, and, above all, make you think.
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Wyrd Sisters
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 1989 Страниц: 251 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20091992-04-24
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The sixth «Discworld» novel. The witches of Discworld, not the most joyful bunch, decide that they must get involved in the politics of the planet. Granny Weatherwax, their obvious choice as spokesperson, finds that life in royal politics is not as simple as it seems.
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You Can Get Arrested For That
Автор: Rich Smith Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States — a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee). Rich's first problem was narrowing down the huge choice of laws to just twenty-five. The second was persuading his mate Bateman to come along, to do some of the driving — and possibly provide bail money. The third was finding someone who was willing to help him break his first law: one of San Francisco's oldest statutes, which related to oral sex. No, Bateman couldn't help with that one. Join Rich as he attempts his one-man crime wave — almost as difficult as a one-man Mexican wave.
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Bill Bryson African Diary
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092004-10-27
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Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of mankind, is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves, stunning landscapes, and a vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is on the dangers posed by snakes, insects and large predators. But on a more sober note, it is a country that shares many serious human and environmental problems with the rest of Africa: refugees, AIDS, drought and grinding poverty. Travelling around the country, Bryson casts his inimitable eye on a continent new to him, and the resultant diary, though short in length, contains the trademark Bryson stamp of wry observation and curious insight. All the author's royalties from «Bill Bryson's African Diary», as well as all profits, will go to CARE International.
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Amazing Grace
Автор: Danielle Steel Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20112009-12-07
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On a warm May night in San Francisco, a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity event. Just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters, the lights go out, and people start to scream.... In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge: Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial star, watches her perfect world fall to pieces. Melanie Free, award-winning singer, comes to a turning point in her career. Everett Carson, a former war correspondent whose personal demons have demoted him to covering society parties, finds new purpose amid the carnage. Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who does her best work in jeans and trainers, searches through the rubble — and knows instantly that there is much work to be done. The city staggers back to life, and a chain reaction will touch each of the survivors as they find the amazing grace of new beginnings.
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Bad Luck and Trouble
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102009-12-30
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You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other’s backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can’t let that go.
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Beowulf
Автор: Caitlin Kiernan Жанр: Transworld Publishers Издательство: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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Written between 700 and 1000AD, the original 3,000 line poem is sometimes called 'England's national epic'. It recounts the story of a Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf, who pledges to save King Hrothgar's people from the monstrous creature Grendel that has been terrorising his kingdom. In the ensuing fight, Beowulf rips off Grendel's arm and the now-mortally wounded monster flees back to his lair beneath a mysterious lake. But Beowulf's work is not yet done: an even greater threat emerges from beneath the waters — Grendel's mother, bent on avenging the death of her son... One of the great works of English literature, this classic tale of heroism and sacrifice has been transformed into a remarkable film. Directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, Warner Bros.' Beowulf boasts a phenomenal cast, including Ray Winstone, John Malkovich, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie. Employing cutting-edge technologies and dazzling special effects, this ambitious, dark, exciting film reimagines the story for the 21st century and a new generation. Opening in the UK on 16th Nov, the film will do for the story of Beowulf what '300' did for the Battle of Thermopylae. Award-winning dark fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan's novelisation — with an introduction by Neil Gaiman — is both the perfect companion to the film and a compelling read in its own right.
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