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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Автор: Doyle Roddy Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable.
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Invitation of a Beheading
Автор: Nabokov Vladimir Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 1989 Страниц: 225 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20091994-08-27
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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for «gnostical turpitude.» an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. An executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his cell. When Cincinnatus is led out to be executed, he simply wills his executioners out of existence: they disappear, along with the whole world they inhabit.
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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 1993 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20091995-10-23
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With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, The Elephant Vanishes is further proof of Murakami's ability to cross the border between separate realities — and to come back bearing treasure.
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A Simple Plan
Автор: Smith Scott Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2007 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20122008-06-05
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Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. The men agree to hide, keep and share the fortune. But what started off as a simple plan slowly devolves into a gruesome nightmare none of them can control.
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Norwegian Wood
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2011 Страниц: 298 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-17
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This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A poignant story of one college student's romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.
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After the Quake
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2002 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20092004-07-04
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The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman. An electronics salesman who has been abruptly deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package-and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who has been raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may or may not be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. As haunting as dreams, as potent as oracles, the stories in After the Quake are further proof that Murakami is one of the most visionary writers at work today.
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The Snowman
Автор: Nesbo Jo Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2010 Страниц: 550 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20132013-02-29
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Soon the first snow will come. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf — wrapped around the neck of a snowman. And then he will appear again. As harry hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. And when the snow has gone... When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry’s worst suspicions are confirmed: for the first time in his career harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his home turf. ...He will have taken someone else.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Автор: Larsson Steig Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2009 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142012-04-22
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Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Автор: Robert M Gates Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2014 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20192017-09-10
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Show more Show less
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Song Without Words
Автор: Packer Ann Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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Liz and Sarabeth were girlhood neighbors in the suburbs of Northern California, brought as close as sisters by the suicide of Sarabeth's mother. In the decades that followed, their relationship remained a source of continuity and strength. But when Liz's adolescent daughter enters dangerous waters, the women's friendship takes a devastating turn, forcing Liz and Sarabeth to question their most deeply held beliefs about their connection. From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier, Songs Without Words is the gripping story of a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point.
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Автор: Sandberg Sheryl Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2013 Страниц: 228 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20162017-03-08
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Sandberg — Facebook COO, ranked eighth on `Fortune`'s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business — has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders. She urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged.
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The Book Thief
Автор: Zusak Markus Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2007 Страниц: 552 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20102009-07-11
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It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery... Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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Wonder
Автор: Palacio R.J. Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2012 Страниц: 315 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20152015-09-30
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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school — until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances? R. J. Palacio has written a spare, warm, uplifting story that will have readers laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next. With wonderfully realistic family interactions (flawed, but loving), lively school scenes, and short chapters, Wonder is accessible to readers of all levels.
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365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts
Автор: Palacio R.J. Жанр: Vintage Издательство: Vintage Год: 2014 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20182017-09-12
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In the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Wonder, readers were introduced to memorable English teacher Mr. Browne and his love of precepts. Simply put, precepts are principles to live by, and Mr. Browne has compiled 365 of them — one for each day of the year — drawn from popular songs to children's books to inscriptions on Egyptian tombstones to fortune cookies. His selections celebrate kindness, hopefulness, the goodness of human beings, the strength of people's hearts, and the power of people's wills. Interspersed with the precepts are letters and emails from characters who appeared in Wonder. Readers hear from Summer, Jack, Charlotte, Julian, and Amos. There's something for everyone here, with words of wisdom from such noteworthy people as Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., Confucius, Goethe, Sappho — and over 100 readers of Wonder who sent R. J. Palacio their own precepts.
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