Engineers of the Soul. Frank Westerman It would become a well-known phrase and a feared concept. Stalin first used the expression `engineers of the soul` to refer to Soviet writers in 1932. 2006. This title tells the story of how authors were forced to write in service of the Soviet
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Senor Vivo & the Coca Lord. Louis de Bernieres To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear
2008. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door.
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Imaginings of Sand. Andre Brink Her grandmother is determined to hand down her treasury of family history, telling of magic, treachery, heroism and farce - the panorama of a nation`s experience. Kristien`s grandmother is dying and she finds herself leaving London to fly back to
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Small Wars. Sadie Jones A passionate and beautifully written tale of personal loss in the midst of war in late 1950s Cyprus, Small Wars raises important questions that are just as relevant today. Sadie Jones, the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of
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Tainted. Brooke Morgan Within six weeks they are married and Jack opens up a whole new world for Holly and her daughter, offering them a way out of the small-town Massachusetts existence. When Holly Barrett meets Jack Dane, she falls rapidly in love. 2009. But Holly
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Cold Blood. James Fleming He is determined to track down and kill Prokhor Glebov, the Bolshevik who raped and tortured his wife, Elizaveta. The Russian Revolution is breaking out around him, but Charlie Doig has a private war to fight. 2010. Convinced that Glebov will
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Daniel X: Watch the Skies. Джеймс Патерсон, James Patterson Daniel X is the only person who can stop this devilish director. A villain with more ambition than the world can withstand, dead set on throwing the sleepy neighbourhood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including
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Mudbound. Hillary Jordan Henry`s love of rural life is not shared by Laura, who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law. When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm
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To Siberia. Пер Петтерсон Their home, with a mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father, is as cold as their surroundings. In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a
Grotesque. Kirino Natsuo Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what she lacked in intellect and commanded attention from older men. Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo.
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Darkness Rising. Frank Tallis Outside one of the city`s most splendid baroque churches the decapitated body of a monk is found. Vienna 1903. Both men were rabid anti-Semites and suspicions fall on Vienna`s close-knit community of Hassidic Jews. Then, the remains of a
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Who Dares Wins. Chris Ryan One mission. Two brothers. Two brothers, SAS through and through. And a whole world of trouble Sam and Jacob Redman. They are ruthlessly professional in the field of war, fiercely loyal wherever they are. They fight alongside each other; they
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Special providence. Richard Yates At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. Robert Prentice is 18, and his dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. 2008. This novel describes post-war America, at odds with
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Collected Stories. Ричард Йейтс, Richard Yates 2008. Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Richard Yates examines the hopes and disappointments of
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Diary of a bad year. J. Coetzee For him, troubled by Australia`s complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns
2008. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions".
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Teahouse Fire. Ellis Avery What I asked for? Any life but this one. `When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house. ` When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her
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Fire in the Blood. Ирен Немировски This title tells a story about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions, and the regrets of old age. Set in a small village, an old man looks back on a chequered
Piccadilly jim. P.G. Wodehouse In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that Jimmy ends up having to pretend he`s himself. It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a
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Crime and Punishment & Ripley’s Game. Федор Михайлович Достоевский Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for murder is to benefit mankind. In "Crime and Punishment," a troubled young man commits the perfect crime. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In
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Peeling the Onion. Гюнтер Грасс This memoir evokes his modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of "The Tin Drum", in Paris. Gunter Grass` parents ran a corner shop, but his mother, whom he adored, encouraged him
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Life and Fate. Василий Гроссман This work offers a vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis. Aims to give a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of
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Death at Intervals. Jose Saramago This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there`s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals?
2009. On
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Missing Kissinger. Этгар Керет He is dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, recruits the new King`s clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control and becomes `Prime Minister`. A story
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Courilof Affair, The. Ирен Немировски This is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power and an elegy to lost world. In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of `liquidating` Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and
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Le Bal. Ирен Немировски, Irene Nemirovsky Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. The Kampfs decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Instead, Antoinette is forced to sleep in the laundry room, as her bedroom is used as
Baby Group. Rowan Coleman 2007. The Baby Group meets regularly, taking turns to host–from a Victorian mansion to a high-rise flat — there’s baby music and swimming, developing new and strong friendships during a time of great personal upheaval from which there is no
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Day Watch, The. Сергей Васильевич Лукьяненко She is sent to recuperate at a youth camp. Alice, a powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. Alice remembers him as one of those involved in the battle that left her crippled. There she meets Igor, a
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Second Opinion, The. Michael Palmer But Petros` daughter Thea refuses to accept that her father might not survive his devastating injuries. Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Dr Petros Sperelakis` chances of survival are slim. But without proof, she can dig no deeper. As she
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Fatal Lies. Frank Tallis In St Florian`s military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the City`s famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Vienna, 1903. 2008. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his
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Collected Short Stories. Volume III. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм, W.Somerset Maugham Based on Maugham’s own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. This third volume of
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Dying animal, the. Филип Рот He meets Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student of twenty-four, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. David Kepesh, white haired and over sixty, is an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college. 2006. But,
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Invisible monsters. Чак Паланик, Chuck Palahniuk She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better. A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so
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Talented Mr. Ripley. Патриция Хайсмит Wanted money, success - the good life. Ripley wanted out. Was willing to kill for it. He is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors when a chance acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe. 1999. When his new-found happiness is
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Fatherland. Роберт Харрис, Robert Harris As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler`s 75th birthday, Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is
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Runaway Wife, The. Susy McPhee Her daughter Hope was killed in a hit-and-run accident six months ago. Marion Bishop`s life has fallen apart. However, a strange chance encounter makes her realise that life can be worth living. Left alone with her grief, Marion has begun to
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Belching Out the Devil. Mark Thomas In our homes, our workplaces, even our schools. Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus.
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Jeeves Omnibus. Volume 3. P.G. Wodehouse her titles in the omnibus series are "Jeeves 1", "Jeeves 2", "Aunts", "Golf" and "Drones". Part of the omnibus series, this volume contains "The Mating Season", "Ring for Jeeves" and "Very Good Jeeves". 1991.
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Free. Chris Anderson 2010. What happens when advances in technology allow many things to be produced for more or less nothing? And what happens when those things are then made available to the consumer for free? In this book, the author considers a brave new world
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Time Out Madrid. Guides Ltd Time Out Put together by journalists resident in the city, Time Out Madrid also covers the artistic jewels housed in the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia, as well as the etiquette of watching a bullfight or joining in with a flamenco performance, as well as
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Forbidden Temple, The. Patrick Woodhead In the ruthless pursuit of his goals, he would sacrifice anything. To Luca Matthews, the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. When he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised
Torchwood: Risk Assessment. Trevor Baxendale The Torchwood Assessor is roused from her deep sleep in only the worst of times - it`s happened just four times in the last 100 years. Agnes Havisham is awake, and Jack is worried. The coffins of the dead are coming through the Rift. Can the
Hollywood Undercover. Ian Halperin 2008. Written by the author who posed as a model in 2001 to expose the fashion industry, this book gives us a scandalous glimpse behind the scenes of the movie business.
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Snuff. Чак Паланик On camera. Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. "Snuff" unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded
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Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. Эрнест Хемингуэй From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is a feat of
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Child in Time. Иэн Макьюэн, Ian McEwan While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children`s books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. 1997. From there,