Pigeon English. Stephen Kelman The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him. Newly arrived from Ghana with
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The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan
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Life of Pi. Yann Martel One boy, one boat, one tiger . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years. The only
Деловые люди (+CD). О. Генри Мастер парадоксальных сюжетов и неожиданных развязок О. Сборник состоит из рассказов о чисто деловых отношениях, в которые неизменно
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Field of Blood. Gerald Seymour Two men, one an ex-IRA man and the other a reluctant British Lieutenant, become pawns in a deadly political game of cat-and-mouse.
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A Place in the Hills. Michelle Paver Capturing the beauty and pain of two extraordinary love affairs separated by a gulf of 2000 years, this book explores true emotion, loss, and the healing power of forgiveness.
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The Time of Our Lives. Imogen Parker At the Coronation party at the Palace Hotel, two lives are about to change forever. It is 1953. Their instant, irresistible attraction to one another will have consequences which stretch far into the future. Claudia - 16, beautiful, fragile and
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Bangkok Eight. John Burdett Two policemen - the only two in the city not on the take - arrive too late. In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed
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Country Pursuits. Jo Carnegie But faced with the likes of braying, beer-guzzling farmer Angus, foul-tempered Lord Fraser and suave banker Sebastian (devoted only to himself), their attentions are increasingly drawn to more attractive possibilities . The gorgeous women of
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Dear Teacher. Jack Sheffield As the first computer arrives, throwing everyone into a state of wonder and alarm, the familiar school characters struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulent goings-on of the various pupils and their parents. September 1979:
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The Obscure Logic of the Heart. Priya Basil In a bustling London cafe, Anil, now a famous architect, sits waiting for Lina. This title offers an epic Romeo and Juliet for the 21st century. Lina is running for the train - punctuality has never been her strength. It is years since he last
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Train to Trieste. Domnica Radulescu She can think of nothing and no one else. In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. Hunger, paranoia and fear infect
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On The Third Day. Rhys Thomas The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. Society is on the brink of collapse. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. There are no rules. No-one can tell who will turn and who will
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Altar Ego. Kathy Lette Having finally managed to fit into her meringue dress after weeks of drinking only skimmed water, she is suddenly uncertain about what exactly she wants. Query: would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding? This is the
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Memnon. Scott Oden One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. He lived in the shadow of kings. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, outstanding in courage and strategic grasp. Memnon of
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X-men 2. Claremont The official novelization based on the screenplay of the upcoming sequel to the blockbuster "X-Men".
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Fifty Shades Darker, II. James Ellroy But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Ana cannot resist. Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia
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Girl in High Heels. Ellouise Moore This memoir describes the various types of clients she danced for and shows how she managed to juggle her ordinary life with her very unconventional job. Ellouise Moore`s career began at a glamorous well-known West End club, where she danced for
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A disaffection. James Kelman Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary
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Fools Die. Mario Puzo From New York to Las Vegas, Merlyn and his brother Artie obey their own code of honour in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organised crimeare one and the same. Within the interconnecting worlds of bigtime gambling, publishing and
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Losing Charlotte. Heather Clay Knox, the younger of the two girls, always lived in the shadow of her older sister Charlotte, who moved to New York City after college. Losing Charlotte is the story of two sisters who grew up together on a horse ranch in Kentucky. At the age of
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Matter Of Death And Life. Andrey Kurkov You give him your photograph, specify when and where to find you, then sit back and prepare to die. Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone
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A Winter in China. Douglas Galbraith So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold it is, practically, an engagement. Able, bored and just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. Дополнительное
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Fermata Focuses attention on some specific developments in the theory and applications of finite fields. An autobiography of a modest temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping time in its tracks and taking women`s clothes off. 2004. This
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Caravan Thieves. Gerard Woodward Contains stories with a mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of illumination, and intimations of mortality (in `A Ford Mondeo` and `Gardening`)
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Celestial Navigation. Anne Tyler He has a passion for making sculptures out of odds and ends and he has a terror of beautiful women. Jeremy Pauling is a thirty-eight-year-old bachelor who has never left home. 1996. The death of his mother leaves Jeremy in sole charge of her
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Ghost Light. Joseph Connors A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Dublin, 1907. 2011. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London`s bomb-scarred city
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Star Wars. Sacrifice. Karen Traviss For Luke, Han and Leia, nothing will ever be the same again. Things come to a head in the galaxy of the Skywalker and Solos when Jacen Solo makes a horrifying decision from which there is no going back. 2008. Part of the 9-book Legacy of the
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Coruscant nights 3. Michael Reaves Now he ekes out a living as a private investigator in the bowels of Coruscant, trying to help people in need while avoiding revealing himself as a Jedi to those who are still ready to kill any Jedi who remain alive - and especially Darth Vader. Jax
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Take Someone Like Me. Jayne Buxton But lately, with one daughter in a constant fit of teenage sulks, a ten-year-old questioning everything in the universe and beyond, motherhood is showing some of its distinctly uglier sides. Libby always thought her life was well-ordered, charmed
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Thistle and the rose. Jean Plaidy Margaret Tudor leaves England and accepts her fate unquestioningly. When King Henry VII negotiates peace with Scotland, his daughter`s hand in marriage to James IV is the ultimate prize. But, neither the marriage nor the peace are to last. But to
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All quiet on the western front. Maria Remarque Erich Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals. A story that is told by a young `unknown soldier` in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. 2005.
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Practically Perfect. Katie Fforde But the cottage interior isn’t the only obstacle she has to face; the other one is the arrival of Rob Hunter who puts up more obstacles than the Grand National. Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, decides to risk everything on buying a
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Selected Stories. John O`Hara This title dissects the subtleties that bind humans together and the pressures that separate them. Presents stories that expose the world of bartenders and `b-girls`, car washers and criminals. Из серии: Vintage Classics
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Study in scarlet. Arthur Conan Doyle He is called upon to help the budding detective solve a perplexing mystery, involving a dead body found in a locked room. When Dr Watson ends up renting rooms in Baker Street with the eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he finds that he has let himself in
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Wodehouse at the Wicket. P.G. Wodehouse He not only wrote about this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a
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Immortal life of Henriett. Skloot Rebecca She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.
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In the garden of beasts. Erik Larson “Larson is a marvelous writer. superb at creating characters with a few short strokes. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E.Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning
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Never look away. Linwood Barclay An amusement park. A warm summer Saturday. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife and their four-year-old son.
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Carroll Lewis Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted. When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee
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The Widows of Eastwick. John Updike They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and
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The Lessons. Naomi Alderman After graduation the group fragments, each locked in his or her own suddenly adult, pedestrian world. In The Lessons a close-knit group of friends forms at Oxford around the mercurial, charismatic figure of Mark, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing
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And the Land Lay Still. James Robertson James Robertson?s breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and immigrants, journalists and politicians, drop-outs and spooks, all trying to make their way through a country in the throes of great and
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The Old Romantic He will die in the bosom of his family. Ken is so obsessed with death that he?s planning his own funeral ? right down to the last morbid detail. His family want nothing to do with him. There?s just one problem. But Ken is nothing if not dogged.
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The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand First published in 1943, this novel presents a view of man`s creative potential. Tells the story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. 2007. It is about ambition, power, gold
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Death of a salesman. Arthur Miller The extraordinary success of the play throughout the world over a period of nearly fifty years, however, highlights what is perhaps its greatest strength. Arthur Millers classic portrait of an ordinary mans struggle to leave his mark on the world
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The grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck Out of their trials and their repeated collisons against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken,
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Mystery of Olga Chekhova, the. Antony Beevor Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler. In his latest work, Antony Beevorabestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin
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The Romanov Bride. Robert Alexander Set against a backdrop of Imperial Russiaas twilight, The Romanov Bride has the same enduring appeal. The bestselling tale of Romanov intrigue from the author of The Kitchen Boy Book groups and historical fiction buffs have made Robert Alexanderas