The War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. "The War of the Worlds" is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. But when strange creatures climb out and start killing,.
The Dead of the Night. John Marsden Seventeen-year-old Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion, but two of their band are captured: Kevin is imprisoned and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers
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Paperweight. Stephen Fry It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar", and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph. A hilarious collection of the many articles
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Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian "data haven" for digital information in the present, Cryptonomicon explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the
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The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise. Jorge Luis Borges Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion. In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws
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Autumn of the Patriarch. Marquez Gabriel Garcia Their egocentric, maniacally violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask
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In the Penal Colony. Franz Kafka ? Kafka transformed the possibilities of the short story, his unique imagination giving his dark tales a sense of dream-like logic and unreality, in which their horrors are humorous and unease pervades. ?The condemned man looked so doggishly
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The Night Circus. Erin Morgenstern No announcements precede it. The circus arrives without warning. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. When the tents are all
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Bodily Harm. Маргарет Этвуд, Margaret Atwood When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption. Rennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a
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Gates of Fire. Steven Pressfield Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Go tell the Spartans, stranger
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Валькирии. Пауло Коэльо Он отправляется в пустыню Мохаве, чтобы встретиться со своим ангелом-хранителем и обрести истинное знание о себе и мире. Герой
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Rebecca Miller But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Pippa seems to have everything in life. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers
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Fifty Shades of Grey. E. L. James, Эрика Джеймс Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian
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Anne of the Island. L.M. Montgomery As her childhood friends get married and move away, Anne too leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. This is the third heartwarming book about red-haired Anne Shirley. But Anne soon makes new friends, one of whom is rich, handsome
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Great Expectations. Чарльз Диккенс, Charles Dickens The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at
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Sovereign (book 3). C. J. Sansom Autumn, 1541. This is the third novel in the compelling Shardlake series. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant
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Paper Butterfly. Diane Wei Liang A young man named Lin, he was imprisoned for activism in the protests at Tiananmen Square. Deep in the outback of China, prisoner 3424 is released from camp and seven years of gruelling work in the mines. In the heart of the city, private
Decameron. Giovanni Boccaccio Nichols faithfully captures its timeless vitality in readable and natural English. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron was the first great masterpiece of European storytelling; this brilliant new translation by J.G. There they entertain one another
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Choke. Чак Паланик, Chuck Palahniuk Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. When
The Witches of Eastwick. John Updike Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a
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Confessions of a Shopaholic. Sophie Kinsella Shes a journalist. Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She spends her leisure time . She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. shopping. She tries cutting back, she tries
The Very Thought of You. Rosie Alison The author writes with a grace and assurance not often found in first novels, and the missteps are few and minor. This engaging novel was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, and it is not difficult to understand why. While her
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Dreams of Joy. Лиза Си, Lisa See Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. And where a
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Thud!. Terry Pratchett It was very far away. Vroom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Command Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought
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Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Carre John Le Alec Leamas, a seasoned British Intelligence officer whose entire East German network has been arrested or shot, leaves West Berlin for London, believing his career is over. The Cold War is at its most chill. And lurking discreetly in the
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Lost Empire. Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery-but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship.
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Pygmy. Chuck Palahniuk Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. Thus speaks
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The Professor of Desire. Philip Roth " Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into
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S. Джон Апдайк, John Updike Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful. In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth -
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Girls of Slender Means. Muriel Spark Muriel Spark sets us down among the girls of good family but slender means as they fight it out, from their Kensington hostel to the last clothing coupon until this charmingly light-hearted period in their lives descends into horror and tragedy.
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The It Girl. Cecily von Ziegesar Jennys determined to leave her crazy Manhattan past behind and become a sophisticated goddess on campus. Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse
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Christmas Carol (+CD). Charles Dickens Из серии: Reading Classics
2008. Introduction, notes and acitivities by Brian Hodgkiss A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas.
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South Sea Tales. Джек Лондон, Jack London Не получив систематического образования, он с детства очень много читал — как художественную литературу, так и философские и