A Dead Hand. Paul Theroux Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is intrigued. When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer’s block (his “dead hand”), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs.
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Gods Without Men. Hari Kunzru . In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . It is God without men. . However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed--but not unchanged--the fate of this young family will intersect
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Dead or alive. Tom Clancy But there are other men who are honour-bound to stop the bloodshed and protect their homeland - by any means necessary. After almost a decade, Tom Clancy - the acknowledged master of international intrigue and nonstop military action - returns to
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The Last Four Things. Paul Hoffman Thomas Cale - the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death - is put in charge of an army and groomed to bring about the end of the world. Return to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers: a place of pain, cruelty and terrible, dark devotion. But might not
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The accidental. Ali Smith It was during the matinee on Friday. I was born in a trunk. Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. I stopped the show. A novel about the ways that seemingly chance
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Penguin Book of American Verse. Geoffrey Moore From Anne Bradstreet to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman, from Emily Dickinson to Ai, this collection ranges widely across the American poetic spectrum. A classic anthology of American poetry, from the colonial
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An Evening of Long Goodbyes reissue. Paul Murray Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray?s debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Volume 2 This title features soups from the garden, bisques from the sea, famous fish stews from Provence and Normandy, the real French crunchy bread, meats, vegetables and desserts in variety, all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and superb
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Katherine Mansfield. A Secret Life. Claire Tomalin Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring admiration, jealousy, rage and devotion. Pursuing art and adventure
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Moominsummer madness. Tove Jansson And being resourceful little creatures, they soon find a very original one: a floating theatre!
2003. A great flood wave threatens Moomin Valley! When the Moomin family is flooded out of its home, the Moomins set about finding themselves a new one.
Atlas of World History. Volume 1. Hermann Kinder A wide-ranging, chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious and political events of the period is accompanied by detailed maps that clarify complex historical situations, and make this a useful reference book for students and
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On the road to Kandahar. Jason Burke Burke has travelled all over the great arc of Islamic land, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and he uses this in his new book to great effect to show how various and completely unmonolithic Islam really is and how the sort of standard
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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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Your Inner Fish. Neil Shubin Why do we look the way we do? Why are we able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Neil Shubin draws on the latest genetic research and his huge experience as an expeditionary paleontologist
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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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Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Marisha Pessl As teenager Blue van Meer tells her story, we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon, political radicalism and juvenile crushisms. Special Topics in Calamity
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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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Meaning of it all, the. Richard P. Feynman Covering everything from the atomic bomb to ethics, the imagination to the meaning of life, they are brought together in this provocative and hugely entertaining volume. What is science and what is its true value? Can a scientist believe in God?
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In Search of the Multiverse. John Gribbin Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be one universe among many. We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. What are the boundaries of our universe? Can there
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Useful Work Versus Useless Toil. Morris William Throughout history, some books have changed the world. Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled
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The Making of the British Landscape. Francis Pryor Packed with over 250 maps and photographs, compellingly written and argued, this highly acclaimed book will permanently change the way you see your surroundings. From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to
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Tormented hope. Brian Dillon His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping. Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence
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Instinct. Ben Kay Here, working in laboratories buried a thousand feet underground, military scientists have developed the most astonishing and deadly weapon known to man. Hidden in a remote corner of the South American jungle is a clandestine research facility
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Faking It. Lotte Daley And things go from bad to worse when photos of Jack canoodling with a famous size-zero actress are splashed across every gossip magazine and tabloid soon after. It?s not you, it?s me That?s the cowardly text message that Katie receives from Jack,
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The Kingdom of Ohio. Matthew Flaming Into his path falls the beautiful mathematical prodigy Cheri-Anne Toledo, whose memories appear to come from another world: the long-forgotten Kingdom of Ohio. In 1901 a young frontiersman named Peter Force comes to New York City and finds a job
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The Reason Why. John Gribbin Why? In The Reason Why John Gribbin shows just what it is that makes our planet so special. There are several hundred billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, yet out of all of these Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it. John Gribbin
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The collaborator. Mirza Waheed But a few years later, when they are young men and violence grips the region, they are gone. By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir, teenage boys come to play cricket, talk about girls, and just be. He knows his friends have slipped
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Girl Friday. Jane Green Gone is the lonely Wall Street widow she used to be, and in her place is a happier, more fulfilled woman, with a new job she loves – working for
2010. Since her divorce a year ago, Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track.
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Dreams in Witch House and Other Stories. H. P. Lovecraft, S T Joshi A further collection of weirdly wonderful stories by Lovecraft to join the two successful volumes already in Modern Classics, `The Call of Cthulhu` and `The Thing on the Doorstep`. Full title: `The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird
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Torture Team. Uncovering War Crimes in Land of Free. Philippe Sands And it did: the Administration turned its back on the rules and on America`s commitment to the dignity of every human person. After 9/11, the Bush administration declared that it would have to work through `the dark side`. It opens the door to
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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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Sweep 6. Spellbound. Cate Tiernan More immediately, she senses that someone is out to harm Hunter. Morgan knows that a great battle is to come. Is it a human or a witch?
Из серии: Sweep
2007.
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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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On Beauty. Zadie Smith On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture warsaon both sides of the Atlanticaserve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness
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Sweetness In The Belly. Camilla Gibb After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibbas widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam.
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Rise and Fall of Alexandria, The. Justin Pollard, Howard Reid The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. A short history of nearly everything classical. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual
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Fangland. John Marks Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marksaa former 60 Minutes producerasinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first- century media. As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovaas bestselling The Historian proves, thereas always an audience
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Assault on Reason, The. Albert Gore The Assault on Reason takes an unprecedented look at how faith in the power of reasonathe idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debateais now under assault. A #1 New York Times bestseller: A visionary analysis of the degradation
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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
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Traveling with Pomegranates. Monk Kidd Sue In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer distinct perspectives as a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest to redefine herself and to rediscover each other. An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1
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Life and Times of Michael K. J.M. Coetzee On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. This life-affirming novel goes to the center of
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Del Amor y Otros Demonios. Marquez Gabriel Garcia A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction--set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Columbia.
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La Muerte de Artemio Cruz. Carlos Fuentes After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.
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Cuentos de Amor de Locura y de Muerte. Horacio Quiroga Among this collection of tales selected by the author himself are stories of sickness, family tragedy, personal despair, and geographical exile, and also the frequent brutality of man. Considered by many to be one of the first Latin American
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Undead and Unwed. MaryJanice Davidson "Chick lit meets vampire fiction in this creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty book. A just-laid-off secretary has a really bad week when she dies and is then made Queen of the Undead. 2004. "--Catherine Spangler.
Knit Two. Kate Jacobs Dakota has come to rely on the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a