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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Aleph. Paulo Coelho 2012. Paulo Coehlo returns to his roots, leading us on a fascinating spiritual voyage via the Trans-Siberian railroad –a journey across countries and continents, across time and space, past and present.
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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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Decision points. George W. Bush 2011. President George W.Bush describes the critical decisionsof his presidency and personal life.
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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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Complete Stories. Kingsley Amis This definitive collection gathers all Amis?s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful,
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The Magic Paint. Primo Levi Whether describing the most beautiful poem ever composed or an invention gone horribly wrong, these eight exquisitely wrought stories open up a rich, fantastical world of wonder, adventure and cruel twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems.
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Little girl and the tiny doll. Aingelda Ardizzone One day when the little girl was shopping in the supermarket with her mother, she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. But someone came along who felt sorry for her,
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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 Glass Collector. Anna Perera His job? To collect broken glass. Fifteen-year-old Aaron lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo. His hope? To find a future he can believe in. His life? Wasted.
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Wereword. Rage of lions. Curtis Jobling He has the makings of a great warrior - but first he must master the blade and the beast. Young werewolf Drew Ferran is the future king of Westland. As Drew encounters terrifying new Werelords along the way, he is led to the exotic city of Cape
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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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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.