Portable Virgin. Энн Энрайт 1998. A collection of pained, precise and disquieting stories that restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead.
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Cry of the Owl. Патриция Хайсмит, Patricia Highsmith However, his ex-wife has told the police he was erratic, liable to violence and had even fired a gun at her. Robert Forester didn`t look like the kind of man to be a prowler. Patricia Highsmith is also the author of "The Talented Mr Ripley".
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Golf Omnibus. P.G. Wodehouse 1990. A humorous look at golf by the acclaimed author of the "Jeeves and Wooster" stories.
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Emma. Джейн Остин When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. Emma is wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed matchmaker. 2009. But, in her quest to find Harriet the
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Rules of Vengeance. Christopher Reich Caught in the midst of the attack, Jonathan Ransom and Emma take matters into their own hands. A band of gunmen ambush a convoy carrying the US Secretary of State and the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister. Jonathan knows that his only path to freedom
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Accidental family. Rowan Coleman All to be with the man she thinks she loves, and his two daughters who she knows she loves. Six months ago, city girl Sophie Mills gave up everything to move to Cornwall. 2009. But adjusting to life as a semi-permanent mother in the countryside
Hustle. Will Ferguson Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. Jack McGreary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. 2009. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through
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Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne She is also an outcast. Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl`s father. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed
Winnie And Wolf. A. Wilson 2008. Presents the story of the relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth.
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Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency. Nigel Hamilton This title describes what was possibly the greatest disaster and re-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. Charts the experience of Bill Clinton, the 42nd President as he took presidential oath of office - and how he fared thereafter
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Sidetracked. Хеннинг Манкелль Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family. Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the over-the-top and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast`s brides and grooms to
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Finding Monsieur Right. Muriel Zagha Swapping homes with French student Isabelle seems like the perfect arrangement. Daisy has just landed the perfect job: spending a year in Paris writing about fashion. Meanwhile, fun-loving Daisy discovers that Paris is the City of Love, and more
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Where the River Ends. Charles Martin But now diagnosed with breast cancer, Abbie`s case is terminal. Abbie and Doss had married secretly, returning to face her parents` objections. But as they head for river`s end, Abbie`s father is determined to bring Abbie home. Rather than
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Born Evil. Kimberley Chambers Now she lives in leafy Rainham, with her ultra-respectable second husband and a lovely social life. June has come a long way from the rough East End background where she met, got pregnant by and eventually married Johnny Fuller. 2009. Then her
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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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