Все книги издательства «Little, Brown and Company»

London	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Nicholson Louise Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2004	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
This illustrated volume celebrates London's history and present, providing a record of its architecture. The text highlights the spirit of each area through its history and the essence of life there today. It includes quotations from chroniclers such as Pepys, Wordsworth and Dickens.
752 anatoly_24 17 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

From Notting Hill with Four Weddings : . . Actually	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: McNamara Ali Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2014	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of, but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, and planning her wedding to handsome fiancé Sean along with her best friends Oscar and Maddie—life couldn't be better. Then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling Gabriella Romero, and life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamourous. But as she begins to experience the other side of being rich and famous, it's not only Scarlett's perfect wedding that's put in jeopardy, but her whole world.
1628 vtormai 25 июня 2016	Скачать книгу

The Drop	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Lehane Dennis Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2014	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood's past where friends, families and foes all work together to make a living -- no matter the cost. A moving, gripping thriller, from Dennie Lehane, acclaimed New York Times bestselling autor of Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River, The Drop will stay with you long after you turn the last page.
814 allkonekt 12 сентября 2019	Скачать книгу

Dark Witch	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Roberts Nora Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2014	PDF, 398 страниц, 11.94 МБ 7 Оценка:
Iona Sheehan has always felt a powerful connection to Ireland. So when her beloved grandmother confesses an extraordinary family secret, she can't resist visiting County Mayo to discover the truth for herself. Arriving at the atmospheric Castle Ashford, Iona is excited to meet her enigmatic cousins, Connor and Branna O'Dwyer. And when she lands a job at the local riding school she is soon drawn to its owner — the charismatic, fiercely independent Boyle McGrath. Perhaps she has found her true home at last...But Iona's arrival is no accident. The three cousins have each inherited a dangerous gift from an ancestor known as the Dark Witch. And they are about to discover that some old legends can return to haunt the present. The first in a magical new trilogy, Dark Witch is a captivating story of love, family and destiny.
1446 relicordinary 14 июля 2015	Скачать книгу

Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Temple Rob Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2014	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
There's an epidemic sweeping the nation Symptoms include: *Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss' *Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake *An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorology Doctors have also reported several cases of unnecessary apologising, an obsessive interest in correct queuing etiquette and dramatic sighing in the presence of loud teenagers on public transport. If you have experienced any of these symptoms, you may be suffering from VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS. VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS are highly contagious. There is no known cure. Rob Temple's hilarious new book reveals all the ways in which we are a nation of socially awkward but well-meaning oddballs, struggling to make it through every day without apologising to an inanimate object. Take comfort in misfortunes of others. You are not alone.
872 admin 23 декабря 2016	Скачать книгу

Class and Rules	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Beaton Jane Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2011	PDF, 546 страниц, 16.38 МБ 0 Оценка:
CLASS: It's about love lives... Maggie has been dating Stan for years but can their relationship survive? Especially when Maggie meets David McDonald, her opposite number at the boys' boarding school over the hill... It's about school lives... Simone Kardashian has won a scholarship and is determined to make her parents proud. Fliss Prosser is furious at being so far from home and her friends. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out. It's about private lives... Veronica Deveral knows how to manage a school. Routine and discipline are fundamental to her role. But Veronica has a secret that could ruin her career... RULES: For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules... It's about making them... Now she's engaged to sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald... hasn't she? It's about breaking them... But headmistress Veronica Deveral has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, she's forced to confront her scandalous secret. How long will she be able to keep it under wraps?
1981 djalexmoran 26 марта 2014	Скачать книгу

Kaleidoscope and Family Album	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Steel Danielle Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2011	PDF, 816 страниц, 24.48 МБ 0 Оценка:
KALEIDOSCOPE: No one could have imagined that Sam Walker's fairytale love with his French bride would end in tragedy... Nine-year-old Hilary, the eldest of the Walker children, clung desperately to her two younger sisters, Alexandra and baby Megan. However, they too would be wrenched from her tender arms. Hilary swears that she will one day track down the man who destroyed her family, and find her beloved sisters again. John Chapman, prestigious private investigator chosen to find the sisters, embarks on a labyrinthine trail, knowing that at some point, the sisters must face each other — and the most devastating secret of all... FAMILY ALBUM: Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting two years earlier. Unable to forget the connection they shared, romance quickly sparks. But for Faye, the life she's heading for with Ward is a threat to her ambition. How can she decide between Hollywood and motherhood? Is it right to choose fame over family? Faye is on the brink of an impossible choice that will shape the lives of those she loves in ways she could scarcely have imagined.
2961 radomirnew 18 мая 2014	Скачать книгу

Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Richard J. Evans Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
What would have happened had Britain not entered the First World War but stood aside as a neutral non-belligerent? What might the result have been had Britain concluded a separate peace with Nazi Germany in 1940 or 1941? How would the British have behaved had they lost the Battle of Britain and been conquered and occupied by the armed forces of Hitler's Third Reich? Altered Pasts is a fascinating discussion of the historical and cultural significance of imagining the road not taken. From its beginnings as an Enlightenment parlour game to its relationship with modern-day conspiracy theories, Richard Evans charts the social and political implications of counterfactual history and its capacity for being a mirror on the present.
810 allkonekt 09 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Collector of Lost Things	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Page Jeremy Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could disappear. The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes, the silent First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful but strange 'cousin' Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past that haunts him. The first historical novel from an author who has been critically acclaimed for his two contemporary novels (Salt and The Wake), The Collector of Lost Things is a compulsive, beautifully writtten read.
1389 yury-m 14 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Jamaica Inn	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cowering shadow, and her uncle a hulking, vicious brute. Even more alarming, Jamaica Inn has no guests and is never open to the public. Mary finds herself powerless to help her aunt, and is drawn unwillingly into the misdeeds of Joss and his accomplices. Even more disturbing are her feelings for Jem, a man she dare not trust... Jamaica Inn is a dark and gripping gothic tale that will remind readers of two other great classics, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
1157 admin 18 мая 2008	Скачать книгу

Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Lucy-Anne Holmes Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
My love story may not be the sort you read about in books or see in films... Love stories have glorious highs and ghastly lows. But when it comes to my own life, I'd have to say, you can keep your fabulous highs and I'll happily steer clear of the terrible lows. After a rocky start in life, Jenny Taylor, 27, star receptionist at the local doctors surgery, has things all worked out thanks to a list of ten daily things she must do to keep the blues at bay. But her life is turned upside down when she meets aspiring musician Joe King. And reliable boyfriend Matt proposes. And then her mum leaves her dad and moves into Jenny's flat determined to bond. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy is an edgy modern love story that will make you look at your own love story in a whole new way. Lucy-Anne Holmes is the bestselling author of 50 Ways to Find a Lover.
1505 delovar 02 сентября 2010	Скачать книгу

Breathing On Glass	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Cryer Jennifer Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Rhea — dark, intense and brilliant — and her golden, voluptuous sister Amber are not alike, but they are bound tighter than most: by love, by the loss of their father, and by the man who stands between them. Lewis is Amber's husband and the ferociously driven director of the biotech lab where Rhea is a rising star. In search of funding, academic advancement and in alchemical pursuit of the perfect stem cell — their Holy Grail in one flawlessly reproducing genetic blueprint — Rhea and Lewis inhabit a rarefied world. Putting their trust in science, they are blinkered against the fatal human element: sex and envy, treachery and error. Amber, however, desperate for a child and embarking on fertility treatment, must confront precisely this flawed physicality, and a Faustian pact is forged. As the three are increasingly drawn into a transgressive relationship, the result is a series of betrayals that none, finally, will be able to forgive. Breathing on Glass is both coolly analytical and erotically subversive in its exploration of passion and power intertwined, and breeds a whole DNA sequence of cautionary tales: on weakness, temptation, ambition and the limits of science.
1157 admin 18 мая 2008	Скачать книгу

The Bookseller of Kabul	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Seierstad Asne Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2004	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time spent living with the family of thirteen in their four-roomed home. Bookseller Sultan Khan defied the authorities for twenty years to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul. But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. As an outsider, Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women — including Khan's two wives — and the more public lives of the men. The result is an intimate and fascinating portrait of a family which also offers a unique perspective on a troubled country.
1041 vitalysev 13 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: North Claire Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2014	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. Every time Harry dies, he is reborn in exactly the same time and place, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, and nothing ever changes. He only knows that there are others like him, living with but apart from the rest of us. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. I nearly missed you, Doctor August, she says. I need to send a message. It has come down from child to adult, child to adult, passed back through generations from a thousand years forward in time. The message is that the world is ending, and we cannot prevent it. So now it's up to you. This is the story of what Harry August does next — and what he did before — and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
1628 vtormai 25 июня 2016	Скачать книгу

The Island at the Centre of the World	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Shorto Russell Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records — recently declared a national treasure — are now being translated. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrative-a story of global sweep centred on a wilderness called Manhattan — that transforms our understanding of early America. The Dutch colony pre-dated the original thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
1505 delovar 02 сентября 2010	Скачать книгу

The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2013	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
As a mother, wife, employer and editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, Isabel Dalhousie is aware that to be human is to be responsible. So when a neighbour brings her a new and potentially dangerous puzzle to solve, once again Isabel feels she has no option but to shoulder the burden. A masterpiece painting has been stolen from Duncan Munrowe, old-fashioned philanthropist, father to two discontented children, and a very wealthy man. As Isabel enters into negotiations with the shadowy figures who are in search of a ransom, a case where heroes and villains should be clearly defined turns murky: the list of those who desire the painting — or the money — lengthens, and hasty judgement must be avoided at all cost. Morals, it turns out, are like Scottish clouds: complex, changeable and tricky to get a firm grip on; they require a sharp observational eye, a philosophical mindset, and the habit of kindness. Fortunately for those around her, Isabel Dalhousie is in possession of all three.
929 lawyer_78rus 28 марта 2016	Скачать книгу

Waterloo: Four Days That Changed Europe's Destiny	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Clayton Tim Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2015	PDF, 704 страницы, 21.12 МБ 0 Оценка:
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of British officers that were gathered about twenty years after the battle. But the recent publication of an abundance of fresh first-hand accounts from soldiers of all the participating armies has illuminated important episodes and enabled radical reappraisal of the course of the campaign. What emerges is a darker, muddier story, no longer biased by notions of regimental honour, but a tapestry of irony, accident, courage, horror and human frailty. An epic page turner, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first-class scholarly research, Waterloo is the real inside story of the greatest land battle in British history, the defining showdown of the age of muskets, bayonets, cavalry and cannon.
2559 krot 18 июня 2017	Скачать книгу

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Isaacson Walter Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2015	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
2152 erdik 16 февраля 2017	Скачать книгу

The Skeleton Road	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Mcdermid Val Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2015	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced with the unenviable task of identifying the bones. As Karen's investigation gathers momentum, she is drawn deeper into a dark world of intrigue and betrayal. Meanwhile, someone is taking the law into their own hands in the name of justice and revenge — but when present resentment collides with secrets of the past, the truth is more shocking than anyone could have imagined ...From number one bestseller, Val McDermid comes an atmospheric, spine-chilling tour de force — her richest and most accomplished psychological thriller to date.
1687 biomg 28 июля 2016	Скачать книгу

The Paying Guests	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Waters Sarah Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2015	PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms — as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber was a few feet of kitchen and a thin scullery door. An image sprang into her head: that round flesh, crimsoning in the heat.' It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be. This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all a wonderful, compelling story.
2210 cool10den 07 апреля 2019	Скачать книгу

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