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Thames: Sacred River	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.
1855 nniikk 17 сентября 2013	Скачать книгу

Who's Sorry Now?	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Howard Jacobson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2003	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.
1214 phoenix7 12 сентября 2008	Скачать книгу

Coming from Behind	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Howard Jacobson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2003	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject. In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of another's success...
925 lawyer_78rus 23 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

The Last Juror	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John Grisham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2004	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life', and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
1851 nniikk 16 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Snuff	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must — have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic'. 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' — Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera with six hundred men, Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?
754 anatoly_24 17 сентября 2014	Скачать книгу

Kalooki Nights	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Howard Jacobson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
1738 admin 11 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Dogs and the Wolves	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Irene Nemirovsky Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind.
812 allkonekt 11 октрября 2013	Скачать книгу

Staring at the Sun	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Julian Barnes Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory answers it provides.
754 anatoly_24 17 сентября 2014	Скачать книгу

Witch and Wizard	Random House, Inc.
Автор: James Patterson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
The world is changing — the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress life, liberty, and the pursuit of being a normal teenager. Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents — and maybe the world?
1218 phoenix7 16 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

The Tenth Chamber	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Glenn Cooper Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary historian Hugo Pineau begins to read the startling fourteenth-century text. Within its pages lies a fanciful tale of a painted cave and the secrets it contains and a rudimentary map showing its position close to the abbey. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring.
1566 olen33 21 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

Look at the Birdie	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Kurt Vonnegut Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In Confido, a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In Ed Luby's Key Club, a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In Look at the Birdie, a quack psychiatrist turned 'murder counsellor' concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour. Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut's early style.
986 radius 28 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

A Really Short History of Nearly Everything	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Bill Bryson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
Suitable for younger readers, this book covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the frequently bizarre and often obsessive scientists and the methods they used, and the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction).
638 kubinec12 12 апреля 2014	Скачать книгу

Canticle for Leibowitz	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Walter M. Jr. Miller Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2007	PDF, 313 страниц, 9.39 МБ 5 Оценка:
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself — for meaning, for truth, for love--that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.
1133 elvis5 10 октрября 2010	Скачать книгу

Mona Lisa Overdrive	Random House, Inc.
Автор: William Gibson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1997	PDF, 308 страниц, 9.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Enter Gibson's unique world — lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting — where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.
1109 kolbaska 08 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

Naked Sun	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Isaac Asimov Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1991	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots — unthinkable under the laws of Robotics — or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!
1034 vitalysev 11 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Elvis 1956	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Alfred Wertheimer Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career. Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star for a one-day assignment that quickly developed into an odyssey. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in Elvis' life during March and July of 1956, the pivotal year that made Elvis' career — taking him from virtual obscurity to the verge of international stardom and his crowning as 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll'. Wertheimer's unobtrusive photographs of Elvis in performance, with his fans, in the recording studio as well as at home with his family, present a unique look at one of the world's most famous cultural figures. These images represent the first and the last unguarded look at Elvis, and are an extraordinary portrait of a charismatic young man who would go on to become a legend.
464 liego55 21 августа 2011	Скачать книгу

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Deepak Chopra Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
This important book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering work Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Having revealed the connection between our health and our thoughts, Dr Chopra shows us how to create a whole new self — the self we want to be — in this revolutionary sequel. Dr Chopra explains how the body is a reflection of the mind, 'a symbol in flesh and blood of everything you think and feel'. From early childhood each one of us has invented our bodies and our personalities through our beliefs, conditioning and responses to everyday stress. But we have mostly done this unconsciously, which is why we may now feel unfulfilled. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul will help us to reconnect with our ideal sense of self, guiding us one step at a time through a remarkable process of renewal and discovery. Chopra invites us all to live from the soul, to satisfy our deepest desires in a life rich with joy and meaning. 'You are inventing your body in every moment of life', he reasons. 'Why not take control and reinvent it from the highest level?'
1103 stalker1965 7 октрября 2014	Скачать книгу

The Confession	Random House, Inc.
Автор: John Grisham Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm.
1566 olen33 21 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

I am a Chechen!	Random House, Inc.
Автор: German Sadulaev Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings to life his friends — now reduced to pieces of flesh — revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, their quests for martyrdom. And he immerses us in the intoxicating beauty of his homeland's mountains, blossoms and the flocks of migratory swallows that fill its skies. I Am a Chechen! is an intensely personal journey through the carnage of the war, exploring the pain, the challenge, and above all the meaning of being a Chechen.
928 lawyer_78rus 27 апреля 2014	Скачать книгу

The Oligarch's Wife	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Anna Blundy Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
A wonderfully rich and vibrant novel that tells the story of one of Russia's post-Communist Oligarchs and the two women who marry him, from impoverished boyhood, through unimaginable power and wealth, to the moment when he finally overreaches himself.
1276 anarho 24 июля 2011	Скачать книгу

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