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Man Who Sold the World	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Peter Doggett Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 3.36 МБ 8 Оценка:
0 admin 7 декабря 2013	Скачать книгу

Lord John and the Hand of Devils	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Diana Gabaldon Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter). A young diplomat is killed in the street as he begs Lord John for help. Witnessing the murder, Grey vows to avenge the young man, as the trail leads to the notorious Hellfire Club and the dark caves beneath Medmenham Abbey. In Lord John and the Succubus, Grey's assignment as liaison to a Hanoverian regiment in Germany finds him caught between two threats: the advancing French and Austrian army, and the menace of a mysterious 'night-hag', who spreads fear and death among the troops. Acknowledging that he is unlikely to fall victim to a succubus, Lord John is obliged to contend with the marauding night-hag before the enemy arrives. This tale with a touch of the supernatural bridges the action between Gabaldon's two full-length Lord John tales. Finally, in Lord John and the Haunted Soldier, Lord John is called to the Arsenal at Woolwich to answer a Royal Commission of Enquiry's questions regarding a cannon that exploded during the battle of Krefeld (a central action in Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade). Accusations ensue, and Lord John finds himself knee-deep in a morass of gunpowder, treason, and plot — haunted by a dead lieutenant, and followed by a man with no face.
1450 admin 15 апреля 2013	Скачать книгу

London: The Biography	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Peter Ackroyd Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 822 страницы, 24.66 МБ 5 Оценка:
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives — in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions — showing London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence.
2968 alex978 21 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Jonathan Phillips Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings — on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties — to throw a brilliant new light on people and events we thought we knew well. Although the notion of fighting for one's faith fell into disrepute in the Enlightenment, Phillips traces the crusading impulse from the bloody conquest of Jerusalem in the First Crusade and the titanic struggle between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin up to the present day — to George W. Bush's characterisation of the war on terrorism as a crusade.
1624 vtormai 22 сентября 2015	Скачать книгу

The Happy Home for Broken Hearts	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Rowan Coleman Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her 'happily ever after' moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her husband's tragic death leaves her alone with their soon-to-become-a-teenager son, faced with a mountain of debt, and on the verge of losing the family home. On the brink of bankruptcy, Ellie finally succumbs to her sister's well-meant bullying and decides to rent out some rooms. And all too soon the indomitable Allegra with her love for all things lavender, Sabine on secondment from Berlin and estranged from her two-timing husband, and unreconstructed lads' mag aficionado Matt enter her ordered but fragile existence — each with their own messy life in tow. And Ellie finds herself forced to step out of the pages of the romantic novels she hides behind, and learn to live — and love — again. Maybe a new chapter is about to begin for them all...
1450 admin 16 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

Fen	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Freya North Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Fenella McCabe works alone in the archive section of Trust Art, housed in one of the corridors of the Tate Gallery. She is hoping to trace a piece of art stolen in the 1930s and simultaneously trying to decide between two men.
1329 lubacha 27 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Enigma	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Robert Harris Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ 0 Оценка:
March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
1682 biomg 26 февраля 2011	Скачать книгу

Elizabeth	Random House, Inc.
Автор: David Starkey Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2001	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
«An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin — Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years — from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 — and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition — and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, «Elizabeth» is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.»
1444 admin 14 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Damned	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Chuck Palahniuk Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison», declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of «Damned», Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari-juana overdose — and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. Madison shares her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that is almost too good to be true: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by fate to form the six-feet-under version of everyone's favorite detention movie. Madison and her pals trek across the Dandruff Desert and climb the treacherous Mountain of Toenail Clippings to confront Satan in his citadel. All the popcorn balls and wax lips that serve as the currency of Hell won't buy them off. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno where «The English Patient» plays on end-less repeat, roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb, and the damned interrupt your dinner from their sweltering call center to hard-sell you Hell. He makes eternal torment, well, simply divine.»
928 lawyer_78rus 27 апреля 2015	Скачать книгу

Changing Places	Random House, Inc.
Автор: David Lodge Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken vows...
870 admin 23 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

The British Museum is Falling Down	Random House, Inc.
Автор: David Lodge Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
«The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.»
696 zorkuzz 15 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Timothy Snyder Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields — today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast — an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of deliberate policies unrelated to combat. In his revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler and, using scholarly literature and primary sources, pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. The result is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine the greatest tragedy in European history and re-think our past.
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Atonement	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Ian McEwan Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2002	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.
1387 yury-m 28 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

100 Places That Made Britain	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Dave Musgrove Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2011	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
«In 100, carefully selected places, «BBC History Magazine» editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe to be the most important in our history, and has travelled to each place to provide a visitor's point of view alongside the captivating stories that make each one great. Covering the length and breadth of the British mainland and two thousand of years of history, «100 Places that Made Britain» visits renowned sites such as the Tower of London and Runnymede, as well as less well-known places like Rushton Triangular Lodge in Northamptonshire — a three-sided, three-themed house built during the Reformation and designed to represent the Holy Trinity — and Jarrow, home of the first chronicler of Anglo-Saxon Britain, The Venerable Bede. Each essay adds another layer to our understanding of Britain's story, whether it be an advance in politics, religion, law or culture. Bringing the vast history of this small island to life, «100 Places that Made Britain» is a captivating historical compendium that will have every reader criss-crossing the country to explore its myriad treasures.»
1567 olen33 21 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

The Gropes	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Tom Sharpe Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family... This is a brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing... At the dawn of the new millenium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud. Tom Sharpe's trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding and unique British storyteller.
986 radius 28 июня 2012	Скачать книгу

The Murder of King Tut	Random House, Inc.
Автор: James Patterson Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2009	DOC, 368 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
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Complete Prose Tales	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2008	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature. Gillon Aitken's distinguished translation is the only volume that contains all his prose fiction, including some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.
1971 garun-al-rashid 22 марта 2011	Скачать книгу

Barbarians at the Gate	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Bryan Burrough Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2010	DjVu, 576 страниц, 23.04 МБ 0 Оценка:
«The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. «Barbarians at the Gate» recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled, through the boardroom doors, into the midnight meetings, the betrayals, the deal makers and publicity flaks, into a world where — as Nabisco CEO Ross Johnson put it — 'a few million dollars are lost in the sands of time'. Twenty years on, the world is once again recovering from a period of financial extravagance and irresponsibility. This revised edition brings the ultimate business thriller up to date for a new generation of readers.»
2089 nergon 28 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

My Many Colored Days	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Dr. Seuss Издательство: Random House, Inc., 1998	PDF, 30 страниц, 0.90 МБ 8 Оценка:
This beautiful board book edition of My Many Colored Days presents Dr. Seuss at his very youngest. Use it as an innovative color concept book. Use it to help toddlers express how they feel. Use it to introduce the fun of Dr. Seuss!
108 admin 08 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

The Girl Who Played with Fire	Random House, Inc.
Автор: Larsson Steig Издательство: Random House, Inc., 2005	PDF, 724 страницы, 21.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation. Just before the piece is published, the two reporters responsible are murdered. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Lisbeth herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, and is forced her to face her dark past.
2619 internetprogress 15 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

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