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From the best-selling and much-loved author of "The Gruffalo" and other classic picture books, this title contains eleven fun-to-act short plays for primary-aged children (Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2) complete with helpful, simple guidance on target age, running time and cast! Ranging from adaptations of traditional tales (, the "Legend of Persephone" and "Three Billy Goats Gruff") to original and contemporary short plays, Julia Donaldson has produced an entertaining, simple, satisfying play collection.

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Дата выхода: август 2011

Harry Hunter was everywhere you looked - bearing down from bus billboards, beaming out from the society pages, falling out of nightclubs in the gossip columns, and flirting up a storm on the telly chat show circuit. Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary world. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. Women all over the world adore him but few suspect that his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit. Tor, Cress and Kate have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Through all the challenges of marriage, raising children and maintaining their high-flying careers, they have...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

`Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo`s late novels` - Sunday Telegraph. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, `somewhere south of nowhere`. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster`s daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men`s talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, this substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

What`s your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business, it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur lady detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favourite pub into bankruptcy. When Ray, a young man with the mental age of a five year old, is found in the kitchen of the pub with a knife through his heart - Carole and Jude swing into action. There`s a killer on the loose in Fethering...

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Дата выхода: август 2011

Renko, Volovoi read, as if familiarizing himself with a problem. Chief Investigator, dismissed, expelled from the Party, Psychiatric rehabiliation. You see, I have the same file as the captain has, assigned to labour in the eastern section of the Russian Republic, Siberia. Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious `Polar Star is not merely the work of our best writer of suspense, but one of our best writers, period` - New York Times. ` reader will be kept guessing to the end` -...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

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Дата выхода: август 2011

Hers was the ultimate ambition The magnificant story of love and politics that continues the saga of `Kane and Abel`. The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroying each other follows on into the next generation. Florentyna Rosnovski, Abel`s daughter, inherits all her father`s drive, but none of his wealth. A woman gifted with beauty and spirit, but above all with indomitable will, she sets out in pursuit of an ambition that dwarfs both Kane and Abel, as she battles for the highest office of all.

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner`s infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics that interest the general public as well as the scientific community, Quirkology brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. Comparable to Freakonomics, but British, far...

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Дата выхода: февраль 2012

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don`t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. `Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it`s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days` - Audrey Niffenegger. `One of the most profoundly affecting books I`ve read in a long time` - John Boyne. `Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of Room is unlike anything I`ve ever read before` - Anita Shreve. `Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can`t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it`s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory` - Michael...

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Дата выхода: август 2011

`Find what you were looking for, Inspector`? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

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Дата выхода: январь 2019

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Дата выхода: январь 2010

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Дата выхода: январь 2012

Prentis, senior clerk in the `dead crimes` department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father`s breakdown and Quinn`s menacing behavior are connected and the link is to be found in his father`s memoirs, Shuttlecock. `Excellent, profound` - Alan Hollinghurst, London Review of Books. `An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humor` - Sunday Times. `A superbly...

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Дата выхода: август 2011

It`s the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the Fischer Hall cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the entire population of the dorm under suspicion for murder, it doesn’t look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, who is starting night classes, is going to have a good semester. She’s got a decapitated cheerleader and a demoralized student body to deal with, as well as enough guy problems to make a normal girl seek shelter in a convent. With her ex insisting she has to be at his wedding - The Celebrity Wedding of the...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

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Дата выхода: август 2011

`I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.` When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography. Divided into sections by decade, Songs of the Doomed begins with a furious condemnation of the US justice system and ends with the author`s own version of the events that led to his extraordinary court case. Stopping off at the infamous summit conference in Elko, Illinois; Saigon in 1975 (the war zone Thompson was fired while en...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Blast off into space with this spectacular collection of poems about galaxies, the moon, planets, stars, rockets, astronauts, UFOs, aliens, black holes, the milkyway, and space pets and that`s just for starters!

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Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution and Russia`s withdrawal from the First World War had ensured a diplomatic exodus from Moscow and the usual routes to vital information had been closed off. Into this void stepped an extraordinary collection of opportunists, journalists and spies sometimes indeed journalists who were spies and vice versa: in Moscow Britain`s Arthur Ransome, the American John Reed and Sidney Reilly `Ace of Spies` all traded information and...

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Дата выхода: июль 2012

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service`s biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party members. `This is effectively the first full biography since perestroika to encompass the economic, political, diplomatic, military, administrative and, above all, ideological dimensions, as well as the personal aspects of Stalin`s colossal Gritty and unshowy, but enlightened by...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

When shy, awkward Helen Hamilton sees Lucas Delos for the first time she thinks two things: the first, that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life; the second, that she wants to kill him with her bare hands. With an ancient curse making them loathe one another, Lucas and Helen have to keep their distance. But sometimes love is stronger than hate, and not even the gods themselves can prevent what will

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

This is Alan Hollinghurst`s first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres`, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, `Black` and `White`, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history mining the origins of two diametrically opposing world views, they begin a dialectic redolent of the best of Beckett. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011