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This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ``Suttree" contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O`Connor` - "Times Literary Supplement". ``Suttree" marks McCarthy`s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books` - Stanley...

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Katherine Millar is eighteen and desperate to be less fat, less swotty and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes she had two parents, instead of one grandma, Poll. Poll is pushing seventy, half blind and utterly poisonous. She has looked after Katherine since she was a baby, when her father was killed in a car crash and her mother vanished. Poll`s ambition is for things to stay exactly the same for ever, and for Katherine never to leave their pit village of Bank Top. Katherine has other ideas, and she can feel change is coming; the omens are all around her. In the meantime, she cleans up after Poll, revises for her exams, watches daytime television and surfs the net at the library trying to find out how to be bulimic. What...

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Дата выхода: июль 2012

`Abbafab`, the hugely popular Abba tribute band, are in trouble. Gemma Redden has just broken her ankle and finding a new singer to fill her white platform boots at such late notice isn`t going to be easy. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and the youngest Redden sister, Mia, reluctantly agrees to don the blonde wig and sky-blue hot pants. For Mia, a shy piano teacher who has felt third best all her life, this is her big chance to prove herself to her two older sisters, Gemma and Wendy. Meanwhile, Mia`s oldest friend, Alva Ryan, is having a life crisis of her own, Her builder boyfriend and all-round-good-guy, Sean Malone, has just walked out and this time he swears he`s not coming back. And Alva`s sister, Kerry, is having...

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

`A novel that is both slight and profound, a distilled meditation on perception and loss, and a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century` Observer The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of a highly abnormal grieving process;...

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Дата выхода: март 2011

A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. A mysterious inheritance: On Nell`s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first `immortal` human tissue grown in culture, HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and, have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta herself remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta`s story, from the `coloured` ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the...

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Дата выхода: январь 2011

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Дата выхода: январь 2012

Things have changed for Ever since she met her beloved Damen - not least because she`s got a whole new set of powers, courtesy of her new Immortal status. Just as she`s getting stronger, though, Damen seems to be weakening. Panicked at the thought of losing him, Ever finds a path to the in-between world known as Summerland, where she learns the secrets of Damen`s tortured past. But in searching for a cure for him, Ever accidentally discovers a way to twist time so she can save her family from the accident that killed them. It`s all she`s ever wanted - but so is Damen. And Ever must choose between

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In this incisive collection of stories, Bret Easton Ellis returns to the moral badlands of 1980s Los Angeles Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, `You`re tan but you don`t look happy`. Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in - suffering from nothing less than the death of the soul.

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America`s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy`s father. Cormac McCarthy`s debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time.

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Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

Poor Mia. Not only has she made a total ass of herself with ( the Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili), trying to prove that she`s a super-chilled party girl. She`s also bankrupted the student council. Way to go, Princess. Just as Mia`s scared that she`s lost Michael and a ton of money, Grandmere steps in up with a fund-raising plan. She`s going to stage a musical in front of the world`s hottest celebs - and the reluctant star will be none other than Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo!

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

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Дата выхода: январь 2014

Incisive, controversial and startlingly funny, The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small, self-consciously bohemian, liberal-arts college on America`s East Coast. Lauren, who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course, is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean. Sean cool, ambivalent and deeply cynical might be in love with Lauren, but he`s not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul. Paul, as shrewd as he is passionate, is Lauren`s ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle. This is a breathtaking tale of sex, expectation, desire and frustration. `A tour of the heart of darkness, a moral armageddon` The Times ` sympathetic to his "lost generation" the way only...

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Дата выхода: апрель 2011

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Дата выхода: январь 2010

When alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is locked away in Cutter's Rock psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer, Ted Bergin, to examine the case further. But the investigation is derailed before it begins when Bergin is found murdered in his car on the highway. A sinister trail of terrifying events begins to unfold as King and Maxwell attempt to determine Roy's guilt or innocence. When the FBI become involved, it fast becomes apparent that there's much more to this case than meets the eye. As they dig deeper into Roy's past and learn about his phenomenal ability, they are bombarded with obstacles, half-truths and dead-ends which make filtering the facts...

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Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011

Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura`s perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy - the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura`s help to get her released. As Laura...

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Дата выхода: январь 2011

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

Katie Ellison is not a liar. But she can’t exactly tell the truth, either – not when she’s juggling two boyfriends, secretly hating the high school football team and trying to have the best summer ever. At least Katie has it all under control (sort of). Until Tommy Sullivan comes back to town – a gorgeous and irresistible reminder of a long-ago secret, who could ruin all her plans. Tom Sullivan is NOT a popular guy. Everyone hates him for what he did that night four years ago. Even being seen with him could ruin Katie’s social life. So falling in love with him is not an option. Is it?

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Дата выхода: июль 2011

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about the British! It`s history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know in this brilliant, action-packed, fact-filled book including: How to avoid scurvy; Why bright red isn`t the best colour for a soldier`s uniform; Why not being able to swim was considered an advantage, and How to cure the most gruesome tropical diseases.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

A moon rock missing for thirty Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico A scientist with ambition enough to A monk who will redeem the A dark agency with a deadly The greatest scientific discovery of all What fire bolt from the galatic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest United States known Tyrannosaur Canyon? The stunning new masterwork from the acclaimed bestselling author recently hailed by "Publishers Weekly" as `better than Crichton`.

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and...

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Дата выхода: май 2011

`A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic` Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens famously at the Dodgers Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR`s first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling. DeLillo loosely follows the fate of the winning baseball as the book swells and rolls through time. He offers a panoramic vision of America, defined by the overarching conflict of the cold war. This is an awe-inspiring story,...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Finding it hard to meet Mr Right? Perhaps you should try looking for Mr Wrong instead … After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would admit that her ex-boyfriend Martin wasn't the most exciting man in the world - let's face it, his idea of a rocking night was one spent updating his Excel spreadsheets - but Rory could rely on him and, having watched her mother rack up four turbulent marriages, that's what matters. But when she discovers that her supposedly reliable Mr Right is a distinctly unreliable cheater, she's forced to consider the possibility that everything she knows about relationships is wrong. In an effort to reinvigorate both...

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Дата выхода: июль 2012

In "Chances", Lucky grew up in a top crime family, in "Lucky" she was married three times, in "Lady Boss" she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios. And now she’s back, facing the biggest challenge of all, in "Vendetta: Lucky’s Revenge". Owning a Hollywood studio isn’t easy, but it satisfies Lucky’s passion for adventure and her desire to take chances. Until the scheming and dangerous widow of the Santangelo`s arch enemy, Donna Landsman, puts her own plans into action, and they include taking over Panther… But Lucky’s just as street smart and twice as ruthless – and so the battle for control begins…

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn`t found a new profession and it surely won`t be long before the RAF come round to his point of view. James Herriot`s sixth volume of unforgettable memoirs sees him dreaming of the day when he can rejoin his wife, Helen, little son, Jimmy, veterinary partner, Siegfried, the eternal student Tristan - and all the old Darrowby crows, both two-legged and four. `He can tell a good story against himself, and his pleasure in the beauty of the countryside in which he works is infectious`, observes "The Daily Telegraph". `Full of warmth, wisdom and wit` - "The Field". `It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot`s company` - "Observer".

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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011