In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman`s purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim`s pocket. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. Her investigation into the murdered man`s past soon uncovers a squalid tale of double lives, drug dealers and the unsolved disappearance of a young girl many years before. From its explosive opening, Outrage leads down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully...
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Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can--or should--resist. Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent s most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself...until one night...
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Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
"Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning - after implications." The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author`s generally robust, boisterous style. Though Mr. Irving`s cool eye spares none of his foursome, he writes with genuine compassion for the sexual tests and illusions they perpetrate on each other; but the sexual intrigue between them demonstrates how even the kind can be ungenerous, and even the well-intentioned, destructive. "One of the most remarkable things...
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Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Haruki Murakami is an international phenomenon. When Books One and Two of his latest masterpiece, 1Q84, were published in Japan, a million copies were sold in one month, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. Readers were transfixed by the mesmerising story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. Then, one year later, to the surprise and delight of his readers, Murakami published an unexpected Book Three, bringing the story to a close. In order to reflect the experience of 1Q84`s first readers, Harvill Secker is publishing Books One and Two in one beautifully designed volume and Book Three in a separate edition. A long-awaited treat for his fans, 1Q84 is also a thrilling...
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Дата выхода: январь 2013
A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. But before Tempe can get to the one man with information, he turns up dead. The heiress isn`t the only elderly female to have appeared on Tempe`s gurney recently. Back in Montreal, three more women have died, their bodies brutally discarded. Tempe is convinced there must be a link between their deaths and that of the heiress, though the clues don`t add up. Is it possible she really has made grave errors, or is some unknown foe sabotaging her? What soon becomes frighteningly clear is that it`s not simply Tempe`s career at risk. Her...
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: how Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week; how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want; how blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs; how to eliminate 50 per...
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Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
What makes a a home? For Francesca Thayer, everything seems to be falling to pieces. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery, she can`t possibly manage the mortgage alone, and so is forced to do something she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers. First arrives Eileen - a young schoolteacher who has just moved from LA. Then comes Chris, a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. Last to arrive is Marya - a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of...
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Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Two cases have pushed Detective Lindsay Boxer to the limit. The hunt for a deranged murderer with a taste for fire, and a devastating new lead in the high-profile disappearance of the governor`s son combine in an electrifying series of stunning twists and emotional surprises. With the help of her friends and fellow members of the Women`s Murder Club - Yuki, an attorney feeling the strain of a high-profile court case; Claire, a medical examiner trying to balance her career and her pregnancy and Cindy, crime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle - Lindsay must race to find the suspects and stop the cold-blooded killers, fast.
When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances. Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as interested when a local hero. Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his story. He was loved by so many - who would want to kill him? Could the down-and-out Samaritan have been hiding a dark secret? Both Lindsay and Cindy need the help of their fellow members of the Women`s Murder Club to crack these complicated cases; but with tensions running high, will the friends be strong enough to stick together, or will the strain tear them apart?
Meet the Womens Murder Club: four friends who are always on each other`s case: Detective Lindsay Boxer. Detective in the San Fransisco Police Department. While she tries to keep her head in terrifying cases at work, she battles with her heart over the men in her life. Claire Washburn. A medical examiner faced with gruesome evidence and the daunting challenge of her new family. Yuki Castellano. A top district attorney always assigned to the toughtest cases, desperate to make her mark but struggling with grief over her late mother. Cindy Thomas. An up and coming journalist eager to get her front page splash but never at the cost of her friends. Together their crime-solving knows no bounds.
In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men`s club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London`s upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world`s wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts. This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy`s death, must be stopped, or not just one...
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Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Hemingway`s description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But "A Farewell to Arms" is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
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Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Tiffany Aching, a hag from a long line of hags, is trying out her witchy talents again as she is plunged into yet another adventure when she leaves home and is apprenticed to a “real” witch. This time, will the thievin’, fightin’ and drinkin’ skills of the Nac Mac Feegle — the Wee Free Men — be of use, or must Tiffany rely on her own abilities?This is the third novel in the junior Discworld series that started with the enormously popular tale: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.
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Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011
A MAGGOT is not an historical novel in the normal sense. It began as a quirk or obsession (a `maggot` in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It took shape as a mystery - a compelling investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds - which led through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.
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Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Ten years ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era - and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a coast-to-coast portrait of America on the cusp of the millennium. Bold, caustic and hilarious, A Man in Full spares no one as Wolfe dissects the insatiable greed, vanity and hunger for bearings that characterise today`s USA. The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boom-town full of fresh wealth, avid speculators and worldly-wise politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a fabled college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepreneur-turned-conglomerate king whose expansionist ambitions...
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Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway`s most beloved works. Since Hemingway`s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest`s sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Sean Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other...
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Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He`s charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance. A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man`s death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company`s trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition...
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university`s entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - `The Facebook` - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with their popularity. Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as silicon valley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, the first cracks in their friendship started to appear, and what began as a simple argument spiralled...
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Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin`s case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can `save` him. In this latter role we meet Austin`s estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, and Austin`s far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin`s fate, with hilarious and appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope and variety in which Iris Murdoch`s astonishing fertility of mind and unerring narrative skill...
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Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a housefly; and in the novella "A Smart Cunt", the drug-addled I young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
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Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, Richard Cantrell, an American colonel, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has `a profile that could break your or anyone else`s heart`. Catrell is embittered, war-scarred old enough to be Renata`s father but is overwhelmed by the selflesess and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some the longed-for peace has come too late.
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Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
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