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.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are alongside the Confederacy. Outraged when the Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels – and suddenly it’s a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North’s blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking. From the Mississippi bayou to the Pennsylvania farmlands to the woods of Maine, the great armies of Generals Grant and Lee face off in the...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame – their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy’s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before – from POWs used as human shields to a...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this classic guide, now expanded and updated, Dr. Weil explains his proven eight-week program for taking full advantage of the bodys natural healing power.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2007
This extraordinarily well-reviewed first novel introduces Scotland Yard s Inspector Thomas Lynley and his assistant, Barbara Havers, as they investigate a daughter s brutal murder by her deeply religious father.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 1989
Here is the first volume in George ’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King`s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction — and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can`t help...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions. What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her body? Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated and tragic life could have wanted her dead? And could her murder have some connection to a twenty-eight-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist who several months earlier suddenly and inexplicably lost the ability to play a single note? For Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, whose own domestic life is about to change radically,...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death`s threshold to restore the balance.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2008
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of "The Russian Debutante`s Handbook" comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
They met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy: Abandoned at birth, he finds a home - and a dazzling career - within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-lgniting passion. Daniel: The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father`s footsteps. And destined to break his father`s heart. Deborah: She was raised to be docile and dutiful - the perfect rabbi`s wife - but love will lead her to rebellion. And into world`s the patriarch would never dare imagine. Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov`s greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Next Economy and America`s Future Updated for paperback publication, "Aftershock" is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation`s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another reason for the meltdown. Our real problem, he argues, lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the richest Americans, while stagnant wages and rising costs have forced the middle class to go deep into debt. Reich`s thoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over the next decades--and how we...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implications, this gem of an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl, carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven - one of a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist - made the audacious decision not only to work for a living, but to work as a writer.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane… At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. "Airframe" is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since "The Andromeda Strain".
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What`s more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off. Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they`re searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan`s infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler`s intellect and Moore`s knowledge of New York`s vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
All aboard! This Seussian, train-shaped board book with big, bold flaps lets babies and toddlers engage in a rollicking game of Lift the Flap. Sturdy board pages and an accordion binding lets the fun unfold and makes the perfect nursery room decoration.
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The easy-to-use format of this book, with excellent cross-referencing makes it easy to find fascinating statistics and anecdotes, lavishly illustrated by exquisite National Geographic quality photographs and maps. Maps are especially well-rendered to give readers the connection between America and its relationship with the rest of the countries of the world, presenting a timely insight into the people, places and events that have brought America to it`s current place in history. Since 9/11 America has been introspective - analysing who they are and they`re place in the world. This fact-filled, comprehensive book of America`s past is a handbook for it`s future. All major historical documents are presented in their entirety, including the...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 2012
Harry Turtledove’s acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict — complete with a new generation of killing machines. “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word to greet each other in the streets, the...
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Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own — but with dramatic differences. It is 1924 — a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington’s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new...
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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