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Daedalus Books
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Winner Take Nothing
Автор: Ernest Hemingway Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20092007-06-25
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Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death. The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway's imagination. As an introduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes he developed at greater length in his novels, it is a stunningly successful collection.
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The American Heritage Student Thesaurus
Автор: Paul Hellweg Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 378 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092008-05-22
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This is the definitive thesaurus for middle school and high school students seeking to communicate more effectively by means of a broader vocabulary. No other book at this level offers as many synonyms, example sentences, or features. New to this edition is an informative Parts of Speech table.
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The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Автор: Barry Lyga Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 311 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092008-10-23
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Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnant mother and the step-fascist are eagerly awaiting the birth of the alien life form known as Fanboy's new little brother or sister. Fanboy, though, has a secret: a graphic novel he's been working on without telling anyone, a graphic novel that he is convinced will lead to publication, fame, and — most important of all — a way out of the crappy little town he lives in and all the people that make it hell for him. When Fanboy meets Kyra, a.k.a. Goth Girl, he finds an outrageous, cynical girl who shares his love of comics as well as his hatred for jocks and bullies. Fanboy can't resist someone who actually seems to understand him, and soon he finds himself willing to heed her advice — to ignore or crush anyone who stands in his way.
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The Beauty of the Beast
Автор: Meilo So Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092011-08-31
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The Beauty of the Beast is an exciting book offering lasting value. The poetic parade of the animal king dom ranges from the lowly earthworm to the majestic whale an d just about every creature in between. All poems are brief and fun to read aloud.
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Band of Brothers
Автор: Stephen E. Ambrose Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 333 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092003-07-21
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As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments — responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes.
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Jacob's Room
Автор: Virginia Woolf Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-09-27
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Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I. Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow.
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Flowers for Algernon
Автор: Daniel Keyes Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 310 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20142013-03-22
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When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance.
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Silks
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society. When defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason hears the judgeas ruling at Londonas Old Bailey, he quietly hopes that a substantial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason realize that heall be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than that. Setting aside his barristeras gown and wig, Mason heads to Sandown racetrack to don his colorful racing silks. As an amateur jockey, he fulfills his true passion by pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. Yet when a fellow rider is brutally murderedaa pitchfork driven through his chestaMasonas racing hobby soon becomes too close to his work. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell, and the evidence against him seems overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchellas plea for legal helpabut he soon finds himself at the center of a sinister web of violence, threats and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death his own.
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Автор: Laurence Sterne Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 526 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20122008-12-20
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A forerunner of psychological fiction, and considered a landmark work for its innovative use of narrative devices, Sterne's topsy-turvy novel was both celebrated and vilified when first published. Originally released in nine separate volumes, it is in effect an exercise about the difficulties of writing. Impossible to categorize, it remains a beguiling milestone in the history of literature.
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The Three Musketeers
Автор: Alexandre Dumas Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-12-23
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Populated by some of the most famous names in literary and actual history — D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII — Dumas's peerless adventure offers a rousing read. It traces an aspiring Musketeer's path to 17th-century Paris, where he encounters intrigue, romance, and, of course, thrilling swordplay.
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Houses, Casas, Hauser
Автор: Alejandro Bahamon Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20132010-05-06
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The unique and notable work being done by contemporary architects is generously presented in this illustrated volume. Their designs can be understood as homes intended to be interpretations of life and the environment. Each of the forty examples included.
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The Daring Book for Girls
Автор: Andrea J. Buchanan Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092008-12-07
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Boys don't get all the fun. Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this is the manual for everything that girls of all ages really need to know. Find out about female heroes in history, secret note-passing techniques, science projects, and friendship bracelets. Learn to play Double Dutch and cat's cradle, turn the perfect cartwheel, and induce giggles at sleepovers and discover the eternal mystery of what boys are actually thinking.
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Snuggle Up: A Gift of Songs for Sweet Dreams (+ Audio CD)
Автор: J. Aaron Brown Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20102009-05-26
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This title contains a book & CD. From the creators of A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, here is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for children. With soothing melodies, meaningful lyrics and beautifully orchestrated arrangements, this collection is sure to give little ones hours of listening pleasure. The one-hour CD includes vocal and instrumental tracks of nine original lullabies, while the lyric book provides words for the caregiver.
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The Interpretation of Murder
Автор: Jed Rubenfeld Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 367 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092010-03-18
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«Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only, traumatic visit to America (a society of savages, he was to claim), Jed Rubenfeld's novel is an intricate tale of murder and the mind's dangerous mysteries. On a sweltering August evening in 1909 Freud disembarks from a steamship in New York City, accompanied by his protégé and rival Carl Jung. Across town, a debutante is found dangling from a chandelier, whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress—barely escapes the killer, but is hysterical and can remember nothing. American Freudian Stratham Younger calls on his idol to analyze the spirited girl. «As The Interpretation of Murder races past ravished damsels, sinister aristocrats, architectural marvels (the building of the Manhattan Bridge), hysterical symptoms, a Hamlet-Freud nexus and downright criminal wordplay ('there are more things in heaven and earth, Herr Professor, than are dreamt in your psychology'; 'sometimes a catarrh, I’m afraid, is only a catarrh'), it cobbles together its own brand of excitement. That excitement is as palpable as it is peculiar».»
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years Of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, And Revenge
Автор: Eleanor Herman Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 287 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20082007-07-21
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«Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. As she did with Sex with the Queen, Eleanor Herman takes readers into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs to relate history from the women's point of view. She finds that in most cases, the main function of a royal mistress was not providing the king with sex as much as with companionship. «Open Sex With Kings at almost any page and you'll find yourself immersed in a bawdy, deliciously appealing illicit scene occurring in the highest places.... Herman has written an enlightening social history that is great fun to read.»
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
Автор: Jeffrey Eugenides Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 590 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092013-08-03
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«When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it», notes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex in his introduction to this collection of love stories from literature. «But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.» Here then are 27 such cures for lovesickness and antidotes to adultery — by Harold Brodkey, Grace Paley, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Milan Kundera, and Vladimir Nabokov.»
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All Our Worldly Goods
Автор: Irene Nemirovsky Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-04-17
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In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on Suite Francaise...This novel, though is finished, and exquisitely so — first published in France in 1947. It tells the story of two intertwined but warring French families through two world wars from 1911 to 1940, and its themes are war, love and money. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, with the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Nemirovsky's characteristically clear-eyed compassion and sly humour. Full of moving, vivid observation of the devastating effects of the two wars on a small Normandy town and an industrial family, whose patriarch is a monstrous David Golder character (as French as they come and not in the least Jewish). The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars pre-figures Suite Francaise, but differently again, because this is Normandy and near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Evocative and unputdownable the novel brings home with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, unbelievably. It opens in the Edwardian era (on a fashionable Normandy beach) and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation. Nemirovsky has an astonishing ability to give you the most blinkered, small-minded of characters (in this case Mme Hardelot, mother of one of the central characters) and bring tears to your eyes — when Mme H realises that her son is leaving for the front in minutes rather than days... It's a gripping story of family life and starcrossed love, of money and feuds, against the backdrop of two terrible wars.
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Corduroy Mansions
Автор: Alexan Mccall-Smith Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Following on from the huge success of the 44 Scotland Street series, Alexander McCall Smith 'moved house' to London's Pimlico and into his brand new daily novel, Corduroy Mansions. The building itself — described in a guide to the architecture of the area as 'a building of no interest whatsoever' — is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block — nobody is very sure. In fact, nothing of its history is known, although it does have some nice Arts and Craft features. At the moment it is inhabited by an assortment of characters — including amongst others a literary agent, a wine merchant, one accountant, possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP and his long-suffering PA, and a small dog in his prime. At least one character is on a voyage of self-discovery, which has taken him to Cheltenham so far. Although Corduroy Mansions is a nickname, it is now recognized by the Post Office.
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Cover Her Face
Автор: P.D James Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son's sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, the sly single mother, Sally Jupp. On the following morning Martingale and the whole village are shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp's body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life.
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The Double-Daring Book for Girls
Автор: Andrea J. Buchanan Жанр: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20142011-10-23
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From the authors of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls, an all-new double-the-fun, double-the-adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere.
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