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Liar's Poker
Автор: Lewis Michael Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2006 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092007-12-13
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From mere trainee, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis` pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world`s most powerful and profitable merchant bank. This is a tale of greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.
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In the Woods
Автор: French Tana Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20102009-10-27
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Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. 20 years on, Rob Ryan — the child who came back — is a detective in the Dublin police force. He`s changed his name.
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My Sister's Keeper (film tie-in)
Автор: Picoult Jodi Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20112012-04-07
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Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything — whatever it takes — to save her child.
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Blaze
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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The legendary Stephen King unleashes a new blockbuster from his crime noir alter-ego Richard Bachman.
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Life and Soul of the Party
Автор: Gayle Mike Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20122014-08-27
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«Its their party... Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he's still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she cant have: Paul. Meet Chris and Vicky: Theyr'e so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair? Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year — but can their relationship really survive a year apart? Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations. «The Life and Soul of the Party» is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we've all spent in the kitchen at parties.»
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Priceless
Автор: Olivia Darling Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112013-03-16
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At two international auction houses, fine art experts vie to get the worlds most fabulous and expensive paintings into their salerooms. At Ludbrooks of London, Lizzy Duffy does her best get ahead as an auctioneer, while her boss Nat Wilde takes advantage of her in more ways than one. Meanwhile Carrie Klein, number two fine art expert at Ehrenpreis in New York has been charged with opening Ehrenpreiss new operation in London, and shes determined that its going to make her name. And in a draughty farmhouse in Cornwall, impoverished artist Serena Macdonald struggles to support her young daughter by painting family pets. Until a mistake leads to a cottage industry in old masters — and a daring sting...
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The likeness
Автор: Tana French Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 704 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20122013-03-08
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Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam ONeill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is strangely familiar. In fact, she is Cassies double. Not only that, but her ID says she is Lexie Madison the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues, Cassies old undercover boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: to send Cassie undercover in the dead girls place. She could pick up information the police would never hear and tempt the killer to finish the job. So Cassie moves into Whitethorn House, poses as a post-grad student, and prepares to enter Lexies world.
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The Hollow Hills
Автор: Mary Stewart Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 1983 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20091986-09-22
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The countryside of England and Wales in the Dark Ages forms an almost tangible background to this wonderfully and powerfully realised picture of an ancestral hero coming to manhood. The Hollow Hills is the brilliant portrayal of the young Arthur from his birth to accession to the throne of Britain. And behind and around him is the strong, yet vulnerable figure of Merlin who sees and knows so much but is powerless to prevent the strife and violence of his turbulent times.
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Автор: Eckhart Tolle Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2001 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-06-28
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To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us.Surrender to the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we find our joy, are able to embrace our true selves and discover that we are already complete and perfect. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the Now we will be opening ourselves to the transforming experience of The Power of Now. It's a book to be revisited again and again. An international bestselling phenomenon, this book has inspired a generation and is as popular today as it was a decade ago when first published.
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City of Thieves
Автор: David Benioff Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate, Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of an execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake, and live. Or fail, and die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history, through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation, man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate, lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it, in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.
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The Book of Lies
Автор: Brad Meltzer Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Cain killed Abel: the original murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. It's a mystery that's never been solved. Until now. In Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, who's been shot with a gun that traces back to an unsolved murder in 1932. What could that murder have to do with the biblical one? Father and son are suddenly thrown into a bloodthirsty quest for an ancient weapon, and the answer to a secret that people are dying to find. But closing in on them is a man tattooed with the mark of Cain — the world's first killer. In his pocket he carries the means of causing a horrifying death. And in his heart an insatiable desire for what he believes is his birthright ...
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Teach Yourself Business Plans
Автор: Polly Bird Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2004 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092005-06-15
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Businesses involved in preparing a business plan need guidance on what to present, and how to present it. This book is primarily aimed at new businesses and the self-employed, but it will also be useful to any business that has to raise a financial case during the course of their trading. Straightforward advice is given about what to consider and include in the plan, and how to present it.
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Who's Who of Horrors: An A-Z of Loathsome Lives
Автор: Tracey Turner Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2005 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092007-07-11
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An A to Z of the most gruesome people who have ever lived! What do the following have in common? The Cross-Eyed Lambeth Poisoner, the Teenage Butcher, Juana the Mad and Ismail the Bloodthirsty? Answer: they are all horrors! People who have tortured, murdered, died in a revolting manner, or practise a particularly horrid habit. This book lists these and dozens more, each with its own Horror Rating, as well as their Horrible Deed, Horrible End and Specialist Skills. Read on and shudder.
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Автор: Tiffany Baker Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20102011-07-18
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Truly Plaice – part behemoth, part witch, part Cinderella – is born larger than life into a small-minded town. Her birth rocks the pillars of tiny Aberdeen, New York, and breaks her family into smithereens. \nShe spends a painful childhood in the shadow of her older sister Serena`s beauty, and is teased mercilessly for her enormous physique. But when Serena unexpectedly vanishes and leaves her son in Truly`s care, Truly must become mistress of a house she did not choose and the unwilling victim of her brother-in-law, Doctor Robert Morgan. Once her childhood tormentor, he now subjects her to brutal criticism and cruel medical experiments that test her endurance past breaking point – but Truly may have more power than he realises... Tiffany`s Baker`s debut is a rare and bewitching novel, with a heart as big as its heroine.
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Comfort Food
Автор: Kate Jacobs Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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The ingredients: Why can't Gus find time to organise her own birthday party? Because shes too busy sorting out the problems of her friends and family; it seems everyone is facing a career challenge or a romantic dilemma. The recipe: A series of Sunday suppers (televised, of course) that show real people making real food. And over delicious dishes, relaxed chat and a few bottles of wine, her guests find they have nourished their souls as well as tempting their tastebuds. Comfort food. A celebration of life itself.
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The Likeness
Автор: Tana French Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 704 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20122013-03-08
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«Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of «In the Woods». She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O`Neill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is strangely familiar. In fact, she is Cassie`s double. Not only that, but her ID says she is Lexie Madison, the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues, Cassie`s old undercover boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: to send Cassie undercover in the dead girl`s place. She could pick up information the police would never hear and tempt the killer to finish the job. So Cassie moves into Whitethorn House, poses as a post-grad student, and prepares to enter Lexie`s world.»
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The Venetian Betrayal
Автор: Steve Berry Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2008 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112010-10-23
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For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it — and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international coalition has created a lethal biological weapon. Whoever develops the cure will control the future of global warfare. Yet that cure could already exist, buried centuries before with Alexander the Great. When Malone hears about it, he joins the hunt for Alexander's long-lost tomb. His quest soon becomes a harrowing fight for truth that has unimaginable repercussions...
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Picture Perfect
Автор: Jodi Picoult Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Страниц: 369 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092004-09-22
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To the world, they had everything. Cassie Barrett was a renowned anthropologist. Alex Rivers was a respected actor. They met on a film set in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they returned to California, something altered the picture of their perfect marriage. Torn between fear and compassion, Cassie wrestled with the questions she never dreamed she would face. Why did she stay? And how could she leave?
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Nocturnes
Автор: John Connolly Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2007 Страниц: 488 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20082010-09-17
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«John Connolly, bestselling author of seven brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a volume of chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M R James to Stephen King, Connolly delves into our darkest fears – lost lovers, missing children, subterranean creatures and predatory demons. Framing the collection are two substantial novellas – «The Cancer Cowboy Rides» charts the fatal progress of a modern-day grim reaper, while «The Reflecting Eye» is a haunted house tale with a twist and marks the return of private detective Charlie Parker, the troubled hero of Connolly's crime novels. This edition contains two additional stories – «The Cycle» and «Mr Gray's Folly» – not previously included. «Nocturnes» is a masterly volume to be read with the lights on — menace has never been so seductive...»
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The Great Lover
Автор: Jill Dawson Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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In the summer of 1909, sixteen-year-old Nell Golightly is the new maid at the Orchard Tea Gardens in Cambridgeshire when Rupert Brooke moves in as a lodger. Famed for his looks and flouting of convention, the young poet captures the hearts of men and women alike, yet his own seems to stay intact. Even Nell, despite her good sense, begins to fall for him. What is his secret? This captivating novel gives voice to Rupert Brooke himself in a tale of mutual fascination and inner turmoil, set at a time of great social unrest. Revealing a man far more complex and radical than legend suggests, it powerfully conveys the allure – and curse – of charisma.
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