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The Testament
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1999 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092000-12-30
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Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die, His heirs, to no one's surprise especially Troy's — are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, he is emerging from his fourth stay in rehab armed with little more than his fragile sobriety, good intentions, and resilient sense of humour. Returning to the real world is always difficult, but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God, who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings and trapping and encumbrances, and went to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure, their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of the Testament. Издание полностью на английском языке.
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The Client (на английском языке)
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2003 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092004-06-11
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In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client — even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.
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The Firm
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1996 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20091998-05-15
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At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray — doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail — already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice — if he wants to live. Издание полностью на английском языке.
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Acid House
Автор: Welsh Irvine Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20091998-09-10
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«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 house-fly; and in the novella, «A Smart Cunt», the drug-addled young hero spins off on a collision course with his past.»
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At Risk
Автор: Rimington Stella Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2005 Страниц: 456 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20092008-02-09
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«For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An «invisible» — a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed — is the ultimate nightmare. For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit. Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases. But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence and analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy's head that is the only hope of averting disaster.»
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Berlin Blues
Автор: Regener Sven Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 250 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092006-10-07
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It's 1989 and, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars, Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence, this barman has successfully avoided the demands of parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic and rather peaceable existence. He has an encounter with a decidedly unfriendly dog, his parents threaten to descend on Berlin from the provinces, and he meets a dangerously attractive woman who throws his emotional life into confusion. Berlin Blues is a richly entertaining evocation of life in the city and a classic of modern-day decadence.
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Best Friends
Автор: Jacqueline Wilson Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102012-03-29
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Gemma and Alice, born on the same day, have been devoted best friends ever since. Despite Gemma's larger-than-life personality and Alice's quieter, calmer character, the two are inseparable — until that is Alice has to move house, all the way to Scotland. Gemma is utterly distraught, particularly at the thought that Alice might find a new best friend. Is there anything Gem's brothers, or perhaps her grandad, can do to help? Established fans, especially male readers, will be delighted to re-encounter the flamboyant Biscuits, co-star of Buried Alive! and Cliffhanger. A charming, funny and touching story will be adored by all Wilson fans from 7 upwards.
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Blackfoot Is Missing
Автор: Owen William Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092006-10-20
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CCC Kontum, a US Special Forces unit, runs top-secret cross border reconnaissance missions. The President denies their involvement, and the public are unaware of their existence. Any method is permissable, in a secret war of relentless ferocity, where achieving your mission and surviving are not the same thing. Bobby Lake dropped out of Harvard to fight in Vietnam, because he wanted to be a hero. But how do you become a hero amongst men who only notice the cowards, where just the price of respect is high, and the cost of being a hero is hard to pay?
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Chamber
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 647 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20091995-06-11
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Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time...
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Clean Break
Автор: Wilson Jacqueline Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2006 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092007-12-10
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If you loved Jacqueline Wilson’s Best Friends, here is another superb, thought-provoking novel for readers of 8+.Em adores her funny, glamorous dad – who cares if he’s not her real father? He’s wonderful to her, and to her little brother and sister. True to form, at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em. Unfortunately, he’s got another surprise in store – he’s leaving them. Will Dad’s well-meaning but chaotic attempts to keep seeing Em and the other children help the family come to terms with this new crisis? Or would they be better off with a clean break – just like Em’s arm? From the Hardcover edition.
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The Client
Автор: Grisham John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1994 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20091999-08-11
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A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats.
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The Collector
Автор: Fowles John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 282 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092007-09-14
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Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. Then he captures the art student Miranda and keeps her in the cellar of the large house where he patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate...
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The Comedians
Автор: Greene Graham Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 294 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092006-07-23
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The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life — afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.
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Congo
Автор: Crichton Michael Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092000-08-27
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A thriller about the quest of three adventures to find the diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj in the heart of Africa.
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Cry to Heavean
Автор: Rice Anne Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092006-10-20
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In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness. Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans his revenge while striving to become the greatest of all singers. Guido, sacrificed to the knife at an early age, composes opera and dreams of the perfect voice to give it life. He discovers Tonio and becomes his teacher. As together they reach the very pinnacle of success, Tonio is pushed to the extremes of endurance as he tries to resolve his lust for glory, and for vengeance...
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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Автор: Haddon Mark Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2004 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092006-05-28
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«The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time» is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.»
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Dance Dance Dance
Автор: Murakami Haruki Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092003-12-20
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In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table. As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic; and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
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The Devil's Alternative
Автор: Forsyth Frederick Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1995 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20091997-07-04
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An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it.
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Doctor Zhivago
Автор: Pasternak Boris Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2002 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092005-09-17
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On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.
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Ebony Tower
Автор: Fowles John Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 1998 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092000-07-11
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In the title story in this collection of five novellas, a journalist visits a celebrated but reclusive painter. He is intrigued by the complicated erotic relationship between the elderly artist and the beautiful young women who share their lives with him.
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