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Good Omens
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1991 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20091992-12-20
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Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, where he grows into an unkempt individual.
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Guards! Guards!
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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«This is where the dragons went. They lie...not dead, not asleep, but...dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...»Guards! Guards!» is the eighth «Discworld» novel — and after this, dragons will never be the same again!»
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Hogfather
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1997 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20091999-05-22
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It's the night before Hogswatch. And its too quiet. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too). As they say: 'You'd better watch out...'
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Автор: John Irving Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092002-04-27
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«Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, «The Hotel New Hampshire» is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds — both healthy and incestuous. It is the overwhelming desire of the Berry father to run a hotel, which he does, with dubious success, in both a former girls' school in New Hampshire, and in Vienna. It is the Berry children who grab the readers' attention, sympathies and love — all five of them: Frank (the eldest), Franny (the weirdest), John (the narrator), Lily (the writer) and Egg (the youngest). When Irving, or rather John, writes 'Frank's queer, Franny's weird, Lily's small and Egg is Egg' the initiated reader can do no other than shout a deafening 'yes, I know what you mean!' From there on, the reader is held spellbound as the family Labrador, Sorrow, is first stuffed then becomes the cruel victim of a plane crash; and as John and Franny realise their incestuous desires. Stunningly readable, mercilessly involving, «The Hotel New Hampshire» is peopled with characters — and bears — that you'll never forget.»
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Interesting Times
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1995 Страниц: 351 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20091998-02-13
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Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons terror and panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...and a very special butterfly.
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Killing Floor
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-03-18
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«Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain, just passing through. An arbitrary decision, a tribute to a guitar player who died there decades before. But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. So the murder is pinned on him. As nasty secrets leak out and the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. «Killing Floor» introduces Jack Reacher, the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, with an eye for the women, he is truly every thinking reader's perfect action hero.»
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The Last Continent
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092002-04-27
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It's the Discworld's last continent and it's going to die in a few days, except...Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries, eh?
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people’s hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman. Bill Bryson’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, ‘I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.’ In his deeply funny new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about growing up in a specific time and place. But in Bryson’s hands, it becomes everyone’s story, one that will speak volumes – especially to anyone who has ever been young.
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The Light Fantastic
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1986 Страниц: 216 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20091989-09-14
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As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...
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Lords And Ladies
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1993 Страниц: 386 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20091994-12-30
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Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming... With a full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
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Love In The Present Tense
Автор: Catherine Ryan Hyde Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-12-13
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Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Then one day, with a heart full of agony, Pearl drops Leonard off with Mitch and never returns. Pearl, Leonard and Mitch each have a story to tell and as their lives unfold, profound questions arise about the nature of love and family. How do you go on loving someone who isn't there? With Leonard's absolute conviction in 'forever love' always present, Leonard and Mitch grow up side by side and piece together the layered truths and fictions of their almost magical lives. The answers are heartbreaking, but ultimately triumphant.
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Made In America
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092002-03-26
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An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning, and many other improbable but true facts.
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Maskerade
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 380 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20091998-05-22
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The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing. So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evenin's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)
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Men At Arms
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1994 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20091997-09-27
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'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!' But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman…most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about…
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Monstrous Regiment
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 429 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-02-29
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All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well ... They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of... the Monstrous Regiment.
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Moving Pictures
Автор: Terry Pratchett Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1991 Страниц: 332 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20091994-09-17
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«The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend («Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little.») and Theda Withel («I come from a little town you've probably never heard of») to find out...»Moving Pictures», the ninth «Discworld» novel is a gloriously funny saga set against the background of a world gone mad!»
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Neither Here, Nor There
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1998 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092000-07-11
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«In «Neither Here nor There» Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student 20 years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.»
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Notes From A Big Country
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20092003-03-22
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«Des Moines, Iowa born writer Bryson's first success was the travel book «The Lost Continent». After living in England for several years, he wanted to go back to the USA to find the perfect little US town of his past, he lovingly called Amalgam. More travel books followed, in the form of «Neither Here Nor There» (where he travels through Europe), «Notes From A Small Island» (where he travels around the United Kingdom, before returning back with his to the USA to live there for good) and «A Walk In The Woods» (where he walks the Appalachian trail). After moving back to the States, Bryson started to write a column for «The Mail on Sunday Night and Day» magazine. This is a collection of these column entries. Bryson writes about everything from everyday chores, to sueing people, the beach, TV, movies, air conditioners, college, Americana, injury dangers, wasting resources and holiday seasons.»
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Notes From A Small Island
Автор: Bill Bryson Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 259 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20091998-05-12
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«After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as «The Mother Tongue» and «Made in America», decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland — and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells. With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain.»
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Persuader
Автор: Lee Child Жанр: Transworld Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 542 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20082007-04-29
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Never forgive, never forget. That's Jack Reacher's standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, alive and well, riding in a limousine outside Boston's Symphony Hall. Never apologize. Never explain. When Reacher witnesses a brutal attempt to kidnap a terrified young student on a New England campus, he takes the law into his own hands. That's his way, after all. Only this time, a cop dies, and Reacher doesn't stick around to explain. Has he lost his sense of right and wrong? Just because this time, it's personal?
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