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Знаменитый детектив Алекс Кросс решил отойти от дел и вернуться к частной практике психотерапевта. Но старый друг, детектив Сэмпсон, попросил его стать независимым консультантом по делу...
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Читать книгу Hospital of the Transfiguration
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Автор:
Lem Stanislaw
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-17
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
43

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It is 1939; the Nazis have occupied Poland. A young doctor disturbed by the fate of Poland joins the staff of an insane asylum only to find a world of pain and absurdity to match that outside. From Publishers Weekly This first novel by the prolific science fiction author and essayist was completed in 1948, but wasn’t published in Poland until 1975, after Lem’s reputation was well established. Appearing in English for the first time, this is very much the work of a brash writer finding his way. As Poland falls to the Nazis during WW II in 1939, Stefan Trzyniecki, a young doctor, finds employment at a provincial insane asylum. He has been lured there by a fellow medical student who promises, “It’s like being outside the Occupation, in fact it’s even like being...
Читать книгу Hung Lou Meng, Book I
Hung Lou Meng, Book I
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
111

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Читать книгу Hung Lou Meng, Book II
Hung Lou Meng, Book II
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
161

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Читать книгу Hungry Hill
Hungry Hill
Автор:
du Maurier Daphne
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
104

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Hungry Hill is a passionate story of five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill. Their fortunes and fates were closely bound with this copper mine, and the tale is told with all the magic and excitement that Daphne du Maurier never fails to...
Читать книгу Imperium
Imperium
Автор:
Harris Robert
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-01
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
86

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From the bestselling author of Pompeii comes the first volume in an exciting new trilogy set in ancient Rome – an imaginary biography of Cicero, Rome 's first and greatest politician. Of all the great figures of Roman times, none was more fascinating or attractive than Marcus Cicero. A brilliant lawyer and orator, a famous wit and philosopher, he launched himself at the age of twenty-seven into the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics. Cicero was determined to attain imperium, the supreme power in the state. Beside him at all times in his struggle to reach the top – the office of Consul – was his confidential secretary, Tiro. An accomplished man, Tiro was the inventor of shorthand and the author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, unfortunately lost in the...
Читать книгу In Times of Fading Light
In Times of Fading Light
Автор:
Ruge Eugen
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-05
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
81

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An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice Over 450,000 copies sold in Germany alone • Rights sold in 20 countries • Winner of the German Book Prize • A PW “First Fiction” pick In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as Alexander Umnitzer, who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, leaves behind his ailing father to fly to Mexico, where his grandparents lived as exiles in the 1940s. The novel then takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family’s history: from Alexander’s grandparents’ return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father’s decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his...
Читать книгу Lazarus
Lazarus
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
2

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Читать книгу Lionheart
Lionheart
Автор:
Binns Stewart
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-04
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
99

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Lionheart is the latest thrilling historical novel in Stewart Binns’s epic Making of England series. 1176 – England King Henry II reigns over a vast empire that stretches the length of Britain and reaches the foothills of the Pyrenees. But he is aging, and his powerful and ambitious sons are restless. Henry’s third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation for being a ruthless warrior. Arrogant and conceited he earns the name Richard Lionheart for his bravery and brutality on the battlefield. After the death of his brothers, Richard’s impatience to take the throne, and gain the immense power that being King over a vast empire would bring him, leads him to form an alliance with France. And so, Richard begins his bloody quest to return the Holy...
Читать книгу Lustrum
Lustrum
Автор:
Harris Robert
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-27
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
86

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Читать книгу Morgan’s Run
Morgan’s Run
Автор:
McCullough Colleen
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-02
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
159

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A New McCullough ClassicIn the tradition of her epic bestseller, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough offers up a saga of love found, love lost, and agony endured in Morgan's Run. McCullough brings history to life through the eyes of Richard Morgan, an Englishman swept up in the bitter vicissitudes of fate. McCullough's trademark flair for detail is like a ride in a time machine, transporting readers to the late 18th century. From the shores of Bristol, England, to the dungeons of a British prison, from the bowels of a slave ship to a penal colony on an island off the coast of New South Wales, McCullough brilliantly recreates the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of Morgan's life and times. The Revolutionary War is raging in America, and England is struggling with economic and social...
Читать книгу My Life, Volume I
My Life, Volume I
Автор:
Wagner Richard
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
118

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Читать книгу My Life, Volume II
My Life, Volume II
Автор:
Wagner Richard
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
75

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Читать книгу Nana
Nana
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
104

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Читать книгу Old Indian Legends
Old Indian Legends
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
13

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Читать книгу On Conducting
On Conducting
Автор:
Wagner Richard
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
14

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Читать книгу ON STATE AND RELIGION
ON STATE AND RELIGION
Автор:
Wagner Richard
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-28
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
7

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Читать книгу Painting Mona Lisa aka I, Mona Lisa
Painting Mona Lisa aka I, Mona Lisa
Автор:
Kalogridis Jeanne
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-12-02
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
111

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'Painting Mona Lisa' offers an explanation behind the mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the 'Mona Lisa' with him until his death? It is April 26, 1478. Lorenzo De Medici, the head of the powerful Florentine Medici family is attacked. He survives, but his younger brother, Giuliano, dies beneath multiple dagger blows. Ten years later, a young Lisa Gherardini listens to her mother retell the story of Giuliano's death, sharing her mother's passion for the arts, and even attending some of the Medici gatherings. But, her father – a follower of the fanatical Dominican monk Fra Girolamo Savonarola – scorns the wicked paganism of the Medicis. Lisa becomes the lover of Lorenzo's son, Giuliano the younger, just as the French king arrives to banish the...
Читать книгу Pao
Pao
Автор:
Young Kerry
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-26
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
61

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I was just a boy when I come to Jamaica. Kingston, 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao steps off the ship from China with his mother and brother, after his father has died fighting for the revolution. They are to live with Zhang, the 'godfather' of Chinatown, who mesmerises Pao with stories of glorious Chinese socialism on one hand, and the reality of his protection business on the other. When Pao takes over the family's affairs he becomes a powerful man. He sets his sights on marrying well, but when Gloria Campbell, a black prostitute, comes to him for help he is drawn to her beauty and strength. They begin a relationship that continues even after Pao marries Fay Wong, the 'acceptable' but headstrong daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant. As the political violence escalates in the 1960s...
Читать книгу Red Azalea
Red Azalea
Автор:
Min Anchee
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-11-18
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
49

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Anchee Min, now a painter, film-maker, photographer and writer, left China for America in 1984. She had been a prize pupil and a model member of Mao Tse-tung's Red Guard. For her dutiful work for the Party, she was awarded a place at the arduous Red Fire Farm, where she experienced – at great personal risk – her sexual and emotional awakening with the female company leader. Selected from 20,000 candidates to be a star of propagandist films, she left behind the farm and her lover, for fame and an exotic affair with one of Madame Mao's leading emissaries. In this autobiography Anchee Min reveals, through a series of relationships, both a little-known China and her own character – independent, enquiring, and anxious to grasp every experience that comes within her reach. It is an erotic...
Читать книгу Requiem
Requiem
Автор:
Itani Frances
Серия: 
3
Дата добавления:
2013-10-31
Язык книги:
English
Кол-во страниц:
64

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“Remarkable … Requiem delicately probes the complex adjustments we make to live with our sorrows…. [A] perfectly modulated novel.” —The Washington Post An extraordinary researcher and scholar of detail, Frances Itani—author of the best-selling novel Deafening—excels at weaving breathtaking fiction from true-life events. In her new novel, she traces the lives, loves, and secrets in one Japanese-Canadian family during and after their internment in the 1940s. In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removed Bin Okuma’s family from their home on British Columbia’s west coast and forced them into internment camps. They were allowed to take only the possessions they could carry, and Bin, as a young boy, was...