The House at Riverton aka The Shifting Fog

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Современная проза;

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3

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2013-12-02

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English

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126

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Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee) Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, 'The House at Riverton' will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement', L P Hartley's 'The Go-Between', and lovers...

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The House At Sea’s End

Автор:

Griffiths Elly

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Книги Детективы;

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3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-28

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English

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62

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Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help – Nelson is the father of her daughter, Kate. Still, she remains professional and concentrates on the case at hand. Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Southern Europe, killed sixty years ago. Police Investigations unearth records of Project Lucifer, a wartime plan to stop a German invasion. A further discovery reveals that members of the Broughton Sea's End Home Guard took a 'blood oath' to conceal some deadly wartime secret. The more...

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The House of Borgia, book1

Автор:

van Heller Marcus

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Эротика и Секс;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-03

Язык книги:

English

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31

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The House of Crows

Автор:

Doherty Paul

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Исторические детективы;

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3

Дата добавления:

2014-01-07

Язык книги:

English

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53

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2013-12-05

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English

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89

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Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns — they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man —the Clam, all-knowing resident — could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was...

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2013-09-16

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English

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19

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The House of Seven Mabels

Автор:

Churchill Jill

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Иронические детективы;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-27

Язык книги:

English

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36

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Homemaking is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry now that she's agreed to help restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. The home's owner, the prosperously divorced Bitsy Burnside, considers herself to be a feminist to the max and wants an almost all-female crew to do the dirty work — prompting the quick-witted Shelley Nowack to dub the project 'the House of Seven Mabels.' With her best friend and decorating whiz Shelley on the estrogen-heavy team, Jane thinks this exhausting, plaster-dusty job may not be as unpleasant as it initially appeared to be.Until, of course, things start to get very messy. It begins with a series of mean-spirited 'pranks' — strange odors, mysterious electrical shorts, a myriad of petty annoyances designed to impede the...

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2013-09-25

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English

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62

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The House of Souls

Автор:

Machen Arthur

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Старинная литература: Прочее;

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3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-17

Язык книги:

English

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49

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'The House of Souls' contains four of Arthur Machen's best short works: 'A Fragment of Life,' 'The White People,' 'The Great God Pan,' and 'The Inmost Light.' Introduction by Arthur Machen. 'His powerful horror-material of the nineties and earlier nineteen-hundreds stands alone in its class, and marks a distinct epoch in the history of this literary form.' -- H.P....

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The House of the Sleeping Beauties

Автор:

Kawabata Yasunari

Жанр:

Современная проза;

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3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-04

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English

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17

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Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends. In these three tales, superbly translated by Edward Seidensticker, erotic fantasy is underlaid with longing and memories of past loves. In the title story, the protagonist visits a brothel where elderly men spend a chaste but lecherous night with a drugged, unconscious virgin. As he admires the girl’s beauty, he recalls his past womanizing, and reflects on the relentless course of old age. In One Arm, a young girl removes her right arm and gives it to the narrator to take home for the night; a surreal seduction follows as he tries to allay its fears, caresses it, and even replaces his own right arm with it. The protagonist of Of Birds and...

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The House of the Vestals

Автор:

Saylor Steven

Жанр:

Исторические детективы;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-25

Язык книги:

English

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52

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The House of the Worm

Автор:

Mayers Gary

Жанр:

Фэнтези;

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3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-02

Язык книги:

English

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11

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Gary Myers' 'House of the Worm' is an excursion into the rich worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. This slim volume from Arkham House is a collection of short stories that delve deep into his various Mythos. Myers admits in his introduction that he does take some liberties with his titular tale, 'The House of the Worm', even admitting, in his own words, '…perhaps heresy…' is the best way to describe the story. Myers combines the creations of a number of Mythos contributors, illustrating his extensive knowledge of this sub genre. Each tale stands on its own, at times only taking place near another tale's happenings. Some of the stories, such as 'House of the Worm' and 'Yohk the Necromancer' deal with the worship of almost forgotten deities and its horrible results. Others like 'Xiurhn' and...

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The House On Hope Street

Автор:

Danielle Steel

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Старинная литература: Прочее;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-09-16

Язык книги:

English

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55

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The House on the Borderland

Автор:

Hodgson William

Жанр:

Ужасы и Мистика;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-10-30

Язык книги:

English

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33

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The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house and the diary of the house's former occupant, the words on its torn pages hinting at an evil far beyond anything that has existed in this world before. “The House on the Borderland (1908) — perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson’s works — tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and sustains a siege by...

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The House on the Cliff

Автор:

Dixon Franklin

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Старинная литература: Прочее;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-10-24

Язык книги:

English

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29

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The house on the cliff has been vacant and is supposed to be haunted. Then it is reported to be the abode of criminals. Mr. Hardy starts to investigate and disappears, so the boys set to work to see what they can do. _______________ When Mr. Hardy disappears while investigating a mystery surrounding a vacant house rumored to be either haunted or an abode for criminals, the Hardy Boys search for the truth. ______________ About the Author Franklin W. Dixon was the pseudonym devised by Edward Stratemeyer for the author of a series of mystery books he was developing which became the Hardy Boys series. The first book, The Tower Treasure, originally published in 1927, was ghostwritten by Leslie MacFarlane who went on to write 19 more, including #2 through #16. In all,...

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The House on the Strand

Автор:

du Maurier Daphne

Жанр:

Исторические любовные романы;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-28

Язык книги:

English

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69

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In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present. Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlier — though it is now the fourteenth century. The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in...

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2013-09-30

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English

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85

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Macavity Awards The identification of the woman found murdered on Whiteview Sands poses more questions than it answers. Emma Tysoe was a respected psychologist and an official criminal profiler with several successful cases to her credit. Why was she sun-bathing alone so far from home? How did she get there? Who is the mysterious 'Ken' in her private life? What was the murder weapon? Why did the man who noitce she was dead then completely disappear from the scene? When Peter Diamond is brought into the investigation he sheds some light on these matters – most importantly by discovering that she had been seconded under the greatest secrecy to work on the profile of the person who has assassinated one celebrity and is threatening to kill more. Are these killings connected to Emma's...

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