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Araminta Spook: Frognapped
Автор: Angie Sage Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20122010-04-17
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WHO STOLE THE FROGS? When something's amiss in the Spook household, there's usually only one suspect — Araminta. But she swears she had nothing to do with the disappearance of Barry Wizzard's frogs, and is determined to find them (and the true culprit). But it's not going to be easy. These aren't just any old frogs. Araminta must deal with crazy Old Morris, a dangerous shark, and a demanding — if somewhat unexpected — audience if she's going to find the frogs and perhaps even steal the show, too.
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Araminta Spook: Vampire Brat
Автор: Angie Sage Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2007 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20122010-04-17
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WHAT'S LURKING IN THE BASEMENT? Araminta thinks something horrible might be hiding in the deep, secret passages of Spook House. She suspects it might be a werewolf. To make matters worse, Uncle Drac's creepy nephew has arrived and is now Wanda's New Best Friend. Araminta finds him (and the situation) very annoying. She has to come up with a cunning plan to reveal what she believes to be true — that there is more to Max than meets the eye — and also figure out what to do about that werewolf. But even the best laid plans don't always work out quite as you'd hoped...
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The Wombles Go Round the World
Автор: Elisabeth Beresford Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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Great Uncle Bulgaria loves telling the ancient and revered history of the Wombles clans to the younger Wombles. But to his great sadness he notices that the young Wombles are not nearly as interested in the history as he is. So Great Uncle Bulgaria decides to take action and show these young Wombles how wonderful — and international — the history of the Wombles is. Tobermory invents some very eco-friendly clockwork air balloons to travel in and Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk and Wellington are sent variously to America, Tibet and Australia. In these interesting and farflung places the young Wombles get quite as much excitement as they could wish for!
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The Wombles
Автор: Elisabeth Beresford Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20142011-12-30
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The Wombles is the first ever Wombles book and introduces the stern but kindly Great Uncle Bulgaria; Orinoco, who is particularly fond of his food and a subsequent forty winks; general handyman extraordinaire Tobermory, who can turn almost anything that the Wombles retrieve from Wimbledon Common into something useful; Madame Cholet, who cooks the most delicious and natural foods to keep the Wombles happy and contented; and last but not least, Bungo, one of the youngest and cheekiest Wombles of all, who has much to learn and is due to venture out on to the common on his own for the very first time...
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The Suspicions of Mr: Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
Автор: Kate Summerscale Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes — scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing — arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery — a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.
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Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
Автор: Laurie Viera Rigler Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter in 1813 England, has long wished to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles — in the body of someone called Courtney Stone — is not exactly what she had in mind. Jane must quickly get to grips with a world in which no one knows her true identity: a dizzying world of horseless metal carriages, unrestricted clothing, tiny apartments, all manner of flirting, and unheard-of liberties for womankind. The only thing Jane appears to have in common with the lady in whose life she has landed is a love for the novels of Jane Austen. But are the wise words of her favourite novelist enough to guide her through this bewildering new world? And what is she to make of Courtney's attentive friend Wes, who is as attractive and confusing as the man who broke her heart back home? As Courtney's romantic entanglements become her own, Jane wonders: Would she actually be better off back in Regency England — and will she ever be able to return?
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The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Автор: Will Self Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20082009-02-23
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The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act between the sane and the insane. «The Quantity Theory of Insanity» is acerbic, satirical, hilarious and, most of all, utterly unique in imaginative vision.
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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
Автор: Sebastian Mallaby Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story of their origins in the 1960s and 1970s, their explosive battles with central banks in the 1980s and 1990s, and finally their role in the financial crisis of 2007-9. Hedge funds reward risk takers, so they tend to attract larger-than-life personalities. Jim Simons began life as a code-breaker and mathematician, co-authoring a paper on theoretical geometry that led to breakthroughs in string theory. Ken Griffin started out trading convertible bonds from his Harvard dorm room. Paul Tudor Jones happily declared that a 1929-style crash would be 'total rock-and-roll' for him. Michael Steinhardt was capable of reducing underlings to sobs. 'All I want to do is kill myself', one said. 'Can I watch?' Steinhardt responded. A saga of riches and rich egos, this is also a history of discovery. Drawing on insights from mathematics, economics and psychology to crack the mysteries of the market, hedge funds have transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism. And while major banks, brokers, home lenders, insurers and money market funds failed or were bailed out during the crisis of 2007-09, the hedge-fund industry survived the test, proving that money can be successfully managed without taxpayer safety nets. Anybody pondering fixes to the financial system could usefully start here: the future of finance lies in the history of hedge funds.
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Автор: Helen Simonson Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret'd) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife Nancy's death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of nosy village women, his grasping, ambitious son, and the ever spreading suburbanization of the English countryside, preferring to lead a quiet life upholding the values that people have lived by for generations — respectability, duty, and a properly brewed cup of tea (very much not served in a polystyrene cup with teabag left in). But when his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Ali, the widowed village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, the Major is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century. Drawn together by a shared love of Literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs. Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. The Major has always taken special pride in the village, but how will the chaotic recent events affect his relationship with the place he calls home? Written with sharp perception and a delightfully dry sense of humour, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is a heart warming love story with a cast of unforgettable characters that questions how much one should sacrifice personal happiness for the obligations of family and tradition.
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MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
Автор: Keith Jeffery Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 840 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-12
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A groundbreaking book, this unprecedented study is the authoritative account of the best-known intelligence organisation in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of espionage, the two world wars, modern British government and the conduct of international relations in the first half of the twentieth century, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 is a uniquely important examination of the role and significance of intelligence in the modern world.
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The Lake Shore Limited
Автор: Sue Miller Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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There's this set of things everyone expects from you... Since her boyfriend Gus was killed in 9/11, Billy has been pretending. It is easier for her to stay silent and go through the motions of grief than to tell the truth: that she was planning to leave Gus, and that his death left her feeling a mixture of ambivalence and anguish that she is still struggling to resolve. Drawing from her experience, Billy writes The Lake Shore Limited. The opening night of the play brings together three people whose lives intersect and interweave with Billy's: Leslie, Gus's older sister, haunted by his death and constantly aware of what could have been; Rafe, the actor who brings the joy and sadness of his own marriage into his role; and Sam, a recently divorced man who is irresistibly drawn to Billy's distinctive, enigmatic beauty. Together these four voices create a mesmerizing novel of entanglements, connections and inconsolable losses.
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The Invisible Womble
Автор: Elisabeth Beresford Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20132012-06-23
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Orinoco is certainly the tubbiest of the Wombles and is perhaps the Womble who needs the most encouragement to go out on the daily sortie to clear up and recycle all the rubbish that humans leave behind... Meanwhile, Tomsk, DIY extraordinaire, is getting to grips with the one of the humans' more ingenious inventions: the vacuum cleaner!
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Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20082009-09-17
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Harriet is invited to help her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Initially excited by this prospect, Harriet quickly begins to regret getting involved. Will Harriet overcome her fears and find out who is causing Mr Fetlock's horses to lose all their races? Hold on tight for this bumpy ride!
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Fugitive Pieces
Автор: Anne Michaels Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love's ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
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The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2006 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092011-08-23
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Harriet's invited to accompany her aunts, Thessalonica and Japonica to America. She's terribly excited, knowing very well that with two expert detectives for aunts, this is going to be no ordinary trip. She soon discovers, to her enormous surprise, that they're actually on their way to see her sixth aunt, Formica! And as if this weren't surprising enough, she finds out that Aunt Formica is a cowgirl, and the reason for their visit is to help her catch some rustlers that have been stealing cattle from her ranch. Harriet and her three aunts must move like greased lightening if they're to get on the trail of the slippery cattle thieves. It's time to saddle-up and yee-ha!
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The Cardturner
Автор: Louis Sachar Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2011 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20152012-06-28
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When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to a conclusion. Alton's mother is in for a surprise!
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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
Автор: Rigler Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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Courtney Stone — sassy, smart and suddenly single — has always felt she might have been better suited to life in Jane Austen`s England. One evening, having drifted off to sleep after self-medicating with pizza, Absolut, and Elizabeth and Darcy, Courtney wakes up in nineteenth-century England, in the bed of a girl called Jane Mansfield.
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Harry Potter Adult Paperback Boxed Set (количество томов: 7)
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2008 Страниц: 7 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20102009-12-30
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A boxed set, including the titles Harry Potter and the Philosopher`s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set (количество томов: 7)
Автор: J. K. Rowling Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2010 Страниц: 7 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20122011-12-30
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This is the perfect opportunity to own all seven Harry Potter titles in the latest 'Signature' edition livery. All are encased in a smart gift box.
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Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44
Автор: Anna Reid Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War — and of the twentieth century — would have been very different. Leningrad is a gripping narrative history interwoven with personal stories — immediate accounts of daily siege life drawn from diarists and memoirists on both sides. These twentieth-century European civilians living through unbearable hardship reveal the terrible details of life in the blockaded city: the all-consuming and daily search for food; crawling up ice-rounded steps on hands and knees, hauling a bucket of water; a woman who has just buried her father noticing how the cemetery guards have used a frozen corpse with outstretched arm and cigarette between its teeth as a signpost to a mass grave; another using a dried pea to make a rattle for her evacuated grandson's first birthday, and putting it away in a drawer when she hears, six months later, that he has died of meningitis. In Leningrad, Anna Reid answers many of the previously unanswered questions about the siege. How good a job did Leningrad's leadership do — would many lives have been saved if it had been better organised? How much was Stalin's and Moscow's wariness of western-leaning Leningrad (formerly the Tsars' capital, St Petersburg) a contributing factor? How close did Leningrad come to falling into German hands? And, above all, how did those who lived through it survive?
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