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Название: JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR: NORRELL
Автор: Clarke Susanna
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005 Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
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Название: GARDEN PLANTS OF JAPAN
Автор: Ran Levy-Yamamori
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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A colour encyclopedia providing an authoritative overview of the Japanese garden flora.
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Название: THE RETURN OF THE DANCING MASTER
Автор: Henning Mankell
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 464 Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 16.24 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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This is the new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
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Название: IN THE COMPANY OF CHEERFUL LADIES
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 231 Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels will soon be able to savour the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem and events take a more than unexpected turn. Precious Ramotswe, is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made to her by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van and a bicycle, and by a spectacular disagreement between her assistant, Mma Makutsi, and one of the apprentices at the garage. This apprentice has found a fancy girlfriend who drives a large silver Mercedes-Benz. How can he be rescued from his folly? And as for Mma Makutsi, she has found a dancing class, and a man who may not be able to dance very well but who admires her greatly. And all of this happens against a background of quiet sessions of bush tea, and of a land that stretches out forever under mile upon mile of empty sky.
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Автор: unl0k
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Название: THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
Автор: Philip Roth
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 391 Формат: PDF
Размер: 13.69 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.
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Название: THE RUM DIARY
Автор: Hunter S Thompson
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 224 Формат: PDF
Размер: 7.84 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day is reaching a violent breaking point.
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Автор: ln2121
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Название: TOM SAWYER DETECTIVE
Автор: Mark Twain
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 112 Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 3.92 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond heists, mistaken identity and murder, involving the two boys in a bigger adventure than even they had in mind. Huck's typical bemused and timid observation provides a poignant contrast to Tom's frenetic ingenuity, as the mystery begins tortuously to unravel, and it is in these two wryly affectionate portrayals that Twain breathes life and warmth into his charming and unjustly neglected story.
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Название: THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Автор: John Le Carre
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 482 Формат: DOC
Размер: 12.05 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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«The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In «The Constant Gardener» he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle — amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat — discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.»
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Название: THE MIDDEN
Автор: Sharpe Tom
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 352 Формат: DOC
Размер: 8.80 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife. The Chief Constable has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not too concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering, and a spot of GBH. It is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, hat things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem.
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Название: THE LOVELY BONES
Автор: Sebold Alice
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 328 Формат: DjVu
Размер: 1.00 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Now in paperback: Alice Sebold's luminous first novel — one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons — that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.
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Название: SCHOOL DICTIONARY
Автор: Merriam-Webster
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 1280 Формат: PDF
Размер: 44.80 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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A dictionary written to help the high-school student succeed. 100,000 entries. More than 1,000 revised illustrations. Abundant word history, synonym paragraphs, and examples sentences.
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Название: LENIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Автор: Salomoni Antonella
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 160 Формат: PDF
Размер: 5.60 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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In February 1917, the centuries-old empire of the Czars collapses. Eight months later, revolutionaries under Lenin's leadership, take power. Few would have gambled on this government of inexperienced militants against a force of armed counter-revolutionaries sustained by the West. But mobilization of the people, the power of the Red Army and political police, the experience gained during the war and, not least, Lenin's skill in directing the new political economy, allow the Bolsheviks to strengthen their hold.
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Название: GOREY CATS: ADDRESS BOOK
Автор: Edward Gorey
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 110 Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.85 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Decorated with Edward Gorey's unicycling puss in a rugby jersey, this little blue address book is pretty on the outside, handy on the inside, with 112 pages and space for over 400 names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. The page edges are alphabetically indexed (additional cats appear within), while the smart red wire binding lets the book lie flat (or even fold back), and the thoughtful elastic band keeps the whole arrangement neatly closed. It measures about 4 x 5 inches.
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Автор: pavke
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Название: THE KINGFISHER TREASURY OF FUNNY STORIES
Автор: Matthews Andrew
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 159 Формат: PDF
Размер: 5.57 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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These funny stories all contain favourite characters such as Posy Bates, Dilly the Dinosaur, flying dogs and dancing cows.
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Название: SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL BEADING
Автор: Boyd Heidi
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 128 Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 4.48 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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40 affordable projects featuring the newest bead styles and fashions. Crafters will learn basic beading and jewelry making with the help of over 250 color photographs for a wealth of ideas.
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Название: BALLYHOO, BUCKAROO, AND SPUDS: INGENIOUS TALES OF WORDS AND THEIR ORIGINS
Автор: Quinion Michael
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 280 Формат: PDF
Размер: 9.80 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological folk tales. The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evolution is often much stranger — and much more humorous — than the commonly accepted one; the many entries will certainly leave you happy as a clam. Happy as a clam? Really — what's so happy about being a clam? The saying makes much more sense when it's paired with its missing second half: at high water. Now a clam at high water is a safe clam, and thus a happy clam. The confusion surrounding the word kangaroo caused so much trouble that the Aborigines thought this English word meant any edible animal; they asked whether the cattle being unloaded from ships were kangaroos. From the bawdy to the sublime, Quinion's explanations and delightful asides truly prove that the proof is in the pudding.
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Автор: prerog
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Название: DEFENDING MIDDLE-EARTH: TOLKIEN, MYTH AND MODERNITY
Автор: Curry Patrick
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 198 Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 6.93 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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«In a particularly insightful examination of the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth in «The Lord of the Rings», Curry argues that Tolkien found a way to provide something close to Spirit in a secular age, and focuses on three main aspects of this monumental work of literature.»
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Название: CROME YELLOW
Автор: Huxley Aldous
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 192 Формат: PDF
Размер: 6.72 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. Crome's hosts, the world-weary Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Pricilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis' stay is a memorable one. In the course of the weekend Henry tells his guests fantastical stories from the history of the house, Mr. Barbeque-Smith invents inspirational aphorisms conceived in trances, Mary dispenses with her virginity on the roof, the local vicar prophesies the Apocolypes, the annual Crome Fair takes place and Denis tries to capture it all in poetry and has his heart broken.
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Автор: warsed
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Название: THE SEA
Автор: Valeria Manferto De Fabianis
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 736 Формат: PDF
Размер: 25.76 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors and aspects: clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water seen from space; magical icy polar oceans; and delicate and frothy photographs from inside powerful waves. The Sea's camera eye emerges from underwater-from the multicolored coral reefs and underwater wrecks and washes on to sandy beaches, coral reefs, cliffs, and volcanic islands to observe the life of coastal villages, ports, and on ships at sea. Another chapter deals with sea creatures: predators and prey, the brightly hued, the powerful, and the delicate life of our oceans.
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Название: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT GEOGRAPHY
Автор: Davis Kenneth
Издательство: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004 Страниц: 395 Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 13.83 mb
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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Who Killed The Dead Sea? Where was the Garden of Eden? What's So Bad About the Badlands? Get on board as Kenneth C. Davis, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About(R) History, takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth — opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.
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