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Книги издательства «Random House, Inc.»
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There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. |
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Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true. Its remarkable hero, Ditie, is a hotel waiter who rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism. Ditie's fantastic journey intertwines the political and the personal in a narrative that both enlightens and entertains. |
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Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he spends his days disposing of the sick and injured chickens. But all the while he dreams of a life in the army — despite the fact his numerous applications have been rejected. Then one day a mysterious visitor arrives and sees Rubble's child-like naivety combined with an ability to kill without compunction. Soon Rubble finds himself involved in a murderous secret project, his only chance of escape is the help of the girl he has to kill. |
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Entra en el oscuro y seductivo mundo de los inmortales. Ever guarda un secreto: puede oir los pensamientos de todos los que estan a su alrededor, ver su aura y conocer su pasado con solo tocarles la piel. Abrumada por la fuerza de este extrano don, vive encerrada en si misma y solo tiene dos amigos, los excentricos Haven y Miles. Todo cambia, sin embargo, cuando Damen se incorpora a su clase; atractivo y enigmatico, despierta rapidamente el interes de todas las chicas del instituto. Ever, como siempre, intenta mantenerse al margen, pero muy pronto descubre con una mezcla de temor y fascinacion que Damen no tiene aura y que altera de forma misteriosa todos sus poderes. |
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Erase una vez un mundo donde las noches eran largas y la Muerte contaba su propia historia. Erase una vez una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. En el pueblo vivIa una niNa que querIa leer, un hombre que tocaba el acordeOn y un joven judIo que escribIa cuentos hermosos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo, la niNa se convirtiO en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Y con esas palabras se escribiO una historia hermosa y cruel. Una novela tremendamente humana, emocionante e inolvidable, que describe las peripecias de una niNa alemana de nueve aNos desde que es dada en adopciOn por su madre hasta el final de la II Guerra Mundial. Su nueva familia, gente sencilla y nada afecta al nazismo, le enseNa a leer y, a travEs de los libros, a distraerse durante los bombardeos y combatir la tristeza. Pero es el libro que ella misma estA escribiendo el que finalmente le salvarA la vida. |
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«La fascinante continuacion de «Eternidad» Iniciada en el mundo oscuro y seductivo de los inmortales por su amado Damen, Ever esta aprendiendo todo lo que puede sobre sus nuevos poderes. Pero mientras que los poderes de Ever van aumentando, los de Damen empiezan a desvanecerse. Una enfermedad misteriosa amenaza a su memoria, su identidad y su vida. Desesperada por salvar a su novio, Ever viaja hasta la dimension mistica de Summerland, donde descubrira no solo los secretos del pasado de Damen — una historia atormentada y brutal que el habia tratado de ocultar — sino tambien un texto antiguo que revela el funcionamiento del tiempo. Mientras tanto, la luna azul se esta acercando, marcando el unico periodo en que Ever puede viajar, y Ever tendra que decidir entre viajar al pasado y rescatar a su familia del accidente que les costo la vida y quedarse en el presente para salvar a Damen.» |
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«Predestinados a encontrarse, condenados a perderse Hay algo dolorosamente familiar en Daniel Grigori. Misterioso y reservado, capta la atencion de Luce Price desde el mismo momento que lo ve en su primer dia en el internado Sword & Cross en Savannah. Eil es lo unico que la alegra en un sitio donde los moviles estan prohibidos y las camaras de seguridad te siguen a cada paso. Solo hay un problema: Daniel no quiere tener nada que ver con ella y asi se lo ha hecho entender. Pero Luce no lo puede dejar ir. Irremediablemente atraida, esta empenada en averiguar que secretos guarda Daniel tan desesperadamente aunque le cueste la vida. En el proceso, Luce descubrira que esta historia de amor aparentemente nueva tiene un origen que, en realidad, se remonta miles de anos atras un origen mas tragico y formidable de lo que nunca podia haber imaginado. Saga romantica llena de amantes condenados, angeles caidos, seres inmortales y memorias perdidas, «Oscuros» es una emocionante historia de amor en cuyo corazon yace la pregunta que pasaria si nunca pudieras estar con tu alma gemela?» |
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Just in time for Halloween — a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims — from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men — ever to be immortalized in verse. Browning, Hardy, Auden, Mark Doty, Thom Gunn, Simon Armitage, and Stevie Smith are only a few of the wide range of poets, old and new, whose comic, chilling, and occasionally profound poetic musings on murder are gathered together in this uniquely — irresistibly — heart-stopping collection. |
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When Pope Alexander Borgia dispatches Damiata, a beautiful courtesan, to the remote fortress city of Imola in Northern Italy to learn the truth behind the murder of his beloved son, she knows she cannot fail, for the Pope holds her own son hostage. Once there, Damiata falls under the spell of the charismatic Duke Valentino Borgia, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. As the murders multiply, Damiata's search for the killer grows more urgent. And so she enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli, and an eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Together they begin to decipher the killer's taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking science of observation and Machiavelli with his new science of men. Traveling across a land torn apart by war, Damiata and Machiavelli enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover at its center a new face of evil and a terrible secret — a secret is still to be found within the lines of Machiavelli's most controversial book, The Prince. |
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It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated. Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John's son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly-resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him. And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past... |
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class — 5,000 points! Running in the hallway — 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm — 50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he's been avoiding. |
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Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's mother, Anne Boleyn. Against a tide of secrets, betrayal, and murder, William finds himself fighting for the very soul of his kingdom. Then, when he and Dominic both fall in love with Minuette, romantic obsession looms over a new generation of Tudors. One among them will pay the price for a king's desire, as a shocking twist of fate changes England's fortunes forever. |
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A family Christmas in Cornwall for the newly single? Thea's parents have split up but still seem to be together. Both her younger sister and her brother are Smug Marrieds. But Thea is newly single and very much wishes she wasn't. When her mother and father plan a great family Christmas in a big house by the sea, the idea is to make it all great fun and tremendously civilised — not remotely complicated despite the fact that what they will really be celebrating is the final break-up of their marriage and the Moving On to new partners. And the new partners will also be there — and why not? It's what they do in Sweden, apparently, and it all works out fine. But will they move on? And will Thea manage to navigate her way through the forced jollities and family disasters to find some happiness for herself? |
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Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep — every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake's unknown past, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, in a landscape of different colour and sound, a story held in the scars that stripe her back. All the Birds, Singing tells the life of an outsider. With extreme artistry and empathy, it reveals an existence of diurnal beauty, incremental horrors, stubborn hope and tentative redemption. |
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New York Times bestselling author, Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Batman, Swamp Thing) and artist Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, Joe The Barbarian), the incredible team behind the miniseries American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, are reuniting for the powerful miniseries: THE WAKE. When Marine Biologist Lee Archer is approached by the Department of Homeland Security for help with a new threat, she declines, but quickly realizes they won't take no for an answer. Soon she is plunging to the depths of the Arctic Circle to a secret, underwater oilrig filled with roughnecks and scientists on the brink of an incredible discovery. But when things go horribly wrong, this scientific safe haven will turn into a house of horrors at the bottom of the ocean! Collects THE WAKE #1-10. |
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