Книги издательства Penguin Group
Название: It Can't Happen Here
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.
Название: Fangland
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovaas bestselling The Historian proves, thereas always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marksaa former 60 Minutes producerasinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first — century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour, Sent on assignment to Transylvania, she delivers more than a story when mysterious e-mails, coffins, and a creepy guy named Torgu descend on the New York office. This darkly funny tale will appeal to vampire and horror aficionados as well as anyone whoas fed up with what passes for anewsa today.
Название: Billy Budd and Other Tales
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: «The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower», and «The Town-Ho's Story.»
Название: Shadowmarch: Volume I
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Now in mass market paperback-Tad Williams' triumphant return to high fantasy!
Название: The Mayor's Tongue
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year. In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as aterrifying, touching, and wildly funny, a the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave. What unfolds is a bold reinvention of storytelling in which Eugene, a devotee of the reclusive and monstrous author, Constance Eakins, and Mr. Schmitz, who has been receiving ominous letters from an old friend, embark from New York for Italy, where the line between imagination and reality begins to blur and stories take on a life of their own.
Название: The Orpheus Deception
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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Covert operative Micah Dalton is on the outs with his former bosses, staying off the radar and hopefully out of firing rangeauntil an attempt on his life forces him back to the CIA, where he must find an old associate whoas gone missing. But Micahas mission is not about a man. Itas about an elusive ship that is already heading west. And its cargo is death.
Название: Shadowplay
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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With their father and brother taken from them, the royal Eddon twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. But now Barrick has been captured in a failed war against the immortal Twilight People and Briony has been forced to flee the castle. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world.
Название: Friday Night Bites
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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Since revealing their existence to the mortals of Chicago, the vampires are enjoying their celebrity status. But should people learn about the Raves — feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattle — the citizens are certain to start sharpening their stakes.
Название: Tom Clancy's Hawx
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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Just as Troy Loensch comes into his own as a pilot with the United States Air Force, a private military contractor called Firehawk takes over. Troy isn't happy with the arrangement — and neither is the CIA. And when they ask Troy for help investigating Firehawk, he accepts — with explosive consequences...
Название: No Man's Land
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The creator of the CBS series «The Unit» delivers his fiction debut Kennesaw Tanner once fought a shadow war. Now he's fighting for himself. Soldier of fortune Kennesaw Tanner is approached by government operatives with an offer: rescue the kidnapped heir of a powerful Persian Gulf sheik whose alliance with the U.S. has made him a target for terrorists. But what Tanner doesn't know is that there are elements within the government who want him to fail, that the sands of politics are shifting against him-and that the job he's being paid to do may cost him more than he bargained for.
Название: The Venetian Judgment
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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An explosive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author. CIA cleaner Micah Dalton has taken his revenge against the Serbian gang who shot his lover. Then he receives a mysterious jade box containing a stainless steel glasscutter. Someone is sending him a very serious message, a message that will force him back into action against a foe out to unleash chaos upon the world...
Название: Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The time-bending parallel tale to the national bestseller «Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict» In Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, «Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict», twenty-first-century Austen fan Courtney Stone found herself in Regency England occupying the body of one Jane Mansfield — with comic and romantic consequences. Now, in «Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict», Jane Mansfield awakens in the urban madness of twenty-first-century L.A.-in Courtney's body. With no knowledge of Courtney's life, let alone her world-with its horseless carriages and shiny glass box in which tiny figures act out her favorite book, «Pride and Prejudice»-Jane is over her head. Especially when she falls for a handsome young gentleman. Can a girl from Regency England make sense of a world in which kissing and flirting and even the sexual act raise no matrimonial expectations?
Название: Eiffel's Tower
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of «Conquering Gotham» offers an eye-opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Epoque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. «Eiffel's Tower» is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.
Название: Dune Road
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The instant «New York Times» bestseller from one of the most beloved voices in women's fiction An ever-growing legion of fans greets the publication of each new tale from the inimitable Jane Green. Her latest gem, «Dune Road», is set in tony Highfield, Connecticut, where recent divorcee Kit Hargrove has joyfully exchanged the requisite diamond studs and Persian rugs of a Wall Street Widow for a clapboard Cape with sea-green shutters and sprawling impatiens. Her kids are content, her ex cooperative, and each morning she wakes up to her dream job: assisting the blockbuster novelist Robert McClore. Then an unexpected series of events forces Kit to realize that her blissfully constructed idyll and blossoming new romance aren't as perfect as she thought. A warm, witty, and gloriously observed meditation on the challenges of starting over, «Dune Road» is Jane Green at her absolute best.
Название: Six Graves to Munich
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 «New York Times» bestselling author of «The Godfather.» Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subject upon which his captors committed atrocity upon atrocity. But not before they did the same to his wife-and unborn son. He's lived with the horror of that experience for ten years. Now, Michael Rogan has returned to Europe to find the men who tortured him. And he's going to make sure that they never have to live with the horror as he did... They will die with it.
Название: The Templar Throne
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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In the 14th century, Templar knight Jean de St. Clair was tasked with piloting the order's treasure-laden fleets off the coast of France. To this end, he used the Jacob's Staff — a nautical instrument supposedly developed in his own time. But retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday possesses a Staff he found in the hands of a 4,000 year-old Egyptian mummy. Holliday suspects that St. Clair may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of the ruthless, enigmatic Templars. But there are those who believe that some questions should remain unanswered. And that the answers Holliday seeks should go with him to the grave...
Название: Killer Summer
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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It begins as a heist in Sun Valley, Idaho-until the local sheriff discovers a more sinister underlying plan. The crime gets more personal. The stakes are raised, and nothing is as it seems.
Название: Dead or Alive
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in... dead or alive.
Название: Body Work
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2011
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The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly subdued, the man-an Iraqi war vet-leaves the club. Days later, the woman is shot outside the club. Sara Paretsky is a New York Times bestselling author.
Название: The Rembrandt Affair
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2011
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When an art restorer is murdered and a portrait by Rembrandt is stolen, Gabriel Allon is pulled into a race across the globe against a group of powerful men who will do anything to keep the truth about the painting hidden...
