Книги жанра Penguin Group
Название: Pippi in the South Seas
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1977
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The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
Название: Point Blank
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the sons of the rich and powerful, and something feels wrong. These former juvenile delinquents have turned well-behaved, studious and identical overnight. It's up to Alex to find out who is master-minding this nefarious plot, before they find him.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2003
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Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.
Название: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1985
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Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she be friends the son of a rival robber chieftain.
Название: Scorpia
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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Now in paperback — the latest entry of the New York Times bestselling series featuring teen spy Alex Rider. Alex learns that his father was an assassin for Scorpia, the most powerful terrorist organization going. Now Scorpia wants Alex on its side.
Название: Shrek Forever After
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Shrek and his fairy-tale friends are back for another incredible adventure! With 75 reusable stickers and 16 pages of full-color backgrounds, fans can use the stickers to re-create their favorite scenes from the film!
Название: Skeleton Key
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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Working as a secret agent for Britain's most exclusive agency, 15-year-old Alex Rider is now about to face something more dangerous that he can imagine: a man who has lost everything he cared for and who has a nuclear weapon.
Название: Snakehead: An Alex Rider Adventure
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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The Australian Secret Service recruits Alex Rider to infiltrate a ruthless gang known as Snakeheads. Alex accepts the assignment, and it becomes his most dangerous mission yet.
Название: Stormbreaker
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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Soon to be the focus of a major motion picture, the «New York Times» bestselling Alex Rider series follows the adventures of a teenage secret agent. Now is the chance to see the story visualized in a new format with bold, edgy, manga-like illustrations that bring Alex to life.
Название: That Summer
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2004
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For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister and 150 the always perfect Ashley and 150 is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley's reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes to grips with the future.
Название: Three Fates
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2003
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A shipwrecked survivor — and thief — saves a silver statue from the doomed «Lusitania» ocean liner, setting in motion a chain of events that resound for decades. Fortunes and failures in this fast-paced tour de force depend on a simple twist of fate.
Название: Toxin
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1999
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When his daughter, Becky, becomes ill from bacterial poisoning, Dr. Kim Reggis, a cardiac surgeon, is determined to track down the cause, no matter what the cost.
Название: Two Cats, Three Tales
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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The first three «Cat Who...» mysteries in one volume, from the «New York Times» bestselling «master of mystery» («People»). Prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum always land on their feet. This special volume includes the first three books in this «thoroughly delightful» series. «The Cat Who Could Read Backwards»: Modern art is a mystery to many-but for Jim Qwilleran and Koko it turns into a mystery of another sort. «The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern»: Reporter Qwill isn't thrilled about covering the interior design beat. Little does he know that a killer has designs on a local woman featured in one of his stories. «The Cat Who Turned On and Off»: Qwill and Koko are joined by Yum Yum as they try to solve a murder in an antique shop.
Название: Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... Its winter break at St Vladimirs, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academys crawling with Guardians — including Roses hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasnt bad enough, Roses tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Masons got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissas head while shes making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academys not taking any risks... This year, St Vlads annual holiday ski trip is mandatory. But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price...
Название: Shadow Kiss
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Rose Hathaway is close to graduation from St. Vladimir's Academy. Since Mason's death, Rose has had dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can't concentrate in class, and has terrifying dreams about Lissa. But Rose has an even «bigger» secret — she's in love with Dimitri.
Название: Blood Promise
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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When the Strigoi attack St. Vladimir's, they take some of their victims with them, including Dimitri. He'd rather die than become one of them. Now Rose must abandon her best friend in order to keep her promise to Dimitri.
Название: Wild Fire
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Leopard shifter Conner Vega carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, and bears the soul-crushing sins of past betrayals. Isabeau Chandler's never forgiven him — or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and hotter than ever.
Название: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent — even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. Nineteen Eight-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.
Название: All My Sons
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2009
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In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree — a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War — has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky!
Название: Anna Karenina
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Anna Karenina seems to have everything — beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life — and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. Books can change lives. Penguin Classics have inspired the imaginations of millions of readers over the world, transforming the way people think and feel forever. And now we have partnered with (RED) to bring you our selection of some of the best stories ever written, books are going to help save lives too.
