Книги жанра Penguin Group
Название: The Help: A novel
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared. Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town — to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day.
Название: Even Money
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The «New York Times» — bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel. On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder.
Название: Spartan Gold
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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The husband-and-wife treasure hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo stumble across a WWII German U-boat in a Delaware swamp. Inside they found a curious bottle supposedly from Napolean's «lost cellar». While they look for the rest of the collection, millionaire Hadeon Bondaruk, who claims to be direct descendant of Persian emperor Xerxes the great, is also looking for that bottle. He is interested only in the label of the bottle, which holds a treasure map leading to the golden columns stolen from the Greeks by Xerxes.
Название: U Is for Undertow
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory — of something that may never have happened. (Grafton's) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.
Название: Wrecker
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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In this sequel to The Chase, Detective Isaac Bell returns to try and stop the mysterious saboteur of the Southern Pacific railroad known as The WRECKER. Who is he? What does he want? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, The WRECKER knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, The WRECKER is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. Clive Cussler is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of Medusa, Spartan Gold, and The Lost Empire.
Название: Anthem: 50th Anniversary
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.
Название: Firestarter
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1997
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Eight-year-old Charlie was born with the most destructive personality power a human being has ever commanded.
Название: Eyes of the Dragon
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1994
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The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.
Название: The Fountainhead
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosphy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rands' own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero — and about those who try to destroy him.
Название: Love in the Time of Dragons
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom — except she's just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they're dragons — and that she's one too...
Название: Deeper Than The Dead
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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California, 1984: three children make a gruesome discovery in the woods: a partially buried female body. Their teacher, Ann Navarre, is shocked at the discovery which marks the end of innocence for the whole community due to the acts of a serial killer. Tami Hoag is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Daddy's Girl and Pandora's Daughter, among others.
Название: In the Company of Vampires
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god, Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex, Benedikt, is there, full of secrets-and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds-and the woman who claimed Ben's heart. It's a good thing Fran's no ordinary mortal...
Название: Turn Coat
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Jim Butcher's Breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller. The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council-and there's only one final punishment for that crime. He's on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Like Harry Dresden. Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less-than-agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake could cost Harry his head...
Название: The Invisible Man
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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Two of Wells's masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions. Along with annotated texts, they feature scholarly introductions and appendixes, bibliographies, illustrations, and indexes. Though they are perhaps a tad pricey for most public libraries, academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in these volumes.
Название: Committed: A Love story
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2010
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living, in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) to never marry. However, when Felipe was unexpectedly kicked out of the United States by U.S. Immigration officials, the couple was faced with a strict ultimatum: get married or Felipe could never enter America again. Over the next ten months, as Elizabeth and Felipe wandered Southeast Asia waiting for permission to return home and wed, the author searched far and wide for wisdom, advice, and perspective on the subject of romantic commitment. Infused with her singular wit, intelligence,-and compassion, Committed is a fascinating meditation on compatibility, fidelity, and family, and — ultimately — an enthralling celebration of love.
Название: Lovers and Dreamers 3-In-1
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2004
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The author who «weaves a story like no one else» («Rocky Mountain News») presents her dazzling «Dream» trilogy — complete in one wonderful volume. The saga of three women who shared a home and childhood, but then grew to fulfill their own destinies, the trilogy includes «Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream» and «Finding the Dream.»
Название: Q Is for Quarry
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2003
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The #1 «New York Times» bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
Название: The Damnation Game
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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Now with a brand new Introduction by the author, Barker invites readers into a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their prey. Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment for an ancient debt. Reissue.
Название: Here on Earth
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1999
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The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis — the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her — the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark, romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you. The answers that March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating — for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...
Название: R Is for Ricochet
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2005
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Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.
