Книги издательства Random House, Inc.
Название: Friends Like These
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliche. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints down the pub for lattes and brunch. For the first time in his life, he's feeling, well... grown-up. But something's not right. Something's missing. Until he finds an old address book containing just twelve names. His best mates as a kid. Where are they now? Who are they now? And how are they coping with being grown-up too? And so begins a journey from A-Z, tracking down and meeting his old gang. He travels from Berlin to Tokyo, from Sydney to LA. He even goes to Loughborough. He meets Fijian chiefs. German rappers. Some ninjas. And a carvery manager who's managed to solve time travel. But how will they respond to a man they haven't seen in twenty years, turning up and asking if they're coming out to play? Part-comedy, part-travelogue, part-memoir, Friends Like These is the story of what can happen when you track down your past, and of where the friendships you thought you'd outgrown can take you today.
Название: Through the Window
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2012
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In these 17 essays (plus a short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross — currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes in his preface, 'Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it'. When his Letters from London came out in 1995, the Financial Times called him 'our best essayist'. This wise and deft collection confirms that judgment.
Название: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2012
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In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and the other has a hand made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination.
Название: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2004
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In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
Название: After Dark
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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The midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfect, too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months.
Название: Norwegian Wood
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire — to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
Название: The Professor of Desire
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's) and finally to that most surprising moment when desire ebbs and, frighteningly, seems on the brink of disappearance. The book explores in all its painful ramifications, the pursuit and loss of erotic happiness.
Название: Fodor's Germany 2011
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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Offering visitors the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of Germany, this Fodor's Gold Guide contains information on lodgings, restaurants, and points of interest, and comes with a pullout map.
Название: The Summing Up
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life, Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.
Название: The Rainmaker
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's up against the most expensive lawyers that money can buy.
Название: A Time To Kill
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. The best thriller writer alive — Ken Follett, Evening Standard. Grisham is a natural storyteller — Daily Telegraph. A giant of the thriller genre — Time Out. Leaves one eager for more — Spectator.
Название: Overnight Resume
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2011
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A step-by-step approach to resume writing for all career stages and most educational backgrounds, this guide shows job seekers how to develop and craft a focused, successful resume in one sitting.
Название: Stake in the Outcome
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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The First Management Classic of the New Millennium! A bold experiment is taking place these days, as leading-edge companies turn upside down the management paradigm that has dominated corporate thinking for more than one hundred years. Southwest Airlines is perhaps the most visible practitioner, soaring through economic downturns while its competitors slash their budgets and order massive layoffs...
Название: Vogue Weddings
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2012
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The wedding is a ritual that — in the last 20 years — has taken on a life of its own to become a main area of focus for stylists, event planners and designers alike. Vogue Weddings presents an unprecedented range of high-end wedding dresses and some of the most exotic and glamorous wedding destinations in the world. With careful and skilled editing from Vogue's European Editor, Hamish Bowles, and featuring a foreword from iconic designer Vera Wang, this is a one-of-a-kind record of the most beautiful weddings ever to take place.
Название: The Best of Roald Dahl
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled. «Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible».
Название: Don't Look Now
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life — love, grief, jealousy — into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense. Patrick McGrath's revelatory new selection of du Maurier's stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man's abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier's long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like The Birds. Don't Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.
Название: Tales of the Unexpected
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1990
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Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
Название: Ghost Dancer
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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From the «New York Times» bestselling author of «The Genesis Code» comes this gripping international thriller. Jack Wilson, brilliant mathematician and diabolical madman, plans to adapt a harmonic resonance weapon to dismantle the technologically interdependent components of Western civilization.
Название: In the President's Secret Service
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2010
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After conducting exclusive interviews with more than 100 current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time.
Название: Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2009
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Now in a new edition, «Transmetropolitan» chronicles the exploits of 21st-century outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, who returns to The City after five years of self-imposed exile.
