Книги жанра Random House Inc.
Название: Iacocca
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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He's an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity and newsmaker, whose name symbolized integrity and know-how for millions of Americans.
Название: The Idiot
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2002
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From award-winning translators, a masterful new translation – never before published – of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevsky set out to portray a truly beautiful soul. Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky’s “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. The Idiot is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1994
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In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders... until he meets Donald Shimoda — former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar... In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places — like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.
Название: Impossible
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. With unerring insight into the hearts of men and women — and into the soul of the artist — Steel takes readers into a world of glamour and genius, priceless art and dazzling creativity.
Название: In the Best of Families
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2001
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Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin must help a rich old woman whose husband is getting money in a most mysterious way. But when the case leads Wolfe to the most dangerous man in the U.S., he knows that if he wants to live, he will have to do the one thing that he has never contemplated — run and hide.
Название: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2000
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Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now, as Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola's killer was an enemy of her father's or one she earned herself, a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her longtime partner, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim. Yet the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. And once again they come up against the icy realization that human relationships are often murderous...and that the blood that binds can also kill.
Название: The Innocent Man
Жанр: Random House Inc.
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This book is John Grishams first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland As, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits — drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecutions case was built on junk science and the testimony of jaihouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
Название: The Invisible Man
Жанр: Random House Inc.
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H.G. Wells' classic is back. A mysterious stranger wrapped in bandages from head to toe arrives in town, and mysterious, terrible things begin happening. No one knows if he's responsible until he becomes invisible... right before their eyes.
Название: Kafka on the Shore
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2005
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle — yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own. Extravagant in its accomplishment, Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s truly great storytellers at the height of his powers.
Название: Kill All the Lawyers
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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The courtroom will never be the same when the legal world's oddest couple team up in their third mystery.
Название: The King of Torts
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2004
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The latest bestselling novel by the prolific John Grisham is now available in mass market paperback. This searing thriller is the story of a public defender in Washington, D.C., who digs into the background of his client — charged with a random street killing — and stumbles into a conspiracy too horrible to believe.
Название: The Last Don
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1997
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The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in a story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios.
Название: The Last Juror
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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Grisham's №1 «New York Times» bestseller returns readers to Ford County, Mississippi, the locale for «A Time to Kill». A young journalist becomes caught up in the sensational trial of a savage killer whose vengeful vow has a devastating effect on the small town.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1993
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Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.
Название: The Late Romances
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1988
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An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-date annotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of key passages.
Название: Leaves of Grass
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1983
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Presents the major literary works of America's poet of democracy including: Song of Myself, Starting from Paumanok, and Children of Adam.
Название: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA — and everything is on the record. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten directors of central intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/11. Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world, why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.
Название: Lolita
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration — along with heartbreak and mordant wit — abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love — love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2007
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Fraser, acclaimed historian and author of «Marie Antoinette», casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.
Название: Lunar Park
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2006
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Bret Ellis is a writer whose first novel, Less than Zero, catapulted him to international stardom. In the wake of his third novel, American Pyscho, he was vilified mercilessly. In the midst there is the loss of his father and his dissolution in a world of drugs and booze. Now, ten years later, the time has come for Bret to reconnect with his son and his mother and try to have a more sedate life. Unfortunately his newly found family and stability is immediately threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that seem all to be connected to Bret. As he struggles to defend his family, his very sanity is called into question. In this chilling tale fantasy and reality combine to create an alternate version of the author's life, one that that is as shocking as it is haunting.
