Книги жанра Hachette Livre

The Lucky One
Название: The Lucky One
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Год: 2009
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Описание: After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour of duty in Iraq, he experiences a sudden streak of luck, winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph — his lucky charm.
Private
Название: Private
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Год: 2011
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Описание: Synopsis: PRIVATE is a hypercharged new thriller featuring the world's most advanced investigations firm. Former Marine and CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned security and detective business — along with a case load that tests him to the breaking point. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 school girl slayings would be enough. On top of all that, Morgan takes on solving the horrific murder of his best friend's wife.
The Reversal
Название: The Reversal
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Год: 2011
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Описание: Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
Room
Название: Room
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Год: 2011
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Описание: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
Safe Haven
Название: Safe Haven
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Год: 2011
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Описание: When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships — one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.
The Lost Autobot
Название: The Lost Autobot
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Год: 2011
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Описание: In this Level 2 reader based on Transformers: Dark of The Moon, the Autobots discover a lost friend in an unlikely place. Can they bring him back to life in time to fight the evil Decepticons?
The Happy Home Project
Название: The Happy Home Project
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Год: 2011
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Описание: In «The Happy Home Project», author Jean Nayar looks at not only the material things that contribute to the beauty and style of a house, but also explores the hidden elements and intangibles that add to its substance and soul. Brimming with beautiful photos and filled with expert advice from architects, designers, organizing experts, and contractors, the book offers easy-to-follow guidance on how to create inspiring, stylish rooms as well as practical tips on how to invest wisely in furniture and improvements that will add value to your home — and your quality of life. Focusing on comfort and harmony with nature, the book taps into the wisdom of poets, philosophers and social scientists — as well as experts of the ancient Asian building philosophies of feng shui, vastu shastra, and wabi-sabi-to reveal some of the subtler steps that anyone can take to turn to an ordinary, impersonal house into an uplifting, personal sanctuary. With helpful hints on everything from corralling clutter, picking paint, and arranging furniture to refinishing floors, replacing windows and remodelling a kitchen, «The Happy Home Project» is a great go-to guide for home improvement projects, large and small. Whether your home needs a major makeover or just a little fine-tuning, the ideas, solutions and tips in this book will help you increase its happiness quotient-and let you live well in any dwelling and at any stage of life.
The Bourne Objective
Название: The Bourne Objective
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Год: 2010
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Описание: Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring? An artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he's determined to find the ring's owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he'll discover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal cunning. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, Who is the more deadly agent?
Arthur's Valentine (+ Audio CD)
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Год: 2010
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Описание: Arthur's wrong guess about the identity of the secret admirer sending him valentine messages leads to teasing by the other children. However, clues in additional messages allow him to get his due.
Breaking Dawn
Название: Breaking Dawn
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Год: 2011
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Описание: The #1 «New York Times» bestseller is available for the first time in a mass market paperback edition. The astonishing conclusion to the Twilight Saga, «Breaking Dawn» illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions. Now that Bella has made her decision to join the dark but seductive world of immortals, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in «Twilight» then scattered and torn in «New Moon» and «Eclipse»-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
Daniel X: Demons and Druids
Название: Daniel X: Demons and Druids
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Год: 2011
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Описание: Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe, and now he's aiming to extinguish his next target: the explosive demon of fir, Phosphorius Beta, and his army of flame-weaving henchmen. But it's going to take a whole new level of mojo to destroy this villain. Beta's strength has been growing since he arrived on Earth over a millennium ago, and he's finally ready to turn the blue planet into his own fiery wasteland. The only way to stop him is by jumping back in time to the Dark Ages to end Beta's blistering reign before it has a chance to begin. But can Daniel X take the heat? Or will the alien hunter finally get burned?
I Am Ozzy
Название: I Am Ozzy
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Год: 2011
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Описание: »They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies...' Now «me» kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I've killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night. It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I've been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour. People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. I've always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain't the «devil.» I'm just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.»
The Mission Song
Название: The Mission Song
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Год: 2008
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Описание: Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not meant for his ears — and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONGrecounts Salvo's heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. A ragingly readable adventure tale... Every issue of today is here: class warfare, race, torture, immigration, language. But THE MISSION SONG is also a tender love story, a fast-paced thriller, and a story with as many brilliant minor characters as major. Like another favorite of mine, The Constant Gardener, it 'gets' the centrality of Africa to our world today.
Officers and Gentlemen
Название: Officers and Gentlemen
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Год: 1979
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Описание: This is the second volume in the 'Sword of Honor' trilogy. The other volumes in this trilogy include: 'Men at Arms' and 'The End of the Battle'.
Danger at Sea
Название: Danger at Sea
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Год: 2011
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Описание: Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock are on the hunt for hidden treasure! But their enemies are hot on their trail. Can the trio survive an attack at sea? It is up to Tintin to save the day! Illustrated with gorgeous stills from the hit film.
The Mystery of the Missing Wallets
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Год: 2005
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Описание: There is a thief on the loose stealing wallets! Everyone is falling victim to this master pickpocket-even ace reporter Tintin's wallet has been stolen. It is a good thing Thomson and Thompson are on the case... or is it? Illustrated with gorgeous stills from the hit film.
The Adventures of Tintin: The Reusable Sticker Book
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Год: 2011
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Описание: Meet Tintin's friends, play cool games, and learn secret codes, as you relive some of Tintin's greatest escapes with these colorful stickers from the movie. Easy-peel stickers can be used again and again!
Tintin's Daring Escape
Название: Tintin's Daring Escape
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Год: 2011
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Описание: When Tintin discovers a secret message inside a model ship, he and his dog, Snowy, suddenly find themselves in the middle of a great mystery-and in danger! Trapped in a locked room aboard a ship at sea, they must find a way to get off the ship and on the case. Will Tintin escape in time to unlock the secret message? Illustrated with gorgeous stills from the hit film.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose
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Год: 2011
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Описание: *Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit *Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department *Focus on company culture as the no.1 priority *Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business *Help employees grow-both personally and professionally *Seek to change the world *Oh, and make money too... Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine's annual «Best Companies to Work For» list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. Fast-paced and down-to-earth, DELIVERING HAPPINESS shows how a very different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for achieving success-and how by concentrating on the happiness of those around you, you can dramatically increase your own.
La Hija De La Chuparrosa
Название: La Hija De La Chuparrosa
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Год: 2006
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Описание: This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.