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The Turnaround

Pelecanos George, 2009

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it. THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, the best crime novelist in America. Подробнее

The Untidy House of Mrs: Tittlemouse

Potter Beatrix, 2010

Mrs. Tittlemouse doesn't like a mess, especially in her house, where unwelcome visitors keep leaving dirty feet marks. Mrs. Tittlemouse shoos her untidy guests out, and after putting her house back in order, she throws a party for her very happy, and very tidy, mouse friends. Подробнее

Violin

Rice Anne, 1997

In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana — who once dreamed of becoming a great musician — and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves. But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than does Stefan — and she sets out to resist Stefan and to fight not only for her sanity but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propelled towards the novel's astonishing and unforgettable climax. Violin is crowded with the history, the drama, the invention, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best. Подробнее

The White Queen

Gregory Philippa, 2010

Philippa Gregory, the queen of royal fiction ( USA Today ) Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses. Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. With The White Queen, Philippa Gregory brings the artistry and intellect of a master writer and storyteller to a new era in history and begins what is sure to be another bestselling classic series from this beloved author. Подробнее

The World of Winnie-The-Pooh: Deluxe Gift Box

Milne A.A., 2009

Presents stories of the adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin, along with early poems of A.A. Milne about the experiences of children. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Medium): Black/Orange Argyle

Teneues Hendrik, 2010

Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Medium): Black/Victorian Pattern

Teneues Hendrik, 2010

Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Medium): Blue/Blue Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Medium): Light Green/Blue Stripes Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Small): Black/Grey Argyle Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Small): Black/Orange Argyle Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Small): Black/Victorian Pattern Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Small): Light Blue/Argyle Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

CoolNotes (Small): Red/Argyle Contemporary sophistication on the outside and individual style on the inside, our CoolNotes are fashioned for both the professional and the creative. Available in various fashionable colors, CoolNotes are equipped with an interior pocket for loose papers (i.e. business cards, notes and receipts) and an elastic fastener to protect sheets on your travels. With blank pages on the left folios and ruled pages on the right, CoolNotes are as versatile in their design as in their function. Подробнее

Baby Polar

Murphy Yannick, 2010

Baby Polar loves cuddling up with Mama Polar — until the snow starts to fall. Then he wants to play! He loves catching the tasty flakes on his tongue and zigzagging across the ice. When the winds begin to gust and the snow becomes a blizzard, though, Baby Polar knows it's time to go back to his mother. But now the whole world is covered in white. Where could Mama Polar be? Award-winning author Yannick Murphy's tender, lyrical story and acclaimed artist Kristen Balouch's vibrant collage illustrations perfectly capture the excitement and wonder of a young child's first independent adventure. Подробнее

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Smith Zadie, 2010

A sparkling collection of Zadie Smithas nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections: Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling. Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays some published here for the first time on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers E. M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond that have nourished Smith's rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected. Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively. Подробнее

Churchill

Johnson Paul, 2009

An acclaimed historian presents a revelatory look at the greatest statesman of the twentieth century. For eminent historian Paul Johnson, Winston Churchill remains an enigma in need of unraveling. Soldier, parliamentarian, Prime Minister, orator, painter, writer, husband, and leader all of these facets combine to make Churchill one of the most complex and fascinating personalities in history. In Churchill, Johnson applies a wide lens and an unconventional approach to illuminate the various phases of Churchill's career. From his adventures as a young cavalry officer in the service of the Empire to his role as an elder statesman prophesying the advent of the Cold War, Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Johnson's narration of Churchill's many triumphs and setbacks, rich with anecdote and quotation, illustrates the man's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography before. Winston Churchill's hold on contemporary readers has never slackened, and Paul Johnson's lively, concise biography will appeal to historians and general nonfiction readers alike. Подробнее

Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War

Earley Pete, 2009

Between 1995 and 2000, Comrade J. was the go-to man for SVR (the successor to the KGB) intelligence in New York City, overseeing all covert operations against the U.S. and its allies in the United Nations. He personally handled every intelligence officer in New York. He knew the names of foreign diplomats spying for Russia. He was the man who kept the secrets. But there was one more secret he was keeping. For three years, Comrade J. was working for U.S. intelligence, stealing secrets from the Russian Mission he was supposed to be serving. Since he defected, his role as a spy for the U.S. was kept under wraps until now. This is the gripping, untold story of Sergei Tretyakov, more commonly known as Comrade J. Подробнее

Curious George's Dictionary The world's most curious monkey investigates new words in this lively picture dictionary for young children. Curious George's Dictionary is an engaging picture dictionary specially designed for children from preschool through first grade. Both entertaining and educationally sound, it features charming illustrations and reflects recent research in early childhood literacy, setting it apart from other picture dictionaries. The main part of the dictionary is an A-Z section containing approximately six hundred words, six words to a page. Each word is illustrated with a full-color drawing, most of which have been created for this book by the popular illustrator Mary O'Keefe Young. More than half the illustrations include a sample sentence that puts the word in a familiar context. A four-page illustrated story at the front of the book shows George learning how to look up words in his dictionary, drawing children in while introducing them to dictionary skills. At the end of the book, seven one-to two-page illustrations present groups of words related by simple themes such as colors, shapes, and numbers. Developed in collaboration with educational consultants, the word list includes not only concrete objects but many more abstract concepts, like discover and enough, than do other picture dictionaries. Such words are essential for vocabulary development, and Curious George's antics bring them alive, making them easy and fun for children to learn. Подробнее

Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense

Eastland Sam, 2010

This riveting suspense debut introduces both a stellar new voice and a remarkable detective, an outsider who must use his extraordinary talents to solve the one case that may redeem him. Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, one man lives in purgatory, banished to a forest on the outskirts of humanity. Pekkala was once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, the right-hand man of the Tsar himself. Now he is Prisoner 4745-P, living a harsh existence in which even the strongest vanish into the merciless Soviet winter. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. The man who knew the Romanovs best is given a final mission: catch their killers, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom. Find the survivor of that bloody night and you will change history. In a land of uneasy alliances and deadly treachery, pursuing clues that have eluded everyone, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and lost in the fires of rebellion — and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its core the land he loves. With stunning period detail and crackling suspense, Eye of the Red Tsar introduces a complex and compelling investigator in a fiercely intelligent thriller perfect for readers of Gorky Park, Child 44, and City of Thieves. Подробнее

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