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Harpercollins City on Fire Winslow Don

Harpercollins City on Fire Winslow Don

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Providence, RI, 1986 • Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional “muscle” for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away • But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict he can’t escape. Now it is up to him to step into the breach to protect his family, the friends who are closer to him than brothers, and the only home he’s ever known • Exploring classic themes of loyalty, betrayal, honour, and corruption on both sides of the law, City on Fire is a contemporary Iliad from Don Winslow, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Stephen King) подробнее
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'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' • From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in Delhi, a city watched over and protected by the mischievous invisible djinns. Lodging with the beady-eyed Mrs Puri and encountering an extraordinary array of characters - from elusive eunuchs to the last remnants of the Raj - William Dalrymple comes to know the bewildering city intimately • He pursues Delhi's interlacing layers of history along narrow alleys and broad boulevards, brilliantly conveying its intoxicating mix of mysticism and mayhem • 'City of Djinns' is an astonishing and sensitive portrait of a city, and confirms William Dalrymple as one of the most compelling explorers of India's past and present
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В этой удивительной иллюстрированной книге культовый американский писатель Доктор Сьюз знакомит читателей со словами, которые рифмуются • Создатель Кота в шляпе, Хортона и Гринча, известный своими уморительными сюжетами, потешными картинками и яркими рифмами, Доктор Сьюз веселит детей и помогает им учиться читать на протяжении уже более полувека. Его перу принадлежат мировые бестселлеры с общим тиражом в 600 миллионов экземпляров • Издательство HarperCollins подготовило обновлённые издания книг Доктора Сьюза, таких как «Кот в шляпе», «Зелёные яйца и ветчина» и «Лис в носках». Они получили новый дизайн, в который встроены рекомендации по чтению. Издания разделены на три категории: книги из синей линейки предназначены для чтения вместе с родителями, из зелёной – для начинающих самостоятельных читателей, а из жёлтой – для уверенных читателей
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To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television • Work on the widening of the Southern Railway’s route along the Dorset coast is halted when a man is hit in the path of a train. At the inquest, the tragedy becomes a dark and sinister mystery when a witness swears to seeing a man running away from the scene of the accident – a statement that results in the intervention of Inspector French. But when the apparent solution to the case turns into an even deeper mystery, French faces the most complex problem he has ever encountered
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Liverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely driven by one thing: football • The dark, malignant loathing shared by the followers of Liverpool and Manchester United has seeped into every aspect of life in the two cities. Football is not a barometer of disdain, as it is in places like Glasgow or Istanbul or Moscow. In northwest England, it is the engine of animosity • How did it come to this? Why did things turn so nasty? And what does it say about the two cities in which the clubs are based? • Written by a Scouser and a Manc in a rare collaboration, Red on Red addresses the divide by talking to those involved in ten seminal football matches
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