Small Talk Hacks: The People Skills & Communication Skills You Need to Talk to Anyone and be Instantly Likeable
Karia Akash
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SmartTribes. Как команды становятся успешными вместе (Top Business Awards[10])
Комафорд Кристин
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Smoke
Westlake Donald E.
Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now.From Publishers WeeklyYet another variation on the invisible-man notion doesn't sound like a promising prospect, but if any author can wring some fresh fun out of it, Westlake's the one. He doesn't fail. Freddie Noon is a sharp, likable burglar whose mistake is to break into the offices of two doctors doing so-called research for the Tobacco Institute. Catching him, they make him a human guinea pig for one of their formulas, and -- meet disappearing Freddie. Naturally, his life as a burglar gets much easier, but his girlfriend, Peg, isn't too comfortable with an invisible lover. In no time, Freddie is on the run: the Institute wants him for its nefarious purposes, the doctors want to study him further and a corrupt cop has his own reasons for pursuit. How Freddie and Peg run rings around the opposition, in New York and at an upstate hideaway, is the stuff of glorious Westlake comedy, in which Freddie's invisibility is merely one element in a caper full of hilarious characters, crackpot conversations and narrative sleight-of-hand.
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Snake River Slaughter
Johnstone William W.
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Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
William Faulkner,
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Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion
William Faulkner
Here, published in a single volume as Faulkner always hoped they would be, are the three novels that comprise the famous Snopes trilogy, a saga that stands as perhaps the greatest feat of Faulkner’s imagination. The Hamlet, the first book of the series chronicling the advent and rise of the grasping Snopes family in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, is a work that Cleanth Brooks called “one of the richest novels in the Faulkner canon.” It recounts how the wily, cunning Flem Snopes dominates the rural community of Frenchman’s Bend—and claims the voluptuous Eula Varner as his bride. The Town, the second novel, records Flem’s ruthless struggle to take over the county seat of Jefferson, Mississippi. Finally, The Mansion tells of Mink Snopes, whose archaic sense of honor brings about the downfall of his cousin Flem. “For all his concerns with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man,” noted Ralph Ellison. “Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics.”
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Snow
Malfi Ronald
A brutal snowstorm has blanketed the area and brought with it translucent phantoms that invade humans and drive them to murder.
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Snow Place to Die : A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery
Daheim Mary
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Snow-Walker (Snow Walker[1])
Fisher Catherine
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Snowbound
Crouch Blake
*For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hardedged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, “I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first… or the last.”From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of this overwrought thriller from Crouch (Abandon), attorney Will Innis's wife, Rachael, fails to come home from a late night at work. Her car is found on an Arizona desert highway, the driver's side window smashed, but no sign of blood. After a belligerent cop interrogates him about his wife's disappearance, Will packs up his 11-year-old daughter, Devlin, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and flees. Five years pass until FBI agent Kalyn Sharp tracks down Will, who's lived in several towns under various identities, to tell him she believes he's innocent. For a lawyer, Will is incredibly gullible. Based on nothing, he fears he'll be prosecuted, and Devlin will have no one to take care of her. He forgets that the girl has loving grandparents as well as aunts and uncles, and ignores that her disease, though in remission, can be life threatening. He accepts Kalyn's involvement with little thought. The story comes to a less than credible climax at a remote Alaskan resort.
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Soie
Baricco Alessandro
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Šokoladinis pabėgimas
Koomson Dorothy
Nepaprastai smagus ir jaudinantis pasakojimas apie meilę, aistrą ir šo- koladą. Kam ta meilė, kai turi šokolado? Amberė – geros širdies, bet artimų santykių ir įsipareigojimų bijanti jauna moteris, visas savo baimes tildanti gero šokolado plytele. Gregas – plevėsa ir mergišius, iš moterų norintis tik vieno – vienos nakties nuotykio. Tačiau kai juodu tarsi netyčia perguli, abiejų nusistovėję gyvenimai sudrumsčiami visam laikui. Netrukus juos užklumpa drastiški įvykiai, ima aiškėti ilgai slėptos paslaptys ir į dienos šviesą pradeda lįsti ilgai tildytos baimės. Ar Amberė išdrįs mesti sau iššūkį ir pradės gyventi, užuot dar kartelį bėgusi šokolado?
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Solis
AA Attanasio,
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Solomon's Grave
G. Keohane, Daniel
Daniel G. Keohane has crafted a tense, intricate thriller that will appeal to fans of The Davinci Code.... Solomon s Grave is a creepy, intense read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. I loved it! --~ Brian Keene, author of _ The Rising and Earthworm Gods _4-star reviewA fascinating occult suspense novel, fluent to read, for all those who prefer subtle suspense and finely woven characters over bloody murders and hardcore action... --Media Mania (German Edition)Product DescriptionNathan Dinneck's new role as pastor may be shorter than he expects.For thousands of years a secret has been hidden from the world and protected from those who covet its power. Popes and Kings have sought it. Theologians and historians have debated its very existence. In every generation since the days of Solomon, one person is chosen to keep its secret, protect it from an ageless group claiming the treasure for their own dark god. After millennia of searching, they are finally closing in on their prize.Evil has followed Nathan home to Hillcrest, Massachusetts.Nightmares of temples and blood sacrifice, visions of angels and cemeteries foreshadow a dark battle to come. In the balance hangs the lives and souls of those chosen to protect history's most holy relic, perhaps even the gateway to heaven itself.
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Some Deaths Before Dying
Dickinson Peter
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Something in the Water: A Novel
Steadman Catherine
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Son of Holmes (Auguste Lupa Mysteries[1])
Lescroart John
John Lescroart offers an engrossing historical mystery that takes us to a small French town in the dark days of World War I-where the rumor is that Auguste Lupa is the son of the greatest detective of all time. And his mysterious legacy may come to light as he attempts to solve the baffling murder of an intelligence agent...
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