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Rat Race (MM) ***

Matt Shore is a substitute pilot assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track. They`re nervous, but Matt`s not. That is, until he manages an emergency landing minutes before the plane explodes. Matt doesn`t think...

Red Rabbit

Red Room

He almost took your life. Now his is in your psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her...

Redemption

Revelations

Revolting Rhymes (MM)

Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in...

Rhyme Stew (Illus. Blake) Ned

Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. He was educated in England before starting work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. He began writing after a `monumental bash on the head` sustained as an...

Rivers of Gold. The Rise of the Spanish Empire

River Knows

The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings`s grand house. Louisa never saw it course, Anthony Stalbridge couldn`t possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was an act of...

Road to Wigan Pier, the (A)

Roald Dahls Book of Ghost Stories (Ned)

`Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts ...` Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister...

Robot Visions

From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, are five decades of robot visions gathered together in one volume. These 36 landmark short stories and essays include...

Room with a View (Ned)

You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you .... Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly...

Rotters Club (B)

Jonathan Coe`s widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine...

Rough Country

Round the Bend

What`s it like to drive a car that`s actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions...

Rumours: Luxe Novel

December 1899 – New York City Manhattan has bid farewell to its brightest star, the dazzling Miss Holland. Yet the rumours about her untimely demise continue. Meanwhile, her sister, the irrepressible Diana, has been...

Russian Emigre Short Stories fromBunin to Yanovsky

Russian Affair (Penguin Great Loves)

When Gurov sees the lady with the little dog on a windswept promenade, he knows he must have her. But she is different from his other flings - he cannot forget Chekhov`s stories are of lost love, love at the wrong...

Russia House

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: The Life of a Stupid Man

S is for Silence (NY Times bestseller)

In Kinsey Millhone`s 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother`s absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put...

Safe House

You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but Samantha Laschen is a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. She`s moved to the coast to escape her problems and to be...

Salvation in Death (MM)

Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 "New York Times"-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some...

Satori in Paris