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Richard Scarry: Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Illustrated in full color. This car-and-truck-filled alphabet extravaganza that starts with an ambulance and ends with a zippercar, is shaped like Lowly Worm's applemobile.

John Irving: The Water-Method Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract — and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...

Leo Lionni: Alphabet Tree

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.

Steel Danielle: Family Album

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Through forty years — from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present — Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from…

P.G. Wodehouse: The Jeeves Omnibus — Vol 2

Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen’s Personal Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume…

Katherine Neville: The Eight

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too…

Robert Ludlum: Trevayne

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Brilliant, fearless, incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne was a self-made millionaire at thirty-five, former Undersecretary of State, current head of one of the nation's most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the « secret government» — and is swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger beyond the corridors of official…

Vladimir Nabokov: King, Queen, Knave

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, his cold middle-class wife, Martha, and their nephew, Franz. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, Martha longs for their nephew instead.

Raymond Carver: American Short Story Masterpieces

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery OConnor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias Wolff.

P.G. Wodehouse: The Jeeves Omnibus — Vol 1

Скачать книгу (размер 2 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 581) Аннотация: «‘It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not’, says Bertie. ‘If I had Jeeves’s brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.’ Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves’s services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen’s helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus…

Steel Danielle: Season of Passion

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggestpro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But thebullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failedsuicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever. Katewill be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son. Soon she willhave another chance…

Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel — a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class…

Steel Danielle: Changes

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York…

Vladimir Nabokov: Invitation to a Beheading

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A vision of a bizarre and irrational world where Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for an imaginery crime in an unnamed dream country.

Lynn Jonathan: Yes, Minister

Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: 'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castles'... and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is distinctly funnier' — Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times.

Lynn Jonathan: Yes, Prime Minister

Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Presented in the form of diaries, official documents, and letters, rather than simply transcribed scripts, this book is a companion to the successful BBC series, Yes Prime Minister.

Scarry Richard: Bedtime Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Five funny tales featuring Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Bananas Gorilla, and the rest of Scarry's memorable menagerie are collected in a sleepytime anthology.

Richard Bach: One

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Steel Danielle: To Love Again

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In Rome, Isabella and her husband, Amadeo, have created an idyllic marriage and the House of San Gregorio, the most exciting name in European high fashion. But in an act of terrorism, Amadeo is kidnapped and taken from Isabella forever. Fleeing to New York, she fights to build a new life for herself and her son, as they discover new worlds and a new life together.

Steel Danielle: Now and Forever

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Although Jessica and Ian Clarke have been married seven years, they insist the thrill and excitement haven't dimmed. At Jessica's urging, Ian has quit his advertising job to become a struggling writer, and she supports him with her successful San Francisco boutique. Ian's financial dependence on Jessica upsets him more than he admits, and in a moment of bored malaise, Ian's first casual…