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J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 'His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.' With…

Kate Colquhoun: Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: From the Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution, the Romans to the Regency, few things have mirrored society or been affected by its upheavals as much as the food we eat and the way we prepare it. In this involving history of the British people, Kate Colquhoun celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice…

Sachar Louis: Small Steps

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so…

McCall Smith Alexander: Akimbo and the Snakes

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Akimbo loves his life in Africa. He loves living in the great game reserve where his father is ranger. He is able to see all sorts of wonderful animals. But he doesn't see many snakes — they usually slither away when he gets close. But then his Uncle Peter asks if Akimbo would like to visit his snake park and Akimbo jumps at the chance!

William Boyd: Restless

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically…

Louis Sachar: There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you. That's Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has serious behaviour problems. No one likes him — except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could…

Bedi Shiv: The Development of Human Rights Law by the Judges of the International Court of Justice

Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: With few exceptions, the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice as a whole demonstrates that no rule of international law can be interpreted and applied without regard to its innate values and the basic principles of human rights. Through its case-law the ICJ has made immense contributions to the development of human rights law, and in so doing continues to provide solutions to…

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby — and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.…

Neil Gaiman: The Wolves in the Walls (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: When Lucy hears noises from behind the wall she tries to warn her parents that there are wolves banging about. But her parents don't listen. When the wolves finally take over the house and Lucy and her family are evicted to live in the garden, her parents realise perhaps they should have listened. But Lucy is no shrinking violet and pretty soon she has the wolves out and the family back in the…

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time'', he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.' Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and…

Dominic Barker: Blart 2: Boy Who Was Wanted Dead or Alive — or Both

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Just as Blart is settling down to enjoy his teenage years on a fabulous pig farm with the proceeds from saving the world, Capablanca returns — with bad news. A terrible oversight in his original world-saving research has led to accusations of no less than collusion with evil Zoltab himself. And now he is a wanted man — and so, by assocation, is Blart. To prove their innocence or else be hounded…

Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a…

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Adult Edition)

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, re-read and read again.

Vonnegut Kurt: A Man without a Country

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is vintage Vonnegut — hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.

Douglas Coupland: JPod

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There, they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is being invaded by marijuana gro-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, global piracy and…

Ronan Bennett: Zugzwang

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence. This title is set in St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and — under its surface of frosty glamour — seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery April day, O.V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days…

Angie Sage: Araminta Spook: Vampire Brat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: WHAT'S LURKING IN THE BASEMENT? Araminta thinks something horrible might be hiding in the deep, secret passages of Spook House. She suspects it might be a werewolf. To make matters worse, Uncle Drac's creepy nephew has arrived and is now Wanda's New Best Friend. Araminta finds him (and the situation) very annoying. She has to come up with a cunning plan to reveal what she believes to be true —…

Gilbert Elizabeth: Ешь, молись, люби (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby — and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So…

Louis Sachar: Someday Angeline

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is put up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher and her tropical fish and another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-and-turns of plot and lovely humour,…

McInerney Jay: The Good Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor although in a diminished capacity; his wife, Corrine, has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from making money, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife, Sasha, and their angst-ridden teenage…