Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's providence to see him to safety. Roger's only hope of survival lies with the Narragansett Indians. Will Mary ever see her father again?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. «Taliesin» is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «He was born to greatness, the son of a druid bard and a princess of lost Atlantis. A trained warrior, blessed with the gifts of prophecy and song, he grew to manhood in a land ravaged by the brutal greed of petty chieftains and barbarian invaders. «Merlin»: Respected, feared and hated by many, he was to have a higher destiny. for It was he who prepared the way for the momentous event that would…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: They called him unfit to rule—a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. He had learned the uses of power from his guide and protector, Merlin. He was Arthur, Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty—who would rise to legendary greatness in a Britain torn by violence, greed and war; the Lord of Summer who would usher in a glorious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth-century and Winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007. Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart — and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed — a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city — a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Sumptuous, oversized hardback edition of the beloved children's classic, fully illustrated with over 60 watercolour and pencil illustrations by award-winning artist, Alan Lee. J.R.R. Tolkien's great classic work, The Hobbit, celebrated its 60th year of publication (1937) with a gorgeous illustrated edition by artist Alan Lee, winner of the Kate Greenaway medal for illustration, and creator of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: Woof Woof It's time for bed, but Biscuit wants to have a snack, and play, and hear stories. Will he ever go to sleep?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The brilliant novel from the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000 page masterpiece, 'Wonder Boys'. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a chaotic weekend…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right-hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing worldly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England — all ultimate prizes. Then Aysgarth meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously and chaotically involved in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. Tormented and on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «In grand Dickensian fashion, the acclaimed best-selling author of The Riftwar Saga brings to vivid life the myriad colors, realities, dangers, and details of an exotic, richly imagined world and the remarkable folk who populate it. A fast-moving and dramatic adventure, «Rise of a Merchant Prince» is Raymond E. Feist in top form.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: There'd been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to be built with thirty classrooms one on top of the other...thirty stories tall! (The builder said he was very sorry.) That may be why all kinds of funny things happen at Wayside SChool...especially on the thirteenth floor. You'll meet Mrs. Gorf, the meanest teacher of all, terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early, and John who…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Hooray Wayside School is Open Again All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor — with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «The first book in the «Children of Violence» series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are «A Proper Marriage», «A Ripple from the Storm», «Landlocked» and «The Four-Gated City».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The second in the Valis trilogy of books, this story tells of the Second Coming: a story of total confusion.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were arrested by the Russians and sent to work in the Siberian gypsum mines.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. It was the middle of winter and very, very cold. The mice of Brambly Hedge forecasted snow. And they were right. In the morning they awoke to find their doors and windows hidden behind deep drifts. There hadn't been snow like this for years. There's enough for a Snow…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Arthur is King—but darkest evil has descended upon Britain's shores in many guises. In this black time of plague and pestilence, Arthur's most trusted counselor Myrddin—the warrior, bard, and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey through his own extraordinary past. So the noble king must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Amelia Bedelia must look for a new job — Mrs. Rogers has finally had enough. But for poor Amelia Bedelia, each new job is a bigger mess than the last. Can she ever find a place to belong?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Written in the age of the atom, when America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease…