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Terry Pratchett: The Wyrdest Link: A Terry Pratchett Discworld Quizbook

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A follow-up to the highly successful “Discworld Unseen University Quizbook”, “The Wyrdest Link” will present itself as qualifying tests for various levels of mastery in Ankh-Morpork City's Guilds and other organisations — from the dignified Thieves' Guild to illicit outfits like the feared Breccia (the trolls' Mafia) or the wholly reprehensive Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night (see “Guards!…

Terry Pratchett: The Unadulterated Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us — the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they've…

Simon Francesca: Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's longrunning war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the…

Sheridan Dorothy: Wartime Women

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Mass-Observation organisation was set up in 1937 with the aim of recording everyday life in Britain. Dorothy Sheridan has plundered its astonishingly rich archives to put together this anthology of women's experience in the Second World War. What was this experience? How far did it go to liberate women? Was it the opportunity that so many expected or was it simply six years of deprivation,…

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Pianist (film tie-in)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.

George P. Pelecanos: Shame the Devil

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A routine robbery goes horribly wrong with several workers shot in cold blood and the gunman's brother killed by the police. Three years pass and the victims and their relatives gather in the aftermath, still trying to come to terms with their grief. But gunman Frank Farrow has other ideas.

Yeltsin Boris: Midnight Diaries

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The struggles and upheavals in Russia over the last few years seen from the top — Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia for a decade. He overcame the coup of 1991, he developed good relationships with world leaders from Clinton to Helmut Kohl. What was the chemistry of his meetings with Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair and Ziang Zhao Min? How did he get on when the Queen visited Moscow, the first…

Howard Robert E.: The Conan Chronicles: v: 2: Hour of the Dragon

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E.…

Gaarder Jostein: Maya

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Why does Ana bear such…

Clark Alan: Barbarossa: 1941-1945

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course of the dramatic and brutal war between the German and Russians on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. From the invasion of Russia mounted on Midsummer's Day 1941 and the German Army's advance to the outskirts of Moscow, to the terrible turning point of…

Allan Pease: Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps: How We're Different and What To Do About It

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Barbara and Allan Pease travelled the world collating the dramatic findings of new research on the brain, investigating evolutionary biology, analysing psychologists research, studying social change and annoying the locals. The result is WHY MEN DON'T LISTEN AND WOMEN CAN'T READ MAPS, the sometimes shocking, always illuminating, frequently hilarious look at where the battle line is drawn between…

Christopher Sandford: Kurt Cobain

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In this compelling biography, Christopher Sandford explores the full, inside story of Kurt Cobain. From the disruptive childhood which had such a crucial impact on Cobain's personality to the ambitious career musician who, as a friend said, 'lunged for success', and the worldwide breakthrough of Nirvana's Nevermind, Sandford also writes about Cobain's stormy marriage to Courtney Love, his heroin…

Uderzo Albert: Asterix and the Black Gold

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The druid Getafix is running short of rock oil — an essential ingredient in the magic potion, which gives the Gaulish villagers superhuman strength to fight Julius Caesar's Roman legions. But the Phoenician merchant Ekonomikrisis has forgotten the druid's order, and Asterix and Obelix set off to prospect for black gold in the Middle Eastern desert. Their mission is complicated by the Roman secret…

Philip K. Dick: Valis

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself Valis. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story — in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime, «Valis» is…

Frederik Pohl: Jem

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', Jem is one of Frederik Pohl's…

Frederik Pohl: Man Plus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster — a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.

Philip K. Dick: We Can Remember It Wholesale: Volume Five Of The Collected Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «The fifth and final part of the complete collected stories shows Philip K. Dick at the very height of his outstanding powers. The twenty-five tales were written between 1963 and 1981, just a few months before he died, and include two stories which have been turned into box office smashes: the title story, filmed as Total Recall, and «The Little Black Box», which grew into his masterpiece Blade…

Howard Robert E: The Conan Chronicles: v: 1: People of the Black Circle

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become kingof Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E.…

George R.R. Martin: Dying of the Light

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice. Warlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation. Seven years ago, on Avalon, Gwen was Dirk's lover, his Guenevere; now she wears the jade and silver bond of…

Zelazny Roger: Chronicles of Amber

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself — Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from…