Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Haunted by ghostly visions from a century past, Declan Fitzgerald is drawn to his beautiful neighbor, Angelina. But as the passion between them grows, their future together depends on uncovering a secret from the past as dark and deep as the bayou.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller — when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions — questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly,…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers, and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's most delightful myth adventures.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back — and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania — where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This story brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel. The author traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Caught up in his own cynicism and vulnerability, Monroe Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. This is Fitzgerald's last novel, left unfinished. It bids farewll to the American dream, with a hero who doesn't believe in morality and fails to see love.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Jackdaws is one of the most stirring, successful, and popular thrillers of Ken Follett's career-a patriotic adventure that has won the hearts of readers and critics alike. But perhaps People magazine said it best: Returning to the World War II setting of his bestselling thrillers Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: It's December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is the definitive survey of the English language — in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Annie and her dog, Oscar, have had a busy day playing in the snow. Somehow Annie's red mitten has disappeared in all the fun. They look high and low... It's not on the sledding hill, and it's not by the snow castles. Maybe an eagle carried it off to keep its baby's head warm. Or maybe a mouse is using it as a sleeping bag. When the sun goes down, Annie and Oscar have to give up their search and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: «Sex and the City» author Candace Bushnell returns to the playgrounds of Manhattan's powerful and beautiful with her sizzling sensation «4 Blondes», which gives an insider's look at the romantic intrigues, liaisons, and betrayals among the elite. She chronicles the lives of four beautiful women — a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer — as they face turning points at which each must…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife's nightmare has just begun.