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John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy forebears. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery store clerk. But his wife is restless, his teenage children troubled and hungry for material comforts. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition.

Clancy Tom: Bear and Dragon

Скачать книгу (размер 5 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1152) Аннотация: President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known. A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears-including antiterrorism specialist John Clark-to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right.

Lott Tim: White City Blue

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf — White City, Shepherd's Bush — as 'Frank theFib'. He's a liar — but one who always tries to tell the truth. He has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays. Now they are thirty, and trying to live the same life as they did then — drinking, girls, coke, and football. But Frankie…

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder — for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him — but how and at what cost?

Lewison Wendy Cheyette: Big Snowball

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Even easier than Level 1 All Aboard Reading books, Picture Readers combine rebus pictures, super-simple vocabulary, and cut-out flash cards to develop and reinforce reading skills. In The Big Snowball, a little boy's runaway snowball causes village-wide calamity! Simple rhyming text and funny illustrations describe the snowball's path through the town, and the silly ending will leave kids…

Sandford John: Certain Prey

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The #1 New York Times Bestselling series featuring Lucas Davenport. Of all the criminals that Lucas Davenport has hunted, none has been as frighteningly intelligent as the woman who's hunting him now.

Jane Green: Bookends

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia steps back into their lives, her reappearance sets off a chain of events that tests them to the limit. Does Portia have a hidden agenda, or is she just looking for happy endings all…

George Orwell: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong — and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of «Animal Farm» in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to it being refused by publisher after…

Joyce James: Finnegans Wake

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote Ulysses, Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

Dodd Lynley: A Dragon in a Wagon

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Lynley Dodd, winner of numerous awards for her hugely popular series featuring Hairy Maclary and his many canine and feline friends, continues to entertain us with delightful rhyming text. Enjoy the entire Hairy Maclary collection as he and his mischevious companions explore their neighborhood. Gold Star First Readers are for children learning basic reading skills. The simple text incorporates…

Blixen Karen: Out of Africa

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life there; her friendship with the various people of the area and her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals are drawn with warmth and unusual clarity. Although the book is pervaded…

Laurell K. Hamilton: Obsidian Butterfly

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: There are a lot of monsters in Anita Blake's life. And some of them are human. One such individual is the man she calls Edward, a bounty hunter who specializes in the preternatural. He calls her to help him hunt down the greatest evil she has ever encountered. Something that kills and maims and vanishes into the night. Something Anita will have to face alone...

Johnson Stephen: Alphabet City

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Through realistic pastels and watercolors, Johnson proposes a new look at the urban landscape, pointing out how letters appear in a variety of places, from interstates to a simple sawhorse at a construction site.

Nabokov Vladimir: Pale Fire

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

Скачать книгу (размер 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 177) Аннотация: Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby — young, handsome, fabulously rich — always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one…

Robin Cook: Abduction

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: First time in print — Cook's most daring novel yet. A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding — and a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth.

Ludwig Bemelmans: Madeline

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages. No…

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other — and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie — struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and jealousy — becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal…

Brookner Anita: Undue Influence

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular personality. But the unexpected news of this woman's death releases emotions that were not entirely foreseen.