Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Syvlia Day's Passion for the Game is a tale of deception, lust and deadly desire in Georgian England. Maria, Lady Winter, is coerced into using her searing beauty and siren body to find out why dangerous pirate Christopher St. John has been let out of jail. But pirate St. John's only chance of avoiding the hangman is to use his renowned seduction skills to melt Lady Winter's icy heart and to…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor. This collection of forty-eight short pieces on Venice showcase Joseph Brodsky at his very best: witty, intelligent, moving and elegant. Looking at every aspect of Venice, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Jane Green's «The Accidental Husband» is a powerful story about two women connected by an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women have beautiful children on the verge of flying the nest, the home they worked hard to build and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives, followed by his potbellied squire Sancho Panza. With these words, Walter Starkie launches the introduction to his highly esteemed translation and abridgment of Cervantes's great classic — a book that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero — David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world's No.1 storyteller — Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it — in none other than a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it's cheaper to just buy more. Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Utterly compelling, moving and very funny, The Mystery of Mercy Close is unlike and novel your have ever read and Helen Walsh is the perfect heroine for our times.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Dirk Pitt is oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones, praises the Associated Press. And now the Cusslers bring us Pitt's most dangerous adventure of all.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Small-time circus magician Oscar Diggs' life suddenly changes when he's hurled away in a hot air balloon from uneventful Kansas into the enchanting Land of Oz. The inhabitants there see Oscar as the Great Wizard, and they shower him with the fame and fortune he has always imagined would be his. That is, until three very powerful witches start to question Oscar's abilities. Drawn into an…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial life. First published in 1927, this astonishing and daring novel has echoes of Madame Bovary and has recently been made into a ravishing film starring Amelie actress Audrey Tautou. Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband.…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds himself facing renewed bloodshed and disaster when Midia's husband returns, provoking a duel and the return of chaos that Morn has fought so hard to prevent. The first major work and the only play of Vladimir Nabokov,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm. What explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we rejoice in rituals and wrap ourselves in flags? In Wired for Culture Mark Pagel, the world's leading expert on human development, reveals how…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well — until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Quantum electrodynamics — or QED, for short — is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to Richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, a theory that has stood the text of time. Based on a series of lectures delivered to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A tsunami and a war, a mother and a daughter, a husband and a wife: Joanna Rossiter's haunting novel explores how these relationships are welded and dissolved by extraordinary circumstances beyond human control. Beautifully observed and moving, A Lost Place is a novel for fans of Sadie Jones' The Outcast, Amanda Hodgkinson's 22 Britannia Road and Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Kimmie's home is on the streets of Copenhagen. To live she must steal. She has learned to avoid the police and never to stay in one place for long. But now others are trying to find her. And they won't rest until she has stopped moving — for good.Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, the cold cases division, has received a file concerning the brutal murder of a brother and sister twenty…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. In this title, he documents his time living among the desperately poor and destitute.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: We lose everything because everything remains except us. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for…