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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. On the streets surrounding the churches and palaces, brawls and sword fights were regular occurrences.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Julia Llewellyn, Top Ten bestselling author of The Model Wife and Amy's Honeymoon looks at finding — and keeping — your soul mate in Ten Minutes to Fall in Love. Zu Forbes has a complicated relationship with love. Her mother died when she was a teenager, leaving her with a lonely father and emotional baggage. So at the earliest opportunity she switched the baggage for luggage and took off around…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A «Library Journal» Best Book of the Year What would you do with a second chance at life? Having survived a life-threatening illness, Kate celebrates by gathering with six close friends. At an intimate outdoor dinner on a warm September evening, the women challenge Kate to start her new lease on life by going white-water rafting down the Grand Canyon with her daughter. But Kate is reluctant to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is the sequel to the international bestseller The Go-Giver, applying its inspirational approach to real-world challenges. The Go-Giver took the business world by storm with its message that giving is the simplest, most fulfilling, and most effective path to success. It has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers; but some have wondered how the story's lessons stand up to the tough…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «From «New York Times» bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that «will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister» («Marie Claire») In «The Silver Boat,» «New York Times» bestselling author Luanne Rice has written a heart-wrenching yet heartwarming portrait of a family in all its flawed complexity. The McCarthy sisters have come to Martha's Vineyard to say good-bye to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: An ancient prophecy foretells that the world will end on 21 December 2012. In Central America, a treasure hunter discovers a Mayan relic — a mysterious and ornate codex — but when he smuggles it into the US, he brings with him an old and deadly secret. Early in December 2012, the codex comes to Chel Manu, a Mayan world authority. She is torn between the chance to translate the codex herself and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes... it was Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky come to life... one of the most incredible creatures I had ever been privileged to meet'. The fourth largest island in the world, Madagascar is home to woodlice the size of golf balls, moths the size of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wedding florist Emma Grant gets to play with flowers every day and work with her three best friends in the process. She couldn’t ask for a better job. And her love life seems to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn’t found Mr. Right. And the last place she’s looking is right under her nose.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «From #1 «New York Times» — bestselling author Roberts comes the first book in a new series: a novel of love, friendship, and family — and the unpredictable moments that turn a pretty picture into a true work of art.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies by Pittacus Lore contains three gripping ebook novellas telling the backstories of some of your favourite characters in one volume. We're out there, living among you. We're waiting for our day to come. We each have our own stories. And now is the time to share our secrets... Six's Legacy — Before Paradise, Ohio, before John Smith, Number Six was…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and captivating stories that deal with real-life issues have won readers around the globe. Reminiscent of the blockbuster movie Love, Actually, her new novel The Brightest Star in the Sky, features seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit descends on 66 Star Street to radically transform…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Amanda Grange now tells the classic story through the eyes of its compelling romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy — in a series of revealing letters that casts a sparkling new reflection on the manners and morals of the landed gentry in 19th-century England... Here, for the first time, are the letters written by the exceedingly proud and stubborn…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife'. Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page. (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture — now weak and living in terror of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in the brilliant circles of DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, her beauty and recklessness inspiring…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Describes how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of Wonderland and back-to-front Looking Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disorderly tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!' Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.