Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, a natural killer — absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives'. Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Bei Abrissarbeiten in Minneapolis werden die Leichen von zwei in Plastik verpackten Mädchen gefunden. Es sieht aus, als hätten sie dort eine lange Zeit gelegen. Lucas Davenport weiß genau, wie lange. Im Jahr 1985 hatte der junge Polizist Davenport den Ruf, leichtsinnig zu sein und das Verschwinden der Mädchen war eine große Sache. Seine Vorgesetzten erklärten den…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'The mind of man is capable of anything — because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, rage — who can tell — but truth — truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder — the man knows, and can look on without a wink'. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It's Monday, January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother... I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head... I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan... The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: By popular demand, a board book edition of the third title in this bestselling series. The Buehners' New York Times bestselling snowmen are here to stay! Children wonder what would happen if their favorite frosty friends didn't melt with springtime. What would it be like to take a snowman to the beach? What costume would a snowman wear if you took him trick-or-treating? In this dazzling, silly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's Monday, June 13th. I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky',…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 419 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1456) Аннотация: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy'... Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Is death the end... or only the beginning? Ethan Wate always dreamed of leaving the stifling Southern town of Gatlin. But he never dreamt that finding love with Lena Duchannes would drive him away. Lena is a Caster girl whose supernatural powers unveiled a secretive and cursed side of Gatlin, so powerful it forced him to make a terrible sacrifice. Now Ethan must find a way to return to Lena — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 588) Аннотация: The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead's epic series! Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from across four decades, she examines the intense private worlds and passions of everyday people. From one man's honeymooning epiphany in Hassan's Tower to the journeying fantasies of A Voyage to Cythera, and from the sharp joy of The Merry Widow to the bloody reality of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: More than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice of 11 November 1918, the time is right for a radical reassessment of the Great War. In this book aimed at appeal to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: There's a new bad guy in the galaxy — Savage Opress. Count Dooku's secret apprentice has become one of the breakout stars of The Clone Wars animated series and now features in his own easy-to-read title.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Presents a collection of tales that includes: «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Masque of the Red Death», and «The Fall of the House of Usher».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol — blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they were'. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in…
Скачать книгу (размер 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 105) Аннотация: Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China... and forty-one when he came back More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about... or was it all made-up? Young readers are…