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Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Big/small — above/below — hairy/smooth? This monstrous collection has traditional opposites, but some silly ones, too.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: She witnessed a murder — and now her life is in danger... Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Welcome a brand-new edition of Insight Guide France, with new features, new maps, and specially commissioned color-photographs throughout the entire guide. A full-color, highly visual guide to the whole of France, covering all the major cities, with expert recommendations to the best sights, cross-referenced with Insights respected mapping and detailed Travel Tips!

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life — impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past'. Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived,…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 195 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1216) Аннотация: Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips between London, Paris and New York, and surprisingly even the money he spent each day, down to the cent. With appearances from and references to everyone who was…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets... The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 120 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 417) Аннотация: The enigmatic performer known as the Body Artist takes the stage at Chicago's Club Gouge and allows her audience to use her naked body as a canvas for their impromptu illustrations. V. I. Warshawski watches as people step forward, some meek, some bold, to make their mark. The evening takes a strange turn when one woman's sketch triggers a violent outburst from a man at a nearby table. Quickly…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime. If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand — the imagination. Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: An enchantingly imagined romance inspired by the true story of the typewriter's invention. Carolina Fantoni, a young contessa in nineteenth-century Italy, is going blind. Neither her parents nor her fianc believe her. Only her friend Turri, an eccentric local inventor, understands. As darkness erases Carolina's world, she discovers one place where she can still see-in her dreams-yet she remains…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. For her future. For…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: In Connecticut, the murder of a pharmaceutical bigwig brings in Savich and Sherlock, along with local Agent Bowie Richards and P.I. Erin Pulaski. Back in Washington, an important U.S. senator is terrorized by an unknown entity, and is calling for Savich's special skills. When the Vice President is nearly killed it's clear these crimes are linked, and Savich and Sherlock must act fast to stop a…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator. One of the 50 original and exciting books of short stories, publishing in February to celebrate half a century of Penguin Modern Classics, this book contains Through the Wall and Anna and Maria.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: With intriguing prompts, this book helps you discover: a secret message, a recording device, an instrument. It engages readers by having them define everything a book can be by asking, 'If it's not a book, what is it then?' — with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An uproarious, uplifting, and brazenly honest celebration of the single girl's life. Unsolicited relationship advice from relatives, disastrous dates, men who wear thumb rings, and the moments of deep satisfaction when a single girl realizes that she can do whatever she wants with her time — it's all here in Haiku for the Single Girl. Reading this brilliantly incisive and wittily illustrated…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.» Sam Sifton, «The New York Times Book Review.» Writer and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: The New York Times bestseller — A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Stockett. In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her pocket, reads it,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In 1901, a young frontiersman named Peter Force comes to New York City and finds a job digging the first subway tunnels. Into his path falls the beautiful mathematical prodigy Cheri-Anne Toledo, whose memories appear to come from another world: the long-forgotten Kingdom of Ohio. Could she have stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to travelling through time? Peter must find…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of «King, Queen, Knave». Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' — Nabokov darts a glance to the…