Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most extraordinary adult creation... Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs, he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Welcome to Rome. It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees — among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks — they await passage to their new homes in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 584) Аннотация: The Ryans — father and son — are fighting on two fronts... When a deadly terrorist alliance creates the potential to blackmail any world power into submission, it's got to be stopped before it is too late. That's just the trigger Jack Ryan Jr needs to take his work for shadowy intelligence agency the Campus from the back room to the sharp end: black ops. Meanwhile, his father, Jack Ryan Sr,…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: The dog from Goodnight Dog is back, and he keeps drawing shapes in the wrong places, like triangle wheels on a truck. Will he ever get it right?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with…Will Grayson! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts, they team up to produce the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: After serving in Iraq, David returns home to find his widowed father remarried. Jobless and injured, David doesn't have much Christmas cheer. He realizes that he needs to heal not only his body but his heart as well... Meanwhile, Lillian Warwick's daughters and her old friend Dr. Ezra Elliot are concerned about Lillian living on her own. When the tables turn and Ezra needs help, they find they…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Sam and Eddie Hart opened Barrafina, their no-reservations tapas bar and restaurant in London's Soho, they had no idea how successful it would be. Four years on and it is always packed, always stylish, always lively. And so is the food: together with their Basque-born head chef Nieves Barragan Mohacho, the Harts are cooking the best Spanish food in London today. In this cookbook, they share…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him — but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? «A Clockwork Orange» is all of these. It is also…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes abound, misunderstandings proliferate and matches are eventually made in this sparkling and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his debut as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that have…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret — a secret Lady windermere must never know if she is to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: We the Living depicts the struggle of the individual against the state, and the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. This classic novel is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who fight for existence within a totalitarian state.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: We fed the monster until it blew up... While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system — and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With young Tommy at his side, Dr. Doolittle embarks on extraordinary adventures, using his ability to speak with animals. Lofting's blend of fantasy and environmentalism has delighted readers for generations.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? This title explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly, selfish part of each of us.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Diana Bishop, a young historian (and a witch), discovers an enchanted manuscript at the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The text, known as Ashmole 782, turns out to be a coveted treasure lost for centuries, and she is the first and only creature who has met the terms of its spell. Her discovery sets the supernatural world spinning, and she soon finds an ally in Matthew Clairmont, a 1,500 year old…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth — perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act , two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure. In the black comedies of Switch…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Now in paperback — this is the next mega-selling instalment in the hilarious «Diary of a Wimpy Kid» series. Greg's mom has a vision of 'family togetherness' that really doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. But there's a brand-new addition to the Heffley family to contend with and it looks like Greg might be outnumbered. It could be a real dog of a summer...»