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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «EXQUISITELY HARROWING... Very strange and brilliantly conceived... A sort of metaphysical murder mystery... The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered». A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the center of the town, the banana company arrived, pursued by the leaf storm. As a blizzard of warehouses and amusement parlours and slums descends on the small town of Macondo, the inhabitants reel at the accompanying stench of rubbish that makes their home unrecognisable. When the banana company leaves town as fast as it arrived, all they are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: «Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 «New York Times»-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of «A Year In Provence». Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Early thirtysomething Emma decides it's time to have the baby — but it just doesn't happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it's never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who's now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you're not married, tolerating your bigoted brother, while keeping out of the way of a dismissive film producer who seems to have made a mission out of annoying you, would be quite enough…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Following the success of his stage adaptation of The BFG, David Wood has now written a series of scenes, or playlets for performance by children in schools and other amateur groups. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, these plays can be performed with the minimum of experience or resources.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Skeeve the Magnificent, magician to kings and King of Magicians, Businessman and Problem-Solver Extraordinaire, has come out of retirement. And he’s set up shop in the Bazaar, right on the home turf of his old company, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Too bad his former co-worker, Aahz the Pervect, is not exactly thrilled with the competition. Looks like a little wager is in order.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Lover. Mother. Writer. Each of these roles has meant the world to Izzy Mulcahy. But now, as she stands accused of killing her elderly father, Izzy sets out on a journey of self-discovery and finds the three roles colliding in ways that both surprise and sustain her. However, her journey also leads her to conclude that when she stands up in court her testimony will have a devastating effect on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy and young man he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this ordinary man into a legend? Through his gripping new account of how this modest naval officer became Scott of the Antarctic, Neil Oliver vividly relates the awe-inspiring tales that inspired Britain's greatest hero. And alongside…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend, Quinn, has gone missing. It’s clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What if your boyfriend died right in front of you? It was a night of laughter and celebration. But when John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is plunged into despair. She loved John more than life itself — and now death has taken him from her. She feels nothing, she has lost everything, her world spins out of control. Or so she thinks. For Emma has friends — good friends who rally…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Twenty five years later, revisiting the first authorized biography of Apple and its co-founder and celebrity CEO, Steve Jobs In 1984, «The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer» told the story of Apple's first decade alongside the histories of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Now, completely revised and expanded, «Return to the Little Kingdom» is the definitive biography of Apple and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Jay Asher has worked at an independent bookstore, an outlet bookstore, a chain bookstore, and two public libraries. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore. When he is not writing, Jay plays guitar and goes camping. Thirteen Reasons Why is his first published novel.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Endpoint opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike's recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy that Updike once was, on his family and little town and the circumstances that fed his love of writing. Then there are 'Other Poems', ranging from fanciful musings about what it would be like to be a…

Скачать книгу (размер 70 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 15) Аннотация: El Skippito is back! His doggy pals want to visit the Under Mundo athe underworldawhere mummitos rest in peas. But they need El Skippitoas brains and courage to answer the riddle of the Finx and enter the mummyas tomb. Our hero is up to the task, and heas in for another whirlwind adventure.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box, with his name on it, lying on the porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker — his classmate — who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did — and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list — and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction — tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine…