Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The latest Vine novel, published by Viking in August, is called The Birthday Present, and I believe it is destined to take its place beside the very best of her novels. It has a sensational plot: a right-wing government minister is conducting an illicit sado-masochistic affair with a young married woman. As a surprise birthday present, he arranges for her to be 'kidnapped' off the street, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December... When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims — until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 298 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 648) Аннотация: «For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Spot has fun on the beach in this classic lift-the-flap tale by Eric Hill. This is a reissue of the popular board book edition with a coloured cover.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'. He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart — and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush'. Tuffy knows what he likes. And he doesn't like the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new classes. So what's a cat to do? A few scratches here just happen to shred a painting. A nudge there somehow slips a vase off a shelf. Dad hope a horribly lumpy clay pot will be next, but Tuffy's having none of it. The killer cat will go his own sweet…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When Dr. Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the estate of Squire Thornhill. Taking to the road in pursuit of his daughter, who has been seduced by the rakish Squire, the beleaguered Primrose becomes embroiled in a series of misadventures —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: «When the sheepish Wuhses are taken advantage of by the overbearing Pervects, Skeeve teams up with Zol Icty — self-help expert and bestselling author of «Imps Are from Imper», «Deveels Are from Deva» — on a mythion in personal empowerment.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Based on the legend of an early sixteenth-century astrologer and necromancer. Doctor Faustus is an enduring tale of the brilliant mind of a mortal man — and the soul he sold to the devil... This new edition includes a revised introduction, a history of the play on stage, and an updated bibliography by the editor, Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Assassin, art-restorer and spy, Gabriel Allon, is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers there is a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationshipsawith her elderly husband, with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A lonely widower. A ruthless assassin. A beautiful woman. A government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond all human imagining.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jeremy Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, he'd like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Don't worry, he'll get on to the car bit eventually, but before he does, there's time to learn about: * Why Galapagos tortoises are all mental * France, reduced…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. But just as lightning illuminates, darkness always follows close behind.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire — among…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A beautiful woman scarred by a hateful past. A compassionate cop haunted by a childhood by poverty. Violence brought them together and an unspeakable abomination may tear them apart.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl — tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne. When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: 'Yes, I loved her, it's the name I gave, still give alas, to what I was doing then. I had nothing to go by, having never loved before, but of course had heard of the thing, at home, in school, in brothel and at church, and read romances, in prose and verse, under the guidance of my tutor, in six or seven languages, both dead and living, in which it was handled at length'.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one? The…