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Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Michael Moore returns to give you the low-down on the ins and outs of voting, answering all those pressing questions you've always wondered about, such as, Why should I vote? It only encourages them. Can my vote be bought (and what's the starting price)? The candidates seem to think I'm stupid. Should I just go along to keep them happy? It seems like just anyone can run for office. Is that a good…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece — a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Big Business conspiracy of bridges, dams and concrete. But a motley gang of individuals has…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop his talent, he takes Roderick from America to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chilling insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to justice. Also in this volume are six short stories and seven ‘conversational portraits’ including a touching one…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: THE MOTIVE, the latest installment in the excellent series of legal thrillers/police procedurals by John Lescroart, is an excellent sequel to the two previous stories in the series. THE FIRST LAW (review 2/9/2003) was a completely atypical story in the series — it involved an incident that would unavoidably alter the relationship of attorney Dismas (Diz) Hardy and Deputy Police Chief Abraham…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade, whether it is promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. A vivid assortment of characters, among them the struggling writer Adam Fenwick-Symes and the glamorous, aristocratic Nina Blount, hunt fast…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nan is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that the money she was relying on is running out and her house might be at stake, she knows that something has to change. Nan decides to rent out rooms in her house for the summer and soon people start moving in, filling it with noise,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In this first novel by CNN political correspondent Mitchell, a Washington, D.C. consultant lands herself in the middle of a high-profile scandal when a former flame is accused of selling military secrets to the Chinese.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novela now in paperback. Into Anita Blakeas worldaa world already overflowing with powera come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated. A group of students…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: This is the classic story of Heidi, an unwanted child who finds love and happiness against all the odds.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words Dirty Girl. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until... A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Islam today is a truly global faith, yet it remains somewhat of an enigma to many of us. Each and every day our newspapers are saturated with references to Islam; Quran, Taliban, Hijab, Fatwa, Allah, Sunni, Jihad, Shia, the list goes on. But how much do we really understand? Are we, in fact, misunderstanding? The Penguin Dictionary of Islam provides complete, impartial answers. It includes…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: «Rose Hathaway is close to graduation from St. Vladimir's Academy. Since Mason's death, Rose has had dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can't concentrate in class, and has terrifying dreams about Lissa. But Rose has an even «bigger» secret — she's in love with Dimitri.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top — the holy men…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad-and it's about to get a lot worse. As Hitler's private secretary-and an influential member of the Third Reich-Martin Bormann was one of those rare Nazis who managed to simply disappear at the end of World War II.…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves — and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives — and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook…