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Glen Cook: Old Tin Sorrows

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: That's what it seems like Garrett has committed himself to when Blake Peters calls in some overdue favors. Someone is trying to kill Peters's boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and maybe poisonous way. Can Garrett keep the general among the living? But Stantnor's mansion holds a host of surprises for a detective who thought he'd seen it all. While the general…

Laurell K. Hamilton: The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 2)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter for Animators, Inc., is offered a cool mil to raise a 283-year-old corpse. But she knows that «the older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it». Only a human sacrifice is «big» enough to raise this old soul — and Anita's no murderer.»

King Stephen: Tommyknockers

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Don't open the door... Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.

Lawrence D.H.: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, «Lady Chatterly's Lover» joyously affirms the author's vision of…

Stephen King: Eyes of the Dragon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.»

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hiawatha

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha weaves together the oral traditions of the American Indian into an epic poem. Susan Jeffers has illuminated some of the poem's most lyrical verses depicting Hiawatha's boyhood.

Glen Cook: Cold Copper Tears

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes...

William Shakespeare: As You Like it

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves — now a fellow exile — and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, «As You Like It» is an exuberant combination of concealed…

Ken Follett: On Wings of Eagles

Скачать книгу (размер 2 375 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 467) Аннотация: When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have dared....

George Gibian: The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: «The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem «The Bronze Horseman»; Gogol's «The Overcoat»; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and «The Grand Inquisitor» episode from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov; plus poetry,…

King Stephen: It

Скачать книгу (размер 5 573 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1094) Аннотация: It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry, the haunting is real... They were just kids when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the…

King Stephen: Thinner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble... that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.

Milne A.A.: The House at Pooh Corner

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Winnie-the-Pooh, the Best Bear in All the World, has long been adored by readers young and old. In this beautiful full-color gift edition of «The House at Pooh Corner, « Ernest H. Shepard's classic illustrations have been painstakingly hand-colored. An exquisite volume and the perfect gift for any occasion, this book is as vivid and charming as the beloved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.»

Follett Ken: Night over Water

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner — the legendary Pan Am clipper — takes off for its final flight to neutral America. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the war for reasons of their own… shadowed by a danger they do not know exists… and heading straight into a storm of violence, intrigue,…

Rand Ayn: The Romantic Manifesto

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important…

Kesey Ken: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the…

Loos Anita: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This novel satirizes a pair of sirens of the jazz age, as an example of comic American vernacular writing of this era.

Herbert Frank: Chapterhouse: Dune

Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile Here is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever...

Shah Idries: The Way of the Sufi

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A selection of excerpts from Sufi masters clarifying the philosophy of Sufism.