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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, which all the way through is dominated by the funny and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Will I really — I mean, really — actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces? Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood... axe in hand? Lord, will I really? This new translation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The basis for the hit movie starring James Franco and Kate Hudson A thriller by the author of the Brilliance Saga and The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes Good People gleefully dread-filled, mercilessly tense, and moves with the speed of something fired from a sawed-off. Dennis Lehane Tom and Anna Reed are young, middle-class, and in love. But financial pressures and the struggle to have a baby are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon — it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate. You…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch. 'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside.' As the citizens of an unnamed…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's apprentice. But even he doesn't have all the answers. Mostly I'm just a constable sworn to enforce the Queen’s Peace, with the occasional help from some unusual friends and a well-placed fire blast. With the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women — through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 905 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 767) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George delivers a new masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: a gripping child-in-danger story that tests Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers as never before. Barbara is at a loss: Hadiyyah, the daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar, has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can’t really help. Azhar has no legal claim. Just when Azhar…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in on one of the most magical reading experiences on earth. 'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity. Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 233 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 243) Аннотация: How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history — from Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916. The protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish. It was both a physical battle of shocking violence against a regime increasingly seen as alien and unacceptable and an intellectual battle for a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills — artificial and real — and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a pacy, compelling and penetrating account — from the great Norman Stone. The best short primer on the war in twenty years. (Andrew Roberts). Norman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with his highly acclaimed World War One: A Short History, there is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Poignant, fascinating, entertaining and informative... reminds us exactly how much did happen in that time span and of how many tantalising hints he left behind. (Financial Times). Brilliantly captures Kennedy's entire life through the prism of his final months... the hero, like the devil, is in the detail. (Mark Mason, Spectator, Books of the Year). Wonderfully vivid. (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Keeper of Lost Causes (originally published in the UK as Mercy) is the nail-biting first book in the internationally bestselling Department Q series. It is now a major movie, released in the UK in August 2014. At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: How does the stuff we see in art galleries or the middle of roundabouts come to be made and valued? Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and tensions at the heart of modern art, with many visual aids along the way. From the slippery subject of quality to the problem of rebelling in a world that thrives on rebellion to the tricky question of what can…