Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of «King, Queen, Knave». Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' — Nabokov darts a glance to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Not suitable for children under 2 years of age Early one morning a little spider begins to spin her web on a fencepost and she doesn't stop until it is finished... Alongside the visual excitement of Eric Carle's vibrant collages of familiar animals is the tactile experience of feeling the spider's web as it grows from a simple line into a complex and beautiful creation — this is a perfect story…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair among her papers that unravels a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The Queen of Storytellers is back — with a triumphant tale of one woman's struggle over adversity. In 1786, a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there. How Mary escaped the harsh existence of the colony and found true love, and how she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In The Machine Stops, humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This is the latest Kay Scarpetta novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. In this fast-paced story, we travel back to the beginning of Scarpettas professional career when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than twenty years later, her secret military ties have brought her back to Dover Air Force Base, and she is confronted with a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This title shows you how to buy, prepare and cook the best sustainable fish and seafood from around the world. Fried, steamed, poached or baked, we are a nation of fish lovers and the Fish Cookbook is the ultimate guide to making the most delicious seafood dishes. With over 300 inspiring recipes, the detailed step-by-step sequences explain every preparation and cooking technique to help you cook…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition comes his way – a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week…
Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: In 1913, publisher Condé Nast launched Vanity Fair, a magazine that would celebrate the culture, politics, lifestyle and humour of the world's 'smart set'. In the publication's mission statement, editor Frank Crowninshield clearly revelled in that world: 'Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.' The magazine discovered or lent…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information the fairies are in BIG trouble. Only one person can prevent this disaster — teenage criminal mastermind…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This new edition includes: The Raid, Woodfelling, Three Deaths, Polikushka, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, After the Ball, and The Forged Coupon. Mortality was one of Tolstoy's most persistent themes, and all of the stories in this volume are connected by this preoccupation, along with the author's simultaneous attempt to help us improve our lives.
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Скачать книгу (размер 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 110) Аннотация: Each one of the 100 postcards in this delightful collection features beautiful and iconic Beatrix Potter illustrations. From book covers to picture letters and watercolors to sketches, this gorgeous box showcases Beatrix Potter's remarkable and unique talent.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is the super funny fourth title in the highly-illustrated, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for both boys and girls of 8+, reluctant readers and all the millions of devoted Wimpy Kid fans out there. Dog Days is also a major motion picture and box office smash. The fourth mega-selling instalment in the hilarious Diary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Lucy Kellaway is the FT's management columnist. She lives in London and is married with four children. Her second novel, In Office Hours, is available from Penguin now.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married — until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who-or what-he is, but Sookie knows. It's the vampire Eric Northman-but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a very frightened Eric, because it soon becomes obvious that whoever took his memory now wants his life.