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Adam Jacot de Boinod: I Never Knew There Was a Word for it

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: From 'shotclog' a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life. All they need is this book! This bumper volume gathers all three of Adam…

Jonathan Coe: A Touch of Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print.Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't…

Freud Sigmund: Civilization and Its Discontents

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) 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 civilization,…

Patricia Cornwell: The Scarpetta Factor

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is…

Charlaine Harris: Dead and Gone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course — her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack and Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter. At first the great Were revelation seems to go well — then the horribly…

Kafka Franz: The Castle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he experiences certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K's struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in…

Orwell George: The Orwell Diaries

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social…

Wilde Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a success de scandale and the book was later used as…

Anthony E. Zuiker: Level 26: Dark Origins

Скачать книгу (размер 2 125 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 418) Аннотация: A perfect treat for all fans of Thomas Harris. Sqweegel and Steve Dark are set to become the Hannibal and Clarice Starling of the 21st century in Zuiker's first book of the Level 26 series.

Gilbert Elizabeth: Committed: A Love story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living, in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) to never marry. However, when Felipe was unexpectedly kicked out of the United States by U.S. Immigration officials, the couple was faced with a strict ultimatum: get married or Felipe…

Oscar Wilde: Nothing : Except My Genius

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and wisdom demonstrates the brilliance of his vision, the audacity of his style. Such is the scope of the material, it brings to life the Wilde of great…

Haney Eric L.: No Man's Land

Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: «The creator of the CBS series «The Unit» delivers his fiction debut Kennesaw Tanner once fought a shadow war. Now he's fighting for himself. Soldier of fortune Kennesaw Tanner is approached by government operatives with an offer: rescue the kidnapped heir of a powerful Persian Gulf sheik whose alliance with the U.S. has made him a target for terrorists. But what Tanner doesn't know is that there…

Stone Lieutenant David: The Venetian Judgment

Скачать книгу (размер 2 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 543) Аннотация: An explosive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author. CIA cleaner Micah Dalton has taken his revenge against the Serbian gang who shot his lover. Then he receives a mysterious jade box containing a stainless steel glasscutter. Someone is sending him a very serious message, a message that will force him back into action against a foe out to unleash chaos upon the world...

Sarwat Chadda: Dark Goddess

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: After the death of her soulmate Kay by her very own sword, Billi SanGreal has thrown herself into the brutal regime of Templar duties with utter abandon. There is no room for feelings any more — her life is now about hunting down the Unholy. But when Billi and another Knight Templar are caught at the heart of a savage werewolf attack, only Billi survives — except for a young girl at the scene who…

Moriarty Liane: What Alice Forgot

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She's newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.

Rigler Laurie Viera: Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «The time-bending parallel tale to the national bestseller «Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict» In Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, «Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict», twenty-first-century Austen fan Courtney Stone found herself in Regency England occupying the body of one Jane Mansfield — with comic and romantic consequences. Now, in «Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict», Jane…

Overy Richard: The Battle of Britain

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The Battle of Britain tells the extraordinary story of one of the pivotal events of the Second World War — the struggle between British and German air forces in the late summer and autumn of 1940. Exposing many of the myths surrounding the conflict, the book provides answers to important questions: how close did Britain really come to invasion; what were Hitler and Churchill's motives; and, what…

Irving Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories from the Sketch Book

Скачать книгу (размер 1 937 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 381) Аннотация: The creator of such quintessentially American fiction as Rip Van Winkle, Irving earned his preeminence with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: dozens of short stories, travel essays, biographical discourses, and literary musings.

Jonnes Jill: Eiffel's Tower

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world's fair that introduced it In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of «Conquering Gotham» offers an eye-opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world.…

Madonna: The English Roses: American Dreams

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Itas vacation time again and all the English Roses have exciting plans. Nicole and Amy are off to attend a creative arts camp in Wales. And Charlotteas off to her familyas villa in the south of France. And Grace has invited Binah to come to Atlanta and visit her cousins. Binah is so excited for her first holiday overseas, and she canat wait to meet her friendas family. But her trip gets off to a…