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Kahney Leander: Inside Steve's Brain

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: One of USA Today's Best Business Books of 2008 is now updated with a new chapter. Inside Steve's Brain cuts through the cult of personality that surrounds Steve Jobs to unearth the secrets to his unbelievable success.

Zoe Heller: The Believers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful, disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a…

Barbara Vine: Asta's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing…

Woolf Virginia: A Room of One's Own

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) 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,…

Barbara Vine: The Birthday Present

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The latest Vine novel, published by Viking in August, is called The Birthday Present, and I believe it is destined to take its place beside the very best of her novels. It has a sensational plot: a right-wing government minister is conducting an illicit sado-masochistic affair with a young married woman. As a surprise birthday present, he arranges for her to be 'kidnapped' off the street, and…

Marquez Gabriel Gracia: Of Love and other Demons

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December... When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims — until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one…

Clive Cussler: Plague Ship

Скачать книгу (размер 3 298 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 648) Аннотация: «For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency…

Hill Eric: Spot Goes on Holiday

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Spot has fun on the beach in this classic lift-the-flap tale by Eric Hill. This is a reissue of the popular board book edition with a coloured cover.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'. He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart — and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her…

Clancy Tom: Clear and Present Danger

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The controversial bestseller from Tom Clancy, the all-time master of the techno-thriller. CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan joins the war on drugs. And when three American officials are assassinated in Colombia, the U.S. response is swift-and shocking.

Fine Anne: The Killer Cat Strikes Back

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush'. Tuffy knows what he likes. And he doesn't like the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new classes. So what's a cat to do? A few scratches here just happen to shred a painting. A nudge there somehow slips a vase off a shelf. Dad hope a horribly lumpy clay pot will be next, but Tuffy's having none of it. The killer cat will go his own sweet…

Goldsmith Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When Dr. Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the estate of Squire Thornhill. Taking to the road in pursuit of his daughter, who has been seduced by the rakish Squire, the beleaguered Primrose becomes embroiled in a series of misadventures —…

Robert Asprin: Myth Alliances

Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: «When the sheepish Wuhses are taken advantage of by the overbearing Pervects, Skeeve teams up with Zol Icty — self-help expert and bestselling author of «Imps Are from Imper», «Deveels Are from Deva» — on a mythion in personal empowerment.»

Marlowe Christopher: Doctor Faustus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Based on the legend of an early sixteenth-century astrologer and necromancer. Doctor Faustus is an enduring tale of the brilliant mind of a mortal man — and the soul he sold to the devil... This new edition includes a revised introduction, a history of the play on stage, and an updated bibliography by the editor, Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University.

Daniel Silva: Secret Servant

Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Assassin, art-restorer and spy, Gabriel Allon, is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers there is a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the…

A.P. Chekhov: The Shooting Party

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationshipsawith her elderly husband, with…

Koontz D.: Watchers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A lonely widower. A ruthless assassin. A beautiful woman. A government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond all human imagining.

Jeremy Clarkson: Don't Stop Me Now

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jeremy Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, he'd like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Don't worry, he'll get on to the car bit eventually, but before he does, there's time to learn about: * Why Galapagos tortoises are all mental * France, reduced…

Dean R. Koontz: Lightning

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. But just as lightning illuminates, darkness always follows close behind.

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin: Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire — among…