Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives — interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: For a second she thinks she is dead. Then she opens her eyes and wishes she was. The press call him the Black River Killer and his stats are shocking: 16 murders; not captured in 20 years; the FBI's best profiler — Jack King — burned out and beaten, his career shattered. Jack and his wife now run a hotel in Tuscany. And though he still gets nightmares, rural Italy is a whole world away from BRK's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s — Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies — and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio, the Factory, was the place: where he created the large canvases of soup cans and Pop icons that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Famously characterized as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of civilized society and the human desire for romantic passion, there is far more to this story of two daughters made homeless by the death of their father. Elinor, 19, and Marianne, 17, initially project the opposing roles with Elinor cautious and unassuming about romantic matters,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A web of laws had been spun to keep us apart. So writes rising young Ray, public relations man for the Organisation, who is falling in love against all the taboos — with Victor, the country's most popular deejay, on Radio Bantu. The setting is Johannesburg in the Sixties, where such a high profile 'dirty case' can only play into the hands of the powers that be. First published pseudonymously in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Gideon is more than a hit man. In a world of money, violence, women, and love on the run, he's the master of the game. Now Gideon's got the job of a lifetime. The prize is the woman he desires and a cool million. The problem is it's just the kind of hit that can make him more enemies. Like the two beautiful strangers on Gideon's tail. Are they there to protect him or bring him down? There's one…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is the latest Kurt Austin adventure: the hero of Fire Ice is back in a breathtaking new adventure. A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men. But when the two of them investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work. A shadowy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute... With a wonderfully inspiring introduction by…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the expedition on the Beagle. Darwin follows this with survey of his career and ends with a reckoning of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovaas bestselling The Historian proves, thereas always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marksaa former 60 Minutes producerasinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first — century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour, Sent on assignment…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: «April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from a Montana lake. Inside are the remains of three men who died forty-four years before... 1906: For two years, the western states of America have endured a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and then vanishes withouth a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the «Butcher Bandit»,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is observed by Holly Thorne. She tracks Jim to California, and their lives intertwine on one of Jim's lifesaving missions. Surviving a plane crash, terrifying monsters that materialize from Holly's nightmares, and an uncannily powerful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you'. Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Are you mad about dinosaurs? From food and fossils to herds and horns, this book is packed with fascinating facts and key information for all young dinosaur enthusiasts. It also includes a link to fantastic downloadable Mad About posters.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: FBI agent Cynna Weaver teams up with sorcerer Cullen Seabourne to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts. But the passion simmering between them-and their investigation-spiral out of control when an ancient prophecy is fulfilled.