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Hemingway Ernest: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: This collection of short stories essentially reproduces Ernest Hemingway's 1925 book In Our Time, with the addition of the early story Up in Michigan and the title story, first published in Esquire in 1936 and widely regarded as one of Hemingway's great works, inspiring the 1952 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. The other stories here are On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and…

Ian McEwan: Enduring Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them — something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism,…

Kelley Armstrong: Dime Store Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From Canada's new queen of suspense comes the latest in her Women of the Otherworld series — a mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Joseph Slate: Miss Bindergarten Takes a Fiel

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Miss Bindergarten and her kindergarteners are stepping out of the classroom and going to all sorts of places. Franny gets to decorate a cake at the bakery, Jessie learns to Stop, Drop, and Roll at the fire station, Patricia gets to push the mail at the post office, and all of the kindergarteners read colorful picture books at the library! They even have time to play at the park and have a picnic.…

Jonathan Stroud: Amulet Of Samarkand

Скачать книгу (размер 2 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 491) Аннотация: When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his will, Bartimaeus is packed off to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a…

Robin McKinley: Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from an elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise.

Williams Garth: Baby Animals

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: NO ONE HAS illustrated animals with as much warmth, humor, and realism as Garth Williams. This classic, full of soft and furry animal babies, features his work at his best. This longtime favorite has been reissued for a new generation of kids who will love to pet the animals on each page!

John Grisham: Bleachers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina.

Chuck Palahniuk: Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk Through Portland, Oregon

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Caf-? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you…

Joseph Slate: Miss Bindergarten Stays Home from Kindergarten

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A playful take on a topic that all parents can relate toagetting sick! The ever-lovable Miss Bindergarten is not feeling well. The flu strikes on Sunday, so she has to stay home from kindergarten on Monday. Mr. Tusky (who is a wee bit rusty) will be her substitute, but it just wonat be the same. The kindergartners miss Miss Bindergarten! They pass the time by making get-well cards and singing…

Terry Pratchett: Johnny and the Bomb

Скачать книгу (размер 1 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 249) Аннотация: Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times, different ears — including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place…

Hemingway Ernest: Green Hills of Africa

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he & his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in — & fascination with — big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt & an impassioned portrait of the…

Dr. Seuss: Hop on Pop

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: A condensed, board book version of the classic bestseller, perfect for babies and toddlers. Introduces the youngest readers to the wonderful world of Seussian word play.

Cervantes: Don Quijote de la Mancha (II)

Скачать книгу (размер 3 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 766) Аннотация: «Хитроумный идальго Дон Кихот Ламанчский» — величайший роман эпохи Возрождения, переведенный почти на сотню языков и волнующий умы вот уже более четырех веков. Трагикомическая эпопея Мигеля де Сервантеса о безумном рыцаре, не боявшемся показаться смешным в своем утопическом стремлении сделать мир лучше, о надежде и отчаянии, мудрости и сумасбродстве, величии и убожестве на сегодняшний день…

John Grisham: Bleachers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An unforgettable novel about fleeting youth, legends and heroes. High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. As Coach Rake's 'boys' sit in…

Pratchett Terry: Wings: The Third Book of the Nomes

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this, so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step…

Kelley Armstrong: Industrial Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «Wiccan heroine Paige Winterbourne returns in this sequel to «Dime Store Magic.» After her mother's murder, Paige breaks away from her coven and tries to start a new one. But someone soon begins murdering the teenage offspring of some of the underworld's most powerful families.»

John Fowles: The Magus

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games...John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of the complexities of the human mind. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus…

Stephen Fry: Making History

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. Leo Zuckerman is an ageing physicist obsessed with the darkest period in human history, utterly driven by his fanatical hatred of one man. A lover's…

Peter Washington: Eat, Drink and be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet…