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Max Brooks: Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: «Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, «The Zombie Survival Guide» is one's key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking the streets right now. The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how…

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations

Скачать книгу (размер 6 440 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1264) Аннотация: «First published in 1776, Smith's «primer» provided the first description of the workings of a market economy. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless work that revolutionized the way the creation and dispersion of wealth are viewed.»

Tish Rabe: Inside Your Outside!

Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip in his Inside Your Outside Machine.

Chuck Palahniuk: Lullaby

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' — an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her…

Bottoni Lois: Letters and Sounds: Kindergarten

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring home your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative 'Step Ahead' series of products. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. In this workbook, children can learn about letters, listen for beginning sounds, and match pictures with letters.

Berg Elizabeth: Joy School

Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: A luminous tale of love and loss In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young girl falls in love — and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie has moved to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father. She feels very alone: her much-loved mother is dead; she finds it difficult to settle in, in her new school and her only friends fall far…

Umberto Eco: Baudolino

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own story.

Worth Bonnie: If I Ran the Rain Forest: All about Tropical Rain Forests

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an umbrella-vator ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.

Amis Martin: The Rachel Papers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care — but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.

Amis Martin: Time's Arrow

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home... Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness…

Grisham J.: Pelican Brief

Скачать книгу (размер 2 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 421) Аннотация: Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved. Darby Shaw, a brilliant New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy. When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb, it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good.

Daniel Keyes: The Minds of Billy Milligan

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. Reissue.

Schneck Susan J.: I Know Letters

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.

Howard Jacobson: Who's Sorry Now?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.

Howard Jacobson: Coming from Behind

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a…

R.A. Salvatore: Forgotten Realms: Paths of Darkness: Sea of Swords

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: After finding the mark of Aegis-fang branded on the back of an outlaw, Drizzt Do'Urden fears that his long-missing friend Wulfgar is in danger and sets out with Cattie-brie and Bruenor to find Wulfgar and ensure his safety.

W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories: v: 2

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; 'The Man with the Scar', and notably the opening story 'The Vessel of Wrath', a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse…

Vine Barbara: Grasshopper

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: From the writer Patricia Cornwell calls the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times comes a typically astute and suspenseful tale of what happens when a taste for dangerous heights becomes a way of life.

W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories: v: 3

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatizes both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and…

Nicholas Evans: The Smoke Jumper

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In a searing novel of love and loyalty, guilt and honor, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Horse Whisperer gives his millions of readers another hero... The Smoke Jumper. His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and…