Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Two people with special powers are drwan together and set out in a passionate alliance to unlock the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift. As the strane saga is played out, a world of witches is created that will fascinate readers for years to come.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Lestat, the vampire-hero, enchanter and seducer of mortals, speaks in the new book in the bestselling Vampire Chronicles that began with Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. For centuries Lestat has been a courted prince in the dark universe of the living dead. But now he is alone, and everything he has come to believe in is called into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 284) Аннотация: «Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic — a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore. Incomparable sleuth Nero Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, find themselves trying to weed out a garden-variety killer at the annual flower show.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When Rachel Bruner sends out copies of a book critical of the FBI to 10,000 influential people, the agency begins harassing her. Then she hires Nero Wolfe to make them stop, and once he's discovered the bureau's weak spot, he sets in motion a scheme guaranteed to force the FBI to leave both him and Rachel alone.
Скачать книгу (размер 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 187) Аннотация: Two Nero Wolfe novellas make for one great read in this latest addition to the Rex Stout Library. Archie Godwin is in the Military Intelligence, and is framed for murder. In the second story, Archie and Nero are embroiled in another war-time mystery, this one involving a captain whose fatal fall leads to a theft of military secrets.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town... Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: «A great deal of wit and playfulness... an entire universe of disorder is distilled» Guardian.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nabokov's third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen — an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster — but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: «Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon — when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach — an «outlander» — in a Scotland torn by war…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism.…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: And if Ferdinand decides to make a chocolate fudge banana cake What do we do? For goodness sake! We ALL JOIN IN! This book is a rumbustious, rollicking and above all noisy collection of seven exuberant poems, perfect for chanting aloud, that are brilliantly illustrated by the incomparable Quentin Blake. The collection includes All Join In, The Hooter Song, Nice Weather for Ducks and Sorting Out…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: «The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties. Seuss fans will be enthralled.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: «The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove «The Master and Margarita».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: «When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. The author's other novels include «Slaughterhouse 5».»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Journey... Every Friday night a lilac-colored minibus leaves Dublin for the Irish country town of Rathdoon with seven weekend commuters on board. All of them, from the joking bank porter to the rich doctor's daughter, have their reasons for making the journey. The Destination... Rathdoon is the kind of Irish village where family histories are shared and scandals don't stay secret for long.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of officequietly — when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepestsecret... that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man whocourageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silentlydisappeared. Now, suddenly,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «This fourth Jeeves volume contains «Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit», «Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves» and «Jeeves in the Offing».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Emabark with Nero Wolfe on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring and sudden death at the Easter parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. And only Nero Wolfe has a clue.