Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: For the first time Asimov chronicles the life of Hari Seldon, the man who laid the framework for the universe that came to be known as the Foundation. The long-awaited overture to the greatest science fiction series of all time.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future — to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire — both scientists and scholars — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Story of valiant companions, awesome foes, and the ancient mystery of how the Elves survive.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Murphy's Law — popularly known as Sod's Law — with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle — explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Block has provided the only comfort possible — laughter — for all those who have ever been exasparated by things going wrong, with a set of rules offering a wise and…
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Illustrated in full color. This car-and-truck-filled alphabet extravaganza that starts with an ambulance and ends with a zippercar, is shaped like Lowly Worm's applemobile.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract — and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Through forty years — from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present — Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen’s Personal Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: Only a few know the terrifying truth — an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth — but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy — but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Brilliant, fearless, incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne was a self-made millionaire at thirty-five, former Undersecretary of State, current head of one of the nation's most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the « secret government» — and is swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger beyond the corridors of official…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing store, his cold middle-class wife, Martha, and their nephew, Franz. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, Martha longs for their nephew instead.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery OConnor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias Wolff.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 581) Аннотация: «‘It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not’, says Bertie. ‘If I had Jeeves’s brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.’ Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves’s services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen’s helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggestpro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But thebullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failedsuicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever. Katewill be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son. Soon she willhave another chance…