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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A Book of Secrets is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light: Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; Eve Fairfax was Lord Grimthorpe's abandoned fiancee and sometime…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met…

Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: The elephants are not very happy: the hippos have come to live in their river, because their own has dried up. Strange, thinks Elmer, so he goes to investigate. He discovers the problem of the dry river could be solved: but only if the hippos and the elephants drop their prejudices and work in unison.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Terraphiles are a group obsessed with Earth's past and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events. The Doctor and Amy join them on a trip to Miggea, a star on the very edge of reality, and venue for a competition to win the fabled Arrow of Law. But the Terraphiles' grasp of Earth history and customs is dubious to say the least, and just getting to Miggea is going to prove tricky. For…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: If you want to be the best, focus on your most valuable asset: the power of your creative mind. As competition and the pace of change intensify, companies and individuals need to harness their creativity to stay ahead of the field. Under pressure, people often think they can't be creative; many more are convinced they are not creative at all because they have never been arty. Creative genius…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The paper is old and torn. The scribbled black letters are almost impossible to read. But they hold the key to a mystery worth millions. Our Captayne took the pinnace ashore and I went with him and 6 men also, who were sworne by God to be secret in al they saw. Here we buried 3 chests filled with gold and 5 more chests filled with silver. Tom Trelawney's uncle discovered this ancient piece of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety... until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is the definitive edition of P.G. Wodehouse's letters, edited with a commentary by Oxford academic Sophie Ratcliffe. The funniest and most adored writer of the twentieth century, P.G. Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography — a retiring sort of chap, he expressed himself through the written word. So his letters — expertly collected and edited here — provide the best…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site... Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperence Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one, and her investigation seems to be throwing up more questions than answers. But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous questions, her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «From award-winning author Shana Abe comes the fifth novel in her paranormal Drakon series — featuring a glittering world of supersensual creatures that can shape-shift from human to smoke to dragon. Honor Carlisle may have been born into the «drakon» clan but she's always felt like a stranger to her kin — an intuition that proves true when she discovers that she is a Time Weaver: a creature with…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr. Temperance Brennan excavates the remains of a two-year-old child from a site that is said to contain the bodies of twenty-three women and children. Shaken by the discovery, Tempe tries to harden herself against the horrors that she finds. And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City... When a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The last in a long line of women sworn to guard our world against evil, jeweller Garet James is struggling to come to terms with who — or what — she really is. Will Hughes, the alluring four-hundred-year-old vampire who tasted her blood and saved her life, could help, but he's disappeared. Garet believes he's in France, searching for the Summer Country, the legendary land of the Fey where he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.

Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own lifeaand, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Baileyas boyfriend; his grief…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Cameron needs a heart transplant, and when a pioneering doctor offers to give him a new heart, from a pig, Cameron knows he has to try — to become the world' s first pig-heart boy.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them... Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps in them.