Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov's dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: «The «New York Times» bestseller, now fully updated to include the complete seven-volume series. Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer's Stone get its power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn't, who did? Millions of readers around the world have been enchanted by the magical world of wizardry,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth, Rebels and Traitors tells of soldiers, adventurers, aristocrats and kings, tradesmen, politicians, radicals and scavengers — and the hopes and dreams that carried them through one of the most turbulent eras of English history. Men who never imagined fighting a war gladly risk their lives; women…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in «The Rosewell Incident», how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «New York Times» bestselling novelist Jennifer Crusie combines fast-paced banter, sexy situations, and unforgettable characters in this delightful romance about two reluctant lovers who couldn't be more wrong about being right for each other. TRUST ME ON THIS Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'an illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family, tracing Obama's roots from the present back through more than 20 generations, thanks to the Luo tribe's remarkable oral tradition. Seen though the eyes of the Obama family this will be the story of an African dynasty going back over 400 years. It is a truly astonishing drama culminating in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honor for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred years of change, but now at the century's end it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honor may be silent — but money talks. New York — a mob boss is assassinated. His nephew Astorre Viola and the head of the city's…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Prince Zuko is banished from the Fire Nation by his own father, Fire Lord Ozai. Horribly scarred and stripped of everything he holds dear, Zuko wanders the earth for almost three years in search of his only chance at redemption: the Avatar, a mystical being who once kept the four nations in balance.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him-would deliver Russia-and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasted at noonday, and from the pestilence that walked in darkness-the terror by night... 1825, Europe-and Russia-have been at peace for ten years. Bonaparte is long dead and the threat…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: «Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling «New York Times» bestseller — a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life one day at a time.»
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Children can now enjoy their favorite Poppy story, time and time again with this brilliant picture book and CD set, read by Tamzin Outhwaite. It's Poppy's birthday and she's really excited. She simply can't wait to be a birthday princess! But everyone seems so busy — it's as if no one cares about her enough to remember her special day. They can't all have forgotten... can they?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: THE DEPARTED HAVE ARRIVED. The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She's got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead. But Chess is keeping…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: Rebecka Martinsson, Staatanwältin im nordschwedischen Kiruna, wird in einen besonders grausamen Mordfall hineingezogen: Beim winterlichen Tauchen in einem See stirbt ein junges Pärchen, weil ein Fremder eine Holztür über das Loch schiebt, das sie ins Eis gehackt hatten, um nach einem versunkenen Wrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu tauchen. Wofür wurden die beiden mit dem…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: JO LAROUCHE HAS lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily's doorstep with this note: This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby. At Lily's annual Christmas costume party, a variety of strange events take place that lead Jo and Lily out of California forever — and into the mysterious, strange, fantastical world…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: From New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a tale of danger and desire, as a woman caught up in another country's revolution finds herself falling in love with a charismatic freedom fighter. Lara Clavel knows that her mission to the war-torn Caribbean island of Saint Pierre is fraught with danger. But she is determined to rescue the imprisoned rebel leader Ricardo Lazaro — if only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sapphire Jones doesn't believe in relationships anymore — not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger than her, good looking, doesn't place any emotional demands on her so far, fingers crossed and is great in bed. What more does a girl need? Sapphire puts all her passion into running her own business…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a…