Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front and the lives and deaths of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Bret Ellis is a writer whose first novel, Less than Zero, catapulted him to international stardom. In the wake of his third novel, American Pyscho, he was vilified mercilessly. In the midst there is the loss of his father and his dissolution in a world of drugs and booze. Now, ten years later, the time has come for Bret to reconnect with his son and his mother and try to have a more sedate life.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Arranged thematically—from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner’s Eye View—here is the definitive collection of the British nation’s funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Cybermen are back to terrorize time and space — but luckily the new Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Rose are back to stop them. Picking up where Monsters and Villains left off, this fully illustrated guide documents the return of these metal menaces, as well as the Sycorax and other foes from the new series, plus first series terrors like the Gelth and the Reapers. More classic baddies…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world’s most intellectually challenging game for two decades – lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life’s toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how tough the competition. Drawing on a wealth of revealing and instructive stories, not only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will — that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Unsettled by her pregnancy, werewolf Elena Michaels is given the task of retrieving a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper, but she soon discovers that the letter contains a portal to Victorian London's underworld, allowing the vicious killer access to the twenty-first century, where he and a pair of zombie thugs are searching for Elena.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide in Steel's latest №1 bestseller.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Als Eragon auf der Jagd einen blauen Stein findet, ahnt er nicht, dass dieser Fund sein Leben verändern wird. Denn aus dem Stein schlüpft ein Drachenjunges und beschert Eragon ein Vermächtnis, das älter ist als die Welt. Über Nacht wird er in eine schicksalhafte Welt voller Magie und dunkler Mächte geworfen, die regiert wird von einem Herrscher, dessen Grausamkeit…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Uh-oh. Mrs. Wishy-Washy is at it again. Rubbing and scrubbing all the animals on the farm. But this time they aren't standing for it. Duck, Cow, and Pig are leaving mean old Mrs. Wishy-Washy for good! They run away to the big city. But they get lost, wander into a restaurant, and even stumble into a hardware store and get covered in paint! Where is Mrs. Wishy-Washy when they need her? Maybe her…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Things are always a little rowdy in a class of twenty-six kindergartners, but there are some days when chaos reigns. Watch what happens in Miss Bindergarten's rambunctious class when water overflows, ants are on the loose, and oozy paint smudges. How will Miss Bindergarten and the kindergartners get everything back in order? This is one kindergarten adventure not to be missed!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Gotham’s never been so scorching, the Joker’s never been more despicable, and Batman’s never been in such grave danger. With more than thirty fires raging out of control across the city, Gotham is indeed a hell on earth. But torching the population is small potatoes for the arsonist extraordinaire known as Enfer. The pyromaniac’s mad masterpiece is Arkham Asylum, blazing like a Roman candle and…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A condensed, board-book version of the P. D. Eastman canine classic Big Dog... Little Dog, staring Fred and Ted-mutts who are opposite in every way, but best friends nevertheless.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily... The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case, this means ten or more relatives coming to stay, including assorted aunts and uncles, nutty Great-Aunt Ida (the Home tells them to be careful not to let her out) and his ghastly cousins: Titania in her silly, sick-making frilly fairy dresses and the twins…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: «This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, it remained unpublished at the author's death in 1964; it was smuggled into the West in 1980. Grossman offers a bitter, compelling vision of a totalitarian…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. Twenty-two of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter — sometimes all at once. They are told by the people who have all answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Clare and David-divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart. Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the…