Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernest Hemingway failed a vision test to become a soldier, and instead volunteered for ambulance service on the Italian front, where he was wounded and twice decorated. Recuperating in Milan, he fell in love with an American nurse, and his experiences became the basis for this novel, which Vita Sackville-West called a most beautiful, moving and human book. Writing in a terse,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Man in Full, both huge bestsellers America's 'peerless observer [and] fearless satirist' takes on the university — from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating — plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University — the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With these ominous words, Pors Tonith, ruthless minion of Count Dooku, declares the fate of the Republic sealed. Commanding a Separatist invasion force more than one million strong, the cunning financier-turned-warrior lays siege to the planet Praesitlyn, home of the strategic intergalactic communications center that is key to the Republic’s survival in the Clone Wars. Left unchallenged, this…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating — only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The fully authorised chilling sequel to Susan Hill's bestselling ghost-story, The Woman in Black, released in 2012 as a film featuring Daniel Radcliffe. This is the book the follow-up film starring Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Phoebe Fox is based on. Autumn 1940, World War Two. Bombs are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain. The evacuations begin, and soon children are being taken to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters — presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us «back in the future business.» He explains how we got into the current economic crisis, and offers specific…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Tiffany Aching, a hag from a long line of hags, is trying out her witchy talents again as she is plunged into yet another adventure when she leaves home and is apprenticed to a «real» witch. This time, will the thieving, fighting and drinking skills of the Nac Mac Feegle — the Wee Free Men — be of use, or must Tiffany rely on her own abilities? This is the third novel in the junior Discworld…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Lydia Chin and Bill Smith have been hired by one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task — deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of the recently deceased business colleague of Grandfather Gao. Before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two separate ransom demands are made. While the family of the kidnapped…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 492 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 490) Аннотация: High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Calling Anna and Bennett's romance long distance is an understatement. She's from 1995 Chicago, and he's a time traveller from 2012 San Francisco. They never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all the odds. It's not perfect, of course. Bennett is forced to skip parts of his own present in order to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Becky's biggest ever challenge takes her to Las Vegas and beyond in a fast-paced, fun-filled, road-trip adventure. Becky's gone too far in the past — but now she's putting things right. She's determined to track down her missing dad, help her best friend Suze, bond with her worst enemy Alicia Bitch Long-legs (maybe...) and work out how to play blackjack. As she discovers quite how much her…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheatre, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace — in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather — is Paradise. Ted and his father and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 753 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 345) Аннотация: One lie sends a family into turmoil in a heart-rending new novel from a worldwide bestselling author, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult When Deborah Monroe's car hits and kills a man on a deserted road on a dark and rainy night, questions of who is to blame muddy the already complicated life of a woman who is newly divorced and struggling with emotions that are rampant in a house with two…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Disclaimer stealthily steals your attention and by the end holds you prisoner — a searing story that resonates long after the final page. The best thriller I've read this year. (Rosamund Lupton). What if you realized the book you were reading was all about you? When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine's bedside table, she curls up in bed and begins to read. But as she turns the pages she is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This book is Short-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015. Sunday Times best-seller 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note to him had explained she was dying from cancer. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write a second letter; only this time she must tell Harold the truth. Composing this letter, the volunteer promises, will…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This is a brand new very funny Christmas novel, from the bestselling author of No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday and Single Woman Seeks Revenge. There comes a time in every woman's life when the only answer is to marry George Clooney. For Michelle, that time is now. Slogging her guts out in a chicken factory whilst single-handedly bringing up a teenager who hates her is far from the life that…