Скачать книгу (размер 3 232 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 635) Аннотация: Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther's nailing of his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg and traces the adventures and conflicts of two central characters, an Anabaptist, a member of the most radical of the Protestant sects, the anarchists of the Reformation, and a Catholic spy and informer, as they travel across Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The four…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in «Hyperion», Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing — nothing anywhere in the universe — will ever be the same.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «One of America's most cherished novelists takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around. Poignant and wickedly funny, «Dating Game» is about tackling life and love with both courage and laughter — told as only Steel can tell it.»
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: With the beloved dogs from P. D. Eastman's classic, Go, Dog. Go!, toddlers can explore the world of color in this interactive adaptation of the original book. Flaps, wheels, and slide tabs let children make a white dog get black spots, the traffic light change from red to green, and dogs of all colors zoom around in cars. Simple and sturdy interactive elements will make this new format a hit with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: «Death stalks the city of angels...Jimmy Gage, a reporter for «SLAP» magazine, stumbles on an explosive story while interviewing Garrett Walsh, an Oscar-winning Hollywood director who has just finished serving time for the murder of a teenage actress. Walsh swears he's not guilty and tells Gage he's written a movie about what really happened — «The Most Dangerous Screenplay in Hollywood». Gage is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Gulag — a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners — was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: For Ned, 1978 seems a blissful year. Handsome, popular, responsible, and a fine cricketer, life if progressing smoothly, if not effortlessly. When he meets Partia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. What if her left-wing parent despise his Tory MP father? Doesn't that just make them star-crossed lovers? And surely, in the end, won't the Fendemans be won over by their happiness? But of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat — hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all — prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 179) Аннотация: As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons-But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: «With his first book, John King has written a cult classic for our times: telling, for once, the truth about soccer violence. Forget the armchair nostalgia of «Fever Pitch» of the transatlantic reportage of «Among the Thugs» — this is a book that gets inside. A collection of linked stories, «The Football Factory» centres on Vince Matthews, a seasoned Chelsea hooligan who represents a disaffected…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 465) Аннотация: Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he`s moved from place to...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is — a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love; business; religion; celebrity, you name it, every category is covered. The collection includes all…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Why do some people lead happy successful lives whilst other face repeated failure and sadness? Why do some find their perfect partner whilst others stagger from one broken relationship to the next? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves trapped in jobs they detest? And can unlucky people do anything to improve their luck — and lives? Ten years ago,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late — the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Her mother Jenny, on…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball. After just a few seconds, a man dressed as a gorilla slowly walked into frame, beat his chest at the camera, and sauntered off. Unbelievably, almost none of the people watching the film noticed the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: It's 1989 and, whenever he isn't hanging out in the local bars, Herr Lehmann lives entirely free of responsibility in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Through years of judicious sidestepping and heroic indolence, this barman has successfully avoided the demands of parents, landlords, neighbours and women. But suddenly one unforeseen incident after another seems to threaten his idyllic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a…