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Скачать книгу (размер 2 069 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 407) Аннотация: Matt Mandrell, unsuspecting graduate student, never imagined his research would lead him to a strange scrap of parchment that would change his life forever... Crossing the void of time and space, Matt is whisked away to an enchanted world where speaking in rhymes works the most dazzling magic. There he wins not only fame and power as the Lord High Wizard, but the heart of the beautiful Queen…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The first girl had a bite mark on her neck. When the tabloids got hold of the story, they immediately called the killer 'The Rottweiler', and the name stuck. The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. Someone spotted a shadowy figure running away past the station, but couldn't say for sure if it was a man or a woman. There were only two other clues. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The latest bestselling novel by the prolific John Grisham is now available in mass market paperback. This searing thriller is the story of a public defender in Washington, D.C., who digs into the background of his client — charged with a random street killing — and stumbles into a conspiracy too horrible to believe.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department, he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats — in addition to his wife's…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: CCC Kontum, a US Special Forces unit, runs top-secret cross border reconnaissance missions. The President denies their involvement, and the public are unaware of their existence. Any method is permissable, in a secret war of relentless ferocity, where achieving your mission and surviving are not the same thing. Bobby Lake dropped out of Harvard to fight in Vietnam, because he wanted to be a hero.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches — a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a tidy sum to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead — a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favourite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. Then he captures the art student Miranda and keeps her in the cellar of the large house where he patiently waits for the barriers of class and taste to break down in the limbo of their isolation. She, the creator, desperate...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life — afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them. Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA officers as they dodge surveillance and walk into violent…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Dick, Jane, Sally, Mother, and Father are not the only family having fun. This time, meet Mike, twin sisters Pam and Penny, and their parents. Two families mean twice the laughs and twice the fun. Beginning readers will love the way each chapter is an individual story, and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young readers? progression.

Скачать книгу (размер 34 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 8) Аннотация: All aboard! This Seussian, train-shaped board book with big, bold flaps lets babies and toddlers engage in a rollicking game of Lift the Flap. Sturdy board pages and an accordion binding lets the fun unfold and makes the perfect nursery room decoration.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: At the playground, at the pet store, on a car trip, or at home: Dick, Jane, and Sally always have fun. Will Dick get another dog? Will Sally finally win a game of hide-and-go-seek? And who are Dick and Jane's favorite friends? With short stories and text from the original Dick and Jane basic readers, this is a perfect chapter book for eager new readers!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness. Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time» is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Once again, the setting d Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommondant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Vekramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While that great Anglophile, Kommondant van Heerden, gropes his way towards attaining true 'Englishness' in the company of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: This collection of short stories essentially reproduces Ernest Hemingway's 1925 book In Our Time, with the addition of the early story Up in Michigan and the title story, first published in Esquire in 1936 and widely regarded as one of Hemingway's great works, inspiring the 1952 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. The other stories here are On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and…