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Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «The official novelization based on the screenplay of the upcoming sequel to the blockbuster «X-Men».»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Hitler and the Holocaust» is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish power” that must be eradicated, and discusses the process by which Hitler gained…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness — the paradoxes deep in…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Michel is a civil-servant at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers, only the awkward Valerie attracts his attention. Too bashful to pursue her, Michel prefers the uncomplicated pleasures of Thai massage parlours and sex with local women.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols is a portal into the rich, multifaceted, and profound symbolism of Tibetan sacred art. Robert Beer provides a deep and encompassing insight into the vast array of symbols and attributes that appear within the complex iconography of Tibetan Buddhism. The succinct descriptions that accompany his detailed line drawings reveal the origins, meanings, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese.…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil's prison, Hadji Murad was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Today is your birthday! Today you are you!...There is no one alive that is younger than you! Six pages of rollicking pop-ups animate this simple adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. It's the best-of-the-best way to say...Happy Birthday to You!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Annie Leibovitz' extraordinary career took off in San Francisco in 1970 when she first submitted a portfolio to Rolling Stone magazine. By 1973, she was the magazine's chief photographer. Since 1983, Annie Leibovitz has worked closely with Vanity Fair, who will be producing a special music issue to coincide with the book. Her subjects include Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Al Green,…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Miss Bindergarten, the world's best kindergarten teacher, is getting ready for another milestone. Tomorrow she and her class will have been together for 100 days. To celebrate, each student must bring 100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing! At night, while the students go to work assembling their projects, Miss Bindergarten is working, too, making special surprises for the class. The 100th…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi. It's when the FBI starts taking an interest in the investigation that Rizzoli begins to wonder just what makes this case so different,…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: The cat has been with us since time began. Enigmatic, independent, surprising, single-minded, loving — cats too can be a man's best friend. The haiku is an ancient and honourable Japanese verse form — three lines, seventeen syllables — encapsulating a vision of the poem's subject; a person, place, even a cat... CAT HAIKU presents cats as you've never seen them before. In a series of brilliant…

Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: «The meanings of «up» are conveyed with merry verse and illustrations in a happy book that celebrates the joy of life.»

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: First a story, and then a kiss from Mother Bear, and Father Bear carries Little Bear to bed. And that's when the fun begins. Father Bear gets to Little Bear's room, but Little Bear is missing! Little readers will see him hiding in the MOST obvious place but Father Bear cannot seem to find him. Is he under the stove? Is he in the garden? Is he in the woodbox? Only when Father Bear walks past the…

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.