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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on his new role of leader but, equally important, to assist his wife Mary in pursuing the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 502) Аннотация: This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
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Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: «Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of «Dr. Seuss» (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: «The Cat in the Hat.» The instant success of the book prompted Geisel and his wife to found Beginner…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.