Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper «The Judge.» Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists — such as Homer and Shakespeare — to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large. Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global culture, social and political icon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 225) Аннотация: «The Return Journey — a spellbinding trip into the human heart... In these powerful, poignant tales, the «New York Times» bestselling author of Evening Class and Tara Road once again reveals her unrivaled understanding of matters of the heart. Here are sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in their infinite variety — powerfully compelling stories of love and loss,…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Mr Jones, a quiet unprepossessing man who works as a translator in a Swiss chocolate factory, meets and falls in love with Anna-Luise, many years his junior and the daughter of Doctor Fischer, the notorious toothpaste millionaire.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Blast off for educational fun! Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched via Seussian sorcery on a wild trip to visit the nine planets in our solar system along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, and Dick and Sally.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone. Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. In this extraordinary novel, which preceded The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, Harris introduced the unforgettable character Dr. Hannibal Lecter.…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring home your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step Ahead series of products. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate your child to master the skills... and turn the page for more! So give your child a head start on being smart with Step Ahead educational products.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate children to master skills... and turn the page for more. Each Workbook Contains: — Easy-to-follow directions; — Skill building exercises with delightful illustrations; — An assortment of colorful stickers; — 32 easy-tear-out pages; — Skill identifier at the bottom of each page; — An answer key.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: There are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night. At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it. Because…
Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: A book and tape pack. The soundtrack to the story enhances both the action and the mood of the titles. Each tape has a fast production side and a slower, read-along version.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm he chose was small, but-well respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage. Now the house, the car and the job are his. Then the nightmares begin: the secret files, the bugs in the new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A lavish erotic historical set in 1875. The morals of Queen Victoria mean nothing to London's wayward and debauched elite. Young but naive Clarissa Longleigh is visiting London for the first time. She is eager to meet Lord Marldon — the man to whom she's been promised — knowing only that he's handsome, dark and sophisticated. In fact he is depraved, louche, and has a taste for sexual excess.…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A lion, a dog, and a tiger are having a contest — can they get ten apples piled up on top of their heads? You better believe it! This first counting book works as a teaching tool as well as a funny story.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book's characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums and bawds.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: A turn-of-the-century doctor tracks a cunning killer in the New York Times bestselling sequel to the acclaimed historical thriller The Alienist.