Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A charming, hilariously funny and genuinely affectionate picture book from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Jesus' Christmas Party. A little girl is looking forward to the Queen's visit to her school — and wonders what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear! Will they be her 'at home' knickers — adorned with corgis — or her garden party knickers, or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: They watched Danilo Silva for days before they finally grabbed him. He was living alone, a quiet life on a shady street in a small town in Brazil; a simple life in a modest home, certainly not one of luxury. Certainly no evidence of the fortune they thought he had stolen. He was much thinner and his face had been altered. He spoke a different language, and spoke it very well. But Danilo had a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's «The Satanic Verses», which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta («for fifteen years the biggest star in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: The magic of Anne McCaffrey's dragons and their riders lives on, in this exciting new adventure for all McCaffrey fans — and especially for lovers of her bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. Now that Pern can look forward to a future without the threat of Threadfall, the people are free to leave their protective stone holds and spread across more of the planet, as well as improve their lives…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This tale of a tormented musical genius moves across time and place, from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It traces three charismatic figures, bound to one another by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, or liberation.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 941 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 578) Аннотация: For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. Her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W. Campbell Award. Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague.
Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: This beautiful board book edition of My Many Colored Days presents Dr. Seuss at his very youngest. Use it as an innovative color concept book. Use it to help toddlers express how they feel. Use it to introduce the fun of Dr. Seuss!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 721) Аннотация: With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets — including a dog, a cow, and a plane — Are you my mother?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), a screaming comes across the sky, heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country`s revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life — and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind’s most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But, as always, there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the title story in this collection of five novellas, a journalist visits a celebrated but reclusive painter. He is intrigued by the complicated erotic relationship between the elderly artist and the beautiful young women who share their lives with him.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Subtitled ‘A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race’, «The Torrents of Spring» – Hemingway’s second published work – wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the ‘great race’ of writers of his generation. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O’Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Following on from his bestselling study of violence, THE FOOTBALL FACTORY, John King considers Britain's other obsession-sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once-sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise system based on the sexual act. In this lagerosoaked league, the most that women can offer man is 4 points-unless, that is, she…