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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early-twentieth-century work.
Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own lifeaand, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Baileyas boyfriend; his grief…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Cameron needs a heart transplant, and when a pioneering doctor offers to give him a new heart, from a pig, Cameron knows he has to try — to become the world' s first pig-heart boy.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them... Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps in them.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer — here presented in a dazzling new translation — is an absorbing account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn't want to live there. In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. Then he receives a battered envelope, posted in eight years ago, containing a set of instructions and a letter with a simple message: You can save her. Later that night, while picking up a takeaway, Mark glances at a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «While the Coast Guard is preparing Pensacola Beach for a severe hurricane, they find an oversized fishing cooler filled with body parts tightly wrapped in plastic floating offshore. Special Agent Maggie O'Dell is sent to investigate, despite the fact that she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane. She's able to trace the torso in the cooler back to a man who mysteriously…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: King's #1 bestseller about a shy teenage girl who's bullied at school — but whose secret power allows her to exact revenge on her tormentors at prom.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: «Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody «The Zombie Survival Guide», tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.»
Скачать книгу (размер 677 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 134) Аннотация: A step-by-step approach to resume writing for all career stages and most educational backgrounds, this guide shows job seekers how to develop and craft a focused, successful resume in one sitting.
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: It's the literary equivalent of buried treasure--seven rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss! Originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, they include The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga, about a rabbit who is saved from a bear via a single eyelash; Gustav the Goldfish, an early, rhyming version of the Beginner Book A Fish out of Water; Tadd and Todd, a tale passed down on a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison», declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of «Damned», Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Fred and Ted — beloved stars of P.D. Eastman's Big Dog... Little Dog and son Peter Eastman's Fred and Ted Go Camping — fly off on an island vacation in this simplified version of the Beginner Book Fred and Ted Like to Fly. Perfect for babies (and parents) who love dogs, planes, and/or tropical idylls, this charming introduction to opposites is also a perfect introduction to Fred and Ted!