Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles... In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan Shephard and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover, families exert a hold as tight as fate, and every way out only ends up back home.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn't coming home.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence. «Liars in Love» is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth: Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired'. The volatile,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this seventh installment of Armstrong's sizzling paranormal series Women of the Otherworld, celebrity necromancer Jamie Vegas finds herself haunted by children who are trapped between two worlds.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 523) Аннотация: «New York Times» — bestselling author Armstrong follows «No Humans Involved» with the eighth sexy, action-packed Women of the Otherworld novel featuring a wickedly beautiful, supernaturally gifted heroine who may love danger a bit too much.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and bronze vessels without damaging them. 'Archaeology…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master – all compacted into 128 pithy pages! Tony Ring, the president of the Wodehouse Association and author of the 600,000-word Millennium Wodehouse Concordance, has drawn on his extensive knowledge and even more wonderful enthusiasm to compile an absolutely cracking anthology, which answers all our Christmas present problems in one volume. Here are not only witty…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The noise was heard as far away as Holyrood Palace, where Queen Mary was attending a wedding masque. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, the naked corpses of Darnley and his valet. Neither had died in the explosion,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one’. Garry Kasparov Here Grandmaster and World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov shares the powerful secrets of strategy he has learned from dominating the world’s most intellectually challenging game – lessons about mastering the strategic and emotional skills to navigate life’s toughest challenges and maximise success no matter how…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson’s best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover... ...how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in «Dustbin Baby». ...how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in Love Lessons. ...how she sat entrance exams like Ruby in Double Act. But most of all how Jacky loved reading and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: The beefy ‘Stilton’ Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament – which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not like men who he thinks are trifling with his fiancée’s affections. Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he’s away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he’s astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia’s establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiancé ‘Stilton’ Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Seven o’clock, on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins had been at the cellar again… Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured runemark on her hand – a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But Maddy enjoys working magic. Even if it is just to control some pesky goblins. And every time her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, eaten with each other's families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'd end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone — and the glass hut where it's all created, at the bottom of Carl's garden.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «The Captain's Daughter» was the only work of Pushkin's that had a powerful influence on the next age — it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become — through it is still a story told in the orthodox manner, as a story should be.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves – among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth’s younger son, who wants the reward money…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Combining a powerful narrative with profound analysis, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature’s…