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Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury — a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin — visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Russia has long been a source of puzzlement — and sometimes alarm — for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling account, Russia has re-emerged as a pivotal nation in world affairs. In The Return, Treisman cuts…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oliver Stone and featuring Blake Lively and John Travolta — the smash hit thriller about two young marijuana dealers who are blackmailed into a partnership with a Mexican cartel. Baditude. Bad attitude. Ben, Chon, and O have a bad case of it, but so would you if you were the twenty-something, Laguna-cool producers of the best hydro on the Left Coast…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The bestselling collaboration between #1 bestselling author Stephen King and Peter Straub — an epic thriller about a small American town held in the grip of unspeakable evil — and the spectacular follow-up to The Talisman. Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Twinner from an agonizing death that would have…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: «In Kathy Reichs's high-stakes fourteenth novel, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt in a landfill next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just before Raceweek when 200,000 fans are pouring into town. The next day a NASCAR crew member visits Temperance Brennan at the MCME and tells his story. His sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a NASCAR diver, disappeared…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series «The Cousins' War» with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. A number 1 hardback bestseller, this tells the story of the daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Of all the little-known but important…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: P.I. Regan Reilly and her husband Jack of the NYPD Major Case Squad find themselves up to their necks in a case that takes them from the beautifully preserved Victorian resort town of Cape May at the southern tip of the Garden State, to the casinos, shops, and boardwalks of Atlantic City, and to the music halls and restaurants of Asbury Park. Since she grew up in Summit, New Jersey, Regan has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Meet DCI John Luther. He's brilliant. He's intense. He's obsessional. HE'S DANGEROUS. DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. But Luther seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The secrets in a woman's heart are deeper than the ocean... For May Smith, travelling with her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks the start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to take her from the back streets of Bolton to the land of opportunity: the United States. But when the 'unsinkable' Titanic hits an iceberg one cold dark night, May's dreams are…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 415) Аннотация: It is a question that has long been debated (well, since 2007): Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? Finally, this argument will be decided. Zombies are lovers and fierce warriors, hunters of the living and just plain cool. Unicorns are sparkly, pastel, and fart rainbows. But they're also arbiters of justice, healers and vicious man-killers. Ultimately, the decision rests with you — which…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: Book Four of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan — she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Once, when they were young, they…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Hollywood — glittering premieres, dazzling movie sets, fabulous parties, plush love-nests hidden in Malibu and Beverly Hills. Behind the gorgeous playgrounds of the rich and renowned lies a jungle of lust and perversity, greed and ambition, love and danger — where survival is all and innocence is a role nobody plays for long. Jackie Collins uncovers all the sex, all the scandals, all the private…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Now in mass market, Mary Higgins Clark's thirtieth and most spine-chilling novel — «so good that it might as well have come with a soundtrack» («The Columbus Dispatch») — involves the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identity theft. Alexandra «Zan» Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the verge of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In Eric Carle’s charming and popular story, Have You Seen My Cat?, a little boy worries about his missing cat and travels to different places in search of his pet. The boy encounters numerous feline counterparts as he searches, including lions, leopards, and tigers—but it isn’t until the last page that he finally finds his missing pet! Featuring simple words and plenty of repetition, this…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From an acclaimed biographer, a riveting account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic — to be published in the lead-up to the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking. April 14, 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. While much has been written about the great ship, her shocking demise, and those who perished, very little has been devoted to the hundreds of…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Self-described comic genius Big Nate keeps parents and teaching on their toes in this hilarious, New York Times best-selling series that has sold more than 4.5 million copies. Nate Wright is known to his pals and teachers for many things, his penchant for mischief and his school record for detentions being the foremost. But beating out brainiac Gina's grades is not one of those things! In Big…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Sixth-grader Nate Wright is on top of the world . . . with a little help from his friends! His best buddies, Francis and Teddy, stick with Nate through thick and thin—usually thin. They've seen it all. Nate's disastrous love life, his chess tournament trash talking, even his misguided attempt to be a «bad boy.» Along the way, Nate and his pals are joined by Artur, the gentle exchange student…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Black Friday America's largest shopping mall Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall--a giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets — about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. There is Yael, the assassin's daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor — of crystal pillars and fossil seas — where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn — first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers…