Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming... With a full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was «Hey, you!» For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One, and all he wants is peace, justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit — and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Presents personal view of Michael Jackson of the world around us, and the universe within each of us. Containing Jackson`s personal writings and over one hundred glorious photographs, drawings, and paintings from his own collection, this book is suitable for his fans.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: April, 1912. Edwina Winfield is returning to New York from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé, Charles, her parents and her five siblings. Deeply in love, she and Charles are looking forward to beginning their new life together. They are travelling on the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built: the SMS Titanic. But in one fatal night, Edwina’s life is changed for ever.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: Death is missing — presumed... er... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The twelfth Discworld novel — It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, where he grows into an unkempt individual.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: «The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend («Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little.») and Theda Withel («I come from a little town you've probably never heard of») to find out...»Moving Pictures», the ninth «Discworld» novel is a gloriously funny saga set against the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «A Brief History of Time», published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 269) Аннотация: «There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic... a Sourcerer. «Sourcery» sees the return of Rincewind and the luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest — and funniest — challenge yet.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 274 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 251) Аннотация: «The sixth «Discworld» novel. The witches of Discworld, not the most joyful bunch, decide that they must get involved in the politics of the planet. Granny Weatherwax, their obvious choice as spokesperson, finds that life in royal politics is not as simple as it seems.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: «The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex...This is a third hilarious adventure by the author of «The Colour of Magic» and «The Light…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 202 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 237) Аннотация: On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 475) Аннотация: What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script — a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: The dazzling new science fiction adventure from the extraordinary imaginations of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter — the fourth novel in a collaborative series that has been hailed as 'sense-of-wonder SF at its best.' (Independent on Sunday). 2045-2059. In spite of the world-changing upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption — humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for — including his marriage. Stripped of everything, he has only one place he can retreat to: the home he left twenty years ago. There, he comes face to face with his brother for the first time in years. At first, Peter dreads seeing Michael again — but to his surprise their reunion is tender and real. Only later, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Sleep, Pale Sister», a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life, was originally published before Joanne Harris achieved worldwide recognition with «Chocolat». Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone — vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child disappears. Confronted with a…