Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Abby Lovitt has always been more at ease with horses than with people. Her father insists they call all the mares 'Jewel' and all the geldings 'George' and warns Abby not to get attached: the horses are there to be sold. But with all the stress at school (the Big Four have turned against Abby and her friends) and home (her brother Danny is gone — for good, it seems — and now Daddy won't speak his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Twentieth-century history has thrown up a few sinister characters stranger and more cruel than Baron Ungern-Sternberg, but not many, and only he conquered a country with a cavalry army — the last person in history to do so — in the in the age of the aeroplane and the tank. This violent, anti-Semitic fanatic took over Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus' wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born. In the days that follow, further…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, the pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues. From the team that brought ignorance to millions, a Christmas…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «The third book in Jason Goodwin's celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: August Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night...
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: These beautiful gift hardback editions are being published to celebrate Faber's 80th anniversary. Each volume contains the work of one major 20th century poet selected by another writer. The gorgeous covers have each been designed by a different printmaker who has focused on a key theme in the poet's work. The other poets in the collection are: Auden, Betjemen, Plath, Hughes and Yeats.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his family, he goes with the beautiful Janan on a search for the meaning of the book`s darker secrets.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried — killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week, the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? Or are the invading French army using the massacre to expand their power?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria, where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world — a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts they will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here. Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Two men are massacred in an expensive Moscow bar. But the bullets miss their target: Alexei Volkovoy — Volk for short. He's a deadly, battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, and he serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic mafia kingpin; and a military man known only as the General. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty and the most dangerous weapon in Volk's arsenal. Together…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Grieving and haunted, he becomes obsessed with her youth and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Their encounter is the beginning of a journey that takes him across the world, to the edge of madness, and into the corners…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris as 'Comrade Arlette', an activist en route to Cuba, an icy, remote lover who denies knowing anything about the Lily of years gone by. Whoever the bad girl turns up as and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Set in London in 1989, the year of the fatwah and the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a thriller with a background of raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion. By the author of «The Buddha of Suburbia» and «Sammy and Rosie Get Laid»..»
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. With dazzling energy and insight, Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar and his family and their attempts to find love and belonging. Rendered with uncommon…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But just four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called the audacity of…