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Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: For many people images of the major national parks in th US exist in the mind's eye as Ansel Adams photographs. A dedicated environmentalist as well as renowned artist, he was one of the 20th century's most ardent champions of the parks system. Through his photos, essays and letter-writing campaigns, he helped create new parks and better protect existing ones. He worked in more than 40 national…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The defender of the faith for more than 16 centuries, the Vatican became the repository of many secrets, making it the focus of countless legends, myths, and mysteries. Veteran journalist Jeffers unveils the Church's highly controversial scandals and cover-ups.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The economy may have stalled but life goes on. Chair legs break, pillows lose their puff, painted walls get scuffed and sheets get torn or go out of style. Real Life Decor brims with ideas for repurposing, reusing or replacing your accents and furniture to keep your home fresh and functional as well as wallet-friendly. Comprised of a collection of 100 easy, appealing projects illustrated with…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Helps to relive the momentous year that is 2009 as reported by Time's unparalleled worldwide staff of journalists and photographers.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Forty years after the 1960s ended, we still live in the world shaped during those remarkable times. Now the editors of TIME explore the '60s in all its vivid and wild extremes. This book showcases key TIME magazine reporting and eyewitness accounts from those that lived it. From the Vietnam War to the US Civil Rights movement — the sexual revolution and women's liberation movement; the thrill of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: By all accounts seminary student Kevin Parsins is leading a good, if not virtuous, life. But like all people, Kevin has his secrets. And someone wants them revealed. While driving home from a day at graduate school, Kevin receives a call from a mysterious stranger who calls himself Slater. Slater demands Kevin confess his sin in the next three minutes or the vehicle he is manning will be blown to…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The editors of TIME magazine select the 100 events that have shaped civilization, and take readers on an illustrated journey through history's most important events and people.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: «The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power — passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran «Hollywood Nate» Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancíƒÂ©e, Leona…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In 2008, Christian Siriano made headlines as the youngest designer to win the hit reality series Project Runway. But the now twenty-three-year-old is bigger than a TV celebrity. From his prodigious fashion talent to his one-of-a-kind personality, Christian is the embodiment of fierce style. Now in his first book, he helps readers discover how to look, feel, and act fierce in everyday life. With…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: When an illegal Mexican immigrant is shot on a ranch outside Dallas, it makes the news, not because of the immigrant, but because of the shooter, Senator Tucker Dean. It looks like a hunting accident, and the well-loved young Senator spins the disaster artfully with his tearful press conference... until the sister in law of the victim steps forward with another tale. The senator's wife was…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The New York Times bestselling series about the scandalous lives of rich and famous teens in Beverly Hills, California. High school is officially over and that means one thing for the A-List: time to party! But the celebration is cut short when unlikely pair Anna and Cammie find themselves in an even more unlikely situation--caught trespassing on a celeb's beach estate--and are forced to don…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Mason «Mace» Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: American Beauty is the seventh guilty pleasure in this witty and risqu#142; series that takes readers behind the scenes of the Hollywood glitterati. Soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, The A-List and its bestselling sequels, Girls on Film, Blonde Ambition, Tall Cool One, Back in Black, and Some Like It Hot are full of unforgettable stories about the fast times of Beverly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Back in Black is the 5th guilty pleasure in this witty series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. It's time for the Beverly Hills High senior class trip to Washington, D.C. But every year the reigning A-List call in sick and do their own trip to Vegas, baby, Vegas. Anna joins Cammie, Adam, Sam, Dee, and Parker on the Vegas trip to the uber-hip…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: The ninth novel, Beautiful Stranger, in the New York Times bestselling series takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway-to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. Between trips to the Met and shopping at Bendel's, the girls…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Tall Cool One is the fourth novel in this witty and risqu series that takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. New York blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Now she's surfing Zuma Beach with the industry's hottest young television producer. But duty calls and Anna must jet down to Las Casitas, Mexico, on a secret mission for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The scent is unmistakable – gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he’s recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. Then Jennifer blows him a kiss and disappears. But it couldn’t have been Jennifer. She died twelve years ago... Once out of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman, a family friend, whose tales fed his dreams of a better world. One story in particular has stayed with him: that of her brief, passionate affair, during World War II, with the French fighter pilot Jacques Dorme, who subsequently died in a plane crash in the Siberian…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The third novel in this witty and risqué series takes readers behind the scenes of the intoxicating world of Hollywood glitterati. Upper East Side blueblood Anna Percy came to L.A. to learn how to have a good time. Then Princeton prince Ben Birnbaum and his amazing disappearing act turned out to be anything but. Anna finally begins to understand that telling true love from true lust us is…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight for his sanity and his very survival.