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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A thrilling and moving novel about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war, for anyone who loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips or The Butterfly Lion! Dresden, 1944. Elizabeth and Karli's mother works at the zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. Then the zoo director tells her that the dangerous animals — including the elephants — must be shot before…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Zahir, Paulo Coelho's new novel available in paperback for the first time, incorporates exclusive new content including an extra section containing interviews with Paulo and plenty of information for those for whom the book just wasn't enough. It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: With over 250 full-colour photos, this latest volume in the highly successful Stores of the Year series shows how top professionals in the fields of design, architecture, lighting, and fixtures turn spaces into marketplaces. In Stores of the Year NO. 17, both renowned designers and novices reveal new and innovative solutions to the complex problems of retail design and visual merchandising.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The next exciting mystery starring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus and bringing back a familiar face, Chris Donatti, from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Defense attorney Paul Madriani tracks an extremist hellbent on destroying the entire Supreme Court in one deadly stroke in this latest in the New York Times bestselling series.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father — a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye — for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cecile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The award-winning designer and author of Rooms showcases inspiring opportunities for the exteriors, interiors, and details of houses in this lavishly photographed book. Celebrated designer Mariette Himes Gomez believes that a house becomes a home only when it is infused with personal touches, when its individual parts flow together logically, and when it assumes a warm and welcoming character. In…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: With her impeccable taste, fearless technique, and discerning eye for color, shape, pattern, and texture, Kelly Wearstler's status as an internationally acclaimed interior designed is unparalleled. With buoyant ease, she will confidently cover walls in iconic graphics, select a captivating animal figure as a focal point, or add a lush expanse of contrasting color to an otherwise monochromatic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Read the story behind the beloved film — now available in Essential Modern Classics. In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town — but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It's up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day! Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge guns), this is a mobster story with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, and her autobiographical works include the deeply moving 'Paula' — a family history written at…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful — and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth. Their remains, discovered with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: From the time she appeared in National Velvet, the film that skyrocketed her to international fame at age twelve in 1944, until her death, Elizabeth Taylor's beauty, allure, and personal strength captivated the world. In a career that spanned more than sixty years, she brought her raw talent and magnetism to bear in now classic films such as Father of the Bride, Suddenly, Last Summer, Cat on a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In small, stunningly rendered self–portraits, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painted herself cracked open, hemorrhaging during a miscarriage, anesthetized on a hospital gurney, and weeping beside her own extracted heart. Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos. In this beautiful book, art historian…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martini returns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web of terror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacred and secretive institution — the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour — a literary provocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gone too far. His revelations…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Continuing the impressive debut fantasy series from author Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear is book two of the Demon trilogy, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. The Deliverer has returned, but who is he? Arlen Bales, formerly of the small hamlet of Tibbet's Brook, learnt harsh lessons about life as he grew up in a world where hungry demons stalk the night and humanity…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Seven short stories from bestselling author Tony Parsons, based on his week as Writer in Residence at Heathrow airport. Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before — a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys and dreams end — and begin. From the brilliant twenty-something kids who control the skies up in Air Traffic Control to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A hilarious new animal story from Ian Whybrow about a burrow of meerkat pups and their eccentric babysitter While the grown-ups of the meerkat clan are out looking for food, young pup Jack and his siblings are left with a babysitter. Their favourite is ex media meerkat Uncle Adrian. He might be a bit of a show-off but he tells long funny stories from the time he was the star of a hit wildlife…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: For the first time in a single combined B format, a new edition of Agatha Christie's eight stage plays, published to coincide with the 60th Anniversary Year of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. THE MOUSETRAP, the longest-running play in the history of London's West End, begins its 60th Year run on 25 November 2011. This new edition of eight works show how Agatha Christie's plays…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 285) Аннотация: Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen demonstrates in the most revolutionary business hook in years why outstanding companies that did everything right — were in tune with the competition, listened to customers, and invested aggressively in new technologies — still lost their market leadership when confronted with disruptive changes in technology and market structure... and he tells how to…