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Hornby Nick: About A Boy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When you're 36, going on 18, life is about being hip, being cool, and embracing all that Mothercare has to offer... Nick Hornby's best-selling novel is now a phenomenally successful film starring Hugh Grant, from the makers of Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Starring: Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones's Diary); Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding); Rachel Weisz (The Mummy…

Crystal David: Penguin Guided Tour of English Language

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is the definitive survey of the English language — in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language.

Bushnell Candace: 4 Blondes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: «Sex and the City» author Candace Bushnell returns to the playgrounds of Manhattan's powerful and beautiful with her sizzling sensation «4 Blondes», which gives an insider's look at the romantic intrigues, liaisons, and betrayals among the elite. She chronicles the lives of four beautiful women — a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer — as they face turning points at which each must…

King Stephen: Different Seasons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 508) Аннотация: «Buy Different Seasons. I promise you'll enjoy it... He creates people who are so alive, yоu can almost sense them.» Minneapolis Star Tribune «The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, is what makes King the consummate storyteller that he is.» »

King Stephen: Needful Things

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Needful Things was fantastic. I'm sorry I haven't read any other Stephen King books — this is the first Stephen King novel I've ever read, not counting On Writing. Although labeled as a horror writer, Stephen King goes beyond giving his readers goose bumps. Beyond the blood and gore lie very human stories of love, hate — and redemption

Steinbeck John: The Pearl

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.» Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as «perfect as…

Stephen King: The Dead Zone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by…

W. Somerset Maugham: Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 3

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.

Lesley Pearse: Father Unknown

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family…

Robert Asprin: Myth Directions/Hit or Myth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers, and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's most delightful myth adventures.

Robert Asprin: Myth-ion Improbable

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back — and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania — where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.

Ken Follett: The Modigliani Scandal

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...»

Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth

Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic-a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral-stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 3)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, battles a centuries-old vampire with the soul of the city — and Anita's life — at stake in this supernatural thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 1)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Published almost ten years ago, «Guilty Pleasures» marked the debut of a writer who was destined to grow from cult favorite to a major bestselling author. Now, for long-time Anita Blake aficionados and newfound fans, «Guilty Pleasures» makes its hardcover debut. Readers will learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire…

Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Narcissus in Chains

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. For her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the truimvariate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable. But when a kidnapper targets innocents that Anita has sworn to protect, she needs all the help she can get. In an…

Maeve Binchy: Scarlet Feather

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: They met in cooking school — and became fast friends with a common dream. Now, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin by storm with their newly formed catering company, aptly dubbed “Scarlet Feather.” Not everyone, however, shares their optimism. Cathy’s mother-in-law disapproves of both Cathy and her new “hobby”, while Cathy’s husband Neil pays no mind to anything — except his work as…

Ali Smith: Hotel World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This story brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel. The author traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.