Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, Colonel Colin Campbell (23rd century writer, traveller and bon viveur) is pursued by mysterious forces. Heinlein is also the author of «Stranger in a Strange Land».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died — the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grande dame sans merci and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 471) Аннотация: «With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis— is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «This is the story of Rose Daniels, «the most richly portrayed female King's ever created» («Detroit Free Press»). Escape from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman...»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «When «The Left Hand of Darkness» first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, «Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune — and such a world is Winter». Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Be all that you can be: clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. Phule's Company is the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino from an unlikely criminal takeover... The odds are against the oddballs.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of “On Wings of Eagles” and “Lie Down With Lions”. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal Junior Minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough guys all play their parts in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler (which, just in case, includes a section entitled Point to Answer). Organized thematically, common words and expressions are shown in English and Cyrillic with easy-to-decipher phonetic pronunciation.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 951 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 776) Аннотация: Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother's acceptance...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosphy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Spinning her web keeps the spider busy all day long. A number of animals try to distract the spider from her task, but the spider ignores them as she is too busy spinning. Each page shows the progress of the web which is raised from the page.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: All Aboard Reading titles feature extra-large type, primer-easy sentence structure, and colorful rebus pictures that replace many nouns in the text. Nothing wakes this baby — not a beeping car, not a barking dog, not a ringing telephone! But when a tiny fly buzzes by, he finally wakes up. And what does it take to get him back to sleep? A kiss on the nose from big sister! Includes 24 cut-out flash…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Picky eater Nicky declares that she would rather eat bees and parrots than peas and carrots until her inventive family devises a clever plan to overcome her finicky habits.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A collection of poems by John Keats, which includes Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Hyperion.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Cesar Montero was dreaming about elephants. He'd seen them at the movies on Sunday... Only moments later, Cesar is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But Cesar is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown — under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Setting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contradictions of memory and moments lost in time. Its irony gives the book the nuances of a political fable.