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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good... She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael's old socks. In her…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Read each year around the Seder table, the Haggadah recounts through prayer and song the extraordinary story of Exodus, when Moses led the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to wander through the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. In this new version of the traditional Haggadah text, Jonathan Safran Foer brings together some of the most preeminent voices of our…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Presents a collection of tales that includes: «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Masque of the Red Death», and «The Fall of the House of Usher».»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's Thursday, January 3rd. I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing My Way at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona — the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way — to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It's Monday, January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother... I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head... I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan... The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's Monday, June 13th. I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky',…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 588) Аннотация: The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead's epic series! Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.

Скачать книгу (размер 5 639 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1107) Аннотация: «At last-the New York Times bestselling author continues his «astonishing»* Kingkiller Chronicle saga. Orson Scott Card. In The Wise Man's Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age — identity in all its forms — with a sympathetic pen and a sharp and observant eye. No other British writer today…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 651 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 325) Аннотация: In this latest Fargo adventure, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi are sent to find the missing father of a Texas oil barron. Their journey leads them to Tibet, Nepal, Venice, and more.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. The number one New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «New York Times» bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City's most powerful and sacred institutions — and unearths the most sinister of secrets... Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church steps — with the imprint of a Star of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «A universal favorite, «The Importance of Being Earnest» displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled «A Trivial Comedy for Serious People», this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «A «Library Journal» Best Book of the Year What would you do with a second chance at life? Having survived a life-threatening illness, Kate celebrates by gathering with six close friends. At an intimate outdoor dinner on a warm September evening, the women challenge Kate to start her new lease on life by going white-water rafting down the Grand Canyon with her daughter. But Kate is reluctant to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «From «New York Times» bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that «will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister» («Marie Claire») In «The Silver Boat,» «New York Times» bestselling author Luanne Rice has written a heart-wrenching yet heartwarming portrait of a family in all its flawed complexity. The McCarthy sisters have come to Martha's Vineyard to say good-bye to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wedding florist Emma Grant gets to play with flowers every day and work with her three best friends in the process. She couldn’t ask for a better job. And her love life seems to be thriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn’t found Mr. Right. And the last place she’s looking is right under her nose.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «From #1 «New York Times» — bestselling author Roberts comes the first book in a new series: a novel of love, friendship, and family — and the unpredictable moments that turn a pretty picture into a true work of art.»