Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring — and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's blistering anti-memoir, a hilarious book tracing the origins of his political rabble-rousing and his early forays into campaigning for change. Michael Moore has been called an iconoclast, a maverick, a vital dissenting voice and a one of the most un-American people alive. But what made him the man he is today? In his sensational and provocative 'anti-memoir',…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is midsummer in Sweden — when the light lingers through dawn and the long winter comes to an end. Now, in this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike, and the murder of a female priest sends shockwaves through the community. It has been almost two years since attorney Rebecka Martinsson returned to her birthplace, Kiruna, in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree. Now she is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses. In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. His life would never be the same. Lena is a Caster and her family is locked in a supernatural civil war: full of darkness and demons. On her sixteenth birthday Lena made a terrifying choice, which now haunts her day and night. And as her seventeenth birthday approaches Lena and Ethan face even greater danger.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Ethan Wate is in love with a caster girl. When he looks at Lena, it's like there's no one else in the world. But Ethan is mortal, and on her seventeenth birthday Lena made a choice that changed everything. The girl Ethan loves has broken the world with the supernatural powers she is struggling to control... Now, if they are to fix the chaos Lena has caused, one of them must make a terrible…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Honey Money shows how men and women can do better in the workplace and life by boosting their attractiveness. Why are some people a success at everything? Why do doors open for them wherever they go? The answer, Catherine Hakim shows, is the power of erotic capital: a magic combination of attractiveness and charisma that is at the heart of how we work, live and conduct our relationships. She…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: «This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «The Old Curiosity Shop» by Charles Dickens. 'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connexion with any mirthful or complacent feeling, constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Oliver Twist» by Charles Dickens. A parish child — the orphan of a workhouse — the humble, half-starved drudge — to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none. Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, «Oliver Twist» features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction — the treacherous gangmaster…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Shows how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events — an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor.
Скачать книгу (размер 5 134 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1008) Аннотация: Chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: There is a church in the glittering frozen wastes of Northern Sweden. Inside, a sacrifice: the body of a man — slashed to pieces, hands severed, eyes gouged out. The victim's sister, Sanna, is first to discover the body and immediately finds herself the police's only suspect. Terrified and confused, she calls on a friend: hot-shot city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson. Rebecka hardly wants to return to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds. Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary... This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as «The Frog Prince» and «Hansel and Grettel» to the delights of «Ashputtel» — the original «Cinderella» — all hold a timeless magic which has…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family — bickering, tired and confused — arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them.