Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture — now weak and living in terror of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband but a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats. In the hands of Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy the novelist, poet,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets, but they have their own out back. Everyone stays within the lines. But, suddenly, three women: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter, who find themselves tired of the lines. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: «This isn't just any cookery book. It is «Mastering the Art of French Cooking», first published in 1961, and it's a book that is a statement, not of culinary intent, but of aspiration, a commitment to a certain sort of good life, a certain sort of world-view; a votive object implying taste and appetite and a little je ne sais quoi. Julia Child was like Amelia Earhart, or Eleanor Roosevelt: she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In the early hours of the morning, following a wedding reception, a car filled with stoned, drunk and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. This title explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over years.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Ugly Truth book & CD is a gorgeous gift edition of the bestselling fifth title in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Perfect for holidays and long car journeys! Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg is dealing with the increased pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon have undergone many hair-raising adventures before — but never one quite like this. Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission,…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When make-believe Princess Jessica throws a royal ball, she delivers invitations to her loyal subjects, picks out her best ball gown, and even loses her slipper. If only her sister wasn't such a royal pain! Jessie becomes a princess complete with a ball gown, a crown, royal jewels, and loyal subjects to come to the royal ball.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: The number-one New York Times -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn't know how to live life if it wasn't on the edge. There's little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan's blood: her father is a legend. She's been fighting fires since her eighteenth…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed If I Stay Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of If I Stay, Where She Went continues the story of Adam and Mia, from Adam's point of view. Ever since Mia's decision to stay — but not with him — Adam's career has been on a wonderful trajectory. His album, borne from the anguish and pain of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico — and possibly beyond. In The Devil's Elixir, Sean and Tess find themselves in a race — against the clock, against drug kingpins, and even against the DEA.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: The grandfather of one,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The Great Potato Famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever. Timothy Wilde is a reluctant, newly minted officer of the New York City Police Department. One night while making his rounds, he runs into a little girl — covered, head to toe, in blood. She claims she knows where dozens of bodies are buried.
Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: A collection of one hundred postcards that features a selection of author's most exquisite Flower Fairy paintings. It includes coverage that ranges from the ethereal seasonal fairies, through to the playful fairy alphabet.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding . Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens' other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration, charity and memory. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: 'The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light'. Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel. Paul Dombey is a man who runs his domestic affairs as he runs his business: calculatingly, callously, coldly and commercially. Through his dysfunctional…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy — loving best friend riding…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'A man's brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'In the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions... I loved you madly'. Dickens' last novel is a mystery built around a presumed crime — the murder of a nephew by his uncle. Dickens died before completing the story, leaving the mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective. Beyond the…