Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the creator of the much-loved, much-used `Wreck This Journal` comes a do-it-yourself illustrated story — where the reader is both the author, and the main character... `Dear Reader, One dark and stormy night, I found some strange scattered pages abandoned in a park.....Your mission is to become the new author of this work. You will continue the research and provide the content. In order to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: She witnessed a murder — and now her life is in danger... Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world. Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The astounding talent of Laurel Long brings this beloved song to life with breathtaking style. Set against a lush countryside, each day brings a new gift elegantly rendered. And like in the verses of the song, the previous gifts are repeated in every illustration, giving this striking artwork a hidden aspect, culminating in a staggering spread featuring them all. Readers will pore over every…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This title shows you how to buy, prepare and cook the best sustainable fish and seafood from around the world. Fried, steamed, poached or baked, we are a nation of fish lovers and the Fish Cookbook is the ultimate guide to making the most delicious seafood dishes. With over 300 inspiring recipes, the detailed step-by-step sequences explain every preparation and cooking technique to help you cook…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: «A «New York Times» bestseller Up all night. Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen... «As with all Dessen's books, is a must-have» — «VOYA,» starred review Also by Sarah…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Rosa Achmetowna is the outrageously nasty and wily narrator of this rollicking family saga from the author of «Broken Glass Park» When she discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter, stupid Sulfia, is pregnant by an unknown man she does everything to thwart the pregnancy, employing a variety of folkloric home remedies. But despite her best efforts the baby, Aminat, is born nine months later…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This selection of Kafka's shorter prose writings includes one of the few works published during his lifetime: the harrowing story of Gregor Samsa's overnight transformation into a verminous insect, his record of the effect of this sudden metamorphosis on himself and the reaction of his family. It conveys with an unsettling mixture of subjective involvement and objective detachment the complex…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Who is more deadly? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover? Bonnie Graham is in her friend's flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood. What happened? What will she do? And is any or all of it her fault? Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band. It was supposed to be fun, but the tricky knots of the band's friendships unravel…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Sam and Eddie Hart opened Barrafina, their no-reservations tapas bar and restaurant in London's Soho, they had no idea how successful it would be. Four years on and it is always packed, always stylish, always lively. And so is the food: together with their Basque-born head chef Nieves Barragan Mohacho, the Harts are cooking the best Spanish food in London today. In this cookbook, they share…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution. Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job. This one wouldn't quit for all the world. Meet Furious — sixteen, handsome and completely out of control. Nothing frightens him and no one can get through to him. Now meet Munchkin — a sweet kid with glasses who's an easy target and needs protecting. Then there's Seething and Deranged, two girls who are brimming with bad attitude;…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ten millennia ago, the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information the fairies are in BIG trouble. Only one person can prevent this disaster — teenage criminal mastermind…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Look at the harlequins... Play! Invent the world! Invent reality. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre numerical nimbus syndrome.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter's ability to speak with…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In The Machine Stops, humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: We fed the monster until it blew up... While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system — and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The song. That’s what London constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho’s 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body—a sure sign that something about the man’s death was not at all natural but…