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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Horace Rumpole — cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients — often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The storm rolled across Long Lake in Maine with a fury, leaving David Drayton and his family with fallen trees, downed power lines, and no electricity. At his wife’s request, David heads to the local supermarket to stock up on supplies, taking his young son and neighbor along for the ride. But the strange white mist that lingered on the lake has followed them to town, stranding them all in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys-Caleb, Fox, and Gage-went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret — and is systematically massacring this ancient race. The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based vampire and writer of bodice rippers. Forced to hide from the light of day, Henry can’t hunt the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. And only three…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Vicki Nelson has received the call that no daughter ever wants to receive — that her mother has died. Marjory Nelson’s coworkers at the Queen’s University Life Science Department told her that she suffered a heart attack, and that they’d be waiting for Vicki to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what begins as a personal tragedy turns into the most terrifying case of Vicki’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A ghost has invaded his home, beginning a dangerous nightly game in which Henry is allowed to ask a single question. If the answer is no, an innocent and unsuspecting person is killed. Henry soon comes to the horrifying realization that this wraith — and the others who join it — is using him to wreak vengeance on the people it holds responsible for its death. Henry can’t find the source of these…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'I've always been a girls' girl. And I know from experience that making the very best of yourself is something any woman can do. I was never the six-foot-tall pin-up ...I've always been the girl-next-door who got lucky. I've come a long way in the last ten years, but this book isn't my attempt to tell you what or what not to do. It's just to share some of what I've learned'. Based on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 493) Аннотация: In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The sniper’s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive... just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: It's a nightmare when master magician Skeeve and Aahz the Pcrvect fall into Dreamland... Massha gets married with something old, something new something borrowed, and something blew... up. Bunny turns to Skeeve for help when an inter-dimensional beauty contest turns ugly. Reality shows were never quite like this. Contestants hunt down Princess Gloriannamarjolie for a chance to win the greatest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A brand new MYTH-filled with reading, writing, and arithMYTHtic. The «legendary» magician Skeeve tries to live up to his reputation by training young spellcasters in the tricks of the trade-with less than magical results.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displays here dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, werewolf, or something else entirely, it's clear that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby.