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Dick Francis: Trial Run

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the Russian royal family--but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and…

Kelley Armstrong: Bitten

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «Kelley Armstrong's debut novel--which does «much the same for werewolves as Anne Rice did for vampires» («Rocky Mountain News»)--is now available in mass market paperback. Thirty-year-old Elena Michaels comes to terms with her feral appetites as the world's only living female werewolf.»

Laurell K. Hamilton: Cerulean Sins

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Master Vampire Jean Claude and leopard shapeshifter Micah. When a centuries-old vampire hits St. Louis, Anita finds herself needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves.

Burton Raffel: Signet Classic Book Of American Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: From the early 1800s to the outbreak of World War II, this collection spans more than 100 years of literary history with 33 complete short stories by such timeless masters as Washington Irving, Mark Twain, Jack London, and William Faulkner. Reissue.

E. E. Knight: Choice of the Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for 45 years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat — an elite stealth warrior. His mission is to investigate the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper contro.

Bev Vincent: The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, Vincent examines the epic journey of the author to complete his seven-part Dark Tower series — a journey began in 1970 that threatened to overwhelm him. Vincent presents a book-by-book analysis of each volume that would become the crowning achievement of King's literary career.

Ali Smith: The Whole Story and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence? Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love.

Chekhov Anton: A Life In Letters

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From his teenage years in provincial Russia to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions of literature with publishers and theatre directors, and tender love letters to his actress wife.…

Sarah Dessen: Dreamland

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Rogerson Biscoe, with his green eyes and dark curly hair, is absolutely seductive. Before long, 16-year-old Caitlin finds herself under his spell. And when he starts to abuse her, she finds she's in too deep to get herself out.

Sarah Dessen: Keeping the Moon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself. But her summer with her aunt, her aunt's tenant Norman, and her friends at the Last Chance Diner and 150 teaches her some important lessons about friendship and learning to love yourself.

Robert Asprin: No Phule Like an Old Phule

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Phule gets on the wrong side of Barky the Environmental Dog by hosting a group of big game hunters who intend to bag a dinosaur on Zenobia, even though dinosaurs are not a native species. But cold, hard facts has never stopped a Phule.

Sarah Dessen: That Summer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister and 150 the always perfect Ashley and 150 is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley's reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes…

Jean Webster: Daddy Long Legs: And, Dear Enemy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 814 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 357) Аннотация: One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters, follows the progress of Judyas former orphanage now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles…

Dick Francis: Wild Horses

Скачать книгу (размер 1 717 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 338) Аннотация: The New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes a thrilling novel about the illusion of film — and the reality of murder.

Dick Francis: Slay Ride

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When a champion jockey disappears — right before a big race and the birth of his child — Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.

Dessen Sarah: Someone Like You

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Halley and Scarlett have been best friends ever since they met. Halley has always been the quiet one, Scarlett braver and more outgoing. Halley has always turned to Scarlett when things get rough, and Scarlett has always known just what to do. It's the perfect setup. But everything changes at the beginning of their junior year. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident; then…

Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will... and what a will it is!

Taback Simms: This Is the House That Jack Built

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built. And then came the rat that ate the cheese and the cat who killed the rat. Caldecott Medal? Winning author and illustrator Simms Taback brings his distinctive humor and creativity to the beloved story of Jack and the house that he built.