Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the perfect partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing? The need to love and be loved is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride-to-be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody's blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's «Free Bird» at the bachelorette party the night before. Now Bubbles has just found Janice's uncle Elwood dead on his bathroom floor-his skull bashed in and his Rolls Royce missing. The baffling murder could be her Big Break as Bubbles goes deep…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 303) Аннотация: One of the great masters of the short story, Tolstoy called Chekhov an incomparable artist of life, who wrote about the everyday world with humor, insight, and honesty.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ruby wants to teach Max all the things a wise big sister knows, such as the alphabet, numbers, and colors. But first she has to teach him to pay attention.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Sea — each leading to New York City but at three different moments in time. Through these doors, Roland must «draw» three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. In 1964, he meets…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: His poems evoke the past and present, the exotic and the familiar, the rich and the poor, making this selection accessible-and applicable-to just about everyone.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: «Combined here are «Maus I: A Survivor`s Tale» and «Maus II» — the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler`s Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Two of Stein's most recognizable works are together in one volume. «Three Lives», Stein's most accessible work, is the psychological portrait of three immigrant women and their lives in a new country. «Tender Buttons» is a collection of prose poems which employ repetitive sentences and simple language to build images.»
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Give me a hand... hold your tongue... scream your lungs out... what's a kid to do if he wants to keep all his body parts in place? Well, one thing is for sure, he'll have to be creative. Like, if you want to keep your heart from breaking, just make sure it's well padded and protected by tying a pillow around your chest. Want to keep your hands attached? Simple-stick them on with gloves and lots…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Now available for the first time as a coloring book, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar will delight children as they bring their own imagination to this classic story. Including a new introduction by Eric Carle, as well as blank pages at the end of the book for your own pictures, this is the perfect way to turn story time into coloring time. At the same time interactive and timeless, this…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The story begins when a seemingly harmless kitten limps into the Burrell family's garden. The kitten gets bigger and bigger and soon the family, apart from the narrator David, are in thrall to the creature. They slowly descend into squalor and sloth as they are sucked into the service of the enormous black cat that has taken over their lives. Eventually David breaks the spell and sends in a pack…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Any Human Heart is an ambitious, all-encompassing novel. Through the intimate journals of Logan Mounstuart we travel from Uruguay to Oxford, on to Paris, the Bahamas, New York and West Africa, and meet his three wives, his family, his friends and colleagues, his rivals, enemies and lovers, including notables such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound, with no idea where she is or how she got there. Kept alive by a man she never sees, his only promise is that eventually he will kill her — like the others. But Abbie has spirit and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds spent alone and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Already available in board book format, this very first Spot book now has a brand-new cover in a fresh, vibrant color that makes it jump off the shelf.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Celebrity mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is riding out Schoolman College's first tornado in over sixty years. As a visiting professor, she is there to teach a creative writing class. But after two men choose to brave the tornado rather than take shelter and one of them is found dead-Jessica wonders if her darkest suspicions are strictly academic.