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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When you're 36, going on 18, life is about being hip, being cool, and embracing all that Mothercare has to offer... Nick Hornby's best-selling novel is now a phenomenally successful film starring Hugh Grant, from the makers of Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Starring: Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones's Diary); Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding); Rachel Weisz (The Mummy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is the definitive survey of the English language — in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: «Sex and the City» author Candace Bushnell returns to the playgrounds of Manhattan's powerful and beautiful with her sizzling sensation «4 Blondes», which gives an insider's look at the romantic intrigues, liaisons, and betrayals among the elite. She chronicles the lives of four beautiful women — a model, a columnist, a socialite, and a writer — as they face turning points at which each must…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 508) Аннотация: «Buy Different Seasons. I promise you'll enjoy it... He creates people who are so alive, yоu can almost sense them.» Minneapolis Star Tribune «The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, is what makes King the consummate storyteller that he is.» »
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Needful Things was fantastic. I'm sorry I haven't read any other Stephen King books — this is the first Stephen King novel I've ever read, not counting On Writing. Although labeled as a horror writer, Stephen King goes beyond giving his readers goose bumps. Beyond the blood and gore lie very human stories of love, hate — and redemption
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.» Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as «perfect as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers, and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's most delightful myth adventures.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back — and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania — where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...»
Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic-a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral-stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, battles a centuries-old vampire with the soul of the city — and Anita's life — at stake in this supernatural thrill ride from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Published almost ten years ago, «Guilty Pleasures» marked the debut of a writer who was destined to grow from cult favorite to a major bestselling author. Now, for long-time Anita Blake aficionados and newfound fans, «Guilty Pleasures» makes its hardcover debut. Readers will learn how Anita Blake started raising the dead-and killing the undead. And how she met Jean Claude, the master vampire…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.