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Laurell K Hamilton: The Harlequin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novela now in paperback. Into Anita Blakeas worldaa world already overflowing with powera come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its…

Roald Dahl: More About Boy: Tales of Childhood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: What were Roald Dahl's first words? Read his account of going to football matches with Joss Spivvis, the gardener. This new edition of a favourite book contains a wealth of new photos, facts and writings about Roald Dahl and his childhood, together with the original text and illustrations from his much-loved memoir. With lots of little-known details, this is a must-have for all Dahl fans!

Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

Sara Paretsky: Bleeding Kansas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of FIRE SALE and KILLING ORDERS.

Higgins Jack: The Bormann Testament

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad-and it's about to get a lot worse. As Hitler's private secretary-and an influential member of the Third Reich-Martin Bormann was one of those rare Nazis who managed to simply disappear at the end of World War II.…

Fletcher Jessica: Murder, She Wrote: Martinis and Mayhem

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Cabot Cove, Maine's most famous mystery author, Jessica Fletcher, is excited about promoting her new book in glamourous San Francisco. She can't wait for drinks and dinner on Fisherman's Wharf, a ride on the cable cars, and a romantic rendezvous with Scottish policeman George Sutherland. She doesn't know that solving a murder may be penciled into her agenda.

Fletcher Jessica: Murder, She Wrote: A Pallette for Murder

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Jessica Fletcher's mid-summer vacation to New York's famed Hampton beaches turns into a lesson in the art of murder. Indulging in a lifelong passion, she enrolls in an art class, but when the model they had been sketching fails to stir-the victim of a deadly poison-Jessica canvasses the area, chasing down a killer with an artistic flair.

Williams Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of identity to crumble,…

Kerouac Jack: The Subterraneans

Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouac's most touching and tender book.

Desai Kiran: The Inheritance of Loss

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house — home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain mist — but…

James M.R.: The Haunted Dolls' House

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Evil comes with many different faces. A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly. M R James' chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes…

Jack Albert: Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In this title, the world's strangest questions answered: What happened to the Mary Celeste? Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the Louvre) Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will the real Paul McCartney please stand up? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? What was Agatha Christie's own mystery? Why does it rain frogs? Does Bigfoot exist? How did D. B Cooper get away with the…

Le Clezio J.M.G.: The Interrogation

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals and as briefly as his scanty purchases — cigarettes, biscuits, beer — permit. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of being: through a dog's eye or a rat's... states of heightened consciousness which build up into a terrifying world of…

Axworthy Michael: Iran: Empire of the Mind

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural importance. A nation whose impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbours in the Middle East but on the world as a whole — and through ideas and creativity rather than by the sword. From the…

Owens Sharon: Revenge of the Wedding Planner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the over-the-top and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast's brides and grooms to be. They rub along well but are as different as chalk and cheese. Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family. Julie is impossibly glamorous, and doesn't remotely believe in love or marriage. When…

Pollan Michael: In Defence of Food

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists — all of whom have much to gain from…

Dickey Eric Jerome: Sleeping with Strangers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Gideon is more than a hit man. In a world of money, violence, women, and love on the run, he's the master of the game. Now Gideon's got the job of a lifetime. The prize is the woman he desires and a cool million. The problem is it's just the kind of hit that can make him more enemies. Like the two beautiful strangers on Gideon's tail. Are they there to protect him or bring him down? There's one…

Lewis Sinclair: It Can't Happen Here

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.

Marks John: Fangland

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovaas bestselling The Historian proves, thereas always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marksaa former 60 Minutes producerasinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first — century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour, Sent on assignment…