Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Includes both Nikolay Gogol's short fiction and famous drama. The stories gathered here range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, Nevsky Prospect, and The Overcoat.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature — including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn — alongside tales by long-suppressed figures such as the subversive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 401) Аннотация: Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: What s the opposite of ordinary? Eric Carle s Opposites! Unfold the full-page flaps to explore opposites with the art of Eric Carle. Short and tall, big and little, over and under!
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Educational and entertaining, these classic Wee Sing book and CD titles are now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans. Each 64-page book and one-hour audio CD are contained in reusable blister packages.
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Picture a camel playing a clarinet and a squirrel on the sax — these are the images that will help youngsters learn their ABCs. Includes a 20-minute cassette where the letters are spoken and the instrument played, while an infectious melody anchors the concept firmly in the child's mind. Full color.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together in unexpected ways when sudden tragedy strikes. In her inimitable style, Maeve Binchy shares with readers the lives of these strangers, learning their hopes, dreams, and fears as they move forward, forever changed by their experience. Here is the story of old…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 732 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 733) Аннотация: Anita is pushed to her limits-both professionally and passionately — when she is called in on what appears to be a case involving a vampire serial killer preying on strippers.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personal nightmares.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Marcus and Doro were part of a left wing commune from the late 1960s until the early 1990s: lentils, free love, spliffs, Left politics, cheesecloth blouses, sex, housework and cooking rotis, crochet, and allotments. Their children have grown up rather different from them: primary schoolteacher Clara craves order and clean bathrooms, son Serge is pretending to his parents that he is still doing a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair'. Robert Audley is pleased for his uncle when he brings home a pretty young bride, even though her past is shrouded in mystery. But when his old friend Talboys is treated strangely by Lady Audley, then goes suddenly missing, Robert has no choice but to begin investigations. Lady…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Are love and devotion enough to create a happy family? When Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loved but also the chance to be a mother, to his daughters Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a child of her own, Andi saw this opportunity at motherhood as a precious gift. If only it were that simple. For this is not a happy family, and the trouble lies with Emily. Her conflicted feelings…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: There's more than one way of being a modern woman, not that the Devlin sisters would admit it... Harassed mum Julie used to be the easy-going one, but now she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support, but how could her sisters understand? After all, their lives are perfect. One drunken mistake is jeopardising everything lawyer Louise has worked so hard for. For a control freak like her,…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: 'He was blamed for endless disasters, from failed exams to a bridge collapse, an avalanche, even a shipwreck: all due, in the stupid opinion of, first, his fellow-students and, later, his colleagues, to the penetrating power of his evil eye...' Profound and compassionate, Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing literary voices to emerge from the twentieth century. Whether describing the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: John Taylor just discovered his long-gone mother created the Nightside — the dark heart of London — and intends to destroy it. To save his birthplace, he will have to travel back through a very distant — and probably deadly — past.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: The author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover and Good Samaritan with a knack for solving mysteries. With help from her entourage of talking animal friends, Beatrix sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawrey, where she's just bought an old…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Set in Lima, Peru this is the story of a bizarre love triangle whose participants may be the creations of Don Rigoberto's fertile imagination. The central characters are Rigoberto himself, a dull insurance executive by day, a pornogapher and sexual enthusiast by night; Lucrecia, his second wife; and Alfonso, his angel-faced young son. Husband and wife have been separated for a year because of a…