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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: «The latest «New York Times» bestseller by «America's most popular suspense novelist» («Rolling Stone») is the story of Hollywood's most dazzling star whose perfectly ordered life is under siege by an insidious killer.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Equally at home in satirical novels and biting critical essays, wickedly funny short stories and intimate autobiography, Martin Amis is widely regarded as one of the most influential yet inimitable voices in contemporary fiction, a writer whose prose captures the warp-speed rush of modernity. «Vintage Amis» displays this versatility in an excerpt from the author’s award-winning memoir,…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk's tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck's debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Caf-? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you…

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: A condensed, board book version of the classic bestseller, perfect for babies and toddlers. Introduces the youngest readers to the wonderful world of Seussian word play.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man — Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet — can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware... Spin State UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do-Urden, and his companions.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Ob in den entlegensten Winkeln der Welt oder in den Straßen der Metropolen, überall lauert das Unerwartete. Und wer wüsste mitreißender davon zu erzählen als Wladimir Kaminer, der die Leser auf abenteuerliche Reisen nach Sibirien und Dänemark, Moskau und Paris entführt. Und vieles, von dem er berichtet, dürfte selbst Experten völlig neu sein ...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «One of America's most cherished novelists takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around. Poignant and wickedly funny, «Dating Game» is about tackling life and love with both courage and laughter — told as only Steel can tell it.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From Canada's new queen of suspense comes the latest in her Women of the Otherworld series — a mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «Wiccan heroine Paige Winterbourne returns in this sequel to «Dime Store Magic.» After her mother's murder, Paige breaks away from her coven and tries to start a new one. But someone soon begins murdering the teenage offspring of some of the underworld's most powerful families.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 491) Аннотация: When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his will, Bartimaeus is packed off to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from an elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Скачать книгу (размер 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 179) Аннотация: As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons-But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 069 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 407) Аннотация: Matt Mandrell, unsuspecting graduate student, never imagined his research would lead him to a strange scrap of parchment that would change his life forever... Crossing the void of time and space, Matt is whisked away to an enchanted world where speaking in rhymes works the most dazzling magic. There he wins not only fame and power as the Lord High Wizard, but the heart of the beautiful Queen…

Скачать книгу (размер 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 119) Аннотация: More than anything else in the world, Lila wants to be a Firework-Maker. But every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Can Lila possibly survive? Especially when she doesn't know she needs special protection to survive his flames... The exciting and heart-warming story of Lila's journey to face the fearful fire demon fizzes with fun and drama.