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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne — if I can stay alive long enough to claim it. After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30.
Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip in his Inside Your Outside Machine.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer... except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it. By the time…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi. It's when the FBI starts taking an interest in the investigation that Rizzoli begins to wonder just what makes this case so different,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: «The impulse to do AMERICAN MUSIC, writes famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, «came from a desire to return to my original subject and look at it with a mature eye. Bring my experience to it... make it a real American tapestry.» Her ambitious idea became AMERICAN MUSIC, a stunning collection of photographs of the musicians, places and people that enrich the landscape of American music. As…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: A luminous tale of love and loss In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young girl falls in love — and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie has moved to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father. She feels very alone: her much-loved mother is dead; she finds it difficult to settle in, in her new school and her only friends fall far…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Annie Leibovitz' extraordinary career took off in San Francisco in 1970 when she first submitted a portfolio to Rolling Stone magazine. By 1973, she was the magazine's chief photographer. Since 1983, Annie Leibovitz has worked closely with Vanity Fair, who will be producing a special music issue to coincide with the book. Her subjects include Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Al Green,…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: «Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, «The Zombie Survival Guide» is one's key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking the streets right now. The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: How long did it take to build the Titanic? Why did it sink? What was it like to be a passenger? What happened to the people who survived? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Titanic, Jack and Annie's very own guide to the ship and its story. Includes information on the people who sailed on the Titanic, life on board the ship, the search for the…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese.…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city — its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities. She speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness — the paradoxes deep in…
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: «The meanings of «up» are conveyed with merry verse and illustrations in a happy book that celebrates the joy of life.»