Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: A book and tape pack. The soundtrack to the story enhances both the action and the mood of the titles. Each tape has a fast production side and a slower, read-along version.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Everyone thinks Harry looks lovely in his new knitted jacket covered in roses — except Harry! So Harry is on a mission to rid his back of those ridiculous roses...!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the title story in this collection of five novellas, a journalist visits a celebrated but reclusive painter. He is intrigued by the complicated erotic relationship between the elderly artist and the beautiful young women who share their lives with him.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 895 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 569) Аннотация: Twenty years after he earned a reputation for killing eighty-seven men during the Vietnam War, Bob Lee Swagger finds that his skills are in demand when an organization with ties to the CIA hires him for a particularly dangerous mission.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life — and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind’s most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But, as always, there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: «No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's «The Satanic Verses», which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta («for fifteen years the biggest star in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time. The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: What do we do when the world's walls — its family structures, its value-systems, it political forms — crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand. Moor falls in love, with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Slaughterhous-Five» is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including «The Tell-Tale Heart», «The Murders in the Rue Morgue», «The Fall of the House of Usher», «The Pit and the Pendulum», «William Wilson», «The Black Cat», «The Cask of Amontillado» and «Eleonora». Here too is a major…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece «Huckleberry Finn», «Life on the Mississippi» is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Subtitled ‘A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race’, «The Torrents of Spring» – Hemingway’s second published work – wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the ‘great race’ of writers of his generation. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O’Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Following on from his bestselling study of violence, THE FOOTBALL FACTORY, John King considers Britain's other obsession-sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once-sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise system based on the sexual act. In this lagerosoaked league, the most that women can offer man is 4 points-unless, that is, she…