Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite visiting plagues of laughing fits and giant cats upon the troops, the villagers know that to escape the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With this, Asimov changed our…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but also convey the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's magic elixir may — or may not — prolong life, but it is a fact that it makes you feel a whole lot better Here in one glorious volume are six of the good doctor's best prescriptions. Not a word or a picture has been omitted or changed. Ranging from his very first book, And to Thing That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, to his prophetic The Lorax, Six by Seuss is the perfect collection to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen’s Personal Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Murphy's Law — popularly known as Sod's Law — with acknowledgements to Parkinson's Law and the Peter Principle — explains the truth of man's existence: that if anything can go wrong, it will. In three volumes of murphology, Arthur Block has provided the only comfort possible — laughter — for all those who have ever been exasparated by things going wrong, with a set of rules offering a wise and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: Only a few know the terrifying truth — an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth — but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy — but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract — and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Illustrated in full color. This car-and-truck-filled alphabet extravaganza that starts with an ambulance and ends with a zippercar, is shaped like Lowly Worm's applemobile.
Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Through forty years — from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present — Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Story of valiant companions, awesome foes, and the ancient mystery of how the Elves survive.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Brilliant, fearless, incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne was a self-made millionaire at thirty-five, former Undersecretary of State, current head of one of the nation's most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the « secret government» — and is swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger beyond the corridors of official…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel — a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 581) Аннотация: «‘It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not’, says Bertie. ‘If I had Jeeves’s brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.’ Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves’s services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen’s helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: «Writing with all the passion of «Love Story» and power of «The Class», Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors — what makes them tick, scheme, hurt... and love. From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs — and sometimes…