Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: An up-close-and-personal look at a man who is, perhaps as much as any American, too often seen as mere symbol. The editors illuminate every aspect of Eastwood, from the spaghetti westerns, the Dirty Harry movies, the directorial efforts, and his many hobbies.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Eleven Madison Park is one of New York City's most popular fine-dining establishments, and one of only a handful to receive four stars from the New York Times. Under the leadership of Executive Chef Daniel Humm and General Manager Will Guidara since 2006, the restaurant has soared to new heights and has become one of the premier dining destinations in the world. ELEVEN MADISON PARK: THE COOKBOOK…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: From his very first photograph, made on assignment for Vogue in 1943, to startlingly fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age 87, Irving Penn again and again shows an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from a typical career retrospective, A NOTEBOOK AT RANDOM is a revelation. Included here are some of Penn's signature images, along with the rough…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Determined to find the treasure of notorious pirate Red Rackham, Tintin and Captain Haddock set sail aboard the Sirius to find the shipwreck of the Unicorn. Following the clues and making use of an ingenious shark-shaped submarine, Tintin is ready for an ocean adventure— but is he ready for the big twist the journey will take?
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: During the US book tour for his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his New York hotel room to excoriating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of deeply moving Vanity Fair pieces, he was being deported 'from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.' Over the next year he underwent the brutal…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Straight from Lima, Ohio, The Official William McKinley High School Yearbook is a full-color, completely up-to-date book that captures all the memories of seniors like Rachel Berry, Kurt Hummel, Finn Hudson and their fellow Gleeks. Featuring tons of glossy photos and exclusive images, the one and only OFFICIAL Glee yearbook will transport you to the halls of William McKinley High School. Just be…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This book uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Eight short fairy tales fit on one spread and feature the characters and stories that children love best. With clear, color-coded typography and amusing illustrations, this collection is sure to entertain while encouraging reading skills…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Join the fun as 17 familiar nursery rhyme characters take starring roles in this latest addition to the New York Times bestselling series You Read to Me, I'll Read to You. Designed with budding readers in mind, each of the tales is set in three columns with color-coded type as a script for two voices to read separately and together. Whether it's Humpty Dumpty negotiating with a doctor to fix his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This №1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery — as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called today's Dostoevsky of crime literature. Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Crime reporter Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line. With cuts being made, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his young replacement. But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will win journalism's highest honour: a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But Jack soon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: The finale to the New York Times bestselling Secret Series! I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And now we've come to this: the fifth and final (I swear!) book in my saga of secrets. A class trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous when Cass accidentally breaks a finger off a priceless mummy. This crime of vandalism leads her and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 574) Аннотация: From David Baldacci — the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist — comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. And Zero Day is where it all begins... John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: His final confrontation with Bullseye left Frank Castle wounded and reeling in more ways than one. Now confined to a prison hospital bed, Frank must begin the long painful process of healing — not just his broken body, but also his horribly scarred soul. To do that, he'll have to face the darkest secret of his past — one he'd hoped would stay buried forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 285) Аннотация: Black Mischief, Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a Birth Control Gala, the rightful ruler's demise at his own…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 737 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 538) Аннотация: A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
Скачать книгу (размер 2 737 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 538) Аннотация: A book of brilliant entertainments: thirty-nine stories spanning the entire career of a great modern writer and an undisputed comic genius, a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Poe, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters (Time).
Скачать книгу (размер 1 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 301) Аннотация: Subtitled A Novel of Many Manners, Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the heathen idol of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world, and becomes initiated into Christianity just as it is recognized as the religion of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade that seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. «Men at Arms» is the first novel in Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy recording…