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Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men. Through Mary's dilemma, and the moving portrayal of…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 032 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1184) Аннотация: This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds — including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: One of Tomie's most popular young picture books, this charming story about Cookie the cat makes a perfect board book. With its bright watercolor illustrations and one sentence of text per page, toddlers will love following Cookie through the days of the week — and seeing all the trouble he causes around the house!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a woman dying of cancer — whose own secrets parallel Jenny's — with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As readers witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, they begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Framed for murder, married to the exquisite Gwen Novak, fleeing for his life in the Wild West free enterprise zones of the moon, Colonel Colin Campbell (23rd century writer, traveller and bon viveur) is pursued by mysterious forces. Heinlein is also the author of «Stranger in a Strange Land».»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. Folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting thirty years to find out just what happened on the eerie dark day her husband, Joe, died — the day of the total eclipse. The police want to know what happened yesterday, when rich, bedridden Vera Donovan, the island's grande dame sans merci and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 471) Аннотация: «With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis— is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «This is the story of Rose Daniels, «the most richly portrayed female King's ever created» («Detroit Free Press»). Escape from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman...»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «When «The Left Hand of Darkness» first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, «Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune — and such a world is Winter». Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Be all that you can be: clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. Phule's Company is the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino from an unlikely criminal takeover... The odds are against the oddballs.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of “On Wings of Eagles” and “Lie Down With Lions”. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal Junior Minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough guys all play their parts in a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler (which, just in case, includes a section entitled Point to Answer). Organized thematically, common words and expressions are shown in English and Cyrillic with easy-to-decipher phonetic pronunciation.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 951 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 776) Аннотация: Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughter of the Templetons' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a member of the family. But money could not buy the thing she craved most-her mother's acceptance...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosphy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Spinning her web keeps the spider busy all day long. A number of animals try to distract the spider from her task, but the spider ignores them as she is too busy spinning. Each page shows the progress of the web which is raised from the page.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: All Aboard Reading titles feature extra-large type, primer-easy sentence structure, and colorful rebus pictures that replace many nouns in the text. Nothing wakes this baby — not a beeping car, not a barking dog, not a ringing telephone! But when a tiny fly buzzes by, he finally wakes up. And what does it take to get him back to sleep? A kiss on the nose from big sister! Includes 24 cut-out flash…