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Hosseini Khaled: The Kite Runner

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father, so resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament and prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him — for he always helps Amir. But this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir feels jealous of his natural courage and…

Grisham John: Theodore Boone: The Accused

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Streenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer.

Condie A.: Reached

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: «The final thrilling part of the «New York Times» bestselling trilogy, «Reached» is the sequel to «Matched» and «Crossed» by Ally Condie. After leaving the Society and desperately searching for each other — and the Rising — Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things…

Banville John: Ancient Light

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The story of obsessive young love and the power of grief — the bet novel yet from the Booker prize winner.

Moriarty Laura: The Chaperone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know.…

Dahl Roald: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A true genius... Roald Dahl is my hero — David Walliams A phizz-whizzing rebrand for the world's No.1 storyteller — Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Charlie Bucket has won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and is on his way to take possession of it — in none other than a great glass elevator! But when the elevator makes a fearful…

Smith Keri: The Pocket Scavenger

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Instructs readers to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more.

Brill Amy: The Movement of Stars

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her life — for, as an amateur astronomer, she secretly hopes to discover a comet and win the King of Denmark's prize for doing so.

Day Sylvia: Entwined With You

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The 6 million copy global bestselling Crossfire series from Sylvia Day continues in Entwined with You as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires... From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside — so much like my own. I…

Gogol Nikolai: The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his…

Day Sylvia: Reflejada en Ti

Скачать книгу (размер 1 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 355) Аннотация: Gideon Cross. Tan guapo e impecable en el exterior, como traumatizado y atormentado en el interior. Fue una brillante y ardiente llama que me abrumó más que el más oscuro de los placeres. No podía mantenerme alejada. No quería hacerlo. Él era me adicción... mi único deseo... era mío. Mi pasado era tan violento como el suyo y yo estaba igual de…

Ginsberg: Howl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation,…

Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: For fans of The Bunny Suicides, Simon's Cat and 101 Uses of a Dead Cat comes the hilariously offensive Hate Mail by Mr Bingo. 'Gorgeous and funny! Like a labrador doing stand-up' — Noel Fielding 'A horrible, hilarious little book' — The Times 'Wonderfully offensive... Wonderfully vicious' — The Huffington Post Mr Bingo loves post. In April 2011 he launched a service on his website, where, for a…

Nabokov V.: Mary

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her…

Obrist H.U.: Ai Weiwei Speaks

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei — artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist — extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many…

Rand A.: Atlas Shrugged

Скачать книгу (размер 5 950 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1168) Аннотация: A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world', published in Penguin Modern Classics. Opening with the enigmatic question 'Who is John Galt?', Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the 'men of talent' — the great innovators, producers and…

Dessen Sarah: The Moon and More

Скачать книгу (размер 2 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 435) Аннотация: In her eleventh novel, Dessen returns to Colby, the beach town that is the setting for some of her best-loved books, in a story of summer love, self-discovery, striking out to new horizons, and saying goodbye.

Hautzig Deborah: L: Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: When a tornado hits her farmhouse in Kansas, Dorothy is caught up in a whirlwind of adventure, complete with flying monkeys, talking lions, and silver slippers. Advanced readers will join Dorothy, Toto, and her friends from Oz on an unforgettable journey down the Yellow Brick Road in this Level 4 reader. The Wizard of Oz will now join classics like The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland in the…

Toibin Colm: The Testament of Mary

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change.

Day Sylvia: A Passion for Him

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Miss Amelia Benbridge and the Earl of Ware are the most anticipated match of the Season. But Amelia's love will always belong to her childhood sweetheart, the gypsy Colin — who tragically died. She knows she'll never feel such passion again. But when a brooding stranger at a masquerade offers a single, sensual kiss passions rise...