Скачать книгу (размер 2 528 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 497) Аннотация: Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle — Nabokov's other great love story — offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's 'longest, richest, most ambitious novel'…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The Harrisons are a large and close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world. This is a multi-generational story of love, lies and family ties.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cas Perry doesn't want a relationship. When her father walked out on her and her mother she decided relationships, love, marriage, the whole shegang, simlpy weren't worth the heartache. But is Cas, immoral most of the time and amoral when it comes to business, going too far with her new TV programme, Sex with an Ex? Unfeeling and unscrupulous, she ruthlessly manipulates everyone she comes into…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The Queen of Storytellers is back — with a triumphant tale of one woman's struggle over adversity. In 1786, a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there. How Mary escaped the harsh existence of the colony and found true love, and how she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can't run forever. So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Theodore Boone.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jeremy Clarkson had a dream... A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights. Again. En-route he discovers how rhubarb will become the new crack, that a comb over will end anyone's quest for global domination and what unites a Filipino chambermaid in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book. (The Times). Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach — and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Nora Roberts presents a riveting novel of a canine search and rescue volunteer who fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The modern woman is a Jill of all trades... Ava is a wife, lover, mother, daughter, friend, fixer, boss... so many different people, in fact, she no longer knows what it means to be herself. Not that anyone will let her — not her work-obsessed husband, nor her tearaway younger daughter, nor her out-of-control Dad, nor even her sassy-but-lonely best friend. There's always someone wanting something…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further beneath Carne's respectable veneer, he uncovers far more than a simple crime of passion. In his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Now in paperback — this is the next mega-selling instalment in the hilarious «Diary of a Wimpy Kid» series. Greg's mom has a vision of 'family togetherness' that really doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. But there's a brand-new addition to the Heffley family to contend with and it looks like Greg might be outnumbered. It could be a real dog of a summer...»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Now everyone can have their own Wimpy Kid diary! Draw your own Wimpy-Kid-style cartoons, fill in facts and lists, check out the full-colour comics inside and even write your own Wimpy Kid journal, just like Greg. This title now comes with dozens of pages of new content and a brand new cover.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria lost his father and village when they were slaughtered by the cruel warlord Khalra Zym. Wandering the world alone, Conan was forged into a peerless warrior by hardship and bloodshed.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets... The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. For her future. For…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Niccolo Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life — the story of Altair, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary Assassins. Altair embarks on a formidable mission — one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies, including…