Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Olga Yunter was born in July 1900 in a remote frontier post in southern Siberia. A girlhood played out against the backdrop of the China trade changed forever, when, at seventeen, Olga joined her brothers in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Death and retribution followed. Olga was forced to flee to China, rubies sewn into her petticoats. Twice more Olga would be forced to leave everything…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaw's celebrated play-and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner-feature phonetics professor Henry Higgins who transformed cockney flower girl Eliza into a lady.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It follows the education-intellectual, spiritual, and sexual-of young Amory Blaine.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire’s son Charlie Carver – missing now for over three years. Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’, who for years has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an alien culture, and the relentless dangers of a hostile natural world. And as they travel…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike «Ginger» Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that instead of laying their ghosts to rest they become caught up in a train of increasingly strange and violent events. The four other haunting, evocative stories in this volume also explore deep fears and longings, secrets…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be — at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life — and home — comes Jill, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though — it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure. Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horseracing, but with the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds, and the prowess of a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, he has brought home several wins. But his winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers trouble in his own stables — trouble that could bring about his own termination…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Charles Todd — a renowned painter of horses — is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald’s house for a weekend visit to find his cousin’s young wife dead on the floor — and Donald the police’s prime suspect. Determined to prove Donald’s innocence, Todd trails a set of clues from England to Australia to New Zealand, only to realize that someone is trailing him. Someone with every intention…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning — and now Jonah must figure out the high-stakes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural — but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time — a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Nora Roberts dances her way to the top again... With one vampire determined to rule the earth, the Circle of Six prepares to battle for their lives—and their hearts...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Nora Roberts's new vampire trilogy comes full circle... The battleground has been chosen for the final showdown between those selected by the gods and the minions of the vampire Lilith. But there is one vampire who dares stand against her. And his love for the scholarly queen of Geall will complete the circle of six — and change the face of eternity.