Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave — 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This novel looks at life in the dark underside of Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is sick of his friends, sick with the city and its deserted docklands, and above all sick with himself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph — the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion — with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 783 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 547) Аннотация: «A desperate young man plans the perfect crime — the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law — if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 413) Аннотация: «Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our «two minds»—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: «A toe-tapper babies will love — the classic Seussian book about opposites: «Wet foot, dry foot. Low foot, high foot...»
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: With Dr. Seuss as your guide, learning the alphabet is as easy as A, B, C.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: «There's a Wocket in My Pocket» is filled with bizarre creatures and rhymes: the nupboard in the cupboard, ghairs beneath the stairs, and the bofa on the sofa!»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Roy Strang is engaged is a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: An alternative World War II takes an unexpected turn when a race of lizard-like space aliens sweep down to conquer Earth, causing the Allied and Axis forces to combine atomic bomb technologies.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Rudy Taylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case a lone, to save himself from his mounting debts. It is a bad faith case against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young mans life, but has instead refused to pay the claim until it is too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «The battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul continues, as the innocent take up arms against the monster. As his loved ones indulge in forbidden crimes with a legendary passion, Vlad the Impaler's heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons» «Let the curse end with me!»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: «The second book in the great Earth's Children series, «The Valley of Horses» continues the saga of Ayla, recreating with exquisite and accurate detail, a possible prehistoric existence.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann — a Boy and His Two Dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains — and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage-until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Sam Parker is a star venture…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism... what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he…