Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: After spending an incredible day and night together in Paris, Just One Year is Willem's story, picking up where Just One Day ended. His story of their year of quiet longing and near misses is a perfect counterpoint to Allyson's own as Willem undergoes a transformative journey, questioning his path, finding love, and ultimately, redefining himself.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting! Would you be surprised to see a white rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket? It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbit-hole into a very strange world. She meets a disappearing cat, plays croquet with a bad-tempered Queen, joins a mad Hatter's tea party and becomes entangled in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins. Lanny, what is it? Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately It's Adair. He's free. For 200 years she's been hiding He gave her immortality. She tried to destroy him. Now he is searching for her. They must not meet. Or there will be a Reckoning.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A New York Times Best Seller! DC Comics took a bold step and renumbered the longest-running monthly comic, Action Comics, to #1 for the first time since 1938 as part of the DC Comics — The New 52 event.With this renumbering comes a new creative team featuring comics legend Grant Morrison and fan-favorite artist Rag Morales. While Morrison is no stranger to writing the Superman character, having…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Tucked away high in the Himalayas, a long dormant evil has made these snowy mountain tops its home. Helspont, a decendant of the ancient alien race of Daemonites, has enlisted an army of robots to obtain all there is to know about the Kryptonian meanace standing between him and dominion over the people of Earth. Can Helspont gain control over Superman and use him to execute his invasion plan? Or…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Years of epic storylines converge as Batman Incorporated battles Talia and Leviathan for the very soul of Gotham City! Tragedy and triumph are the hallmarks of the second volume of Grant Morrison's epic Batman Incorporated. Batman and his allies must strengthen their resolve as Leviathan moves to take Gotham City. Everything since Batman Incorporated #1 has been leading to this!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 044 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 206) Аннотация: Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved worksAt age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Still evocative and awe-inspiring after fifty years, Travels with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The fairies are back, but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. There's a full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orangutan. It's Midsummer Night — no time for dreaming. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 555) Аннотация: «A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest — and most acute — writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here — from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on being flat-chested, the clarion call of her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: «Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journalist and human-rights activist Anna Politkovskaya disagrees strenuously with this point of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie’s raging hangover (‘If you would drink this, sir… it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.’) And…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Just as Bertie Wooster is a member of the Drones Club, Jeeves has a club of his own, the Junior Ganymede, exclusively for butlers and gentlemen’s gentlemen. In its inner sanctum is kept the Book of Revelations, where the less than perfect habits of their employers are lovingly recorded. The book is, of course, pure dynamite. So what happens when it disappears into potentially hostile hands?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: «Full-color guide — Make your trip to London unforgettable with 48 maps, illustrated features, and 260 color photos. Customize your trip with simple planning tools — Ideas for making the most of your time — Convenient overview of each neighborhood and its highlights — Easy-to-read color city and Underground Tube maps Explore Westminster, the East End, and beyond — Discerning Fodor's Choice picks…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals — but that the victim may be keeping secrets. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A descendant of one of Hawaii's largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two daughters — Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a teenage recovering drug addict — are out of control; his thrill-seeking, high-maintenance wife, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident and will soon be taken off life support. Suddenly the King family must come to terms with this…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: A breathtaking feat of scholarship' The Times. 'I can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and read this book. It supersedes all other Dickens biographies' Anthony Burgess, Independent. In Peter Ackroyd's abridged edition of his classic biography of Charles Dickens, the acclaimed biographer takes us to the heart of one of the world's greatest writers. From Dickens's birth in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there's a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house. Inside a man lies dead in a pool of blood. Most worrying of all, her mother is missing. When the Atlanta police arrive, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Roger Brown has it all: Norway's most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position that Brown is recruiting for; he is also in possession of 'The Calydonian Boar Hunt' by Rubens, one of…