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Ian Mcewan: Black Dogs

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.

John Grisham: The Summons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…

John Grisham: A Time to Kill

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: «When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's…

Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers — and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.

John Grisham: The Street Lawyer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D. C. firm with 800 lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star, with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers, no time to walk around them on the sidewalk, and no time for a conscience. But a violent…

Tish Rabe: My, Oh My A Butterfly!: All about Butterflies

Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard — the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly Along the way, beginning readers will find out how butterflies see thousands of images at once, drink nectar from flowers, avoid predators, and can be identified by size, shape, and color. Readers…

John Grisham: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron…

Brown Sandra: Temperatures Rising

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Darkly handsome with an arrogant edge, architectural engineer Scout Ritland is the kind of American man who spells trouble. Chantal duPont should know, for she has experienced the best and worst of the country and its people-including one who broke her heart. Yet here she is, home on sultry Parrish Island, putting herself in the way of another bold Yankee. This time, however, it’s for a good…

Steel Danielle: The House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door... The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah, a perfectly sensible lawyer, walks through its empty rooms, she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain — to a drama that first unfolded in…

Blair Elaine: Literary St: Petersburg. A Guide to the City and Its Writers

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: «Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifteen profiled writers, there is a biographical sketch focusing on his or her relationship to the city and a sense of his or her work, along with a list of St. Petersburg sites associated with the writer and the literary works. Travelers can wander…

Goleman Daniel: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are ‘wired to connect’ and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect our lives. Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily…

Moorcock Michael: The Vengeance of Rome

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer/inventor/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator's circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini's wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate…

Wilson Jacqueline: The Illustrated Mum

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Dolphin adores her mother, Marigold. She's got wonderful clothes, bright hair and vivid tattoos all over her body — a colourful lady, to match her colourful life. But Dolphin's older sister, Star, is beginning to wonder if living with Marigold's fiery, unpredictable moods is the best thing for the girls...

Weir Alison: Innocent Traitor

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the…

Wilson Jacqueline: Lola Rose

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When life with Jayni's violent-tempered father becomes too frightening to cope with, Jayni, her mum and her little brother Kenny are forced to escape in the middle of the night. Slipping out of the house unseen, travelling up to London by train and checking into a hotel — it's almost like playing an elaborate game. They even make up false identities to protect their secret, and Jayni becomes the…

Weir Alison: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: «One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, «The Six Wives of Henry VIII» shows us a court…

Wilson Jacqueline: Vicky Angel

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: You look as if you've seen a ghost!' Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky, her loud, confident best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons, out running or tentatively trying to make…

Allingham Margery: The Beckoning Lady

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motive, suspicion and deduction with all his imagination and skill.

Monaghan Nicola: The Killing Jar

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Five-year-old Kerrie-Ann Hill has an unusual neighbour. Mrs Ivanovich collects butterflies and she shows Kerrie-Ann how to catch them, take care of them, and even how to kill them using a jar and some funny-smelling liquid. Kerrie-Ann loves looking at these beautiful, delicate creatures, and imagines them flying free. This is Kerrie-Ann's story. She doesn't know who her father is, and her mother…