Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A group of people have elected ambiguous and fascinating Mischa Fox to be their God. While Mischa is charming his devotees, his alter ego Calvin Blick, is inspiring fear, and Rosa Keepe, a high-minded bluestocking under Mischa's spell (who also loves two Polish brothers) is swept into the battle between sturdy common sense and dangerous enchantment.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In the healing waters of Ennistone the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing. To this town of subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. And there he exerts an almost magical influence, especially over George McCaffrey, his old pupil.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: The facts about Pontius Pilate are very few — when he was born and when he died is unknown. Nor is anything known about his career before he became Governor of Judea, or after he was recalled by Tiberius. This book is about all the Pilates, real, half-real and invented.
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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Somebody was in there. Somebody — or some thing... There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of the linen cupboard next to room l2. And something is happening to Ellie-May Sunderland, too — something very sinister... This is a gripping…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 502) Аннотация: This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life behind the rice-paper screens, and summons up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: History offers few eras richer in drama than the last years of imperial Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, presided over a glittering world of huge palaces, lavish balls, and incomparable luxury. Then their cherished son Alexis was born. His hemophilia led to their tragic entanglement with the bizarre Siberian mystic Rasputin and eventually to the disintegration of their…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Back for an amazing ninth printing, this is our bestselling book ever, a Catcher in the Rye for its generation and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. It tells the story of Enid and Rebecca, two above-it-all best friends confronted with the prospect of adulthood and the uncertain future of their friendship.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sons — the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A young boy and his wintertime friend share a magical night of friendship, fun, and flying in this award-winning, wordless story.
Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, this short book looks back to what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Toronto Star, Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921 — Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist forms; James Joyce had just completed Ulysses; and Gertude Stein held court at 27 rue de Fleurus, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate children to master skills... and turn the page for more. Each Workbook Contains: — Easy-to-follow directions; — Skill building exercises with delightful illustrations; — An assortment of colorful stickers; — 32 easy-tear-out pages; — Skill identifier at the bottom of each page; — An answer key.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Simple instructions and delightful graphics motivate children to master skills... and turn the page for more. Each Workbook Contains: — Easy-to-follow directions; — Skill building exercises with delightful illustrations; — An assortment of colorful stickers; — 32 easy-tear-out pages; — Skill identifier at the bottom of each page; — An answer key.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die, His heirs, to no one's surprise especially Troy's — are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, he is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature — the source of the human archetypes and the attitudes that define and govern the towering fictional creations of nineteenth century Russia and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone. Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the dark side of our well-lighted world. In this extraordinary novel, which preceded The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, Harris introduced the unforgettable character Dr. Hannibal Lecter.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. firm with eight hundred 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 for a conscience. But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially — kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh has here created one of the most corrupt characters in contemporary fiction.