Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Vineland is vintage Pynchon, full of quasi-allegorical characters, elaborate…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This is the first novel by the author of Gravity's Rainbow, and a profoundly impressive and original work in its own right. The search for the mysterious V ranges from New York to Cairo to Alexandria to Malta. Apart from its strange heroine, the book's characters include sailors, spies, priests, philosophers, bums and bawds.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 941 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 578) Аннотация: For nearly a decade, Willis has dazzled readers with her short fiction. Her first novel, Lincoln's Dreams, received unanimous high praise and won the John W. Campbell Award. Now she pens a sensational work about human struggle and redemption set in the time of the Black Plague.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A charming, hilariously funny and genuinely affectionate picture book from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Jesus' Christmas Party. A little girl is looking forward to the Queen's visit to her school — and wonders what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear! Will they be her 'at home' knickers — adorned with corgis — or her garden party knickers, or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones?…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, this novel castigates the fanaticism of the country`s revolutionaries, particularly those known as Nihilists. It presents a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction, and a study of terrorism.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets — including a dog, a cow, and a plane — Are you my mother?
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This tale of a tormented musical genius moves across time and place, from 19th-century New Orleans to the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1990s. It traces three charismatic figures, bound to one another by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, or liberation.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Artfully extracted and adapted almost entirely from Ted Geisel's work, this is a must for all expectant parents — and introduction to the wonderful world of Dr. Suess for their adorable baby-to-be. Exciting new discoveries are being made all the time about how much learning takes place while a baby is still in its mother's womb, and Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go makes the perfect welcome It's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading:…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in a story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A legal thriller from the author of THE PELICAN BRIEF, THE CLIENT and THE FIRM, about what goes on behind the scenes when a jury retires to deliberate and decide whether the accused is innocent or guilty.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the author of “The Last Tsar”, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the «Free People of Color», descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his «handlers» don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 542 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1088) Аннотация: The magnificent saga continues.... It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past — or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend — a tale of tragic passion that ended with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Every Jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) 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 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark. Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Stephen Lewis, an author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, he spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.