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Harry Turtledove: In Balance: Alternate History of Second World War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) 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…

Jeanne Kalogridis: Covenant With the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Honoring a family pact that compels him to return to Transylvania to take part in a secret ceremony, young Arkady Tsepesh of the family Dracul learns a devastating truth about his ancestor, Prince Vlad.

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The story of a British earthling plucked from his planet, and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.

Dick King-Smith: Babe the Gallant Pig

Скачать книгу (размер 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 118) Аннотация: Farmer Hogget's old sheepdog, Fly, adopts a piglet she names Babe and is astonished at how quickly he learns all she has to teach him. But plucky little Babe has even more surprises in store — and the farm will never be the same again.

Steel Danielle: Accident

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Accident» is a powerful and ultimately triumphant novel of lives shattered and changed by one devastating moment. Although frequent business meetings keep her husband, Brad, away from home, Page Clarke feels blessed with her happy family and comfortable marriage. They have a house near San Francisco and she keeps busy looking after their seven-year-old son, Andy, and their teenage daughter,…

Belloc Hilaire: Cautionary Verses

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This omnibus of Belloc's stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme — all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are you prone to pulling faces, telling tales or bouts of extravagance? Yes? Then ignore these stories at your peril. If not, you might suffer a fate similar to those described in these cautionary tales.

Stout Rex: Three at Wolfe's Door

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Joining Bantam's successful republications of Rex Stout's classic Nero Wolfe novels comes this amazing triple-play, including a deadly dinner party where five femmes fatales come under suspicion; a wandering cabbie with a comely corpse as a passenger; and a rodeo complete with cowboys, cowgirls and a dead millionaire with a fancy lariat for a necktie.

Adams Douglas: HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Trilogy in Five Parts

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.

Herbert George: The Complete English Works

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: An entirely new edition of Herbert's collected poems with nots, chronology and introduction by the distinguised scholar Anne Pasternak Slater, this volume is designed to complement the editions of Marvell, Donne and Milton already published by the Everyman's Library. This volume is ideal for students and offers the best text available.

Esquivel Laura: Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her…

Roberts Nora: Born in Ice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: Nora Roberts, the bestselling author of Hidden Riches and Born In Fire, continues the romantic Irish saga--the story of the Concannon sisters, three modern women bound by the timeless spirit of their land. When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland, the locals stayed indoors — and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But…

Grisham John: Chamber

Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice,…

Grisham John: The Client

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats.

Richard Bach: A Gift of Wings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. «Jonathan Livingston Seagull» was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.»

Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders... until he meets Donald Shimoda — former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's…

Isaac Asimov: The Robots Of Dawn

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partner¬ship between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of…

Robert Ludlum: The Scorpio Illusion

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: «Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly — and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived. Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer — one of the best — until the rainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was…

Danielle Steel: Vanished

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Vanished» tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy — the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a…

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…

Ernest Hemingway: Fiesta

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new…