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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughters killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy — perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life — Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing — and no one — can keep them apart as they keep…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Knox in box. Fox in socks. Knox on fox in socks in box. This latest addition to the Dr. Seuss Nursery Collection will tickle tongues and fingers. Selected tongue twisters from Dr. Seuss's classic Fox in Socks with touch and feel tabs let children touch the fluffy chick, the scratchy brick, the sticky blue goo, and more in this sturdy board book! Playful rhymes and interactive elements make this a…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Hop in the Thinga-ma-jigger and explore the world of mammals, birds, sea creatures, and much more in this deluxe colouring book! With 96 pages of pictures to colour and a fun rhyming text this will keep any fans of The Cat in the Hat occupied for hours! The Cat in the Hat knows all about that!

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: From the author of End in Tears comes a chilling thriller for Quick Reads — books for emergent readers, published as part of the UK's World Book Day Adult Literacy Initiative 2006. What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left. And there was…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The story opens with newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating unmentionables. But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a raging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the only acceptable course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she hears rumours of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion — previously head porter, now elevated to Master — is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: «The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the lives of the twelve men, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, who presided over America's imperial fortunes — the good, the bad and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Is Discworld ready for educated rats? Set in the Discworld, a brand new and marvellously eccentric fantasy tale for young readers. Maurice, an amazing cat, who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart — smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around; rats that have…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing — in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of surburban Surrey.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon upon the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorbale transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Vekramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 246) Аннотация: A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison», declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of «Damned», Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State…