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Alan Bradley: The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mistery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over — and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who'd do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in…

John Irving: Last Night in Twisted River

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian…

Alan Bradley: Mord im Gurkenbeet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dieser außergewöhnliche All-Age-Krimi hat die Herzen von Lesern, Buchhändlern und Kritikern aus aller Welt im Sturm erobert! Die junge Flavia de Luce staunt nicht schlecht, als sie im ersten Morgenlicht das Opfer eines Giftmordes in ihrem Gurkenbeet entdeckt! Da jeder ihren Vater, den sanftmütigen Colonel de Luce, für den Mörder zu halten scheint, nimmt die naseweise…

Christoph Schlingensief: So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wie weiterleben, wenn man von einem Moment auf den anderen aus der Lebensbahn geworfen wird, wenn der Tod plötzlich nahe rückt? Christoph Schlingensiefs bewegendes Protokoll einer Selbstbefragung ist ein Geschenk an uns alle, an Kranke wie Gesunde, denen allzu oft die Worte fehlen, wenn Krankheit und Tod in das Leben einbrechen. Eine Kur der Worte gegen das Verstummen — und nicht…

Aleksandr Orlov: A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase — Simples! — can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to…

Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the…

Ben Mezrich: The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg — an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius — were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial…

W. Somerset Maugham: Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as Rain, The Letter, The Vessel of Wrath and The Alien Corn, Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.

Asa Larsson: Bis dein Zorn sich legt

Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: Rebecka Martinsson, Staatanwältin im nordschwedischen Kiruna, wird in einen besonders grausamen Mordfall hineingezogen: Beim winterlichen Tauchen in einem See stirbt ein junges Pärchen, weil ein Fremder eine Holztür über das Loch schiebt, das sie ins Eis gehackt hatten, um nach einem versunkenen Wrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu tauchen. Wofür wurden die beiden mit dem…

Michael Cunningham: Chasing Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: I'm in constant search of chasing beauty, chasing hope — I'm not interested in the dark. The celebrated photographer Richard Phibbs, known for his celebrity portraits and iconic ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and more, has an unwavering eye for beauty. Many theorists argue that beauty is subjective, a product of individual preference, but the images from Phibbs' archive of work…

Andrey Platonov: The Foundation Pit

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov's dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Divine Misdemeanors

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin's treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir — all for the right to claim the…

Edward Rutherfurd: New York

Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: A novel that tells the story of New York city — from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived at breakneck speed.

Terry Pratchett: I Shall Wear Midnight

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Tiffany Aching, the young witch from The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith is back in a new adventure featuring Discworld characters both familiar to fans (such as Tiffany, the Wee Free Men, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) and new (meet Wee Mad Arthur, the Nac Mac Feegle on the City Watch whose only previous appearance was a brief cameo in Feet of Clay and city witch Mrs. Proust —…

Chuck Palahniuk: Pygmy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something…

Terry Pratchett: The Wee Free Men

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A wonderful new novel from the Carnegie Medal winner. A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel. Up on the chalk downs known as The Wold, witches are banned — ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk is no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching — a wise shepherd — might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching…

W. Somerset Maugham: The Merry-go-round

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a…

Jonathan Phillips: Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings — on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties — to throw a brilliant new light on people and events we thought we knew well. Although the notion of fighting for one's faith fell into…

Rowan Coleman: The Happy Home for Broken Hearts

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her 'happily ever after' moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her husband's tragic death leaves her alone with their soon-to-become-a-teenager son, faced with a mountain of debt, and on the…

Tom Sharpe: The Gropes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family... This is a brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based…