Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Sin City is hotter than ever, with nearly 38 million annual visitors indulging in all the glitz and glam it has to offer. Fodor's Las Vegas 2008 takes a savvy, insider look at the city, uncovering the secrets that every traveler needs to know. • Brand-new, photo-rich design highlights what's best about Sin City in an easy-to-use format. • New «Experience Las Vegas» section rounds up the best of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Maui! •Your vacation never looked…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Take a train ride up a 2,850-foot scenic gorge, watch the midnight sun rise from the deck of your boat, wander through a village of ancient stave churches and sod houses or stroll by the gabled warehouses of Norway's most charming wharf—Fodor's Norway, 8th Edition offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the country to find the best hotels, restaurants,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Diane Arbus redefined the concerns and the range of the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach have established her preeminence in the world of the visual arts. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Diane Arbus Revelations affords the first…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one such literary hero, who has come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is drawn onward, to a destiny he cannot imagine. Haunted by dreams of an…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend on Hawaii! • Your vacation never looked…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Italy! •Your vacation never looked…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Alaska! • Your vacation never looked…
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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Keep Calm and Carry On» was a WWII government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. Though it never saw the light of day in 1939 (it was only supposed to go up if Britain was invaded), it has suddenly struck a chord in our current difficult times, now we are in need of a stiff upper lip and optimistic energy once again. Gordon Brown has one up in 10 Downing Street and James May wears…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Ellie Enderlin spent most of her childhood living in her sister's shadow. Lila was the good daughter — a mathematical genius who could do no wrong in their parents' eyes. Whereas Ellie was younger, wilder and could never quite match up. Until one day the shape of their family changes forever. Lila is brutally murdered. In the aftermath of her sister's death, Ellie entrusts her most intimate…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Steven Pressfield’s quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare — Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign — have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military history, a supremely literate and engaging storyteller, and an author with acute insight into the minds of men in battle. In Killing Rommel Pressfield…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. Just days after Albert James writes these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. Abandoning a pretty girlfriend and the lab where he is completing his PhD, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Under the hot sun, the Jeddah streets resemble a scene from an old black-and-white movie: the women dressed like long, dark shadows and the men in their light cotton tunics. Naser's friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can't get away: he's an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash. During his time off, he sits beneath his favourite palm tree,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Becky Brandon is pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed — especially since shopping cures morning sickness. But when the celebrity must-have obstetrician turns out to be her husband's glamorous ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: “[An] elegantly spun yarn... Akunin’s wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted.” –The Providence Journal It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its difficulties are only compounded by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and…