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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the eighth book in the series. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the thirteenth book in the series. For all Jack Aubrey’s life he has triumphed, often sensationally,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: Although born to rule, Aidan lives as a scribe in a remote Irish monastery on the far, wild edge of Christendom. Secure in work, contemplation, and dreams of the wider world, a miracle bursts into Aidan's quiet life. He is chosen to accompany a small band of monks on a quest to the farthest eastern reaches of the known world, to the fabled city of Byzantium, where they are to present a beautiful…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. «Taliesin» is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: He was born to greatness, the son of a druid bard and a princess of lost Atlantis. A trained warrior, blessed with the gifts of prophecy and song, he grew to manhood in a land ravaged by the brutal greed of petty chieftains and barbarian invaders. «Merlin»: Respected, feared and hated by many, he was to have a higher destiny. for It was he who prepared the way for the momentous event that would…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: They called him unfit to rule—a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard. But his coming had been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. He had learned the uses of power from his guide and protector, Merlin. He was Arthur, Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty—who would rise to legendary greatness in a Britain torn by violence, greed and war; the Lord of Summer who would usher in a glorious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Plan Genius physics professor Dr, Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child. Someone...well... stupid. The Target Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars' legendary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth-century and Winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007. Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The literary phenomenon of the year. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. Set against a background of…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Twelve humorous, easy-to-read poems that celebrate the spirit of Christmas. The poems cover subjects of interest to children — making a Christmas list, performing in the school assembly, cutting a Christmas tree. Children enjoy Prelutsky's poetry, and this book should prove no exception.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Rebecca has been dead for several months, but her sinister influence is still very much alive at Manderley, as Maxim de Winter's second wife soon comes to realize.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In grand Dickensian fashion, the acclaimed best-selling author of The Riftwar Saga brings to vivid life the myriad colors, realities, dangers, and details of an exotic, richly imagined world and the remarkable folk who populate it. A fast-moving and dramatic adventure, «Rise of a Merchant Prince» is Raymond E. Feist in top form.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: There'd been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to be built with thirty classrooms one on top of the other...thirty stories tall! (The builder said he was very sorry.) That may be why all kinds of funny things happen at Wayside SChool...especially on the thirteenth floor. You'll meet Mrs. Gorf, the meanest teacher of all, terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early, and John who…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Hooray Wayside School is Open Again All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor — with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The second in the Valis trilogy of books, this story tells of the Second Coming: a story of total confusion.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The first book in the «Children of Violence» series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are «A Proper Marriage», «A Ripple from the Storm», «Landlocked» and «The Four-Gated City».

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right-hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing worldly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England — all ultimate prizes. Then Aysgarth meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously and chaotically involved in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. Tormented and on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The brilliant novel from the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000 page masterpiece, 'Wonder Boys'. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a chaotic weekend…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the vast family fortune built by his forefathers. Committed to relieving the suffering of those in genuine need, Locke travels the globe, personally giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick, and the…