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Скачать книгу (размер 2 793 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 549) Аннотация: The real events behind the highly-anticipated film starring Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling — A secret police force wages an all-out street war to drive gangs from Los Angeles after WWII Award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman's 7-part 2008 Los Angeles Times newspaper series on the Squad was optioned by Warner Bros. for feature film. The $60 million production is scheduled for US release on Oct. 19,…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary — one troublesome word at a time. Do you run a gauntlet or gantlet? Do you choose between or among more than two things? How many way are there to spell…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job — any job — can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the…

Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: From the pen of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz comes a new series of myths and legends from around the world, retold in a contemporary voice, and illustrated with bold, graphic artwork. Packed with Horowitz's signature action, humor, and suspense these collections feel fresh, modern, and perfect for today's fast-moving audience. When life is over, and the conflicted souls of the dead wend…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time(R), takes a break to return to the world of the bestselling Mistborn series. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From the pen of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz comes a new series of myths and legends from around the world, retold in a contemporary voice, and illustrated with bold, graphic artwork. Packed with Horowitz's signature action, humor, and suspense these collections feel fresh, modern, and perfect for today's fast-moving audience. The battle between good and evil has raged throughout time, in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women. The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: The publication of Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? and Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? completes the bear book beginning reader series. Now, children can read all four books on their own in this special format. With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, these picture books have long been used as beginning readers. The new 6 x 9 trim and classic…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no (A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Mr. Buchanan has written the political book of the year — and maybe of our time. The Washington Times America is disintegrating. The one Nation under God, indivisible of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the thrust of Pat Buchanan's Suicide of a Superpower. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 318) Аннотация: When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn't until eleven years later that Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed — a world both beautiful and frightening, and Wendy's not sure she wants to be a part of it.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Wendy thought she finally understood who she was and what she wanted, but everything changes when the rival Vittra come after her. She's caught between two worlds, torn between love and duty, and she must decide what life she is going to lead.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: With a war looming on the horizon, Wendy's fate seems sealed. But everything she sacrificed might be in vain if she can't save the ones she loves. Her whole life has been leading up to this, and it's all coming to an end.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: In this breathtaking thriller, number one bestselling author Iris Johansen showcases one of her most fascinating characters — pitted against one of the most ruthless killers... Abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong, Catherine Ling was schooled in the art of survival by the mysterious Hu Chang, a master assassin and poisoner. Now recruited by the CIA, Catherine finds herself caught between worlds…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Beyond the headlines of tomorrow... In a Soviet capital brought to its knees by a wave of terrorist bombings and assassinations, a secret group — outraged by the new liberalism — plots a violent overthrow of the government... From the innermost circles of American Intelligence, across the treacherous emigre enclaves of Europe, and into the cloistered halls of the Kremlin, The Moscow Club is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: It is eighty-three years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind. The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of Abulurd…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Critically acclaimed author Blumenthal takes readers to the core of this complicated and legendary man while simultaneously exploring the evolution of computers. Framed by Jobs' inspirational Stanford commencement speech and illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos, this is the story of the man who changed the world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 247) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much…