Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Alice Ascher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already on to the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, twenty-five to go.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 513 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 298) Аннотация: Jim Qwilleran with his two cats, Yum Yum and KoKo help to solve the mystery case behind the Casablanca apartment buildings.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is Castaneda's first book in the Don Juan series. He meets Don Juan and is introduced to his magical world and philosophy by means of hallucinogenic plants and special exercises. The author's other books include The Fire Within and The Quest for Ixtlan.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: With over 300,000 copies sold since its publication in 1985, The Very Busy Spider is well on its way to becoming a modern classic. The raised lines for the spider, its web, and an unsuspecting fly allow both sighted and visually impaired children to follow the action. Full color.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life — the life proper to a rational being — as the standards of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When the Dearly's dalmatians have their first litter of puppies — fifteen in all — everyone is delighted. But their joy is shattered when the pups are kidnapped! The humans don't have a clue as to who the culprit is, but the smartest dogs in London are on the case -- and on the trail of the fur-loving Cruella de Vil, who will stop at nothing to have a Dalmatian fur coat!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the first of the four cases in «Trouble is My Business», LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who’s ‘got her hooks into a rich man’s pup’. Before too long Marlowe’s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he’s taken pity on the girl. There’s nothing like making trouble of your business … The four novellas collected here are quintessential…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: If you know London primarily through novels like White Fang, these stories will provide a new perspective. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. The way business is looking, even a hunch is enough. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds, without his necktie. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: There's something rotten in the small town of Pickax — at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko's snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tolstoy's passionate and iconoclastic writings — on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality — reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes «A Confession», «Religion and Morality», «What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?» and «The Law of Love and the Law of Violence».
Скачать книгу (размер 3 252 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 639) Аннотация: A novel about the court of King Arthur, which was the basis for the movie «Camelot».
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine...
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Jim Qwilleran is not exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he's supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses when Qwilleran finds himself back on more familiar territory — the exclusive residence featured on the cover has…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Funny, irreverent and sometimes sad, here is the story of the early life of one of the world's best-loved authors. From the evocation of an enchanted boyhood spent in Wales and Norway to his unhappy experiences at an English public school, these sparkling memoirs are filled with wit, high spirits and more than a touch of the macabre.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through three plums--and still he was hungry. Strikingly bold, colorful pictures and a simple text in large, clear type tell the story of a hungry little caterpillar's progress through an amazing variety and quantity of foods. Full at last, he made a cocoon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Who better to investigate the literary spirit world that the supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? His own short stories have teased and twisted imaginations in their millions, but amongst the many permutations of the macabre, Dahl has always felt a special fascination for the classic ghost story. In this book of ghost stories he has selected fourteen of his favourites for this…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she be friends the son of a rival robber chieftain.