Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation — his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer — and of an American man. Here is Updike on his childhood, on ailments both horrible (psoriasis) and hilarious (his experiences at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: Only a few know the terrifying truth — an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth — but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy — but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »Irving looks cunningly beyond the eye-catching gyrations of the mating dance to the morning — after implications.» The Washington Post The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp; but this very trim and precise novel is a marked departure from the author's generally…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract — and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first...
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Illustrated in full color. This car-and-truck-filled alphabet extravaganza that starts with an ambulance and ends with a zippercar, is shaped like Lowly Worm's applemobile.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A vision of a bizarre and irrational world where Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for an imaginery crime in an unnamed dream country.
Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: 'We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating... It is a fascinating diary... It is shorter than Barbara Castles'... and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is distinctly funnier' — Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Presented in the form of diaries, official documents, and letters, rather than simply transcribed scripts, this book is a companion to the successful BBC series, Yes Prime Minister.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The bestselling story of Joe Lampton, the original 'angry young man'. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and glamorous women. But the price of success is high and betrayal and tragedy strike as Joe Lampton pursues his goals.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggestpro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But thebullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failedsuicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever. Katewill be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son. Soon she willhave another chance…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In Rome, Isabella and her husband, Amadeo, have created an idyllic marriage and the House of San Gregorio, the most exciting name in European high fashion. But in an act of terrorism, Amadeo is kidnapped and taken from Isabella forever. Fleeing to New York, she fights to build a new life for herself and her son, as they discover new worlds and a new life together.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Although Jessica and Ian Clarke have been married seven years, they insist the thrill and excitement haven't dimmed. At Jessica's urging, Ian has quit his advertising job to become a struggling writer, and she supports him with her successful San Francisco boutique. Ian's financial dependence on Jessica upsets him more than he admits, and in a moment of bored malaise, Ian's first casual…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Five funny tales featuring Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Bananas Gorilla, and the rest of Scarry's memorable menagerie are collected in a sleepytime anthology.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Brilliant, fearless, incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne was a self-made millionaire at thirty-five, former Undersecretary of State, current head of one of the nation's most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the « secret government» — and is swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger beyond the corridors of official…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel — a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 581) Аннотация: ‘It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not’, says Bertie. ‘If I had Jeeves’s brain, I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something.’ Luckily for us, Bertie Wooster manages to retain Jeeves’s services through all the vicissitudes of purple socks and policemen’s helmets, and here, gathered together for the first time, is an omnibus…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna--the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three generations....