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Stout Rex: A Right to Die

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears. Susan Brooke has everything going for her. Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and…

Mcewan Ian: First Love, Last Rites

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.…

Follett Ken: A Dangerous Fortune

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murders and financial crises... old-fashioned entertainment! In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive…

Cisneros Sandra: La Casa En Mango Street

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: La novela mejor vendida, trata de una niña que crece en una de las comunidades latinas de Chicago-algunas veces le romperá el corazón y otras veces le dará gran alegría-describe un nuevo paisaje americano a través de sus múltiples personajes.

Stout Rex: Three Witnesses

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Three witnesses hold all the clues in three crimes of passion that have even the great Nero Wolfe guessing to the very end. A dead million comes back to life, only to wind up dead again; a black Labrador retriever becomes a killer's worst enemy; and an answering service with three untalkative operators may mean an innocent man will get the chair.

Stout Rex: Three for the Chair

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: One thing is certain to distract Nero Wolfe from his culinary and horticultural pursuits: murder. This time Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, are put in the hot seat when they are called upon to investigate three different murders.

Vonnegut Kurt: Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!

Скачать книгу (размер 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 170) Аннотация: Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their facade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers...

Rex Stout: And be a Villain

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Cyril Orchard is poisoned during a radio talk show, the brilliant detective, Nero Wolfe, is hired to investigate the murder.

Leo Tolstoy: The Cossacks

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This novel of love, adventure, and male rivalry on the frontiers of nineteenth-century Russia — completed in 1862, when Tolstoy was in his early thirties — has always surprised readers who know Tolstoy best through the vast, panoramic fictions of his middle years. Unlike those works, The Cossacks is lean and supple, economical in design and execution.

Richard Bach: A Gift of Wings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. «Jonathan Livingston Seagull» was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.

Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders... until he meets Donald Shimoda — former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's…

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed earth.

Arthur Rimbaud: Rimbaud: Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Rimbaud contains selections from Rimbaud's work, including over 100 poems, selected prose, « Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871», and an index of first lines.

Isaac Asimov: The Robots Of Dawn

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partner¬ship between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of…

Robert Ludlum: The Scorpio Illusion

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly — and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived. Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer — one of the best — until the rainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was…

Evelyn Waugh: The Sword of Honour Trilogy

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and…

Danielle Steel: Vanished

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »Vanished» tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy — the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple's lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a…

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A…

Ernest Hemingway: Fiesta

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new…

Winston Groom: Forrest Gump

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon — as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures,…