Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: Illus. in full color. The letters on an alphabet tree, torn and tossed by the wind, find strength in banding together to form words. Then a clever caterpillar teaches the letters to become even stronger by forming sentences with a message of peace in a gentle parable about the power of the written word.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Through forty years — from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present — Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from…
Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: The talents and traits of 26 amazing mice are revealed in a Seussian cornucopia of flaps, pop-ups, add-ons, pull-tabs, and acetate on-lays that explore the concepts of letters, size, color, time, and word recognition.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: This edition presents the original versions of many poems, which Auden revised to conform to his evolving political and literary attitudes later in his career. In this volume, Edward Mendelson has restored the early versions of some thirty poems generally considered to be superior to the later versions, allowing the reader to see the entire range of Auden's work. Selected and edited by Edward…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Jeeves may not always see eye to eye with Bertie on ties and fancy waistcoats, but he can always be relied on to whisk his young master spotlessly out of the soup (even if, for tactical reasons, he did drop him in it in the first place). The paragon of Gentlemen’s Personal Gentlemen shimmers through these fat pages in much the same way as he did through the first Jeeves Omnibus. This volume…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives and eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer.…
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 1 299 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.
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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.