Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more... Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a heartwarming new Christmas novel from Debbie Macomber, internationally bestselling author of Rose Harbor in Bloom and Blossom Street Brides. Harry Mills thinks he knows all there is to know about humans. Being an angel, he has spent a long time studying the people down below, and is confident that during his assignment down on Earth, helping them will be a simple task. But soon after…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: From Aquaman in Atlantis to Batman battling bad guys and zooming off on an exciting adventure, the Super Friends help make learning the alphabet as easy as A B C! With 300 colourful reusable stickers, and activities designed to support early years development, your little super hero will love helping the Super Friends to save the day. Plus, look out for the QR code inside the book, to download a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November, and are a mix of commentary on current events, Ukraine's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts. Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous. But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn't the swarming, mutated insects that make him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin's masterwork — the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time — warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice and Fire. This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Become Mistress of Yourself Jane Austen always knows just the right thing to say. With this pocket collection of quotes from Jane's novels and letters, you too, will have a quip for every situation.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated in an illustrated book that's part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide. Lea Michele is one of the hardest working performers in show business. Whether she's starring as Rachel Berry on Glee, rocking a glamorous look on the red carpet, recording her solo album,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: First published in 1926 and Ernest Hemingway's first major novel, The Sun Also Rises explores the world of the «Lost Generation» — a term coined by his friend Gertrude Stein — through the lives of a group of American expatriates in Europe after World War I. Jake Barnes, wounded in the war, is hopelessly in love with the aristocratic Brett Ashley, a woman who attracts and becomes involved with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Perhaps best known as the James Beard Award-winning chef behind some of New Orleans's most beloved restaurants, including Cochon and Herbsaint, Donald Link also has a knack for sniffing out a backyard barbecue wherever he travels and scoring an invitation to sample some of the best food around. In Down South he combines his talents to unearth true down home Southern cooking so everyone can pull…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: DEBI MAZAR and GABRIELE CORCOS are ambassadors of contemporary Tuscan cooking. In Extra Virgin, food, family, and style come together in a celebration of the pleasures of the rustic Italian table with 120 recipes for simple yet exquisite meals that are accessible, full of fresh flavor, and easy to prepare. Gabriele is a traditional Italian with a big heart, and Debi is an outgoing, brash New York…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote — from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In real life, goshawks resemble sparrow hawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers dark grail. From the age of twelve, when she first saw a trained goshawk, Helen Macdonald had determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Claire and Ben are the perfect couple. But behind the glossy facade, they've been desperately trying — and failing — to have a baby for years. Now, the stress and feelings of loss are taking their toll on their marriage. Claire's ready to give up hope and get on with her life, but Ben is not. And then Ben's best friend, Romily, offers to conceive via artificial insemination and carry the baby for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Mr & Mrs Max Irving request the company of: Mrs Fran Friedman, mourning her empty nest, the galloping years and a disastrous haircut. Mr Saul Friedman, runner of marathons, and increasingly distant husband. The two Misses Friedman, Pip and Katy, one pining over the man she can't have, the other trying to shake off the man she no longer wants. At the marriage of their son James, forbidden object…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job.
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet a drummer boy idolizing Napoleon, an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother who refuses to apologize…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to crate comic books, graphic novels, and other…