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Brosh Allie: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Named one of the Funniest Sites on the Web by PC World and winner of the 2011 Bloggies Awards for Most Humorous Weblog and Best Writing, the creator of the immensely popular Hyperbole and a Half blog presents an illustrated collection of her hilarious stories with fifty percent new content. In a four-color, illustrated collection of stories and essays, Allie Brosh's debut Hyperbole and a Half…

Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Discover the marvelous land of Oz in this collection of the first three books in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy tale series. The first three books of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, find themselves in a strange land called Oz after their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone. Here they meet the Munchkins and join the…

Picoult Jodi: The Tenth Circle

Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime — or if your mistakes are carried forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life — a straight-A student; a pretty,…

L. Frank Baum: Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 5

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Revel in the magic of Oz in this collection of the final three books in L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale series. The three concluding titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In The Magic of Oz, the mischievous Kiki Aru has discovered a magical word that can transform him and anyone else into whatever he wants. Worse yet, Kiki has been recruited by the villainous Nome…

Baum L.F.: Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 4

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Experience Oz like never before in this collection of books ten through twelve in L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale series. The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In Rinkitink in Oz, Prince Inga of Pingaree must rescue his parents and all of the subjects from his kingdom who were kidnapped by marauders form Regos and Coregos. Prince Inga,…

L. Frank Baum: Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 2

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Delve deeper into the world of Oz in this collection of books four through six in L. Frank Baum's classic American fairy tale series. The fourth, fifth, and sixth titles of the iconic Oz series, now in one collection! In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard visit the center of the Earth, where people are vegetables, glass houses grow, and Oz characters reappear. Eventually they…

Flynn Vince: The Last Man

Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: Mitch Rapp's hunt for a missing CIA asset raises the stakes for his own survival — in Vince Flynn's «tight, right, and dynamite» (Minneapolis Star Tribune) #1 «New York Times» bestseller. The head of clandestine operations in Afghanistan has been kidnapped, his four bodyguards executed in cold blood. With the CIA plunged into crisis mode, Rapp is dispatched to find his missing friend, Joe…

Surovec Yasmine: Cat Vs Human: Another Dosе of Catnip

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This second collection of Cat vs Human cartoons makes witty observations about the friendship between humans and felines. The book is based on the popular blog catversushuman.com and includes more than twenty new comics that appear only in this collection. Cat owners are familiar with those little joys of owning a feline friend: From finding cat hair-covered dresses to creating, well, inventive…

Peter Ames Carlin: Bruce

Скачать книгу (размер 2 513 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 494) Аннотация: The New York Times bestselling biography of Bruce Springsteen is an exhaustively researched portrait of rock and roll's working-class hero that delivers everything a fan could wish for (People magazine). This sweeping biography of one of America's greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself. With unfettered access to the…

Evans M. Stanton: Stalin's Secret Agents

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world's superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a careful survey of primary sources and disclosure of formerly secret records, Evans and Romerstein have written a riveting historical account that traces the vast deceptions that…

Smith Tom Rob: Agent 6

Скачать книгу (размер 2 773 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 545) Аннотация: Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a 'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears are realised and a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he…

Whittell Giles: Bridge of Spies

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bridge of Spies is a gripping, entertaining, hair-raising and comical story, which moves effortlessly from the hardware of high-flying planes and new missiles to the geopolitics of the nuclear stand-off and through the poignant personal stories of its central protagonists: Powers, the all-American hero, blacklisted for not having killed himself on his descent to earth; a KGB spy who has spent…

Higgins Clark Mary: I'll Walk Alone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Two years after the day that her son, Matthew, was kidnapped in broad daylight in Central Park, Alexandra Moreland still finds herself torn between hope and despair. As no trace of Matthew was ever found, she has never been able to give him up for dead. But now, on what would have been Matthew's fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Alexandra kidnapping her own child. Then, as her bank…

La Plante Lynda: The Little One

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An exclusive short story for World Book Day from bestselling author Lynda La Plante. This spooky tale will make you want to sleep with the light on. Barbara needs a story. A struggling journalist, she tricks her way into the home of former soap star Margaret Reynolds. Desperate for a scoop on the actress and her return to stardom, she finds instead a terrified woman living alone in a creepy manor…

Harris Sam: Free Will

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality — as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement — without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this…

Byrne Rhonda: The Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: In The Magic a great mystery from a sacred text is revealed, and with this life-changing knowledge Rhonda Byrne will take you on an unforgettable journey for 28 days. Step by step, day by day, secret teachings, revelations, and scientific law are brought together into one breathtaking book-a book that will lead you to a life and a level of happiness beyond your wildest dreams.

Gregory Philippa: The Red Queen

Скачать книгу (размер 2 181 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 429) Аннотация: Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness. Her mother mocks her plans, revealing that Margaret will…

Young Moira: Blood Red Road

Скачать книгу (размер 2 334 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 459) Аннотация: Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives bearing four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured,…

Bradbury Ray: Fahrenheit 451

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in…

Reichs Kathy: Flash and Bones

Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: In Kathy Reichs's high-stakes fourteenth novel, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt in a landfill next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just before Raceweek when 200,000 fans are pouring into town. The next day a NASCAR crew member visits Temperance Brennan at the MCME and tells his story. His sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a NASCAR diver, disappeared…