Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: With Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the Galactic Federation offers help to the backward humans — for a price. You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: When all of the performers at the circus are out sick with ear infections, it's up to Olivia to save the day! That's no problem for Olivia, of course, because she knows how to do everything. From lion taming to trampoline jumping, unicycling to tight-rope walking, Olivia is the ultimate performer — with the ultimate imagination. Now in a board book edition perfect for little hands, readers will…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: By Atlantis, Kang means the 1960s, that otherworldly decade which, like the fabled continent, has sunk into myth. Here, in five interconnected narratives that span from 1960 to 1999, King draws a stunning portrait of American life after the Vietnam War.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Prehistoric Hysteria Buffy Summers and her gang know that Sunnydale is a haven for outsiders, whether of the supernatural or strictly adolescent variety. Shy transfer student Kevin Sanderson is no exception. But Kevin instantly finds a mentor in Daniel, a paleontologist and fellow dino-phile at the Sunnydale Museum of Natural History. When Buffy starts hearing rumors of alligators in the sewers,…
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Here is the classic Boynton counting story in a sturdy, board book version. Perfect for travel time, bedtime, or PARTY TIME.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Robert A. Heinlein is widely and justly regarded as the greatest practitioner of the art of science fiction who has ever lived. Here are two of his greatest short novels: GULF: In which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us.... LOST LEGACY: In which it is proved that we are all members of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Picture this: Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer. As soon as he paints an ear on Aristotle, Aristotle can hear. When he paints an eye, Aristotle can see. And what Aristotle sees and hears and remembers from the ancient past to this very moment provides the foundation for this lighthearted, freewheeling jaunt through 2,500 years of Western…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: »To live with change, to optimize change, you need principles that don't change». — Dr. Stephen R. Covey Success that endures — sustainable and balanced success — can seem difficult to achieve in today's turbulent, complex world of change. But those who achieve this kind of success live by seven universal, timeless, self-evident principles that apply in any situation, in any culture. In «Living…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Deja Dead — and introduced «[a] brilliant heroine» (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec's director of forensic anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead. In the bitter cold of a Montreal…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan... Lord Ivan Vorpatril has a problem: unrequited love…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an «extravagantly gifted» (Kirkus Reviews) new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie «Bird» Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: EVIL DWELLS HERE After a vicious shooting spree, the town of Sunnydale is shell-shocked. What could have sparked the random rampage? Buffy Summers can guess. Considering the prophetic dreams she's been having, the Slayer suspects possession by an especially malevolent force. As the police follow their typical false leads, the Slayerettes start up their own research into possible paranormal…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Three men. Three secrets. One chance at redemption. New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey delivers a mesmerizing new thriller where life and death are played out against the backdrop of America's favorite game. Sarasota, Florida: Forced to retire from his job as a scout for the New York Yankees, Jack Barrett is just getting by in a small Florida town when his daughter drags him to watch…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 732) Аннотация: Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel — a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Stephen King's second novel, Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart — and the insular evils of small-town America.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the front page. She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station. Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Based on Thompson's own experiences as a reporter in Puerto Rico in the late '50s and early '60s, this «long-lost coming-of-age novel» («San Francisco Chronicle») tells a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in a Caribbean boom town.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Leadership makes all the difference! At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run, and Lincoln had become a Confederate prisoner? The possibilities are endless....
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Jackie Collins' American Star is a love story for the nineties. At its heart are two extraordinary lovers, separated by tragic circumstances, yearning for each other, yet seemingly never able to be together again. Nick and Lauren can never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers — he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in town — their love was the town scandal,…