Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the future; while to Manfred, an autistic boy, time apparently stops. When one of the colonists, Norbert…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The stories within «Second Variety» were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as «Second Variety», which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, or 'Imposter' where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. Using his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: “The Father Thing” contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, “Solar Lottery”. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as “Foster, You're Dead” a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and “The Golden Man”, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The story of Scotland from the Ice Age to the Vikings, the Picts and the Romans, to Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora Macdonald, Sir Walter Scott, Logie Baird, Keir Hardie and many more famous Scots up to the present day. Each page is packed with colourful pictures and witty captions and speech bubbles, and a pithy text gives the facts and tells the story.This is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music... «An Equal Music» is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Four favourite HORRID HENRY stories: Horrid Henry and the Comfy Black Chair, Horrid Henry's Haunted House, Horrid Henry's School Fair, and Horrid Henry Minds his Manners.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When actress Gloria Lamark takes her own life, her devoted son, Thomas, is heart-broken. Something must be wrong with a world in which such a tragedy is allowed to happen. How could her high-profile, media-star psychiatrist have failed to save such a special person, whom Thomas loved in such a very special way? Dr Tennent has a lesson to learn... a very painful one. Michael is caught up in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Three men, an international movie star, an arms dealer and a pharmacueticals giant, meet in a bar in a French Riviera Hotel. Each of them has a secret, and in walks Guthrie Everyman, who presents them with a challenge — put up a million pounds sterling to join a treasure hunt that will lead to the Elixir of Life.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Horrid Henry tries to be perfect for one day; he learns to dance, quarrels with his arch-enemy Moody Margaret and goes on holiday.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to givehis sons lessons about Life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to come home. En rout, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Three women, each despairing in their own way, discover an organisation which appears to offer them hope. At first they are amused and intrigued by the ways of the group; they relax and are lulled into a false sense of well-being. But the meditation and encounter groups become more sinister, and as the novel builds to a gripping climax, we see that dramatic change is inevitable for each of them.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Four stories about Horrid Henry, in which he tries to trick the tooth fairy, has Moody Margaret to stay and sends her packing, makes teachers run screaming from school, and wrecks a wedding.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss... This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides. Not only the Blacketts, their friends and enemies, but many individuals are caught up in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 616) Аннотация: The story of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra has fired the worlds imagination ever since their violent deaths during the Russian Revolution. In this biography, first published in 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie sets out to show how the personal tragedy of the young heirs haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Four stories about Henry, in which he goes to the dentist, torments his brother Peter, creates havoc at his birthday party, and plans revenge when Moody Margaret won't let him into her secret club.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 664 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1504) Аннотация: Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata — and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Inca-Kola is the funny, absorbing account of Matthew Parris's fourth trip to Peru, on a bizarre holiday which takes him among bandits, prostitutes, peasants and riots. He and his three companions seem to head into trouble, not away from it, and he describes the troubles, curiosities and wonders they meet with the spell-binding fascination of a traveller relating adventures over the campfire. 'A…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HBO's GAME OF THRONES is one of the most remarkable success stories of recent television. Critically acclaimed, a ratings smash and going from strength to strength, the series will define fantasy for years to come. This second official companion book, following the hugely successful INSIDE HBO'S GAME OF THRONES, gives fans new ways to enter the world of Westeros and discover more about the…