Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Florida is the most popular holiday destination in North America. The Rough Guide Map of Florida is the perfect companion to any trip whether on foot or driving. The map covers the state in detail, from cosmopolitan Miami to Orlando's theme parks and historic St Augustine to the palm-fringed sands of the Florida Keys. The Rough Guide Map pinpoints all the essential attractions, from John F.…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Rough Guide Map Madrid is the indestructible and essential companion to this lively and vibrant city. The map provides a highly legible guide to the city's streets, pinpointing places of note for the first-time visitor as well as hidden gems for frequent visitors. More than just a map, there are listings of the best places to stay, eat and drink, as researched by the Rough Guide to Madrid…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Designed to be tough and immensely practical, as well as amazingly good value, the new Rough Guide Maps forge a new standard in city maps. Apart from travel information, and the city's sites, monuments and attractions, the Maps show every shop, restaurant, bar and hotel listed in the Rough Guide travel guide to the city in question, together with their opening times and, in many cases, phone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When she meets Nick, lovely, funny, handsome Nick, there has to be a catch. Nick has problems with money and commitment: it seems you can't have everything. Wealthy investment banker Ed, on the other hand, could be the answer and he seems to be crazy about Libby. Can she overlook his irritating habits, and his even more irritating moustache, and find true love? Libby has some serious choices to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth; her romance with Peter Walsh, now recently returned from India; and the friends of her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Rachel Johnson's hilarious take on life as a yummy mummy in West London and on Exmoor has been making her newspaper readers chortle for the last couple of years: now they are seamlessly turned into a diary of her year, from the dog's birthday party in January (games of Paws-the-Parcel) to the June sports days (where the mummies turn up at the school sports day in sports bras and running shorts…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family — acne ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog — take off for the island of Corfu. In a series of colourful villas, the yellow to accommodate friends, the white to avoid having to put up family, the Durrells give a sometimes reluctant home…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Some are born odd, some achieve oddness, and some are just in the wrong place at the wrong time ... The Devon family's a good example: there's thirty-nine-year-old Glenn, whose main interest in life is rubbish collection; his mother, Bel, who teaches tap steps to eight-year-olds but acts as if she's running the Kirov; and his sister, Netta, who spent her early life simply being considered mad by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: ‘If there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl …’ From the moment he first meets Teresa di Vicenzo – a reckless playgirl with a love of fast cars and danger – Bond is fascinated. She also leads him to new information on one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In his Alpine mountain base, Blofeld is…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: For three years and eight months Felix has lived in a convent orphanage high in the mountains in Poland. But Felix is different from the other orphans. He is convinced his parents are still alive and will come back to get him. When a group of Nazi soldiers come and burn the nuns' books, Felix is terrified that his Jewish, bookseller parents will also be in danger. After escaping from the…
Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. Here safety, warmth and food are the first…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Famously associated with the term ‘magical realism’, Marquez is probably South America’s most famous literary export. Equally tragic, joyful and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude inhabits a strange dream-like space where very little makes real sense, but everything is mysteriously and vividly alive nonetheless. Blending fantasy and reality seamlessly, the characters struggle hopelessly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The third novel from the hugely popular, critically acclaimed author of Ralph's Party and Thirtynothing. Bee Bearhorn had a number one hit single in 1985. And was never heard of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody seems to care. Ana Wills has daydreamed for years about the famous and exotic half-sister she hasn't seen since she was thirteen and when she comes to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Martha appears to have the perfect life: two lovely children and plenty of money. Eliza lives in a rented, one-bedroom flat with her musician boyfriend Greg, and all her maternal feelings are lavished on her dog. When Eliza ditches Greg and turns up on her sister’s doorstep, she expects to be swallowed into the sanctuary of Martha’s warm loving home. But Martha’s husband has just announced he’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The humorous story of a former priest and lecturer in theology who pays a final visit to his dying aunt in Hawaii.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: When Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, finds a magnificent pearl – ‘the Pearl of the World’ – he believes that all his dreams can come true. He will marry his wife in the church, wearing fine new clothes; their infant son will never want for anything – least of all the medicine so recently denied to him – and the boy might one day go to school, learn to read and write. But Kino’s vision of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock and tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby, Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution: finding a Russian baby in need of a home. But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated. Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past and discovering…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Connie has been happily married for a year. She's just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He's a walking stag weekend. He's a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He's about to destroy Connie's peace of mind, her grand plan for living happily ever after with her gentle, loving husband Luke. It's against the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for…