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Скачать книгу (размер 3 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 644) Аннотация: The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of The Highsmith Reader, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 334) Аннотация: The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years — and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. In a very near future — oh, let's…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Feared throughout Europe, the Vikings swept across the sea in their swift longships and launched lightning raids on coastal towns, churches, and monasteries. Vikings tells the gripping story of these terrifying warriors, fearless explorers, and skilled artisans, and illustrates their ships, weapons, and everyday world. Eight special removable items range from a Runes decoder to a fold-out guide.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) Аннотация: A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers' landmark 1929 anthology The Omnibus of Crime left off, bringing together monumental, important, and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century. In lively introductory essays, celebrated crime writer Tony Hillerman and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank is bored with his banking career and burdened by a painful divorce. And Robert Gissing, an art professor, is frustrated that so many paintings stay hidden in corporate boardrooms,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Communist humor is the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries — surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded with ludicrous propaganda--turned joke-telling into an art…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This collectible Harry Potter pop-up book, based on the creative development of the films, features exquisite original artwork by Andrew Williamson, concept artist for all eight movies. With dynamic pop-ups animating memorable moments and locations — like the Triwizard Tournament, Diagon Alley, and Hogwarts Castle — Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book offers a 3-D glimpse into the amazing world, as seen…

Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: To be a real boy — that is the heart's desire of the little wooden puppet carved by the old and sprightly Geppeto. Naughty, mischevious, and bold, Pinocchio sets off on adventures and gets into trouble — but to achieve his desire, he will have to face many challenges and learn some very important lessons. Emma Rose's superb new translation is matched by Fanelli's playful illustrations in this…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: By overwhelming popular demand, Stoo Hample's 1961 classic now features a reissue of the recording that inspired a generation of gigglers. I am silly, You are silly, All of us are silly, Willy. And everything in THE SILLY BOOK and THE SILLY RECORD is the silly-willynilliest! There are songy sills (oops!) — silly songs, silly stories, silly poems, silly secrets, silly things to do, a silly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: As a young boy he re-enacted historic battles with toy soldiers, as a soldier he saw action on three continents and as the Prime Minister only a direct edict from King George VI could keep him from joining the troops on D-Day. CHURCHILL'S WAR LAB will reveal how Churchill's passion for military history, his unique leadership style and his patronization of radical new ideas would lead to new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 559 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 307) Аннотация: He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one. Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: In the shadow of King Vaslav's Palace was a marvelous garden, and in the middle of that garden stood a tree that grew apples of solid gold, each one as dazzling as the sun. Someone is stealing the king's famous golden apples, and the culprit must be found. The palace gardener spots the luminous Firebird snatching the apples in the night. The king's two oldest sons are sent to capture it but fail.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 354) Аннотация: Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state but, instead, gave individual characters the significance that the U.S.S.R. despised. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dmitri Gurov — banker, husband, father of two and serial adulterer — is stunned to find that he has fallen in love: with Anna, a beautiful young lady with a lapdog. Haunted by the memory of their brief affair, Dmitri refuses to let her slip from his life. This is one of 13 tales in this collection of the best of Chekhov's short stories. Books that save lives come in one colour Choose (Penguin…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: I'm not so much afraid of the DARK! said the Little Princess. Im sort of more afraid of ghosts.Everyone insists there are NO such things as ghosts. But if thats the case, just what is lurking under the Little Princess bed?

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The Little Princess wants to have two birthdays, just like the Queen, which means twice as many presents every year! When she realizes how much fun two birthdays are, she decides she wants three, then four. But the more birthdays she has, the less special they are. Perhaps having one birthday a year isn't so boring after all.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Every kid knows that pirates talk funny, swing a big sword, and seek buried treasure — don’t they? What do we really know about Blackbeard, Madame Cheng, Sir Francis Drake, and other men and women of pirate history? What drove them to sail the high seas? What were their bad habits, favorite foods, and silly quirks? And did they actually talk like that? A lively style, lots of surprises, and solid…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Guy Browning's Christmas bestseller is finally available in paperback. Just imagine how much easier life would be if you knew what you were doing. Wouldn't it be great to have clear, precise instructions for all those things you normally mess up? Here, for the first time in a perfectly portable paperback, are the essential rules for handling life's unavoidable little problems — handy, practical…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.