Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Join Arthur Dent, earthling, jerk, kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox... and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams it's always up in the air!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Shortlisted for Russia's national bestseller prize and translated into twelve languages, Give Me marks the debut of a literary wunderkind, a gifted writer with a fine-tuned ear and unforgettable voice. The stories in Give Me are bracingly authentic and deeply felt — vibrant snapshots colored by vodka, drugs, and young love that capture life at a certain age in a specific part of the world while…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The snow is falling on the ancient streets of Rome. And in the heart of the city, under the Pantheon’s great dome, a woman’s body lies on the marble floor, carefully positioned with a gruesome carving on her back....In David Hewson’s ingenious new thriller, this horrific murder hurtles Rome’s police force into a collision with U.S. agents – and a secret that has festered for fifteen years, now…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: For years, Jina, Irene, Mary, and Alice have been telling their secrets over sushi. But when struggling novelist Alice finally writes a bestseller, the other three are horrified to see their lives in its pages. Alice says she never meant to hurt anyone. But her novel could very well destroy them all. In search of answers and healing, these four women journey into the wilderness together. There…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin's response was even more astonishing. During the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. Drawing on a wealth of newly available documents, from…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. A robbery leads to an explosion, which leads to the destruction of yet another car. It would be just another day in the life of Stephanie Plum...except that she becomes the target of a gang. And the target of an even scarier, more dangerous force that comes to Trenton. With super bounty hunter Ranger acting…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In this third Erast Fandorin mystery, set in 1877, Russia is at war with the Ottoman Empire, and the brilliant detective is searching the Russian army for a Turkish spy. He is followed by a young woman with revolutionary ideals, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her fiancé at the front. Her coldness toward Fandorin, a «lackey of the throne», begins to change as she comes to respect…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the Vanderbilts' Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders' insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nine men — Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton — brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At a secret…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 017 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 789) Аннотация: A must for every family bookshelf! This comprehensive collection of the greatest poems in the English language written by our greatest poets. Includes Keats, Longfellow, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Pope, Browning. More than 1,400 poems.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the war to end all wars, in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.
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Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe. Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.
Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: When Marion Dutilleul enters the service of the Marquise de Montespan, she never imagines that her ability to recognize scents and to blend them into perfumes will win her the favor of Louis XIV's mistress. But the marquise quickly has the young girl creating new perfumes for her. Eager to please and hopeful that her olfactory gifts will win her recognition, Marion concocts memorable fragrances.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: You know what a pigeon is, but what is a pugeon? An overweight bird of course. If you are late to ballet class, you are leotardy. Fun to browse and hilarious to share aloud, the imaginary, but oh so meaningful words are a celebration of the elasticity of the English language.
Скачать книгу (размер 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 197) Аннотация: On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and the symbol of a circle, Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, arrives to find the body. Then follow more murders — an elderly man on a life-support machine is found dead with needle marks in this throat; the percussionist of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. By the author of The Return of the Dancing Master. 25,000 first printing.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The Christmas story, told and retold in many formats, never loses its meaning or magic. Aimed at children ages 4-8, this book weaves the story of Jesus' birth into a rhyming, alphabetical journey. At the back of the book, author Debbie Trafton O'neal provides instructions for making four crafts inspired by the beautiful modern folk-art illustrations from Jan Bryan-Hunt.