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Скачать книгу (размер 3 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 636) Аннотация: Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The latest release from the best-selling Simpsons Library of Wisdom series. Resident of Springfield and owner of the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, the infamous Comic Book Guy spends his days at the comfort of his stool, patiently awaiting his next paying customer. The Comic Book guy embodies all the traits of your typical comic book shop owner, being tubby, and wearing his brown hair in…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of the Crusades between these two dates and highlights the most important figures on all sides of the conflict. It covers the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It was a chance encounter with Armistead Maupin (of Tales of the City fame) in San Francisco which inspired Alexander McCall Smith to write his daily novel about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of the city, verging on the Bohemian, where…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The excitement and wonder of a mid-winter sled ride — seen through the vivid imagination of a young child — allows readers to follow along as the child transforms into a queen, observes colorful soldiers in formation, visits a gypsy camp, and goes wherever her lucid imagination takes her.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A wondrously enthralling (The Times [London]) history of the bloody battle that halted the French attempt to dominate Europe and changed the course of history In 1704, the armies of French King Louis XIV were poised to extend the French frontiers to the Rhine and install a French prince on the Spanish throne. But as French forces marched toward Vienna, allied armies commanded by John Churchill,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. As she did with Sex with the Queen, Eleanor Herman takes readers into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs to relate history from the women's point of view. She finds that in most cases, the main…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: On 22 June 1941 The Germans launched their long-expected invasion of the Soviet Union. Codenamed Operation Barbarossa, after the famous 12th century crusading emperor, what followed was perhaps the greatest clash of arms the world has ever witnessed. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, Barbarossa: The First 7 Days describes the dramatic history of the first week of the invasion of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Here are eight decades of holiday cheer — plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking — in this collection of The New Yorker's best seasonal stories, poems, commentary, and memoirs, illuminated with color reproductions of Christmas-themed covers and, of course, a healthy smattering of cartoons from all eras. Here are such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story «Christmas Is a Sad Season for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book reprints a four-hour conversation between Mr. Schickel and Mr. Allen and includes a long essay of introduction by Mr. Schickel, which places Woody Allen's entire career in critical perspective, as well as a complete filmography. Readers will find Mr. Allen's reflections on his major preoccupations — the battle of the sexes; the conflict between reality and fantasy in his major films;…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond…

Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: WILHELM HAUFF was a story-teller in the great European mythic tradition. His short stories, peopled with a vivid assortment of dwarves, evil witches, enchanted swans, and devious princes, owe a clear debt to the Brothers Grimm. But rather than rehashing old tales, Hauff created a realm far more exotic than the Grimm's Black Forest, a place where the morals are less than clear-cut and where…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey…

Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: This assortment offers 30 more captionless cartoons by B. Kliban, starring his delightful tabby cats as they visit art museums, take off their fur to go skinny dipping, scare themselves on the piano, lurk in gardens, and bat at airplanes from atop the Empire State Building. This postcard book is one of a series that collects beautifully reproduced images with cultural or historical significance,…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This illustrated guidebook for students and theater fans alike explores and explains the plot, characters, setting, action, and most significant moments in Hamlet. It provides a two-CD audio reading of the play; bold black and white illustrations to help you visualize the action; modular chapters providing structured, easy-to-grasp information; scene-by-scene summaries to explain the dialogue;…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 619 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 907) Аннотация: Organized in an A-to-Z format, this thesaurus provides a wide range of synonyms from mainstream vocabulary to colorful alternatives. The book includes thousands of slang, informal, and regional words, clearly labeled for proper context. Each synonym list springs from a concise definition, while words with related meanings show cross-references to one another. As additional support, hundreds of…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: The paper engineer behind such artistic pop-up books as The Night Before Christmas and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz offers this book of 26 alphabetical Christmas pop-ups, each presented behind a simple colored flap with an initial letter. «N» reveals a nutcracker opening his eyes and working his mouth, «S» is a 3-D snowflake, and two snowmen wave hello under «F», for friends. Each flap (which looks…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: »The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a…