Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction. Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the four years since he earned his sergeant's stripes, young Richard Sharpe has led a relatively peaceful existence. But Sharpe's reverie ends when he barely survives a murderous act of treason by a bitter English officer who has joined the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation, determined to drive the British from the continent. Vowing to hunt down the turncoat, Sharpe plunges…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 207) Аннотация: The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, remain some of the most enduringly popular ever published. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! The illustrations in this book have been coloured by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Now published with the original cover, as designed by Pauline Baynes. Look sharp! shouted Edmund. All catch hands and keep…
Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: Veronika has everything she could wish for, but she is not happy. Something is lacking, and one morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose, only to wake up in hospital where she realizes she has only days to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days; The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho — a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Текст романа полностью на английском языке.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Nick needs Daisy around to keep the hired thugs that are out for his blood from actually getting it. If he can make amends for the way he screwed up nine years ago in the process, then so much the better. Her cocky attitude and her mouthwatering curves still have the power to turn his brain to mush. «Sizzling, snappy, sexy fun, « says Jennifer Cruise, author of «Welcome to Temptation.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The author of a bestseller on marrying a millionaire, staid sociology professor Dorsey MacGuinness transforms herself into a sultry bombshell to do research on the topic, never expecting to fall in love with one of her subjects.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The photograph above Polly's bed sparks memories that don't seem to exist any more. Nine years ago she met Thomas Lynn for the first time. But what has happened in the years between? Why has Tom been erased from Polly's mind, and from the rest of the world as well?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Sirius, immortal Lord of the Dog Star and infamous for his quick temper, cannot believe it when he is falsely accused of murder and banished to Earth. There he is reborn into the body of a puppy and learns that he has the life-span of that creature to recover the missing murder weapon.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated to a house during the war wherein lives a vague professor. Left much to their own devices, they find a way into another world — Narnia — and discover Aslan, the lion king in hiding.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A young man, broken down in the fog, witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal… A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie’s acclaimed play. When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. It is sooner than you might think. And the earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home… They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner». When Jamie unwittingly discovers the scary, dark-cloaked Them playing games with human’s lives, he is cast out to the boundaries of the worlds.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men's money. Then there's Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy thoroughfares. Unfortunately, they're about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen money.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: How does the most famous woman in the world hide in plain sight? The beautiful young widow of the President of the United States thought she was free of the White House, but circumstances have forced her back into the role of First Lady. Not for long, however, because she's made up her mind to escape — if only for a few days — so she can live the life of an ordinary person. All she needs is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Wombat loves digging deep holes and thinking deep thoughts, but nobody thinks much of that until danger threatens the bush and the small wombat comes up with a great big idea...One day Wombat digs the deepest hole he's ever dug and crawls into the cool darkness to think. But when he climbs out again, he can't see his mother anywhere. He is all alone. As he wanders through the great outback…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams... It has the marks of greatness in it style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy. From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford an accomplished storyteller in his own right. Included are the familiar masterpieces — The Kiss, The Darling, and The Lady with the Dog — as well as several brilliant lesser-known tales such as A Blunder, Hush!, and Champagne. These stories,…