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Скачать книгу (размер 988 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 195) Аннотация: A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. 'The Discomfort Zone' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A brand new edition of the long unavailable children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from Father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 222 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 437) Аннотация: Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, Indian summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In this charming love story--with just a touch of magic — internationally bestselling author Ahern («P.S. I Love You») shows that sometimes «not» seeing is believing.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. Goodnight room, goodnight moon. And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room — to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one — he says goodnight. In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Clement Hurd redrew some of his pictures for this new edition of the profoundly comforting story of a bunny's imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Caps for Sale, a timeless classic, is now available as a musical narrative on cassette. The memorable melodies and catchy lyrics of the Caps songs are simple to learn and easy to sing. Recording artist Ann Marie Mulhearn brings the story to life in a new and mesmerizing way. This easy-to-read and sing-a-long story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with wonderful…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 'The Harper's Essay' is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A haunting tale of murder, love and innocence lost set in post-war Tuscany from the award winning author of 'The Whaleboat House'. Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues and classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own — and a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it. Young scholar Adam…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they bought home Marley, a wiggly yellow fur ball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barrelling, ninety-seven pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged…

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Una novela sobre la lucha entre el Bien y el Mal... y la constante busqueda del ser humano por alcanzar la verdadera felicidad Una comunidad dividida por la codicia, la cobardia y el miedo. Un hombre perseguido por el fantasma de un pasado doloroso. Una joven en busca de la felicidad. Siete dias, un breve periodo de tiempo durante el cual el Bien y el Mal libraran una batalla decisiva, y cada…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: This is the reissue of the second novel in the Wideacre Trilogy; a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century. The Wideacre estate is bankrupt, the villagers are living in poverty and Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin. But, in the Dower House, two children are being raised in protected innocence. Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre, rivals for the love of the village, they…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1920s — The Secret Adversary, The Man in the Brown Suit, The Secret of Chimneys and its sequel The Seven Dials Mystery. Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1930s — The Sittaford Mystery, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Murder is Easy and her acknowledged masterpiece And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1960s and early 70s — Endless Night, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Passenger to Frankfurt and her last book Postern of Fate. Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This is a translation of three medieval tales. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A wombat's work is never done! Take a trip with a wombat, and discover the ins and outs of her day in this modern classic Australian picture book. There are holes to be dug and territory to be defended — and don't forget all the eating and sleeping that needs to be squeezed in too!

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