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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981. Would-be novelist Fleur Talbot works for the snooty, irascible Sir Quentin Oliver at the Autobiographical Association, whose members are all at work on their memoirs. When her employer gets his hands on Fleur's novel-in-progress, mayhem ensues…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An extraordinary novel about a young woman trying to survive the death of her first lover-and the revenge of the young man's mother, who holds her responsible. Written with the intensity and beauty that commanded so much attention for White Oleander, this novel once again captures the vitality, strength and fragility of a young woman trying to make it on her own.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Madeleine, the driven, ageing filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Contrary to popular belief, some people have had enough of silly love songs. Especially ones that are so overwrought, inept, or narcissistic that they actually do the opposite of their intent: they creep you out. In Touch Me, I'm Sick, Tom Reynolds, the author of the best-selling book on depressing songs, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, analyses 52 love songs that for various reasons have gone off…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. Shoot, I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. No, Edward roared Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm — and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: Blinded Psychologist Alan Gregory has a new patient: Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents. She tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered one of her friends. Blandly recounting a history of dangerous sexual encounters, Gibbs stuns Alan with another revelation: she thinks there are other victims... and that her husband will kill again.…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Every new project (or career or relationship) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point — really hard, really not fun. At this point you might be in a Dip, which will get better if you keep pushing, or a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better no matter how hard you try. The hard part is knowing the difference and acting on it. According to marketing…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned form the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion — a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great Tales of English History, Robert Lacey captures one hundred of the most pivotal moments: the stories and extraordinary characters who helped shape…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she sees…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Two weeks before her wedding Stevie Jonson has got the jitters. Is she finally growing up, or compromising horribly? In love or in denial? Yes, there are good reasons to get married. Babies, or at least the possibility of babies before eggs shrivel up. Sex whenever she wants it. A justification for staying in without feeling like a loser. Contentment, the shave-legs-in-front-of-him kind. And…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: I killed my best friend. I didn't mean to, but I did. This is my story.' Miles Kendrick is in a witness protection program, hiding from the mob and constantly haunted by his best friend's death. With the aid of psychiatrist Allison Vance, Miles is trying to hold onto his sanity and to recall the events of that tragic night. But when Allison is blown to pieces by a bomb planted in her office,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India’s North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme Islamist fundamentalists, set out to restore purity to their faith by declaring violent jihad on all who opposed them. Their history has long been…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will — an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: India is poised to become one of the world’s three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India's volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval. This collection of essays by distinguished historian and long-standing Marxist Eric Hobsbawm is a commentary and critical retrospective on the revolutionary movements and ideas that dominated the twentieth century, and which remain of crucial contemporary relevance. The essays here explore a broad range of…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), sharing the…