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Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. They have barely begun when three separate…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent of those who survived mutated into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The «Wild Cards» shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin along…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 405) Аннотация: Repairman Jack, the vigilante hero of Wilson's «The Tomb» and «Legacies», returns to the weird, supernatural world he thrives in to trace the whereabouts of a leading conspiracy theorist. The search leads Jack to a bizarre convention of conspiracy theorists, where he finds that nobody can be trusted and few people are what they seem.
Скачать книгу (размер 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 66) Аннотация: Harriet Bean loves nothing more than a good mystery. And together with her five extraordinary aunts (Veronica, Harmonica, Majolica, and twins Japonica and Thessalonika), she is always ready to take on a new case. Harriet doesn't think twice when her mind-reading detective aunts Japonica and Thessalonika enlist her help in catching a cheat at the racetrack. After all, Harriet is just the right…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. Wild nights are my glory, the unearthly stranger told them. I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin's vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn't a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: Charles, the youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe in this classic tale of time travel by L'Engle.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 814 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 357) Аннотация: Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraordinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: In this classic novel by a beloved author, Polly O'Keefe's visit to her grandparents' farm in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 632) Аннотация: Centaine de Thiry grew up with privilege, wealth, and freedom on a sprawling French estate. Then war came crashing down around her, and a daring young South African aviator named Michael Courtney stole her heart amidst the destruction. But the tides of fate and battle sent the young woman on a journey across a dangerous sea to the coast of Africa. When Centaine's ship is torpedoed and sunk, she…
Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: With more than 6.5 million copies sold in board book alone, Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle's classic Bear books have been a hit with young children for many generations. Now, for the first time, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?; and Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? are available together in a boxed board book gift set-perfect for every…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Diana, Princess of Wales was the world's most photographed woman during the 1980s and 90s. Her every outfit was scrutinized, criticized, admired and endlessly copied, her every fashion choice proved enormously influential. But it was only towards the end of her life that she found her own true style and the panache and confidence to flaunt it. The shy, aristocratic nanny made some notorious early…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura, Magical Girl Rayearth — they're magical girls, and they're some of the biggest names in manga. Magical girls, ordinary schoolgirls given superpowers, are hugely popular in Japan and the United States. Now Christopher Hart shows fans everywhere how to draw these manga shoujo faves. Faces and body proportions, action poses, costumes, expressions, transformations,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The most thought-provoking, the most innovative, the most creative temporary and commercial stands designs are showcased in «Stands and Product Display». These stands are three-dimensional marketing, each one targeted for a specific audience, site location, and product, each one a triumph of design and advertising. Each project is shown in photographs, construction details, and ground plans, plus…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Benches, railings, parterres, street lamps, posts, footpaths and bridges, fountains and spatial organizers — «Urban Elements» takes an up-close look at all of the elements that go into the design of urban space. Every element shown in the dazzling color photographs was custom-designed for a specific project, and all are explained from the drawing board up, from the original sketches and lists of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible. But the townspeople do not trust the officers, and they have their own ideas about what forces claimed the bodies of the missing men. To pass the time, and to cope…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: he word’s most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They’ve planted a listening device inside a terrorist’s skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the battle… Multi-lingual, nerves-of-steel agents Charlie Dean, Lia DeFrancesca, and Tommy Karr prowl the winding streets of Istanbul to the crowded airports…