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Скачать книгу (размер 2 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 540) Аннотация: These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink — an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood — is a masterful culmination of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. Bean is a genius…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction — he suspects sabotage...The USS America — the world's most technically advanced nuclear submarine — is launched on its maiden voyage. Then shortly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp. Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. Marry me the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under terror. In her distraction, she misses her stop, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: While serving a sentence for killing his mother, Jacko Argyle dies in prison. Two years later, a stranger shatters the peace of the Argyle household. Was Jacko convicted of a murder he didn't commit?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: An unknown doomsday virus quickly claims the lives of four people across the country — including Dr. Sophia Russell, a researcher leading the team trying to crack the disease. Devastated and enraged, her fiance, Lt. Colonel Jonathan Smith, uncovers evidence that his lover's death was no accident — that someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens countless millions of lives…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Sequel to the New York Times bestselling «Faith of the Fallen». New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind has created his most lavish adventure yet. Tormented her entire life by inhuman voices, a young woman named Lauren seeks to end her intolerable agony. She at last discovers a way to silence the voices. For everyone else, the torment is about to begin. With winter descending and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew «Ender» Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: A towering epic of fantasy, The Pearl, is launched in «The Ring of Five Dragons». Filled with action, color, and the myriad details of another world, The Pearl is the first great fantasy series of the new millennium, set to rival Robert Jordan, David Eddings, George R. R. Martin, Terry Brooks, and Terry Goodkind in popular appeal. This astonishing first volume opens as the Kundalan people have…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises — from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give a full report on the nation's endangered environment — its seashores lined with concrete, its roads…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: The deep. The deadly. The damned... For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier school of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous mystery by men willing to kill and a beautiful woman willing…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: First there were ten — a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal — and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey.…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Seagull, a spectacular failure on its first appearance, was the play that, on its second, established Anton Chekhov as an important and revolutionary dramatist. Here, amid the weariness of life in the country, the famous actress Arkadina presides over a household riven with desperate love, with dreams of success and dread of failure. It is her son, Konstantin, who one day shoots a seagull; it…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On the eve of the first Scottish parliament in three hundred years, Edinburgh is a city rife with political passions and expectations. Queensbury House, the home of Scotland's new rulers, falls in the middle of John Rebus' turf, keeping him busy with ceremonial tasks. That quickly changes, however, when a long-dead body is discovered in a Queensbury House fireplace, a homeless man throws himself…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. They'll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys. their isolated estate, and invite only «bright young things». But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and a sleeping guest has ended in accidental death — and cause for alarm.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's been less than a year since beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton took her own life during a birthday dinner in her honor. Her husband George never believed that his fun-loving wife would commit suicide--especially now that he's received two anonymous letters that suggest cold-blooded murder. One implicates even George himself. It's true he long suffered Rosemary's infidelities. But what about…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A blinding snowstorm — and a homicidal maniac — traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in turn, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When Clarissa stumbles upon a corpse in her drawing room, she decides that she must dispose of it before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary and persuades her three house guests to assist her in the endeavor, but her efforts are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder.