Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When friends stop trusting each other, Darkness is there to fan the flames…. Things have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s fading fast. It’s seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When a Georgia senator’s daughter is found dead and drained of blood, Eve enters the world of a twisted psychopath—a man whose name appears on Eve’s shortlist of killers connected to her own missing daughter, Bonnie. Then Eve receives a terrifying trophy—and the games have begun. Soon she must enlist the help of those she loves and trusts the most—Joe Quinn and Jane MacGuire—even if it means…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel’s last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel’s secret influence on the making…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, «Elantris», and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation”, the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking. On a personal level, it leads to self-blame; on a national level, it's ushered in an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster.
Скачать книгу (размер 866 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 171) Аннотация: When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin.
Скачать книгу (размер 713 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 141) Аннотация: Everyone knows the Moomins sleep through the winter. But this year, Moomintroll has woken up early. So while the rest of the family slumber, he decides to visit his favorite summer haunts. But all he finds is this strange white stuff. Even the sun is gone! Moomintroll is angry: whoever Winter is, she has some nerve. Determined to discover the truth about this most mysterious of all seasons,…
Скачать книгу (размер 927 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 183) Аннотация: Now that autumn is turning into winter, a group of unlikely friends — including the Fillyjonk, the Hemulen, and Toft — are waiting in Moominvalley to see the Moomins, for winter doesn't seem right without them. But the Moomins are not at home. So all the visitors settle down to await their return, and oddly enough find themselves warming up to their new life together. For Moominvalley is…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: »The Gathering Storm» is the first of three books that will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost 20 years ago and marking the conclusion of The Wheel of Time, created by Jordan and completed by Sanderson.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the third of a new generation of Wild Cards tales 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 survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This stand-alone sequel to Card's New York Times — bestselling novel Empire continues the author's message about the dangers of extreme political polarization and the need to reassert moderation and mutual citizenship.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 596) Аннотация: Iran is weeks away from acquiring nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them to strike first. Only Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton can stop a nuclear nightmare. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Martin's Press.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.
Скачать книгу (размер 876 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 173) Аннотация: Here are nine delightfully funny stories about the triumphs and tribulations of the citizens of Moominvalley. Readers will discover how the Moomin family save young Ninny from permanent invisibility, and what happens when Moomintroll catches the last dragon in the world. Some of the characters in these tales will be brand-new to Moomin fans, but there are lots of old friends to meet as well.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by one of the country's most prominent social critics Now in paperback, Barbara Ehrenreich's widely acclaimed This Land Is Their Land takes the measure of what we are left with after the cruelest decade in memory and finds lurid extremes all around. While members of the moneyed elite have bought up…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Sometimes Arkady had the feeling that while he had been away God had lifted Moscow and turned it upside down... The night outside was still white. Arkady wasn’t sleepy or hungry. He felt like the perfect new Soviet man, designed for a land with no food or drink. He got up and left the office. Enough. It began with the unmourned death of Rosen, one of Moscow’s new breed of black marketeers;…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature... An absolutely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: Biron Farrell was young and naive, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discovers that, many light-years away, his father, the highly respected Rancher of Widemos, has been murdered. Stunned, grief-stricken, and outraged, Biron is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: One of the most treasured children's books of all time, this title is narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow.