Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys-Caleb, Fox, and Gage-went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret — and is systematically massacring this ancient race. The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based vampire and writer of bodice rippers. Forced to hide from the light of day, Henry can’t hunt the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. And only three…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Vicki Nelson has received the call that no daughter ever wants to receive — that her mother has died. Marjory Nelson’s coworkers at the Queen’s University Life Science Department told her that she suffered a heart attack, and that they’d be waiting for Vicki to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what begins as a personal tragedy turns into the most terrifying case of Vicki’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A ghost has invaded his home, beginning a dangerous nightly game in which Henry is allowed to ask a single question. If the answer is no, an innocent and unsuspecting person is killed. Henry soon comes to the horrifying realization that this wraith — and the others who join it — is using him to wreak vengeance on the people it holds responsible for its death. Henry can’t find the source of these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This multi-million-selling Internet book is still the ultimate handbook for novices and experts alike. Written in plain English, it covers everything from getting online for the first time to newsfeeds, Internet telephony and advanced tips and tricks guaranteed to turn casual surfers into Net gurus. This fully revised guide covers all the latest sites and crazes, including Skype, blogging,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Like every girl, Charlie is simply looking for love ... On a glorious, hot summer's day sixteen-year-old Charlie Weish's privileged childhood comes to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own garden by two strangers. Her father has disappeared and it soon becomes evident to Charlie that dark forces are at work, shattering not only her financial…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters — peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers — each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Muriel Spark is a wholly original presence in modern literature. This volume, which contains all her published short stories together with new writing, amply displays her extraordinary talent. From her first published story, ‘The Seraph and the Zambezi’, to ‘Christmas Fugue’, her most recent work, this definitive collection spans the career of one of the defining writers of our age. Judges and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'I've always been a girls' girl. And I know from experience that making the very best of yourself is something any woman can do. I was never the six-foot-tall pin-up ...I've always been the girl-next-door who got lucky. I've come a long way in the last ten years, but this book isn't my attempt to tell you what or what not to do. It's just to share some of what I've learned'. Based on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 493) Аннотация: In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but here he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking on a journey in which he encounters movers and shakers past and present, he discovers: • that Prime Ministers have often lost a parent in childhood • why Trollope is the politician’s novelist of choice • that Lloyd…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: 'Of the «Great Powers» that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished … Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be … The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The air of Eastwick breeds witches — women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.