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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Short story collection first published by Granta in 1999.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning when chance and coincidence could, just be chance and coincidence? Presenting connections and missed connections, this collection of stories is an inquiry into things ranging from flies and trees and books to sex, art, drunkenness, and love.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From his teenage years in provincial Russia to his premature death in 1904, Anton Chekhov wrote thousands of letters to a wide range of correspondents. This fascinating new selection tells Chekhov's story as a man and a writer through affectionate bulletins to his family, insightful discussions of literature with publishers and theatre directors, and tender love letters to his actress wife.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Rogerson Biscoe, with his green eyes and dark curly hair, is absolutely seductive. Before long, 16-year-old Caitlin finds herself under his spell. And when he starts to abuse her, she finds she's in too deep to get herself out.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Fifteen-year-old Colie is spending the summer with her eccentric Aunt Mira while her mother travels. Formerly chubby and still insecure, Colie has built a shell around herself. But her summer with her aunt, her aunt's tenant Norman, and her friends at the Last Chance Diner and 150 teaches her some important lessons about friendship and learning to love yourself.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Phule gets on the wrong side of Barky the Environmental Dog by hosting a group of big game hunters who intend to bag a dinosaur on Zenobia, even though dinosaurs are not a native species. But cold, hard facts has never stopped a Phule.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: For fifteen-year-old Haven, life is changing too quickly. She's nearly six feet tall, her father is getting remarried, and her sister and 150 the always perfect Ashley and 150 is planning a wedding of her own. Haven wishes things could just go back to the way they were. Then an old boyfriend of Ashley's reenters the picture, and through him, Haven sees the past for what it really was, and comes…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Shattered by the death of his wife at the hands of Blofeld, Bond has gone to pieces. Unwilling to accept the loss of one of his best men, M sends Bond to Japan for one last, near-impossible mission. But Japan proves to be Bond's downfall, leadinghim to a mysterious residence known as the 'Castle of Death' where he encounters an old enemy revitalized. All the omens suggest that this is the end for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Bond's latest mission is to face Sir Hugo Drax at the card table in order to teach him a lesson and prevent a scandal. So it was that he stirred benzedrine into his champagne... Drax is the head of the Moonraker project and a powerful millionaireas well as a cheat at cards. 007 suspects that there is more to him than meets the eye. As he begins to delve deeper into the goings on at the Moonraker…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner and tool of Mr. Big: master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. But James Bond has no time for hocus pocus. He knows that this criminal heavy hitter is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 814 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 357) Аннотация: One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters, follows the progress of Judyas former orphanage now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: The author who «weaves a story like no one else» («Rocky Mountain News») presents her dazzling «Dream» trilogy — complete in one wonderful volume. The saga of three women who shared a home and childhood, but then grew to fulfill their own destinies, the trilogy includes «Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream» and «Finding the Dream.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, chillingly ruthless and very deadly. The first three Bond stories have the decadence, violence and thrilling pace that mark all the Bond stories.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Jane Walmsley shares George Bernard Shaw's belief that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. In this title she looks beyond this shared facade to see the great gulfs that separate us in such areas as tastes in food, dress, home decoration, the way we conduct business, vacation, engage in sex and even die. Her prototype American is an eternal optimist who believes it is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford's hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated, betrayed and abandoned to the brutal reality of Africa. Why? Is Ben being played for a fool, or is he in real danger& A nerve-stretching thriller of deceit and manipulation, this is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the perfect partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing? The need to love and be loved is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride-to-be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody's blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd's «Free Bird» at the bachelorette party the night before. Now Bubbles has just found Janice's uncle Elwood dead on his bathroom floor-his skull bashed in and his Rolls Royce missing. The baffling murder could be her Big Break as Bubbles goes deep…