Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Celebrate Doctor Who with this collection of original short stories. Relive the Doctor's adventures as he outwits Daleks, Cybermen and re-encounters the Master.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 564) Аннотация: As another financial turmoil makes headlines today, the year 1929 remains the benchmark for true financial mayhem. Lords of Finance lays the blame for the meltdown at the fallibility of a small number of central bankers, men as prominent in their time as Alan Greenspan is today.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world-to engage in the turf war with the lessers. His heart belongs to a female vampire, Marissa, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. And if he can't have her, then at least…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on a psychiatric prison ward. The patient has specifically asked for her, and when he begins to talk, his story turns out to be one of most bizarre she has ever heard. Cornwell is the author of fifteen Scarpetta novels, four non-Scarpettas, and PORTRAIT OF A KILLER.
Скачать книгу (размер 616 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 122) Аннотация: The most curious, funny, insightful, and expressive invectives from more than forty languages — fully illustrated, you miserable misokakku.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. Cyr's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes by a killer whose ominous plot threatens to shake the nation to its very core.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant — with disastrous consequences.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 'As good as anything he has written... one of Self's grisliest creations. There is no contemporary writer of fiction more perceptive about psychosis' — «Financial Times». 'Self's enjoyable, intelligent collection of savage stories is splendidly satiric. The title story is a brilliant novella that tells of dueling psychiatrists who use mental patients as weapons. You laugh, but you also flinch' —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Leonard Mlodinow reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting, winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test. «The Drunkard's Walk» is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world — read it, so you…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Presents a story of endurance, as one man — plucked from his normal, everyday life — is forced to reach deep inside himself to survive life in one of the bleakest outposts in the world: Russia's vast and unforgiving 'forgotten zone'.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The English Roses are in a tizzy over the gift exchange at school, especially Charlotte. Certain she'll get something fabulous, she can't hide her dismay at ending up with a dumpy pot holder. And after receiving her Secret Santa, the nerdy Jeanette Jones runs off in tears — can the English Roses help Charlotte grasp the true meaning of Christmas?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, «The First Person and Other Stories» sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: This book is very close to my heart. It's about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn't really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly... my vegetable patch! I came to realise last year that it's not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Jamie will try real American food and meet the most interesting cooks and producers that this vast country has to offer. His epic journey will take him to the heart of America: its people, culture, music and, most importantly, its food. Along the way Jamie will be getting his hands dirty — meeting hunters, cowboys, fishermen and local producers — as he finds out about the best (and strangest)…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Love stories are not always about hearts and flowers. In this deliciously different celebration of love, romance is all about having a good row (and not always having to say you're sorry). From trivial everyday quarrels, such as a dispute over a bride's new hat in Dorothy Parker's 'Here We Are' and an argument about whether to close the screen door in Lydia Davis's 'Disagreement', to more serious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions. It presents an examination of lives out of control and beyond saving by the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Fern is glaring thirty in the face and can't ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once — although these days swinging from the chandeliers means DIY not SEX. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won't go down on one knee.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When the author of The Hayseed Chronicles, Arthur Hayman, is mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, his legacy passes to his widow, Martha, and her children — the fragile Rachel, and Luke, reluctantly immortalised as Luke Hayseed, the central character of his father's books. But others want their share, particularly Laurie.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of campus America. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Queen of Spades, one of his most popular and chilling short stories, tells of an inveterate card player who develops a dangerous obsession with the secret of an old lady's luck, which he believes will bring him the wealth he craves. The Negro of Peter the Great, a story based on the life Pushkin's own great-grandfather, is a vivid depiction — and criticism — of both French and Russian…