Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis — the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her — the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: Futuristic cop Eve Dallas is back on the job. This time it's Christmas in New York, and all the lonely hearts are easy pickings for a serial killer spreading death through a dating service.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The halls are decked, the tree is trimmed, and one young boy is wide awake and watching for a special late-night visitor. But waiting isn't easy — especially when every little noise sounds like Santa! Includes 24 flash cards. Full color.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The field of language is one which abounds with folk myths, misconceptions about the way in which language works or is used. This book tackles these folk beliefs head on in a series of entertaining and informative chapters in which a variety of linguists look at and correct a catalogue of errors, such as: aborigines speak a primitive language; French people speak faster; German is ugly; Italian…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The greatest works of comedy from the Bard, this book features «The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night» and «The Tempest».
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The greatest works of tragedy from the Bard, this book features «Hamlet, Othello, King Lear» and «Macbeth».
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Since its publication twenty years ago, J. M. Roberts's monumental History of the World has remained the unrivaled World History of our day (A.J.P. Taylor), selling more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Now in an equally masterful performance, Roberts displays his consummate skills of exposition in telling the tale of the European continent, from its Neolithic origins and early…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Draw me a star. And the artist drew a star. It was a good star. Draw me a sun, said the star. And the artist drew a sun. And on the artist draws, bringing the world to life picture by beautiful picture until he is spirited across the night sky by a star that shines on all he has made. In Draw Me a Star, Eric Carle celebrates the imagination in all of us with a beguiling story about a young artist…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as a possible replacement mother and her salvation. But when Thomas Farley comes looking for his sister several years later, he discovers Heather has left the Parkers in…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Hailed as the first great play to lay bare the emptiness of America's relentless drive for material success, Death of a Salesman is Miller's classic portrait of an ordinary man's struggle to leave his mark on the world.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, «The Waste land», which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, «Excalibur» begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disunity of the Britons, seize the chance to destroy Arthur. The climax of the war comes with the legendary triumph at Mount Badon, and Arthur's great victory. But the promises he made then come back to haunt him after the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The classic novel of spellbinding suspense only the mind of Ira Levin could have imagined. She is a housewife — young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor — charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home — a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare...new neighbors...and where evil wears the most innocent face of all...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This groundbreaking study was the first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West and is now reissued with a new introduction. The battles fought on the Eastern Front were decisive to the course of the war. As well as reconstructing these events, Norman Stone explores the factors that influenced their outcome and draws some unexpected…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives the Starkadders at «Cold Comfort Farm». What relatives, though: Judith, alone in her grief; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw…
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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cécile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Charming, decadent and irresponsible, the golden-skinned duo are dedicated to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. But then one long, hot summer Raymond decides to marry, and Cécile and her lover…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters». That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of the night turned to their former enemy. For now only «The Executioner» could save them from the inferno...