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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale,…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This title presents more (nearly) true confessions from the diaries of Jamie Kelly. This is a hilarious middle-schooler's diary about her stinky beagle, mad best friend, disgustingly lovely rival and unrequited crush on the eighth-best-looking boy in the class. It's Wimpy Kid with a girl central character. There are fantastic black and white cartoons throughout.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's Thursday, January 3rd. I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing My Way at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona — the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way — to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the man they both love. Only for Nuri to discover a silence he cannot break and unimaginable…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is a truth universally acknowledged that all mothers want to see their daughters happily settled. But for Lara, mother to Maudie and stepmother to Jasmine and Eve, realizing this ambition has not been easy. With an ex-husband embarking on a new marriage, and the surprising and late blooming developments in her own love life to contend with, Lara has enough to worry about, especially with Eve's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It's Monday, January 3, 2000. So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother... I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head... I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan... The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's Monday, June 13th. I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky',…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: A photograph called «Fire and Hemlock» that has been on the wall since Polly Whittacker's childhood and a story in a book of supernatural stories haunt her. Polly, packing to return to college, is distracted by the picture and story, clues from the past stirring memories. But why should she suddenly have memories that do not seem to correspond to the facts?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 588) Аннотация: The astonishing final novel in Richelle Mead's epic series! Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them.

Скачать книгу (размер 5 639 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1107) Аннотация: At last-the New York Times bestselling author continues his «astonishing»* Kingkiller Chronicle saga. Orson Scott Card. In The Wise Man's Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age — identity in all its forms — with a sympathetic pen and a sharp and observant eye. No other British writer today…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 563) Аннотация: 1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Noam Chomsky delivers his latest thoughts on the Occupy movement in this urgent, red-hot dispatch on a global political phenomenon 'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war'. Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 651 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 325) Аннотация: In this latest Fargo adventure, husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi are sent to find the missing father of a Texas oil barron. Their journey leads them to Tibet, Nepal, Venice, and more.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. The number one New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: »New York Times» bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City's most powerful and sacred institutions — and unearths the most sinister of secrets... Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church steps — with the imprint of a Star of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A universal favorite, «The Importance of Being Earnest» displays Oscar Wilde's theatrical genius at its brilliant best. Subtitled «A Trivial Comedy for Serious People», this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A «Library Journal» Best Book of the Year What would you do with a second chance at life? Having survived a life-threatening illness, Kate celebrates by gathering with six close friends. At an intimate outdoor dinner on a warm September evening, the women challenge Kate to start her new lease on life by going white-water rafting down the Grand Canyon with her daughter. But Kate is reluctant to…