Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This multilayered tale tells the story of a year in the life of a family coming to terms with the imperfections beneath its perfect facade. Includes a teaser chapter of Dessen's new hardcover, «Lock and Key.»
Скачать книгу (размер 3 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 722) Аннотация: The riveting first — person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: The Australian Secret Service recruits Alex Rider to infiltrate a ruthless gang known as Snakeheads. Alex accepts the assignment, and it becomes his most dangerous mission yet.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... Its winter break at St Vladimirs, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academys crawling with Guardians — including Roses hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasnt bad enough, Roses tutor Dimitri…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Rose Hathaway is close to graduation from St. Vladimir's Academy. Since Mason's death, Rose has had dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can't concentrate in class, and has terrifying dreams about Lissa. But Rose has an even «bigger» secret — she's in love with Dimitri.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Stepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic, Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are clever. But, the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. Sukhanov's future will be haunted by doubt. Beset by heartbreaking visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a precarious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Across the world millions of people are members of street gangs. In groups they fight, stab, rob, rape and murder anyone who isn't one of their own. And when rival gangs meet — what you get is warfare. Ross Kemp, whose dad was a copper and taught him right from wrong, decided to infiltrate these secret underworld organizations to discover who they are, what makes them tick and what the law is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Welcome to St Benedict's Country Club and Spa. As a home away from home for the A-list, naturally membership comes at a premium — only the over-sexed, the over-rich and the over-beautiful need apply. But the St Benedict's experience involves more sex, bad behaviour, blackmail and deviance than most women can handle. Are you ready to join the Club?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you'. Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia and the Far East, Saul David shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Well what would you say if your brother kept whacking you with a spoon, or the spider made it all the way up the toilet bowl or your mum made you wear that horrible shirt? This collection of poems describe growing up.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Beautifully written, enthralling and unforgettable, The Light of Day is a bold, unconventional tale of love, murder and second chances. Over the course of a single day, we meet George and Sarah who are bound together and cruelly separated by a momentous act that has cut deeply into both their lives. Teasing out the magical in the ordinary, truth from deceit, The Light of Day is a timeless love…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of Solid Objects through the fragile impressionism of Kew Gardens to the abstract exploration of consciousness in The Mark…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives — interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s — Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies — and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio, the Factory, was the place: where he created the large canvases of soup cans and Pop icons that…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This is the story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she zaps a punishment on them with her magic flashing finger! This edition has a great new cover, with illustrations by Quentin Blake, and some new facts about Roald Dahl and his world.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the gold standard (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers. Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage as worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le CarrA and Gabriel Allon as one of the most intriguing heroes of…