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Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael Corleone, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people — among them former mob rivals and an emissary from the Mayor of New York — wait to ask the great man for favours. Only one thing remains to be…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »Vintage Satire» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Gulliver's Travels» by Jonathan Swift and Michel Houellebecq's controversial bestseller «Atomised.» «Vintage Satire» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: He is one of the most haunting characters — in all of literature. At last, the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Meet Lydia Albright, one of Hollywood's hottest movie producers; Lydia's best friend and tinseltown's favourite celebrity Celeste Solange; Ueber-agent to the stars Jessica Caulfield, who knows everything and everyone that matters; and script writer Mary Anne Meyers, who can't believe her luck at having escaped the slush pile and signed on for Lydia's new blockbuster, Seven Minutes Past Midnight.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »Vintage Sin» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Inferno» by Dante and Philip Roth's shocking novel, «Sabbath's Theater.» «Vintage Sin» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: Following the critically acclaimed success of «Dublin», this riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards, picking up at the Reformation, and with it, the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell heralds the inauguration of two hundred years of Protestant dominance, throughout which many of the Irish people were impoverished and dispossessed. Dublin is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Raised in Tokyo, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating a typical Western diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she reverted to the healthy diet of her homeland. The experience inspired her first book «Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat». Healthy and effective, «The Japan Diet» is based…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In Japan, people live longer than anywhere else on Earth; obesity is virtually unknown, and 40-year-old women look like they’re 20. The secret: Japanese homestyle cooking, and an approach to eating that is not about self-deprivation, but about celebrating and savouring food. Raised in Tokyo and on her grandparents' mountainside farm, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot — the attempt to kill Hitler launched by the German Resistance Movement on 20 July 1944. But it is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of similar attacks. «Killing Hitler» is an account of the surprisingly numerous attempts on the life of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made plans to kill the Fuhrer.…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: »Le Bal» depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her daughter, already so grown up, to her admirers. Instead, Antoinette is forced to sleep in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sisters. Rivals. And the love of one man. Isabella and Beatrice d'Este are as different as night and day. Wordly and ambitious, Isabella's beauty and intellect are legendary across the courts of Europe, while her younger sister, a tomboy, prefers horses and the hunt. When Isabella is betrothed to the Marquis of Mantua, all her ambitions seem to come true — until Beatrice marries Ludovico, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits — the high-volume end of a traditional demand…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer, Thubron's «The Lost Heart of Asia» is an outstanding guide to the history, people and culture of a vast region resonating with history and politics.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: For three thousand years, the world's most dangerous treasure has been lost. Now the code that reveals its hiding place is about to be broken...Sam Grant is a disgraced ex-SOE soldier and an adventurer by trade. But he has a secret: six years ago, a dying archaeologist entrusted him with his life's work — transcripts of mysterious writing found in a hidden cave on Crete. Deciphered, it could lead…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »Vintage Love» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Middlemarch» by George Eliot and A S Byatt's highly acclaimed novel «Possession.» «Vintage Love» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The «Night Watch», first book in the «Night Watch» trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »Vintage Youth» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Oliver Twist» by Charles Dickens and Irvine Welsh's controversial bestseller «Trainspotting.» «Vintage Youth» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This book is the follow up to the previous volume, «On Beauty». Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The…