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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: After two nuns are brutally attacked leaving one dead and the other critically injured, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror in the chapel of nuns' convent that leads them toward the killer's identity.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, “Master and Man”, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In “Ivan Ilyich”, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do-Urden, and his companions.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the «revolution of the word» that took place in…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last…