Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi — a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: An English boy raised by a community of apes in the jungles of Africa encounters other human beings for the first time.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town... Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: The official novelization based on the screenplay of the upcoming sequel to the blockbuster «X-Men».
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live in…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Brian Cruver was a first-hand witness to the disturbing, surreal and hilarious moments of Enron's long dance with death. When he first entered Enron's office complex, 'the Death Star', he was the epitome of the classic Enron employee: young, brash, obscenely overpaid and sporting a brand-new MBA. From his first day, however, when he was told that some colleagues hadn't really wanted to see him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Have you ever been in love? Do you like the way you look? How late can you stay out? Ellie thinks she's unattractive and boring, and that no boy will ever be interested in her. Not like her best friend Magda, who is drop-dead-gorgeous, and Nadine, her equally best friend, who is seriously cool and looks just like a model. Join the girls as they work out how to deal with all the surprises teenage…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' — an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: When she chucked in her safe job to read English at Oxford, Julia Cole didn't give a thought to the future. But now she's thirty, newly graduated and it's pay-back time — at least as far as the bank is concerned. With a cat providing her only male company, Blind Date her only Saturday night engagement and her last relationship further in the past than a pay cheque, she can't help wondering if…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science. In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. The novelist Haruki Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsdays cult responsible, in the hope that they might be able to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: During the First World War five French soldiers, accused of a cowardly attempt to evade duty, are bundled into no-man's land and certain death. Five bodies are later recovered, the families are notified that the men died in the line of duty and the whole, distasteful incident appears closed. After the war the fianc-e of one of the men receives a letter which hints at what might have happened.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author's father, Kingsley…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art and political ambition. Mor's teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own — but with dramatic differences. It is 1924 — a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington’s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada.…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: When Gerald started talking, you know what he said? He didn't speak words — he went boing boing instead! Press the boing sound button on this sturdy board book to help Gerald express himself in this fabulously quirky, radically read-aloudable tale, based on the Academy Award-winning motion picture by Dr. Seuss!
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a biography of «Charlie» Marx besides. Like the companion volumes in the series, Marx for Beginners is accurate,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow? Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone? The Profit…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Good news! Fannie’s back in town — and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Teeth–they come in handy when you chew or smile! In Dr. Seuss’s hilarious ode to teeth, little ones will laugh out loud as they find out all the things teeth can do and how to take care of them so they last a lifetime! All the fun and charm of the original book are in this new board book version for the youngest readers.