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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home-Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care — but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: »The Fourth Hand» asks an interesting question: «How can anyone identify a dream of the future?» The answer: «Destiny is not imaginable, except in dreams or to those in love». While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling «Star Wars The New Jedi Order» series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within. In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Danielle Steel’s 56th bestselling novel is about family and friendship, about one woman’s struggle to break free from the past — and the man who helps her triumph. And most of all, it is about daring to believe in...Answered Prayers. On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 195 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1216) Аннотация: Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes «A Game of Thrones» and «A Clash of Kings». As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: He may turn out to be the best gift she has ever received... SHE WAS READY TO TIE THE KNOT. NOW SHE’S FIT TO BE TIED. Texas heiress Vivienne Stansfield’s dream of being a bride was about to come true. But in a startling change of fortune, her safe, reliable fiancé proves himself to be neither – and her wealthy, eccentric father disappears, leaving her with no money, no explanation, and no…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, «The Rising Sun» is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »Hitler and the Holocaust» is the product of a lifetime’s work by one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism and modern Jewry. Robert S. Wistrich examines Europe’s long history of violence against its Jewish populations, looks at the forces that shaped Hitler’s belief in a “satanic Jewish power” that must be eradicated, and discusses the process by which Hitler gained…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. This is the story of how the agitation of Karl…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic. When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative — her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches — to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians, fatally…

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Laura Esquivel regresa con una novela de gran belleza y compasión. Mientras «Como agua para chocolate» se basó en la vida de su madre, en «Tan veloz como el deseo» Esquivel hace un trabajo de ficción acerca de la vida de su padre en México. Nacido con la curiosa habilidad de entender los mensajes ocultos en los sentimientos humanos, Don Júbilo se convierte en un traductor…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: In the powerful conclusion to the «Liveship Traders» trilogy, Robin Hobb weaves the spellbinding story of a once-thriving city on the brink of ruin, a glorious and mythic species on the edge of extinction, and the Vestrit clan, whose destiny is intertwined with both.... As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Continues the adventures of the Dark Elf hero, Drizzt Do'Urden, as an invasion of orcs sweeps across the Spine of the World, separating him from the friends on whom he has long relied and forcing him to draw on his own inner resources.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto... that makes it a pleasure…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: Mit unnachahmlichem Witz und Charme erzählt Kaminer von den Tücken des Alltags und seinen haarsträubenden Abenteuern im Russland der Gorbatschow-Zeit. Nach der Lektüre dieses Romans bleibt eigentlich nur noch eine Frage offen: Wieso die Sowjetunion nicht schon früher zusammenbrach ...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the 'cancerous' Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. As Robert Service wrote of its…