Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The remarkable memoir of film star Michael J. Fox and his first ten years living with Parkinson's Disease. Diagnosed in 1991, Michael eventually lost his balance, his grace, his spontaneity, and the ability to read the morning newspaper. Even so, he realizes that, in fact, he is a lucky man.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns — and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent...and all-too-deadly. It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Today is your birthday! Today you are you!...There is no one alive that is younger than you! Six pages of rollicking pop-ups animate this simple adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. It's the best-of-the-best way to say...Happy Birthday to You!
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Middle-aged Harry Angstrom, chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, copes with inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the return of his prodigal son, and a chance encounter with an old girlfriend, in Rabbit Is Rich, while in Rabbit at Rest, Harry «Rabbit» Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Lavinia Lake is set apart from the other women of London's Claremont Lane: she's well-versed in mesmerism, a gift that far surpasses mere charm and physical appeal. Nobody knows this better than the usually coolheaded Tobias March, who has fallen hopelessly under her spell.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. When Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit Washington DC.
Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: In the years following World War III, a new and powerful faith has arisen from a scorched and poisoned Earth, a faith that embraces the architect of world wide devastation. The Servants of Wrath have deified Carlton Lufteufel and re-christened him the Deus Irae. In the small community of Charlottesville, Utah, Tibor McMasters, born without arms or legs, has, through an array of prostheses,…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 834 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 753) Аннотация: The fifth novel in Auel's Earth's Children series continues as Ayla and Jondalar face new and perilous challenges at the old stone settlement in prehistoric southwest France — home to the Zelandonii.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The second volume in a trilogy begun in «When Christ and His Saints Slept Here.» Hoping to subdue the Church, Henry II — against the advice of Eleanor of Aquitaine — raises Thomas Becket to the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. But when the once worldly Becket discovers faith, their alliance withers.
Скачать книгу (размер 6 440 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1264) Аннотация: First published in 1776, Smith's «primer» provided the first description of the workings of a market economy. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless work that revolutionized the way the creation and dispersion of wealth are viewed.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own story.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A victim of time famine, thirty-five-year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a controlling nanny, a chauvinist Australian boss, a long-suffering husband, two demanding children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something's going to hit the ground.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have — about fidelity and womanising, and which makes happier.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure — morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries — so much so that he plans to write a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne — if I can stay alive long enough to claim it. After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN Brilliant and poignant... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: In this breathtakingly imagined fictional memoir of England's Virgin Queen, the author of the bestselling Guenevere trilogy uses her skills as a storyteller and a scholar to bring to life the woman behind the myth.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30.