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Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: A silly book with a serious purpose — to help children recognize, remember, and really enjoy using a basic vocabulary of 1350 words. Written and illustrated by P. D. Eastman — with help from the Cat (Dr. Seuss) — this decades-old dictionary pairs words with pictures that carry their meaning, making it simple enough even for nonreaders to understand. A wacky cast of characters reappears throughout…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything. Power, position, a career and a family, which mean everything to him, and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key in Peter Haskell's life, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel-which they wouldn't-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero-and the answer to the mystery of her father's death... Then an old…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 125 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 418) Аннотация: This book contains the first ever selection of her stories, from her earliest published work in 1968 to her latest in 1994. Her star is in the ascendant -winner of the 1994 W. H. Smith Award, shortlisted for the second time in 1995 for the Irish Times International Fiction Award. This wonderful selection of the greatest stories will demonstrate her genius, her versatility, her extraordinary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dicated journalist committed to justice and her profession. But the two worlds are pulling her apart, leaving her conflicted about her identity and the lies she tells to every man she meets. Then she meets…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death — the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A raw, powerful first novel, The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a seasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life — social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex — and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 222 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 437) Аннотация: This thriller with a scientific background comes from the author of «Jurassic Park» and «Disclosure». Издание полностью на английском языке.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the currency is not money but life. A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading:…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in a story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: While much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here — now — walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens — a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black. James Edwards is a tenacious,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Recounts the life of the Czar who brought Russia into the modern age, examines his accomplishments, and attempts to portray his complex personality.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A legal thriller from the author of THE PELICAN BRIEF, THE CLIENT and THE FIRM, about what goes on behind the scenes when a jury retires to deliberate and decide whether the accused is innocent or guilty.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the author of “The Last Tsar”, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Triana, a beautiful young woman who dreams of becoming a great musician, falls prey to the demonic Stefan, the tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who seduces and manipulates her, drawing her into the dark side of her own nature and then into the cruel past.

Скачать книгу (размер 7 057 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1385) Аннотация: From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the «Free People of Color», descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the 15th-century Flemish painting, two noblemen are playing chess. Yet, two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: This novel tells the story of the last great Mafia family, and its head, Don Domenico, describing his attempt to leave the world of crime and consolidate the family's power in Las Vegas and Hollywood.