Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is now six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park; six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end — the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumours that something survived.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In «Invisible Cities» Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like «Invisible Cities», perfectly irrelevant’.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Hailed as the «king of sleaze», tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at “The Source”, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels «Lolita», «Pale Fire», and «Ada, or Ardor», and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales — eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time — display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his «handlers» don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice. At seventeen, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues. And to everyone's horror, Grace will not tell the truth. She is a young woman with secrets too…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 542 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1088) Аннотация: The magnificent saga continues.... It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past — or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend — a tale of tragic passion that ended with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferrami delves into…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For the West, Russia is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: In this continuing saga of the bizarre life of a faithless Texas preacher, Jesse Custer heads to the south to confront the extremely dysfunctional family that abused him as a child and planted the original seeds of his disillusionment with the world. Now merged with a half angelic, half demonic being, the former preacher looks to exact revenge against those who simultaneously raised and destroyed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Anne Frank's «The Diary of a Young Girl» is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: »The shape of you, the shape of me, the shape of everything I see..» In this board book featuring bright new colors and the original whimsical text, Dr. Seuss introduces the concept of shapes to babies and toddlers.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Every Jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark. Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Stephen Lewis, an author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, he spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A stunning epic that has stirred the imagination of millions of readers, «The Clan of the cave Bear» tells the story of the orphaned Ayla and her struggle to fit in and survive after her own tribe is killed by an earthquake.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Abraham Van Helsing refuses to rest until he has killed Dracula himself, but now he risks his very soul as he confronts an even more evil force, the Lord of the Vampires.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most…