Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The Word Menu is a revolutionary tool that will change the way we use words — an entirely new kind of reference for the '90s. It functions in four ways: It is a thesaurus with definitions; a dictionary divided into word categories; a reverse dictionary; and a collection of glossaries. Contains 75,000 entries in 800 categories.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Enter Gibson's unique world — lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting — where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: »Like «Interview with the Vampire», «Memnoch» has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity... Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife». Rolling Stone. «Sensual... Bold, Fast-Paced». USA Today. «Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series... Fans will no doubt…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: A riveting new thriller from the award-winning author of Ghost Story. Nora, a bored housewife, married to a weakling of a husband, is kidnapped at gunpoint by Dick Dart, a man who is suspected of committing four recent murders. Now Nora can stay alive only by feeding Dart's ego and outwitting him without seeming to do so.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Barely escaping with his life after his first mission, young Fitz returns to the chaotic royal court. With King Shrewd near death and Fitz's only ally off on a futile quest, the throne is ripe for the taking. And as the Red Ship Raiders brutalize the Six Duchies, the kingdom's fortunes-and Fitz's own fate — hang in the balance.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force — a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann — a Boy and His Two Dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains — and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage-until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Sam Parker is a star venture…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »A great deal of fun to read... Fresh, consantly entertaining... John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation.» THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism... what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: It was a tough, wiry wig with plenty of personality. It rode around on his head like an animal. It was a vigorous brown. I was very fond of it as a child. I thought that it liked me back.' Anne Enright's extraordinary first novel is narrated by Grace, a TV producer, whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An orphan whose wealthy uncle saved him from a life of poverty, Pete Sorenson has lived a fairy-tale life — complete with a princess named Annie. But then Maddie Stern enters Pete's life. Maddie was a foster child, too, and her allure entrances Pete. But just before their wedding, Maddie disappears. Pete reaches out to the one person who has always been there for him — Annie.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone one misty evening. Before he could approach her, she rushed…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It is the spring of 1945, and the Nazis are eliminating all the witnesses to their horrible crimes, including Jews and foreigners remaining in the prison camps. Kommandant Repp, who is known as a master sniper, decides to hone his sniping abilities by taking a little target practice at the remaining laborers in his own prison camp. But one man escapes and becomes the key to solving the mystery of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But not even Brad's ring — or his child — can protect her from the calculating wrath of the powerful Fullerton dynasty, and the woman who will become…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A man suffering from violent seizures enters a Los Angeles hospital, where soothing pulses are sent into his brain. But then he discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency, escapes from the hospital, and lapses into murderous rampages. By the author of «Jurassic Park».