Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include «The Frog Princess», «Vassilissa the Beautiful» and «The White Duck». Though Russian Fairy Tales in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Was it an accident...or an attempted murder? Dr. Phyl Forster watched the TV news, horrified at the sight of the broken body in the ravine. Then she raced to the hospital to see the victim. Miraculously, the girl was alive, but without name or memory. An irresistible challenge to Dr. Phyl, the psychiatrist who had buried her own past.... Detective Franco Mahoney was looking for a killer, without…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After ten years in prison for shooting — and permanently crippling — a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing — he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot, and David's beautiful girlfriend, Clare. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he had conformed and society demanded he be happy — or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more and more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration and fear. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: »The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels». So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny — the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve — the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny — they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: By the author of «The Name of the Rose», these essays, written over the last 20 years and culled from newspapers and magazines, explore the rag-bag of modern consciousness. Eco considers a wide range of topics, from «Superman» and «Casablanca», Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to holography and waxworks, pop festivals and football, and not…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in «London Transports» will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away—and yet so familiar...Where having an affair with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 566) Аннотация: They were the castrati-male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as monsters. For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul-revenge!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) 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 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: »Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Honoring a family pact that compels him to return to Transylvania to take part in a secret ceremony, young Arkady Tsepesh of the family Dracul learns a devastating truth about his ancestor, Prince Vlad.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The story of a British earthling plucked from his planet, and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability — and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend…
Скачать книгу (размер 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 118) Аннотация: Farmer Hogget's old sheepdog, Fly, adopts a piglet she names Babe and is astonished at how quickly he learns all she has to teach him. But plucky little Babe has even more surprises in store — and the farm will never be the same again.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Presents the story of the good doctor who learned the language of animals and made adventurous voyages.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a «strong man» of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers,…