Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison», declares the whip-tongued eleven-year-old narrator of «Damned», Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted — not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields — today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast — an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In 100, carefully selected places, «BBC History Magazine» editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe to be the most important in our history, and has travelled to each place to provide a visitor's…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 'For most of us the Arctic is, above all, an idea. It cannot be mapped, it can only be described. Cold, isolation, emptiness, white, pristine — these are the words it evokes; these are the preconceptions through which we filter all subsequent information about it. Yet many of those preconceptions — the same ones which, as a child, drew me towards the Arctic — are wrong'. Always lingering at the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England — a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: 'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' — Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. There are contortionists, performing cats, carousels and illusionists — all the trappings of an ordinary circus. But this is no conventional spectacle. Some tents…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In February 2011, in scenes that evoked the chilliest moments of the Cold War, journalist Luke Harding was expelled from Moscow. His offence? To have reported on aspects of contemporary Russia that the authorities would have preferred to remain hidden from view. Moscow Ghosts is a clear-eyed and unflinching chronicle of Luke's often terrifying experiences in Russia in the months leading up to his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Cross discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, #1 «New York Times» — bestselling author Steel weaves a powerfully compelling story that reminds readers how challenging and unpredictable life can be — and how the bonds of family hold them together.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: This rediscovered gem by a major, yet neglected, writer — here presented in a dazzling new translation — is an absorbing account of the final days of Czarist Russia. An absorbing saga about the brutalities of military life upon its own soldiers. Stranded at a distant outpost, young Romashov finds himself obliged to fight a duel — over something he realizes is meaningless. As the novel hurtles…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: Conan the Barbarian is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created — a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, annihilating powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and whole armies of ruthless foes. Today his name is synonymous with the epic battles of ancient times, but Conan originated in the early decades of the twentieth century with one of the founding fathers of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: King's #1 bestseller about a shy teenage girl who's bullied at school — but whose secret power allows her to exact revenge on her tormentors at prom.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody «The Zombie Survival Guide», tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. Kath, who left home long ago to work for the American army, introduces her sixteen-year-old brother to a lifestyle that is deliriously fast, furious and…