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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This comprehensive biography of the legendary Russian poet draws on a wealth of new material, including memoirs, letters and journals, and interviews with Akhmatova's surviving friends and family. Anna Akhmatova began writing in the years before World War I, a time when, according to Akhmatova herself, «to think of a woman as a poet was absurd». Her genius would rise above categorization, but…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Dubbed “Madam X”, the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. When…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'You have an enemy, Dr Brennan. It is in your interest to learn who placed that call.' A routine case turns sinister when Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. Someone has made an incriminating accusation that she missed or concealed crucial evidence. Before Tempe can get to the one man with information, he turns up dead. The heiress isn't the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 471) Аннотация: When a rock star, a fashion designer, a software tycoon and a millionaire heiress are all murdered in mysterious circumstances, Detective Lindsay Boxer is quickly assigned to the high-profile investigation. Few people are as interested when a local hero, Bagman Jesus, is found brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas, however, becomes fascinated by his story. He was loved by so many — who would…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Struck with Parkinson's — a debilitating, degenerative disease — at the height of his fame, Fox has taken what some people might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions. Now, in Always Looking Up, he writes about the personal philosophy that carried him through his darkest hours, and speaks with others who have emerged from difficult periods with optimism to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 442) Аннотация: A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know — however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be. And when a single volume missing from the original collection mysteriously surfaces…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world — but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile: the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of Lenin in the long and difficult years leading up to the Russian Revolution — years that were spent constantly on the move in and around Europe in the company of his loyal and longsuffering wife Nadezhda…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice — on the eve of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The five, irreverent, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. Diaboliad is a wonderful introduction to literature's most…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Thirty years after his death, private correspondence between Albert Einstein and his first wife, the Serbian mathematician Mileva Maric, was opened to public scrutiny for the first time. It revealed glimpses of a tragedy at the heart of their troubled marriage: a secret they went to extraordinary lengths to keep hidden from the world, and which, in spite of their divorce, they carried to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking, downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for paydirt, to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea, Ford County features a vivid cast of attorneys, crooks,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: It's early 2008 and the credit crunch is starting to bite. Sam and Laura Diamond — and their friends — are circling forty and all feeling a lot less certain about life than when they first met in their twenties. Laura wants to work part-time and have a third child — an appalling prospect for her husband Sam, whose secret ambition is to give up his job as a struggling scriptwriter and have a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Three and a half years ago former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror. The woman has been hit…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii and Imperium. The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, 'Rick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, I don't like the sound of it, ' finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, Rick — I often thought he should have been the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Why do they hate us? An entire cottage industry has arisen to answer this question. But what no one has really figured out is, who exactly are they? Is it al-Qaeda? Islamic nationalists? The whole Muslim world? How to Win a Cosmic War lays out, for the first time, a comprehensive definition of the movement behind and surrounding al-Qaeda and the like, a global ideology properly termed Jihadism.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics; including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter, he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Phillida Horsley might have bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help organize a literary festival and finds herself going to Ireland to persuade the infamous and reclusive author Dermot Flynn to come out of hiding. From the Hardcover edition.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This book is with an introduction by Will Self. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught.