Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as Rain, The Letter, The Vessel of Wrath and The Alien Corn, Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: Rebecka Martinsson, Staatanwältin im nordschwedischen Kiruna, wird in einen besonders grausamen Mordfall hineingezogen: Beim winterlichen Tauchen in einem See stirbt ein junges Pärchen, weil ein Fremder eine Holztür über das Loch schiebt, das sie ins Eis gehackt hatten, um nach einem versunkenen Wrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu tauchen. Wofür wurden die beiden mit dem…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: I'm in constant search of chasing beauty, chasing hope — I'm not interested in the dark. The celebrated photographer Richard Phibbs, known for his celebrity portraits and iconic ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and more, has an unwavering eye for beauty. Many theorists argue that beauty is subjective, a product of individual preference, but the images from Phibbs' archive of work…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Demonstrates the potential of digital art, from a 'fine art' perspective. This title presents an overview of the fundamentals of visual language, and shows how to apply those principals to digital art. It also includes a step-by-step summary of the basics of the Photoshop environment.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov's dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 421) Аннотация: Some friends just fit together. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Join Ann Brashares's beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel about a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger's kiss... Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'Glubbslyme. You're magic'! When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend — a huge, warty toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad. Hundreds of years old, he can talk and — best of all — he can work magic. Maybe, just maybe, he can help Rebecca be best friends with Sarah again?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER. Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? —…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter). A…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation. Just before the piece is published, the two reporters responsible are murdered. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting-America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Just this once... Please let me get away with it just this once... Tobey wants a better life — for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything... 'Packs a punch' —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic — the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself... The Red Dragon. Special agent Will Graham has been assigned to similar…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the…