Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Sarah is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. Or, not for herself anyway. And now with all her working hours spent planning the wedding of the year, she certainly doesn't have time to even think about love... Or does she? From the Hardcover edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must — have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic'. 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' — Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours on the beat whilst trying to solve a murder…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career. Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star for a one-day assignment that quickly developed into an odyssey. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: More than 200 spectacular photographs catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll. This work explores the photographs and the photographers who captured rock's message of freedom and personal reinvention.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Celebrate what's beautiful about traditional style while breaking some of its rules: Take a page out of a designer's book and add your own sense of relaxed whimsy and exuberant personality to create spaces that are versatile, original, and truly livable. That's designer Celerie Kemble's philosophy in a nutshell. It's all about blending a classic sensibility with a dose of irreverence and a dollop…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 425) Аннотация: Vividly recreating life during the Dark Ages, while simultaneously painting a portrait of an unforgettable woman, «Pope Joan» explores the extraordinary life of an independent, intelligent and courageous woman who overcomes oppression and ascends to the highest religious power («San Francisco Chronicle»).
Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: I don't have two lives, Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990-2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him'. Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile mistake. He's bored by his new job until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest because of its possible links to Neo Nazi activity. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's greatest detectives. Here, in Stout's third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A NERO WOLFE SPECIAL EDITION--TWO COMPLETE MYSTERIES IN ONE VOLUME Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals... he is an exceptional character creation. New Yorker A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's greatest detectives. In this double helping of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout presents the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature... An absolutely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: High finance meets high-stakes Washington intrigue in this riveting, high-octane novel of suspense, revenge, national security, terrorism, and human rights from the «New York Times» — bestselling author of «The Successor.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun... The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos-the galaxy's finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett-find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and…
Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness-secrets they need if they're going to save Merlin. But when the magic tree house leads them to a tiny deserted island in the middle of the ocean, they're not sure who needs help more-Merlin or themselves! The brother and sister team are soon rescued by a ship of explorers and scientists. But the crew isn't looking for the secrets of…