Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present — the Statue of Liberty. The gift was to commemorate the 100th birthday of the United States, and just packing it was no small feat — 350 pieces in 214 crates shipped across the ocean. The story of how the 111-foot-tall lady took her place in the New York Harbor will fascinate young readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic collection of stories, with an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffatt, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures. Could a woman die of fright alone? And who is the sender of a most grizzly package — two human ears in a box?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This is The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner Of The JQ Wingate Prize 2015 Shortlisted For The Costa Biobgrahy Award. «A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.» (John Le Carre). Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf Hoss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A family Christmas in Cornwall for the newly single? Thea's parents have split up but still seem to be together. Both her younger sister and her brother are Smug Marrieds. But Thea is newly single and very much wishes she wasn't. When her mother and father plan a great family Christmas in a big house by the sea, the idea is to make it all great fun and tremendously civilised — not remotely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep — every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Like all children about to set off on an adventure, Luka Khalifa is a special kid. For one thing, his father is the famed storyteller Rashid Khalifa, «the Shah of Blah», «the Ocean of Notions». For another, Luka's older brother, Haroun, had already had an adventure of his own, travelling to a previously unknown moon and overthrowing a terrible enemy who threatened the Sea of Stories. Finally,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Narrowly surviving their encounter with erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington, D.C. But what they find waiting for them is... a home? How will the flock adjust to a real school — one that doesn't involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat — the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Enderby — poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic — is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: To many, medieval castles are the essence of Britain and Ireland's fascinating past. Immersed in history and centuries old, each one tells a story of Kings, Queens and feuding lords; war and bloody conflict; treason, revenge and murder. In Castles of Britain and Ireland, Rodney Castleden weaves a fascinating and detailed narrative of 115 of the grandest and most historically significant castles…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Rice, best known for her «Vampire Chronicles» and «Lives of the Mayfair Witches» novels, has taken a new direction in her writing.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Rod Stewart was born working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. He was never, as some stories later had it, a professional footballer or a gravedigger, though he did become a bit of a singer — and a fairly good one at that. This book tells the story of a guy with one hell of a voice and one hell of a head of hair.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom: Modern World, which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium. A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: Beyond Religion: Ethics For A Whole World. In this thought-provoking new book he argues that…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India's independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: It's spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts — clocks, windows, eyeglasses. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 'You're stale, tired of having to be tough. You want a change. You've seen too much death' In Fleming's seventh 007 novel, a private assignment sets Bond on the trail of a criminal mastermind — Auric Goldfinger. But greed and power have created a deadly opponent who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'We are here to find a target who will fulfil our requirements. Someone who is admired and whose ignominious destruction would cause dismay' A beautiful Soviet spy. A brand-new Spektor cipher machine. Smersh has set an irresistible trap that threatens the entire Secret Service. In Fleming's fifth 007 novel Bond finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of cross and double cross.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The twentieth century looked out at him from the piece of newsprint and bared its teeth in a sneer From the diamond mines of Sierra Leone to the jewellers of Hatton Garden, from race track to casino... Bond must infiltrate and destroy the criminal network of the Spangled Mob in Fleming's fourth 007 adventure.