Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love and nostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future relives his first love affair.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, young psychologist Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover's grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work at City Central Hospital — only to be drawn deeper into…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: AN ANCHOR PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt. Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, Zola and a Jules Romain. Edward Said The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Contents. Caligula. The misunderstanding. State of siege. The just assassins.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his 21st-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at mankind's quest for some sort of immortality. Diary takes the form of a coma diary kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In this mesmerizing new novel, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic, as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair witches.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including LOLITA, PNIN, DESPAIR, THE GIFT and others.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby's mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner Papa Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Stefan Lindman, a young police officer on extended sick leave, hears about the murder of his former colleague and decides to investigate it himself. Lindman's inquiry becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as he uncovers the links between Herbert Molin's death and a global web of neo-Nazi activity.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra's exhilarating new novel, a book…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 466) Аннотация: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in — no phone, no address, no commitments-ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child's astonishing new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty-that while she wasn't able to save her sister's life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock — and was immediately cut by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She's not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up — and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Lost in the jungle! Bruno is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer — until now... His uncle and Don Rafael believe they know where to find the city and Bruno gets to go…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of history’s most heartbreaking conflict — the war that was meant to end all wars — Anne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family — brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Now in paperback — the astonishing «New York Times» bestselling novel about two friends who find the key to a labyrinth that holds the secrets of an ancient text called the «Hypnerotomachia Poliphili». When a fellow researcher is murdered, they suddenly realize they are caught in a web of great danger.