Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »The Captain's Daughter» was the only work of Pushkin's that had a powerful influence on the next age — it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become — through it is still a story told in the orthodox manner, as a story should be.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires-in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine, the horrific sack of the Eternal City at the hands of the Visigoths, and the vile aftermath of the Black…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium — maybe code words. Initial:…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: there is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Janzen's sexy Special Forces series continues with an adventure to South America where murder, revenge, and a little romance combine in this sizzling new thriller.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Koontz returns to the unique world of Pico Mundo, and to his unforgettable hero who lives «always between two doors, between a life with the living and a life with the dead, between transcendence and terror». Evil is coming to Pico Mundo, and there can be no innocent bystanders.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: First he made five billion dollars. Then he made NBC's «The Apprentice». Now the real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario shows readers how to make a fortune. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Grisham's №1 «New York Times» bestseller returns readers to Ford County, Mississippi, the locale for «A Time to Kill». A young journalist becomes caught up in the sensational trial of a savage killer whose vengeful vow has a devastating effect on the small town.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: From The Booker Prize-Winning Ruthor of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted «nephew». To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him... and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nero Wolfe refuses to accept a case concerning a girl accused of stealing diamonds, until he learns she claims to be his daughter.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known. For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 079 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 409) Аннотация: »American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin», said H.L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional «fallen woman» story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naive young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It begins with an orphan named Peter Parker, raised by his beloved Aunt May and Uncle Ben in Queens, New York. A quiet student, he works diligently at his studies and pines for the beautiful Mary Jane Watson. But this ordinary teenage boy is about to have his life turned upside down, when he is bitten by a genetically altered spider. Suddenly, he finds himself possessed of spectacular powers. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 860) Аннотация: Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns — his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character — a «difficult» woman. By no means is she conventionally «nice», but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her — on Long Island, in the summer of 1958 — Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth's life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 652) Аннотация: Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A novel about people, their pleasures, pains and perversions, and money. It is a satire on insanity — a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation. The author's other novels include «Slaughterhouse 5».