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Randall Victoria: A Pony in the Picture: Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Children everywhere have always loved ponies. Those lucky enough to grow up with horses invariably recall them as the keepers of their happiest childhood memories. But for most, a brief ride on a rented pony was the closest they would ever get to a horse of their own. A PONY IN THE PICTURE is an endearing collection of antique and vintage photographs of children posing proudly with ponies and…

Karl Schlogel: Das russische Berlin: Ostbahnhof Europas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Als der Kreml noch Unter den Linden stand. Zwischen Deutschland und Russland gab es in der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zahllose Verbindungen, und alle führten über Berlin: Hier kamen nicht nur Schriftsteller und Künstler beider Länder zusammen, hier trafen sich auch die sowjetischen Revolutionäre mit den «Erzkapitalisten» von AEG und Siemens, und…

Minette Walters: Die Bildhauerin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Olive Martin sitzt im Gefängnis: Sie hat zugegeben, ihre Mutter und jüngere Schwester ermordet und dann zerstückelt zu haben. Unter ihren Mitgefangenen ist Olive wegen ihrer Ausbrüche gefürchtet, und ihre Beschäftigung mit Knetpuppen, in die sie Nadeln sticht, hat ihr den Namen «Die Bildhauerin» eingetragen. Die Journalistin Rosalind Leigh soll die Hintergründe…

Wladimir Kaminer: Ich bin kein Berliner: Ein Reiseführer für faule Touristen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Der bekannteste und beliebtest Berliner führt durch seine Stadt – ein Reiseführer der anderen Art. Es gibt derzeit wohl kaum einen bekannteren Berliner als Wladimir Kaminer. Und keinen, der geeigneter wäre, die Stadt einem Touristen in all ihren Facetten vorzustellen. Von einer kurzen Einführung in die Berliner Historie über Geschichten zu Sehenswürdigkeiten am…

P.G. Wodehouse: The Best of Wodehouse

Скачать книгу (размер 4 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 796) Аннотация: The works in this volume provide a wonderful introduction to Wodehouse's oeuvre and his unique talent for joining fantastic plots with authentic emotion. In The Code of the Woosters, Wodehouse's most famous duo, Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, risks all to steal a cream jug. Uncle Fred in the Springtime, part of the beloved Blandings Castle series, follows Uncle Fred as he…

Hamish Bowles: Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Lavishly illustrated with 400 color photographs, this book profiles 36 spectacular houses and gardens — whose owners come from many different creative worlds — as they appeared in the pages of «Vogue» over the last two decades.

Gary Shteyngart: Absurdistan

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of «The Russian Debutante's Handbook» comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small country.

Julia Navarro: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy's special Art Crimes Department. Chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain is about to shock the world — someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud.

Danielle Steel: Coming Out

Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be nothing Olympia can't handle…until one sunny day in May when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York.

David Gibbins: Crusader Gold

Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: From the author of «Atlantis» comes a mesmerizing new action-adventure thriller, concerning an astonishing search for one of the world’s greatest lost Templar treasures. What marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team discover could change the world forever.

Kimberly Raye: Dead and Dateless

Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: The bitingly funny paranormal romance series that began with «Dead End Dating» continues in this second book which finds the sassy proprietor of a vampire dating service mixed up with murder, a pack of lovelorn lady werewolves, and her own undead ex.

Danielle Steel: H: R. H

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ancient traditions conflict with reality and the pressures of modern life in this «New York Times» bestseller, in which a young European princess proves that simplicity, courage, and dignity can win the day and forever alter her world.

Harris Thomas: Hannibal Rising

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: He Is One Of The Most Haunting Characters In All Of Literature. At Last The Evolution Of His Evil Is Revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where…

Lee Child: The Hard Way

Скачать книгу (размер 2 426 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 477) Аннотация: In Child's latest «New York Times» bestseller, ex-military cop Jack Reacher is thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer's past and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war.

Lee Iacocca: Iacocca

Скачать книгу (размер 1 855 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 365) Аннотация: He's an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity and newsmaker, whose name symbolized integrity and know-how for millions of Americans.

Tim Weiner: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Скачать книгу (размер 3 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 702) Аннотация: Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA — and everything is on the record. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten directors of central intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on…

Antonia Fraser: Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: Fraser, acclaimed historian and author of «Marie Antoinette», casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Mistral's Kiss

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the fey kingdom in this fifth volume of Hamiltons bestselling series.

Rodric Braithwaite: Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: In 1941 close to one million Russian soldiers died defending Moscow from German invasion-more causalities than that of the United States and Britain during all of World War II. Many of these soldiers were in fact not soldiers at all, but instead ordinary people who took up arms to defend their city. Students dropped their books for guns; released prisoners exchanged their freedom for battle; and…