Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: »Everyman MapGuides» are guidebooks whose pages open out to reveal beautifully designed, clear, large-scale maps. With a selection of 60 sites and monuments not to be missed, and details of more than 100 restaurants, bars, shops, markets, hotels, plus all the practical advice needed — this little guide is the indispensable companion for your trip to Moscow.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour. The building is old, with a colourful past, and Homicide Detective Luc Claudel dismisses the remains as historic: not his case, not his concern...But Forensic Anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has her doubts. Something about the bones of these three young women suggests a different message: murder. A cold case, but Claudel's case…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: President Bill Clinton's «My Life» is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise «Non-Fiction» prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A young Englishman goes to Cold War Leipzig for a weekend with a group of student actors and, during his brief visit beyond the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is just beginning to be aware of the horrendous way her country is governed. Her misery touches him, her love excites him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends 19 years suppressing the strength of his feelings for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note left on the body and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Detective Erlendur is forced to use all the forensic resources available to find any leads at all. Delving into the dead man's life he discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime. Did his past come back to haunt him?…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: At a time when journalism is under attack as never before, «Tell Me No Lies» could not be more timely. It is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic bombing; Israeli journalist…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby — a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer is equally reclusive — living…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 691 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 529) Аннотация: This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m. He made his millions back in the early '90's, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian markets and winning. Failure meant not only…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truly international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker,…
Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Seymour 'Swede' Levov — a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory — comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American's rise and fall — of a strong,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction — pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating — only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable, his life in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Viktor — last seen in Death and the Penguin fleeing Mafia vengeance on an Antarctica-bound flight booked for Penguin Misha — seizes a heaven-sent opportunity to return to Kiev with a new identity. Clear now as to the enormity of abandoning Misha, then convalescent from a heart-transplant, Viktor determines to make amends. Viktor falls in with a Mafia boss who engages him to help in his election…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In «The Crack in Space», a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in “Thank You for Smoking”, conspiracy theories in “Little Green Men”, and Presidential indiscretions “No Way to Treat a First Lady” now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations – in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight. Appalled by the punishment of her rebellious friend…