Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors — a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb — Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: Vonnegut's spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author's key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane.
Скачать книгу (размер 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 158) Аннотация: In If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Cherie shares that there are no mistakes in life, only lessons that are repeated. In thoughtful, inspirational essays illustrated with encouraging personal anecdotes, she includes the lessons that can be learned from each of the Rules and offers insights on self-esteem, respect, acceptance, forgiveness, ethics, compassion, humility, gratitude, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: In her #1 New York Times bestseller If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Chrie Carter-Scott gave us ten rules for conquering life's challenges and managing its unpredictable ups and downs. Now, in If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules, she presents ten simple rules to help us find true love and create long-lasting, authentic relationships. After twenty-five years of conducting workshops and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is editor of the newspaper «The Judge.» Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: »A dizzying, enjoyable caper... After reading this hard-to-put down thriller, you may put all your money in your mattress.» LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWSWhen financial executive Verity Banks' latest proposal is axed by her boss, she decides to show how easy it is to break through automated security, hide money, and then show senior management where it is. Then her former mentor, financial wizard, Dr.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Mrs Armitage sets out on her bike with Breakspear the dog running alongside. With every turn of the wheel she thinks of ways to add to her bicycle. But when she adds the mast and sail she really runs into trouble.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 520) Аннотация: This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled. «Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildness and wryness of his own. One of his trademarks is writing beautifully about the ugly, even the horrible».
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The novel which became a Spielberg film of the same name. An island off Costa Rica is to become the worlds most famous theme park — a dinosaur preserve, for a biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning 15 species of dinosaur. But the scientists dream turns into a nightmare.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: But it's true', Tom shouted. 'It was a real lion, I know it was'. No-one believes Tom when he says he has seen a lion — padding around the orchard with a string of sausages in its mouth! No-one, that is, except for Clare, the cleverest girl in the class. Together, she and Tom plan to prove his story is true — by catching the lion!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy — perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life — Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing — and no one — can keep them apart as they keep…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of glamour, endless parties, and luxury among America's top celebrities — simply because she was the beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in one moment of tragedy, her father was dead, and Bettina discovered the truth — he had spent every dime he'd ever earned and run up millions in debt. At eighteen, penniless and alone,…
Скачать книгу (размер 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 60) Аннотация: Smithsonian Institution Press is pleased to join Motta Fotografia, one of Europe's foremost publishers of photography, in presenting a series showcasing the work of postwar masters. Each book includes more than forty duotone or color images and represents an original approach to a particular theme by one of the century's finest documentary or fine-art photographers. In this collection of…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of «Dr. Seuss» (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: «The Cat in the Hat.» The instant success of the book prompted Geisel and his wife to found Beginner Books,…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die, His heirs, to no one's surprise especially Troy's — are circling like vultures. Nate O'Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard, too fast, for too long. His second marriage in a shambles, he is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eugene Onegin (1833) is a comedy of manners, written in exquisitely crafted verse, about two young members of the Russian gentry, the eponymous hero and the girl Tatyana, who don't quite connect. It is also the greatest masterpiece of Russian literature — the source of the human archetypes and the attitudes that define and govern the towering fictional creations of nineteenth century Russia and…