Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferrami delves into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Anne Frank's «The Diary of a Young Girl» is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Every Jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark. Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Stephen Lewis, an author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, he spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A stunning epic that has stirred the imagination of millions of readers, «The Clan of the cave Bear» tells the story of the orphaned Ayla and her struggle to fit in and survive after her own tribe is killed by an earthquake.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Abraham Van Helsing refuses to rest until he has killed Dracula himself, but now he risks his very soul as he confronts an even more evil force, the Lord of the Vampires.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The Word Menu is a revolutionary tool that will change the way we use words — an entirely new kind of reference for the '90s. It functions in four ways: It is a thesaurus with definitions; a dictionary divided into word categories; a reverse dictionary; and a collection of glossaries. Contains 75,000 entries in 800 categories.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Enter Gibson's unique world — lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting — where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: »Like «Interview with the Vampire», «Memnoch» has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity... Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife». Rolling Stone. «Sensual... Bold, Fast-Paced». USA Today. «Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series... Fans will no doubt…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: A riveting new thriller from the award-winning author of Ghost Story. Nora, a bored housewife, married to a weakling of a husband, is kidnapped at gunpoint by Dick Dart, a man who is suspected of committing four recent murders. Now Nora can stay alive only by feeding Dart's ego and outwitting him without seeming to do so.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Barely escaping with his life after his first mission, young Fitz returns to the chaotic royal court. With King Shrewd near death and Fitz's only ally off on a futile quest, the throne is ripe for the taking. And as the Red Ship Raiders brutalize the Six Duchies, the kingdom's fortunes-and Fitz's own fate — hang in the balance.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force — a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann — a Boy and His Two Dogs... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains — and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage-until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news. Sam Parker is a star venture…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The story of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and threatened by a lynch mob in America's Deep South. A characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of a young white boy who repays on old favour by proving the farmer's innocence.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »A great deal of fun to read... Fresh, consantly entertaining... John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation.» THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the…