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Harris Thomas: Hannibal Rising

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 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 Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki helps…

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the novel that first brought Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour…

Koh Me Ra: Your Baby in Pictures

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Capture the story of your baby's first year! The first twelve months of your child's life are full of precious, fleeting moments, from sleepy newborn yawns to first smiles and wobbly first steps. Why entrust your memories to hastily taken snapshots — or worse yet, none at all? Let professional photographer (and mom) Me Ra Koh help you capture the moments with 40 beautiful photo recipes anyone can…

Akunin Boris: The Death of Achilles

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin's old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev (Achilles to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his…

Nicholls David: One Day

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day — July 15th — of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed,…

Pasternak Boris: Doctor Zhivago

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: It is the story of Zhivago, poet and physician, and his struggle to keep his family alive in the midst of the overwhelming chaos of the Russian Revolution. And, it is about Zhivago's love for the beautiful Lara, the woman he pursues beyond all reason, the human symbol of life's sweetness and joy...

Roth Philip: Nemesis

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his…

McCall Smith Alexander: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at her delicatessen, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant and is suddenly haunted by memories of events…

Mollod Phineas: The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This compendium of manners and mischief offers advice on every situation the enlightened modern man needs to navigate, from drinking and entertaining to wooing and whisker-trimming. Being a modern gent requires a certain savvy with social media, a working knowledge of craft beers and rhum agricole, and a knack for tipping etiquette, pocket squares, and motoring. The second edition of this manly…

Bartiromo Maria: The 10 Laws of Enduring Success

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Success in prosperous times is like the rising tide that lifts all boats: Its almost too easy and effortless. But its a different story when times are tough and the tide goes out. For years Maria Bartiromo has been interviewing an astonishing range of people — Wall Street titans, rock stars, sports heroes, politicians, corporate chiefs, social activists — many of whom have looked ruination in the…

Lodge David: Small World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air...

Moran Caitlin: How to be a Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

Brooks Terry: Bearers of the Black Staff

Скачать книгу (размер 2 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 435) Аннотация: For more than three decades, New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks has ruled the epic fantasy realm with his legendary Shannara series. With each new novel the mythos has deepened, ever more fascinating characters have arisen, and increasingly breathtaking vistas of magical adventure have emerged. Now the evolution of one of imaginative fiction's most beloved worlds continues in the…

Mandel'shtam Nadezhda: Hope Against Hope

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938.

Monk Karyn: The Witch and the Warrior

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The historical tales of Karyn Monk are filled with unforgettable romance and her own special brand of warmth and humor. Now love casts its spell in the Highlands, as a warrior seeks a miracle from a mysterious lady of secrets and magic... The Witch and the Warrior Suspected of witchcraft, Gwendolyn MacSween has been condemned to being burned at the stake at the hands of her own clan. Yet rescue…

Branson Sir Richard: Business Stripped Bare

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how Virgin Mobile USA holds the record as the fastest company in history to generate revenues of over one billion dollars (faster than…

Rachman T.: The Imperfectionists

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: One of most acclaimed books of the year, Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome.

Roth Ph.: The Plot Against America

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.

McCarthy C.: The Road

Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have…

Maugham W. Somerset: Liza of Lambeth

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming and worldy, new to the area, and married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair and Liza's fall from grace is fast and fatal. Written while Maugham was a medical student, and his first…