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Alexander McCall Smith: The Lost Art of Gratitude

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: Isabels son, Charlie, is now of an ageeighteen monthsto have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabels surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence…

Dean Koontz: Breathless

Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless. In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him. He takes his friend…

Alan Bradley: The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mistery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over — and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who'd do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in…

Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 334) Аннотация: New York, Summer, Very near future, Economic collapse, tanks in the streets, riots in Central Park, defeat in Venezuela, books are quaint artefacts, what's left of the indebted United States is about to be parcelled out to the rising nations of Finance-London and China-Worldwide, and what's left of interpersonal relations can be summarized by a couple of flashing statistics on attractiveness and…

John Irving: Last Night in Twisted River

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian…

Anne Tyler: Noah's Compass

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises — a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, «Noah's Compass» chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic «The Accidental Tourist» (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam…

Alan Bradley: Mord im Gurkenbeet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dieser außergewöhnliche All-Age-Krimi hat die Herzen von Lesern, Buchhändlern und Kritikern aus aller Welt im Sturm erobert! Die junge Flavia de Luce staunt nicht schlecht, als sie im ersten Morgenlicht das Opfer eines Giftmordes in ihrem Gurkenbeet entdeckt! Da jeder ihren Vater, den sanftmütigen Colonel de Luce, für den Mörder zu halten scheint, nimmt die naseweise…

Virginia Ironside: Nein! Ich will keinen Seniorenteller

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ein bezauberndes, witziges Lesevergnügen für alle, die sich so alt fühlen, wie sie sind. Herbst des Lebens? Generation Silber? Unsinn! Marie Sharp wird demnächst sechzig und damit schlicht alt. Ein Grund zum Feiern, wie sie findet. Schon wegen all der Dinge, die sie jetzt nicht mehr tun muss, wie etwa Volkshochschulkurse besuchen. Nichts hasst Marie so sehr wie umtriebige…

Christoph Schlingensief: So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wie weiterleben, wenn man von einem Moment auf den anderen aus der Lebensbahn geworfen wird, wenn der Tod plötzlich nahe rückt? Christoph Schlingensiefs bewegendes Protokoll einer Selbstbefragung ist ein Geschenk an uns alle, an Kranke wie Gesunde, denen allzu oft die Worte fehlen, wenn Krankheit und Tod in das Leben einbrechen. Eine Kur der Worte gegen das Verstummen — und nicht…

Aleksandr Orlov: A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase — Simples! — can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to…

Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the…

Elena Gorokhova: A Mountain of Crumbs: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language — but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena's home is no longer the…

Ben Mezrich: The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg — an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius — were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial…

Evie Parker: 100% The Vampire Diaries: The Unofficial Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Get your teeth into The Vampire Diaries — the phenomenal television show which has a fanghold on TVs around the world. Based on the hit book series by L.J. Smith, the show sees two smouldering vampire brothers, Paul Wesley (Everwood) and Ian Somerhalder (Lost), at war with each other over the soul of high school girl Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Generation). Quench your thirst for blood with…

W. Somerset Maugham: Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection. In acclaimed stories such as Rain, The Letter, The Vessel of Wrath and The Alien Corn, Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama and an acute sense of time and place.

Asa Larsson: Bis dein Zorn sich legt

Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: Rebecka Martinsson, Staatanwältin im nordschwedischen Kiruna, wird in einen besonders grausamen Mordfall hineingezogen: Beim winterlichen Tauchen in einem See stirbt ein junges Pärchen, weil ein Fremder eine Holztür über das Loch schiebt, das sie ins Eis gehackt hatten, um nach einem versunkenen Wrack aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu tauchen. Wofür wurden die beiden mit dem…

Michael Cunningham: Chasing Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: I'm in constant search of chasing beauty, chasing hope — I'm not interested in the dark. The celebrated photographer Richard Phibbs, known for his celebrity portraits and iconic ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and more, has an unwavering eye for beauty. Many theorists argue that beauty is subjective, a product of individual preference, but the images from Phibbs' archive of work…

Scott Ligon: Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Demonstrates the potential of digital art, from a 'fine art' perspective. This title presents an overview of the fundamentals of visual language, and shows how to apply those principals to digital art. It also includes a step-by-step summary of the basics of the Photoshop environment.

Andrey Platonov: The Foundation Pit

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A translation by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson of Platonov's dystopian novel. It describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future.

Ann Brashares: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Скачать книгу (размер 2 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 421) Аннотация: Some friends just fit together. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. Join Ann Brashares's beloved sisterhood once again in a dazzling, fearless novel about a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee, and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.