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Catherynne Valente: Palimpsest

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger's kiss... Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of…

Abraham Verghese: Cutting for Stone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them.

Jacqueline Wilson: Glubbslyme

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'Glubbslyme. You're magic'! When Rebecca wades into the witch's pond after a row with her best friend Sarah, she meets a very unusual new friend — a huge, warty toad! And Glubbslyme is no ordinary toad. Hundreds of years old, he can talk and — best of all — he can work magic. Maybe, just maybe, he can help Rebecca be best friends with Sarah again?

Irvine Welsh: Crime

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall…

William Shakespeare: Sonnets

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER. Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned. They demonstrate the writer's skill in capturing the full range of human emotions within a carefully prescribed form and creating something unique in every one. Some are familiar — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? —…

Diana Gabaldon: Lord John and the Hand of Devils

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey's shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan's library, Lord John and the Hand of the Devils brings these three unique novellas together for the first time. Lord John and the Hellfire Club marks the first appearance of Lord John outside the Outlander novels (and chronologically precedes the novel Lord John and the Private Matter). A…

Robert Harris: Enigma

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: March 1943. The war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.

Larsson Steig: The Girl Who Played with Fire

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Crusading publisher Mikael Blomkvist has decided to run an explosive expose of a wide-ranging sex trafficking operation. Just before the piece is published, the two reporters responsible are murdered. The fingerprints on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled hacker genius Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile,…

David Liss: The Whiskey Rebels

Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting-America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a…

Timothy Snyder: The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule and…

Malorie Blackman: Double Cross

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Just this once... Please let me get away with it just this once... Tobey wants a better life — for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything... 'Packs a punch' —…

W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First…

Thomas Harris: Red Dragon

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic — the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself... The Red Dragon. Special agent Will Graham has been assigned to similar…

Henning Mankell: The Dogs of Riga

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team receive an anonymous tip-off. A few days later a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon takes on a far more sinister aspect. Wallander travels across the…

James Luceno: Millennium Falcon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: Climb aboard, buckle up, and prepare to jump to hyperspace for a dazzling adventure aboard the ship that launched a thousand fates. Two years have passed since the death of the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus-once known as Jacen Solo. The galaxy is slowly healing from civil war, while Jacen's family and friends are left to mourn his loss alone. For Han and Leia, still grieving for their son, the…

Alan Bradley: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950 — and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is…

Brown Dan: The Lost Symbol: А novel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 589 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 509) Аннотация: In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling-a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths... all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers,…

Kirn Walter: Up in the Air

Скачать книгу (размер 1 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 362) Аннотация: Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor-he fires people-has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls «Airworld» finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job…

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets and Other Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions-desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. Produced under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen,…

Miller Karen: The Clone Wars: Wild Space

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: The Clone Wars have exploded across the galaxy as Republic forces and Separatists struggle to gain the upper hand. But while the Jedi generals work tirelessly to defeat Count Dooku and his rebels, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is hatching his own dark victory plans. The Separatists have launched a sneak attack on Coruscant. Obi-Wan Kenobi, wounded in battle, insists that Anakin Skywalker and his…