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Trynka Paul: Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed

Скачать книгу (размер 1 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 371) Аннотация: Fellow rock stars, casual members of the public, lords and media magnates, countless thousands of people will talk of their encounters with this driven, talented, indomitable creature, a man who has plumbed the depths of depravity, yet emerged with an indisputable nobility. Each of them will share an admiration and appreciation of the contradictions and ironies of his incredible life. Even so,…

Sherman D.: Star Wars: Jedi Trial

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With these ominous words, Pors Tonith, ruthless minion of Count Dooku, declares the fate of the Republic sealed. Commanding a Separatist invasion force more than one million strong, the cunning financier-turned-warrior lays siege to the planet Praesitlyn, home of the strategic intergalactic communications center that is key to the Republic’s survival in the Clone Wars. Left unchallenged, this…

Vincenzi Penny: Sheer Abandon

Скачать книгу (размер 3 252 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 639) Аннотация: Abandoned as an infant at Heathrow airport, Kate sets out to find her birth mother — a quest that unexpectedly reunites three women and exposes the secret buried so many years before.

Brookner Anita: Hotel Du Lac

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question Why love? It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises…

Mulisch Harry: The Assault

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A novel that probes moral devastation in the wake of the slaughter of an innocent family by the Nazis in retaliation for the association with a Dutch collaborator. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.

Jr. Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.

Rushdie Salman: East, West: Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In this brilliant collection — his first major work of fiction since The Satanic Verses — one of the great writers in the world today gives us nine stories that together reveal the intricate intimacies and unbridgeable distances between the East and the West. A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star while, in a futuristic Western dystopia, legendary Hollywood icons acquire magic…

Gogol: Dead Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 151 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 423) Аннотация: Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for «dead souls» — deceased serfs who still…

Hill Napoleon: Think and Grow Rich

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success. And you may have whatever you…

Cortazar: Hopscotch

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves «the Club.» A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus…

Kellerman: Rage

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that…

Wiersum Gale: The Animals' Christmas Eve

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: In the barn on Christmas Eve, After all the people leave, The animals, in voices low, Remember Christmas long ago... So begins a sweet rhyming story in which a group of animals recounts the events surrounding Jesus' birth in the manger, and the parts some of their ancestors played in it. This is also a counting book.

Capote Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Скачать книгу (размер 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 178) Аннотация: In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naiveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, «House of Flowers», «A Diamond…

Yergin: Russia 2010

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 2010: Russia disintegrates as its frontier regions rebel or drift into the orbit of neighboring countries. 2010: Russia is invigorated by an economic chudo -- «miracle» -- that turns it into a thriving exemplar of the free market. 2010: Russia becomes a grim military dictatorship, bent on expansion. This brilliant and visionary book, which is based on a confidential report by the international…

Riddell Chris: Beyond the Deepwoods

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, dangerous world beyond the Deepwoods. He meets a collection of odd companions, such as his wise guardian, the Caterbird; the Slaughterers, a peaceful race who butcher animals for their livelihood; and the vicious, bile-swilling…

Morris Mark: Doctor Who: Ghosts of India

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos, torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. With help from India's great spiritual leader, Mohandas 'Mahatma'…

Smith Dale: Doctor Who: The Many Hands

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Nor' Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they'll tell you it's a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn't explain why the workers won't go near the place without an armed guard. That doesn't explain why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about the minister who walked into his church twelve years after he died... It doesn't…

Richards Justin: Doctor Who: Martha in the Mirror

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Castle Extremis — whoever holds it can control the provinces either side that have been at war for centuries. Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass?…

Michalowski Mark: Doctor Who: Shining Darkness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner... A visit to an art gallery turns into a race across space to uncover the secret behind a shadowy organization. From the desert world of Karris to the interplanetary scrapyard of Junk, the Doctor and Donna discover that appearances can be…

Tucker Mike: Doctor Who: Snowglobe 7

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes across the world. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. But they soon discover that it's not only…