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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The humorous story of a former priest and lecturer in theology who pays a final visit to his dying aunt in Hawaii.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: When Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, finds a magnificent pearl – ‘the Pearl of the World’ – he believes that all his dreams can come true. He will marry his wife in the church, wearing fine new clothes; their infant son will never want for anything – least of all the medicine so recently denied to him – and the boy might one day go to school, learn to read and write. But Kino’s vision of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After two years of being deafened by the TICKTOCK of her biological clock and tormented by Mother Nature's refusal to grant her a baby, Emma Hamilton decides to go for the instant solution: finding a Russian baby in need of a home. But Emma hasn't reckoned on the route to adoption being so complicated. Between proving that she's fit to be a mother (by inventing an unblemished past and discovering…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Connie has been happily married for a year. She's just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He's a walking stag weekend. He's a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He's about to destroy Connie's peace of mind, her grand plan for living happily ever after with her gentle, loving husband Luke. It's against the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend – sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome … Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury’s Magazine, covering everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer’s block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who’d never heard of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Roald Dahl Treasury is a wonderful collection by and about Roald Dahl, the great storytelling genius. Four themed sections — Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and Matters of Importance — introduce some of Dahl's best-loved characters, from Willy Wonka to the BFG, from the Witches to the Twits, from James to Matilda. In each you will find complete stories, poems, memoirs and letters,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Until everything goes pearshaped and she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters — Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? But on the bright side, she's heard that rehab places are wall-to-wall jucuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going tepid turkey. Besides, it's about time she had a little holiday. Rachel isn't expecting…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Newly named head of Rainbow, an élite multinational task force, John Clark faces the world's greatest fear — international terrorism. And following each terrifying new outbreak — the ghosts from his own dark past. The challenge of a new mission is just what Clark needs, but the opportunities come faster than he expected. Hostage-taking at a Swiss bank. The kidnapping of an international…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: ‘As long as I’m still breathing then I’ll still hope’ Mary Broad is just eighteen when, one spring day in 1786, she makes a foolish mistake and steals a hat from a passerby. For this crime she is sentenced to death. But then she is given a reprieve: she is to be one of several hundred convicts who will sail to a new colony on the other side of the world – Australia. For a Cornish girl who has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of over twenty years, was having an affair, and that he was planning to leave her. But the greatest shock was yet to come; for his mistress was Rose's colleague and friend, Minty. So Rose was left alone in their once-happy family home, where she and Nathan had brought up their children. Then she started thinking — about the man she'd…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'I have come to believe that there can be no adequate preparation for the sadness that comes at the end, the sheer regret that one's life is finished, that one's failures remain indelible and one's successes illusory.' Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Tragic and hilarious in equal measure, Tim Lott’s story of Charlie and Maureen Buck’s ailing marriage and their climb up (and down) the social ladder during the 1980s is a wonderfully honest portrait of ordinary people living through an extraordinary time. Steeped in the decade’s cataclysmic events, packed with the crimes and misdemeanours we visit on each another, Rumours of a Hurricane is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Science: A History is the enthralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the turbulent times they lived in: from Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his ideas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie, forced to work apart from male students for fear that she might excite them, to Louis Agassiz, who marched his colleagues up a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: »You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're dead wrong . . . Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening — then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 226) Аннотация: Stuff is the nickname of our hero, Simon (because he knows a lot of weird stuff). Stuff's parents have split up, and his dad has brought back a new step-mum (the Sherry Trifle), a step-sister (the awful Natasha) and a radical feminist rabbit called Pankhurst (she only attacks men — spooky). In Stuff's own words, here is how he tries (and fails) to run away from home. How he tries to get off with…

Скачать книгу (размер 825 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 163) Аннотация: Penguin Books Ltd.. «The True Confessions of Adrian Mole» is the third in the series to be part of Penguin's Sue Townsend repackaging programme. A chance to sell Sue Townsend to a whole new audience! Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit «Pinky», working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. Can she find a true equality with Mellors,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon viviant and fornicator of all time. In this installment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the crème de la crème of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome. Introduced into a world of adult games and intrigues, the Brodie Set were honoured, privileged — in…