Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this stellar collection…Ursula K. Le Guin makes a triumphant return to the magic-drenched world of Earthsea. Featuring the award-winning author’s new Earthsea novella, two original stories and two classic tales, as well as new maps and a special essay on Earthsea’s history, languages, literature and magic, “the publication of this collection is a major event in fantasy literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Few activites seem to promise us as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel to, we seldom ask why we go and how we might become more fulfilled by doing so. With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers —…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee in order to clarify ‘the Final Solution of the Jewish question’. They ate good food, drank cognac and smoked cigars – and in less than two hours had effectively sentenced six…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: »You killed two people», Beth said. «You're likely to spend the rest of your life in prison.» Susan looked up. Her eyes had a faint spark now. «It was worth it», she said. Beth Powell and Susan Wright were best friends — both from troubled families, their only happy times were the summers they spent together as children. Until fate intervened and separated them. It's twenty-nine years later when…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Blood. That’s what Martin Nanther’s great-grandfather Henry was interested in. As Queen Victoria’s favoured physician he became expert in diseases of the blood, particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. But, as Martin discovers whilst researching Henry’s life, he was not just expert – he was obsessed. Yet reading between the lines of Henry’s medical essays and diary, Martin begins to suspect…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Wednesday April 3rd I am twenty-four and one day old. Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing. Grahame Greene died today. I wrote to him four years ago, pointing out a grammatical error in his book, The Human Factor. He didn’t reply. Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can’t help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Our world is changing. Globalization is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning … Explosive and shocking, «Globalization and Its Discontents» is the bestselling exposé of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives – from the man who has seen them at work first hand. As Chief Economist at the World Bank, Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill — caught in an act of betrayal — she's not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: Harry Dresden is not having a good day. A vampire named Ortega is hunting the beleaguered wizard, intending to challenge him to a duel that, Ortega claims, will end the war between the vampires and the wizards. Harry has almost no hope of winning the duel, but soon he is preoccupied by another problem: Father Vincent, a priest, needs Harry's help in finding the Shroud of Turin, stolen by a trio…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In 2065 Louisiana, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of human souls. The Wolves are an elite guerilla force sworn to win back Earth, and Lieutenant David Valentine leads his first command.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy. His extraordinary autobiography was first published in 1964 and was written almost entirely without reference to documentation — simply as an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When Dr. Peter Whitney's top-secret experiment that enhances psychic abilities goes terribly wrong, resulting in a rash of brutal murders, his daughter Lily and Captain Ryland Miller, both of whom possess telekinetic powers, must join forces to stop a twisted madman bent on their destruction.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A shipwrecked survivor — and thief — saves a silver statue from the doomed «Lusitania» ocean liner, setting in motion a chain of events that resound for decades. Fortunes and failures in this fast-paced tour de force depend on a simple twist of fate.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: The #1 «New York Times» bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the mostextraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshirevillage and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, electedto quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Georgina fell in love with Hugh Carter the moment she saw him. She's never loved another man. She was eighteen. She's now thirty-two and Hugh has finally moved in with her. Faces tend to fall when she mentions that when they first met he was seeing a friend of hers, whom he subsequently married and had two children with. But hey. Life's not a fairy tale. All is well until George finds that one…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger in the faint pulse of a generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain, Xanax, and pierced tongues. A memoir of her bouts with depression and skirmishes with drugs, Prozac Nation is a witty and sharp account of the psychopharmacology of an era.