Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: The second installment of a Clone Wars-period duology featuring embattled medics struggling to save lives is set between the events of the films «Episode II: Attack of the Clones» and the upcoming «Episode III».
Скачать книгу (размер 2 681 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 527) Аннотация: The Yuuzhan Vong are poised to conquer the galaxy and Luke, Mara, and Jacen are missing in unknown space in this climactic finale of the 19-book New Jedi Order series.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Now in paperback — a thrilling, classic, stand-alone novel by the bestselling «Star Wars» author of all time. Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker come face to face with a shocking past on a mission to salvage a piece of Jedi history.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: On a crucial mission, Han and Leia Solo face fortune-hunting marauders, Imperial enemies, and dark secrets about Leia's father on Tatooine.
Скачать книгу (размер 7 256 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1424) Аннотация: The monumental novel considered one of the greatest ever written is an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in Japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas. At the age of six masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve, she was indentured to a geisha house. In «Autobiography of A Geisha», Masuda chronicles a harsh world in which young women faced the realities…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: With his first book, John King has written a cult classic for our times: telling, for once, the truth about soccer violence. Forget the armchair nostalgia of «Fever Pitch» of the transatlantic reportage of «Among the Thugs» — this is a book that gets inside. A collection of linked stories, «The Football Factory» centres on Vince Matthews, a seasoned Chelsea hooligan who represents a disaffected…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 445) Аннотация: Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is — a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love; business; religion; celebrity, you name it, every category is covered. The collection includes all…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a tidy sum to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead — a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favourite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone looking to grab a piece of the action — including the Cuban government, which naturally honours the interests of its old ally, the USA. Of course, where there's paradise, trouble…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Once again, the setting d Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommondant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Vekramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While that great Anglophile, Kommondant van Heerden, gropes his way towards attaining true 'Englishness' in the company of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Mad Madge designed her own clothes and her coach was black with silver decoration. As John Evelyn wrote, gentlemen visitors were 'much pleased by the extraordinary fanciful habit, garb and discourse of the Duchess'. Born into an East Anglian royalist family in 1623, young Margaret Lucas went into Court service, accompanying the Queen, Henrietta Maria, to Oxford during the Civil War and sharing…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games...John Fowles expertly unfolds a tale that is lush with over-powering imagery in a spellbinding exploration of the complexities of the human mind. By turns disturbing, thrilling and seductive, The Magus…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Michael Young is convinced his brilliant history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend Jane. A historian should know better than to imagine that he can predict the future. Leo Zuckerman is an ageing physicist obsessed with the darkest period in human history, utterly driven by his fanatical hatred of one man. A lover's…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: This is a guide for all tastes and budgets with a choice of sites not to be missed. Fold-out maps give the reader instant orientation and help visitors to make the best of their stay. The guide also contains details of restaurants, bars, pubs, theatres, music venues, shops, markets, hotels...and all the practical advice needed. This is a map and a guide, all in one.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The last train of the night pulls into the gas-lit platform of Baker Street underground station. A young woman is found strangled, her body abandoned in a second-class carriage. The brutal 'Railway Murder' brings Inspector Decimus Webb to the newly-formed Metropolitan Line on bleak winter's night. His investigation leads him through the slums of Victorian London to the Holborn Refuge, a home for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This work tells the story of man's fascination with butterflies, as symbols, as objects of beauty, and of obsession — in the tradition of Susan Orlean's «The Orchid Thief». From Hindu mythology to Aztec sacrifices, butterflies have served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation. Even during World War II, children in a Polish death camp scratched hundreds of butterflies onto the wall of…