Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved with his story, as he struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through Lev's eyes, and we share his dilemmas: the intimacy of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Following the publication of Anna Gavalda's international bestseller, «Hunting and Gathering», this book introduces us to Anna Gavalda's witty and dazzling collection of stories, «I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere», together with her heartbreaking and poignant novella, «Someone I Loved» — both published in the UK for the first time. «I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere»…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Captain Biggar, big-game hunter and all round tough guy, should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem. In fact they’re not bookies at all, but the impoverished Bill Belfry, Ninth Earl of Rowcester and his temporary butler, Jeeves. Bertie Wooster…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows it will be a difficult job to identify the corpse. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Leni Riefenstahl, the woman known as «Hitler's filmmaker», made some of the greatest and most innovative documentaries ever made. They are also insidious glorifications of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Now, Steven Bach reveals the truths and lies behind Riefenstahl's lifelong self-vindication as an apolitical artist who claimed to know nothing of the Holocaust and denied her complicity with…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess”, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker could possibly give us the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they’ve been acquainted through…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The time is the 1930s. Indiana Jones had always managed to get into enough trouble on his own. But this time, he finds himself in the deadliest situation imaginable — he must rescue his father, eminent professor Dr. Henry Jones, from the Nazis' clutches to keep them from discovering secret information only Dr. Jones possesses. The perilous race is on — to recover the most extraordinary ancient…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II. With…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers. What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. The incredible landmark portrait of Warren Buffett's uniquely American life is now available in paperback, revised and updated by the author. Starting from scratch, simply by…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 413) Аннотация: Danielle Steel takes us beyond the dazzle of Hollywood in her compelling new novel — the story of one woman’s journey from suburban mom to award-winning screenwriter...and all the joy, heartbreak, and challenges along the way. In Bungalow 2, Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see — a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth-century: The city’s chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrate’s daughter, Amalia, an illicit love affair begins. Miereveld creates a captivating masterpiece, The Chrysalis – a stunning portrait of the Virgin Mary, full of Catholic symbols, that outrages his Protestant patron…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: »The Communist's Daughter» is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Too short to be a model, too unartistically inclined to be a designer, Valerie Wagner has finally found her niche in the fashion world she loves as the publicist for Glass Slipper, Inc., and the mastermind behind the launch of their brand-new glossy magazine. She's signed up the perfect cover model — Prince Charming, an advice columnist who's won the hearts of millions of women with his acerbic…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured — and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to fight... In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame – their aim: to take America down with them.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock and, of course, was…