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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the far future, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it's a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back. And the Doctor wants to help — until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: From the master storyteller, Aidan Chambers, comes this new thought-provoking novel for teenagers. Karl, aged seventeen, is hopelessly in love. But the object of his affections, Firella, demands proof, and poses him a series of questions regarding his attitude to the many sides of love. But Karl is dyslexic, and convinced that if Firella finds out, she will think he is stupid, and unworthy of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Gunt, in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 273 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 447) Аннотация: The suspense never rests when A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the good fight once again. Often named an all-time favorite by John Grisham's legions of fans, the book that started it all gets a brand-new chapter. America's favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Divided into three parts, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway's last work, originally published posthumously in 1970, nine years after his death. Thomas Hudson is an artist and adventurer. In the 1930s, Hudson is living in the Bimini Islands in the Gulf Stream. Separated from his sons for most of the year by their controlling mother, Hudson lives a life carved out by the rolling waves of the sea…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Presenting a new edition of the title collecting the adventures of the Victorian era Batman. This volume includes the breakthrough Elseworlds epics GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT and MASTER OF THE FUTURE, which pit the Dark Knight against Jack the Ripper and a death-dealer from the skies over Gotham.

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: This touch-and-feel book invites babies and toddlers to pet and play with the most imaginative pets of all-time! Based on the classic Beginner Book «One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, « this book of pettable pets features fur, feathers, flaps, slide tabs, and even cardboard rings to toss! From Zeds with just one hair on their heads to a Yink that likes to drink pink ink, this interactive…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuality and examines the fear and insecurity that arise when our singularity comes under threat, when…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Two titans of science fiction join forces in this mind-boggling tale of time turned inside out on planet Earth, and the opposing forces racing to unlock an alien secret. Wonderfully entertaining.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it? It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 536) Аннотация: This is a compelling and deeply moving novel of friendship, family and the power of love, from the Sunday Times top ten bestseller. How would you cope with the threat of losing someone you love? Josie Clarke is a loving wife and mother. She and her husband Jeff don't have much and it's often difficult to make ends meet. But Josie will do anything to protect her family and keep them safe. Bel…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernest Hemingway failed a vision test to become a soldier, and instead volunteered for ambulance service on the Italian front, where he was wounded and twice decorated. Recuperating in Milan, he fell in love with an American nurse, and his experiences became the basis for this novel, which Vita Sackville-West called a most beautiful, moving and human book. Writing in a terse,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 492 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 490) Аннотация: High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...

Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in The Bear Came Over the Mountain — the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheatre, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace — in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather — is Paradise. Ted and his father and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This is a brand new very funny Christmas novel, from the bestselling author of No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday and Single Woman Seeks Revenge. There comes a time in every woman's life when the only answer is to marry George Clooney. For Michelle, that time is now. Slogging her guts out in a chicken factory whilst single-handedly bringing up a teenager who hates her is far from the life that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Somebody! I half-sob and then, more quietly, Please. The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I'm not going anywhere... Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural…