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Terry Pratchett: Small Gods

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was «Hey, you!» For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One, and all he wants is peace, justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...»

Esquivel Laura: Like Water for Chocolate

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit — and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has…

Terry Pratchett: Witches Abroad

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The twelfth Discworld novel — It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At…

Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: Death is missing — presumed... er... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in.

Danielle Steel: No Greater Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: April, 1912. Edwina Winfield is returning to New York from her engagement trip to England with her fiancé, Charles, her parents and her five siblings. Deeply in love, she and Charles are looking forward to beginning their new life together. They are travelling on the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built: the SMS Titanic. But in one fatal night, Edwina’s life is changed for ever.…

Jackson Michael: Dancing The Dream

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Presents personal view of Michael Jackson of the world around us, and the universe within each of us. Containing Jackson`s personal writings and over one hundred glorious photographs, drawings, and paintings from his own collection, this book is suitable for his fans.

Terry Pratchett: Good Omens

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, where he grows into an unkempt individual.

Terry Pratchett: Moving Pictures

Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: «The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend («Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little.») and Theda Withel («I come from a little town you've probably never heard of») to find out...»Moving Pictures», the ninth «Discworld» novel is a gloriously funny saga set against the…

Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «A Brief History of Time», published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro and…

Terry Pratchett: Sourcery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 269) Аннотация: «There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son...a wizard squared...a source of magic... a Sourcerer. «Sourcery» sees the return of Rincewind and the luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest — and funniest — challenge yet.»

Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters

Скачать книгу (размер 1 274 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 251) Аннотация: «The sixth «Discworld» novel. The witches of Discworld, not the most joyful bunch, decide that they must get involved in the politics of the planet. Granny Weatherwax, their obvious choice as spokesperson, finds that life in royal politics is not as simple as it seems.»

Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: «The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the new-born baby's sex...This is a third hilarious adventure by the author of «The Colour of Magic» and «The Light…

Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...

Terry Pratchett: The Colour Of Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 202 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 237) Аннотация: On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet...

Eric Berne: What Do You Say After You Say Hello?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 475) Аннотация: What Do You Say After You Say Hello? Explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script — a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person…

Lehane Dennis: Gone, Baby, Gone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone — vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child disappears. Confronted with a…

Hawkins Paula: The Girl on the Train

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Gripping, enthralling — a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' s j watson, bestselling author of before i go to sleep rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'jess and jason', she calls them. Their life — as…

Pratchett Terry: The Dark Side of the Sun

Скачать книгу (размер 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 158) Аннотация: As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?

Stachniak E.: The Winter Palace

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent — and listen. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for the Empress's heir. Set to spy on her, Vavara soon becomes her…