Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Become Mistress of Yourself Jane Austen always knows just the right thing to say. With this pocket collection of quotes from Jane's novels and letters, you too, will have a quip for every situation.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: The star of the hit show Glee shares her experiences and insider tips on beauty, fashion, inner strength, and more in an illustrated in an illustrated book that's part memoir, part how-to, and part style guide. Lea Michele is one of the hardest working performers in show business. Whether she's starring as Rachel Berry on Glee, rocking a glamorous look on the red carpet, recording her solo album,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: «First published in 1926 and Ernest Hemingway's first major novel, The Sun Also Rises explores the world of the «Lost Generation» — a term coined by his friend Gertrude Stein — through the lives of a group of American expatriates in Europe after World War I. Jake Barnes, wounded in the war, is hopelessly in love with the aristocratic Brett Ashley, a woman who attracts and becomes involved with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Perhaps best known as the James Beard Award-winning chef behind some of New Orleans's most beloved restaurants, including Cochon and Herbsaint, Donald Link also has a knack for sniffing out a backyard barbecue wherever he travels and scoring an invitation to sample some of the best food around. In Down South he combines his talents to unearth true down home Southern cooking so everyone can pull…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: DEBI MAZAR and GABRIELE CORCOS are ambassadors of contemporary Tuscan cooking. In Extra Virgin, food, family, and style come together in a celebration of the pleasures of the rustic Italian table with 120 recipes for simple yet exquisite meals that are accessible, full of fresh flavor, and easy to prepare. Gabriele is a traditional Italian with a big heart, and Debi is an outgoing, brash New York…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote — from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In real life, goshawks resemble sparrow hawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes. But bulkier, bloodier, deadlier, scarier, and much, much harder to see. Birds of deep woodland, not gardens, they're the birdwatchers dark grail. From the age of twelve, when she first saw a trained goshawk, Helen Macdonald had determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: 1939: In a hotel room overlooking Piccadilly Circus, two young men are arrested. Charles is court-martialled for conduct unbecoming; Anselm is deported home to Germany for re-education in a brutal labour camp. Separated by the outbreak of war, and a social order that rejects their love, they must each make a difficult choice, and then live with the consequences. 2012: Edward, a diplomat held…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 297) Аннотация: «In the «USA Today» bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, knows how to untangle even the most knotty of mysteries. But a soggy murder case might have Betsy in over her head... Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: Two deaths, ten years apart, give Flavia de Luce the distraction she needs at a time when her family are more remote and dysfunctional than usual. Especially when a bizarre series of deadly events is casting a long shadow over everyone at Buckshaw. For Flavia, a gruesome crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations surrounding the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job.
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet a drummer boy idolizing Napoleon, an irrepressibly mischievous grandmother who refuses to apologize…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: «Jak and Daxter.» «Uncharted.» «The Last of Us.» One studio has been responsible for the most iconic video game experiences of this generation. Now, Dark Horse Books invites you on a thirty-year retrospective tour, observing Naughty Dog's rise from an ambitious upstart to one of the most influential game studios in the world! This beautifully designed volume collects decades of production art,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: This extraordinary, magical first novel is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From familiar fairy tales and legends — Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves — Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to crate comic books, graphic novels, and other…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present — the Statue of Liberty. The gift was to commemorate the 100th birthday of the United States, and just packing it was no small feat — 350 pieces in 214 crates shipped across the ocean. The story of how the 111-foot-tall lady took her place in the New York Harbor will fascinate young readers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Art of Eating Well is a revolutionary cookbook that will help anyone who wishes to feel better, lose weight or have more energy. London-based sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley teach their principles of life-long healthy eating with exciting and inventive recipes that are so delicious you forget the purpose is good health and nourishment. Jasmine and Melissa's philosophy is simple: a healthy…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the…