Все книги издательства «Little, Brown and Company»

Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: D.M. Thomas Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 1999	DjVu, 594 страницы, 23.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
As D. M. Thomas states in his masterly biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 'He helped to bring down the greatest tyranny the world has seen, besides educating the West as to its full horror. No other writer in our century has had such an influence on our history.' The author of The First Circle, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago can truly be said to have altered Russia and thus the pattern of our times. This is as much a disturbing, haunting history of the twentieth century as it is a biography of a great novelist. Given the extraordinary language of Thomas and his novelistic gifts which he uses to render his story, this work will come to be regarded as one of the great biographies of recent decades. Particularly impressive is the vast cooperation of Solzhenitsyn's first wife, Natalya, who has provided an astonishing portrait of her ex-husband's life in Russia before his departure in 1974 from the then Soviet Union. The photographs which will be used for the book come from her own collection as well.
2142 crashbush 13 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Algebraist	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Iain M. Banks Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ 0 Оценка:
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young and fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he’s barely heard of — part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony — Fassin Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer — a war that threatens to overwhelm everything and everyone he’s ever known. As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, the new science fiction novel from Iain M. Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
1968 garun-al-rashid 21 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

Alias Grace	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Margaret Atwood Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2001	PDF, 545 страниц, 16.35 МБ 0 Оценка:
'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
1967 samal56 21 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Alienist	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Caleb Carr Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 1995	PDF, 3.36 МБ 8 Оценка:
Some things never change. New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes. Unfortunately for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, the psychological profiling of murderers is a practice still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the prejudices of those who prefer the mentally ill — and the 'alienists' who treat them — to be out of sight as well as out of mind. But as the body count rises, Roosevelt swallows his doubts and turns to the eminent alienist Dr Laszlo Kreizler to put a stop to the bloody murders — giving Kreizler a chance to take him further into the dark heart of criminality, and one step closer to death.
0 admin 7 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

The Angel of Darkness	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Caleb Carr Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2002	DOC, 640 страниц, 1.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
A year after the events narrated in the bestselling THE ALIENIST, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted but no ransom note is received and the detectives Isaacson quickly discover that a nurse, Elspeth Hunter, is probably the kidnapper. They also discover that Hunter has been a little too closely connected with the death of three other infants. But what are her motives? She married a fortune, and although she is connected to some fairly rough villains this crime does not fit their modus operandi. Is it something as 'simple' as psychological disturbance due to her own inability to bear children, or something more sinister unguessed at?
2312 admin 08 марта 2009	Скачать книгу

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Christopher Brookmyre Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2006	DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ 5 Оценка:
Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his responsibilities by living a virtual existence in online games. People say he needs to grow up, but everybody has to find their own way of coping. For some it's affairs, for others it's the bottle, and for Simon it's serial murder, mass slaughter and professional assassination.
1853 nniikk 16 декабря 2008	Скачать книгу

Blue Shoes and Happiness	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Alexander McCall Smith Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2007	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds herself looking into several troublesome matters at once. There is, to begin with, a disturbing case of blackmail and theft from the Government catering college. Then, while on an errand for her husband to the Mokolodi Game Reserve Mma Ramotswe is seconded to investigate an unpleasant atmosphere that may be down to witchcraft, or something worse. There are sinister goings-on at a health clinic to be looked into, not to mention any number of small wrongs to be righted along the path to detective triumph. And all the time Mma Ramotswe has weighty questions of a philosophical nature to consider, such as whether it is right to find happiness in small things, such as a new pair of blue shoes, a slice of cake, or a red sunset over the Kalahari.
927 lawyer_78rus 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Dream of Scipio	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Iain Pears Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2003	PDF, 3.36 МБ 8 Оценка:
«The Dream of Scipio», Iain Pears' first mainstream novel since «An Instance of the Fingerpost», is a work of astonishing ambition that appeals equally to the head and heart. It is set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation — the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth — and follows the fortunes of three men. The story of each man is woven through the narrative, linked by the classical text that gives the book its title, and by each man's love for an extraordinary woman. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text — «The Dream of Scipio» — a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. Expertly imagined and perfectly realised, «The Dream of Scipio» is a bonafide novel of ideas, a dazzling feat of storytelling, a fiction for our times. Dense, dark, erudite and yet utterly compelling.»
0 admin 7 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

A Good Year (film tie-in)	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Peter Mayle Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2007	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will — an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France. What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle's, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde Californian arrives unexpectedly at the chateau. Peter Mayle's delightful novel will enchant the audiences who bought A Year In Provence and Toujours Provence in their millions.
927 lawyer_78rus 25 июня 2009	Скачать книгу

The Horse Whisperer	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Nicholas Evans Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2006	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating. Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way that none of them at first understands, their destiny comes to depend on Pilgrim's. So mutilated and traumatised is he that even the vet who saved him wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him put down, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die too. Then Annie hears about a man called Tom Booker, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job, Annie sets off across the continent with Grace and Pilgrim to find him. Under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed for ever.
1621 vtormai 19 февраля 2008	Скачать книгу

The House on the Strand	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2003	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before...
1272 anarho 23 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

Ice Road	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Gillian Slovo Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2005	PDF, 560 страниц, 16.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to turn against their city. When the life of his beloved daughter Natasha is threatened and his old friend Anton saves a skinny little orphan he finds on a Moscow train, Boris' faith in his ideals are put to the test. While Irina, watching it all, must learn the power of loyalty and love.
2026 admin 23 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

The Killing Dance	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Laurell K. Hamilton Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2000	PDF, 387 страниц, 11.61 МБ 0 Оценка:
The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Eventually, I found out that the word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what's a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it's not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise. But I'm beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one...
1396 mguzenkov 15 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Lipstick Jungle	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Candace Bushnell Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2009	DjVu, 448 страниц, 17.92 МБ 7 Оценка:
To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block, Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production and Nico is the editor of Bonfire magazine. The trouble is, from where Victory, Nico and Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed and Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible, and as she follows them through the minefield of work, love and life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet.
1624 vtormai 21 октрября 2012	Скачать книгу

Look to Windward	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Iain M. Banks Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2001	PDF, 403 страницы, 12.09 МБ 5 Оценка:
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
1455 svs-sp 17 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

My Cousin Rachel	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Daphne du Maurier Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2003	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn... Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries — and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the new widow — Philip's cousin Rachel — turns up in England. Despite himself, Philip is drawn to this beautiful, sophisticated, mysterious woman like a moth to the flame. And yet...might she have had a hand in Ambrose's death?
1098 stalker1965 16 апреля 2009	Скачать книгу

Neat Vodka	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Anna Blundy Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2008	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Faith Zanetti is addicted to danger. But hooked as she might be on alcohol, cigarettes and living life in the fast lane, she’s also clever enough to know that at some point something’s got to give. She’s the Moscow correspondent of the moment — chosen for the job because, as a teenager, she married a Russian. Through the vodka haze it’s a struggle to remember everything about those days, but Faith knows that a lot of it was bad. Now, fifteen years later, those days are back to get her. And when she is arrested for murder, Faith knows she’s going to have to get the present in order. And the past too.
1101 stalker1965 16 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

No Way to Treat a First Lady	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Christopher Buckley Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2003	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor is not surprised — he's the only attorney up to the job and he knows it. It's all going swimmingly — he's got it nailed, until his client decides she wants to take the stand and restore her reputation and he has no choice but to acquiesce. Throw in several egos the size of the White House, media-spin like there's no tomorrow, the old boy network, some very underhand business involving the FBI, a pregnancy, a few sex toys and a dose of Viagra and you're some way into this delicious farce — which becomes all the more delicious when you realise how small a leap of the imagination is required to get there.
1156 admin 18 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Ellis Peters Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 1994	PDF, 254 страницы, 7.62 МБ 0 Оценка:
«Set in 12th century Shrewsbury, this story features the further adventures of Brother Cadfael, as he investigates another mystery. Other titles featuring this character include «The Summer of the Danes», «Monk's Hood» and «The Sanctuary Sparrow».»
913 junkie 12 сентября 2009	Скачать книгу

Panic	Little, Brown and Company
Автор: Jeff Abbott Издательство: Little, Brown and Company, 2006	DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ 0 Оценка:
Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher — until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire existence an ingeniously constructed sham. And now that he knows it, he is in terrible danger. So he is catapulted into a violent world of mercenaries, spies and terrorists. Pursued by a ruthless band of killers who will stop at nothing to keep old secrets buried, Evan’s only hope for survival is to discover the truth behind his past. An absolute page-turner, Panic has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting thrillers of recent years.
1505 delovar 03 августа 2008	Скачать книгу

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