Приезд Нэнси и ее подруги Хелен к их общим друзьям в «Сиреневую гостиницу» не предвещал ничего плохого, скорее наоборот: их друзья, хозяева гостиницы, помолвлены и готовятся к свадьбе. Совсем скоро они собираются заново открыть отель после обновления. Но странное напряжение и тревога в лицах друзей и работников гостиницы наводят Нэнси на мысль, что не все так хорошо, как кажется на первый...

Приезд Нэнси и ее подруги Хелен к их общим друзьям в «Сиреневую гостиницу» не предвещал ничего плохого, скорее наоборот: их друзья, хозяева гостиницы, помолвлены и готовятся к свадьбе. Совсем скоро они собираются заново открыть отель после обновления. Но странное напряжение и тревога в лицах друзей и работников гостиницы наводят Нэнси на мысль, что не все так хорошо, как кажется на первый...

Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.This is another thrilling, triumphantly imaginative series from Garth Nix, the best-selling author of The Seventh Tower, Sabriel, Lirael, Frogkisser!, and the Troubletwisters series.

Третья книга сверхпопулярной саги "Сумерки"!Сиэтл потрясен серией загадочных убийств: это продолжает творить свою месть загадочная и кровожадная вампирша. И вновь Белле угрожает опасность...Между тем приближается выпускной бал — одно из прекраснейших собы

dubious, ready-made people hunt for the canvas of the unknown Alexander Berg? How is the image of an unremarkable house connected with the fate of the disappeared father, a lover of riddles, ciphers and hidden meanings? The 19-year-old hero, a journalism student, became interested in the picture only in order to write an educational report, and as a result, he was drawn into a detective story....

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance...

Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This isprimarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around.

12-year-old Billy fears the dark more than anything else. One evening, he leaves the house and finds himself in the dark Kingdom of Night. The Kingdom of Night is a whole world ruled by a Magician with his retinue of witches, sorcerers and Shadow People. A completely new world, memorable characters and cool locations! Billy is the most ordinary boy, the same as you. If he managed to overcome...

In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau...

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing,...

Ten-year-old Rupert Brown inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas with the wealthiest family in town and is astonished to discover a world he never knew existed. Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity...