Название: Японские сказания. Легенды и мифы. Сказки и истории
Автор: Коллектив авторов
Издательство: СПб.: СЗКЭО
Год: 2020
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 256
Размер: 20 mb
Язык: Русский

Сборник включает шестнадцать японских сказок, которые позволяют читателю погрузиться в удивительный фантастический мир, который отражает старую жизнь страны. В этих историях фигурирует множество странных и фантастических существ, вместе с тем эти сказки учат добру и любви, умению сопереживать.
Иллюстрациями ко всем сказкам сборника служат японские гравюры укиё-э, над которыми трудились несколько мастеров прошлых веков, работавших в этом жанре.

Название: Lady Justice Series
Автор: Robert Thornhill
Издательство: Createspace
Год: 2012-2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How old is too old to dream? Walt Williams always dreamed of being a hero. When retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, Walt decides it's the perfect time to achieve his dream and give Lady Justice a helping hand. So, he decides to become a cop! Follow Walt as he leaves the real estate world and retirement to solve crime and bring perps to justice. It's a bumpy but often hilarious ride. Walt and Ox, his partner in the Kansas City Police Department, find very unorthodox ways of bringing criminals to justice. After all, Walt has to rely on his ability to outsmart the bad guys. And --- they have plenty of help from others in the Senior Set.

Название: Bakeshop Mystery Series
Автор: Ellie Alexander
Издательство: St. Martin's
Год: 2014-2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it's criminal... After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder...

Название: Sigma Force Series
Автор: James Rollins
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 2009-2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 40 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The explosive first adventure in James Rollins' bestselling Sigma Force series! A freak explosion in the British museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma Force, a covert arm of the Defense Department tasked with keeping dangerous scientific discoveries out of enemy hands. When an ancient artifact points the way toward the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands," Painter must travel across the world in search of the lost city-and a destructive power beyond imagining. But Painter has competition. A band of ruthless mercenaries, led by a former friend and ally, are also intent on claiming the prize, and they will destroy anyone who gets in their way. Ancient history collides with cutting-edge science-with the safety of the world at stake!

Название: Lanny Budd Series
Автор: Upton Sinclair
Издательство: Open Road Media
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 19 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the acclaimed author of The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI. Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious—but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end.

Название: A Whispering Pines Mystery
Автор: Shawn McGuire
Издательство: Shawn McGuire
Год: 2017-2022
Формат: EPUB, AZW3
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

If you love small-towns with quirky characters, slow-burn romances, and witchy mysteries this is the series for you. Find out why readers wish they could live here . . . despite the dead bodies. Welcome to Whispering Pines, Wisconsin. A place for those who don't belong. Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O'Shea returns to prepare her grandparents' lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard. Jayne intends to stay out of it, but when it becomes obvious the sheriff isn't interested in investigating the death.

Название: Индийский Декамерон
Автор: Коллектив авторов
Издательство: М.: Нayкa
Год: 1993
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 223
Размер: 49 mb
Язык: Русский
Качество: Среднее

Под названием «Индийский Декамерон» объединены два знаменитых произведения индийской классики: роман Дандина «Приключения десяти принцев» (VI в.) и анонимная повесть «Семьдесят рассказов попугая» (XIII в.).
Оба эти произведения написаны на санскрите — праматери индийских языков — и представляют собой причудливое собрание красочных бытовых сценок, фантастических сказаний, романтических любовных приключений, скрепленных изящной сюжетной «рамкой», рассказом, который оправдывает, объясняет сведе́ние воедино столь разнообразных сюжетов и вместе с тем придает повествованию дополнительный интерес.

Название: Innocence
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 61 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other stories, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her father, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at school. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories.

Название: War: Tales of Conflict and Strife
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity. Among other stories, you'll read about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and Fear.

Название: Новые записи Ци Се (Синь Ци Се), или О чём не говорил Конфуций (Цзы бу юй)
Автор: Юань Мэй
Издательство: Москва: Наука
Год: 1977
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 504
Размер: 13 mb
Язык: Русский

Сборник коротких рассказов и заметок в жанре бицзи, принадлежащего перу известного китайского литератора XVIII в. Юань Мэя. Комментированный перевод и исследование сборника коротких рассказов и заметок в жанре бицзи, принадлежащего перу известного китайского литератора XVIII в. Юань Мэя. Рассказы переведены выборочно, но остальной текст изложен в кратком пересказе, что дает читателю представление о всем составе сборника. Имеются указатели.