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Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope — a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Small truths, white lies; the many shades of friendship... The highly anticipated novel from the author of 'Dreams of Water' and 'Somewhere, Home'. The old neighbourhood block in Beirut was home to an ever-changing population as the fighting intensified and lessened. But three people were almost always there.The older Polish woman, Margo, refugee from her past, her country and family after…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of early medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman. 1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Stunning debut dual timeline novel about a modern day woman tracing the story of her ancestor in 14thC Siena — the real Juliet, who inspired the story of Romeo and Juliet. 'Of all the great love stories ever told, hers is perhaps the most famous. To me, she is the key to my family's fate. To you, she is Juliet.' When Julie Jacobs inherits a key to a safety deposit box in Siena, she is told it…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy. Aged seventeen, two lovers perch precariously on the cusp of adulthood. Timothy Pickering is a budding taxidermist, following in his father's footsteps. Naomi Watts dreams of a career on stage. But one of them is about to drop a bombshell that will quash this burgeoning romance! Ten years later…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: You had better shove this in the stove, Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, 'for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted'. He was joking, of course. But when Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. Here, for…
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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Lighting Design Alliance's goal is to design lighting in conjunction with architecture and interiors to create dramatic, memorable spaces. Dynamic environments are achieved by integrating the use of concealed light sources, natural light and decorative fixtures. The careful implementation of a collective design concept throughout every phase of the project guarantees success. This beautifully…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: These behind-the-scenes, intimate, and unguarded shots, have been unearthed after spending 45 years in a duffel bag of The Rolling Stones' former tour manager, Bob Bonis. Bonis was the US tour manager for The Stones on their first US tour from 1964-1966. This remarkable collection captured a pivotal time in the bands' career as they break new ground in the US. The photos show band members in…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Reissued to coincide with THAT OLD ACE IN THE HOLE (Jan 03), the new novel from the Pulitzer-prize winning author of 'The Shipping News'. In 'Accordion Crimes' the hallucinatory power of Proulx's language and the radiance of her sentences confirm her genius. Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion maker…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: For the first time in English, the second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful — and for some, tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In TV star Lauren Conrad's delicious, entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them. Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend Scarlett Harp landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Suddenly they found themselves thrown into the public eye with VIP tickets to everything. But the starlets quickly discover that fame…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Bad Dirt' is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each story occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction. In 'The Contest',…
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