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Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: «Now back in print — a timeless collection of essays celebrating one of American literature's most acclaimed and enigmatic icons J. D. Salinger's provocative writing and unmatched eye for the contours of American youth have earned him a place in literary and cultural history. Few living American writers enjoy more exuberant and widespread acclaim — though in his ninety years Salinger has…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic — and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher Chant nor Cat Chant can work even the simplest of spells. Who could have dreamed that both Christopher and Cat were born with nine lives…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 455) Аннотация: In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. More than thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism, and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. In an epic journey that has taken the band from the clubs of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 628) Аннотация: The master of the game is back, with another pulse-pounding adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon Whilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US President's right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing his own checks for the British Prime Minister. When both men get involved with a group of Russian soldiers…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sisters Rio and Dervla, are reunited at their father Frank's funeral, having been estranged since the death of their mother twenty years ago. Rio is a free-spirited, artistic type; she has juggled single parenthood with a career as Jack-of-all-trades for two decades. Meanwhile Dervla is an ambitious estate agent, a dedicated career woman; property is her raison d'etre. Their father's 19th century…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A satisfying tale of honor, chance, and star-crossed love, infused with Southern wit, grace, and charm, from the New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. After twenty years, Elizabeth Betts McGee has finally managed to put her past behind her. She hasn't been home to beautiful South Carolina and untouched Bulls Island since the tragic night that ended her engagement to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 640 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 519) Аннотация: Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past — when members of the nation's government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The psychiatrist's couch holds many secrets. Can it also hold the key to a series of brutal murders? The thrilling first novel from the internationally bestselling Master of Suspense. Two murders, one victim murdered in the street in a gruesome but apparently arbitrary attack. The other brutally tortured and left to die in agony. Now it's the turn of psychoanalyst Dr Judd Stevens...In a chilling…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When the Russians demand a blueprint of the latest NATO missile system, only one man is left alive who can deliver the goods. But there's an old saying, first touch the devil and you can't let go.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The international Number One bestseller Dean Koontz's most-loved character, Odd Thomas, is back. A gripping and powerful thriller — full of suspense, mystery and horror. Evil never backs down, so neither can he. Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead — they sought him out, in the small desert town of Pico…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A remarkable story of struggle and survival in World War II by France's No. 1 bestselling novelist Early in 1942, two young brothers join a Resistance group. All the members of the group are young, most of their families came from elsewhere in Europe or North Africa and all of them are passionately committed to the freedom of France and Europe. They find they are not welcomed by other French…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In her third novel, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern introduces us to two sisters at odds with each other. Elizabeth's life is an organized mess. The organized part is all due to her own efforts. The mess is entirely due to her sister, Saoirse, whose personal problems leave Elizabeth scrambling to pick up the pieces. One of these pieces is Saoirse's six-year-old son, Luke. Luke is quiet and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Ferocious fantasy from a real-life hardman come to claim the post-Gemmell world. They came from the north, and the city fell. It is a time for warriors, a time for heroes. Kell's axe howls out for blood. The land of Falanor has been invaded by an albino army, the Army of Iron. A small group set off to warn the king: Kell, a magnificent and brutal hero; his granddaughter, Nienna and her friend,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: From one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe and the award-winning author of The Redbreast comes this work that features the maverick methods of detective Harry Hole as he investigates a series of brutal bank robberies.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead.

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests and woodlands, the long-suffering Lorax struggles to save all the Truffula Trees from the wicked Once-ler's axe. This text is a Yellow Back Book, which means it is suitable for fluent readers aged five and over.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems. No one knows for sure precisely when and where Shakespeare wrote his sonnets or, more intriguingly, who he wrote them for. In this wonderfully entertaining novel acclaimed author Warwick Collins imagines the circumstances that inspired 30 of the Bard's most popular sonnets. The young Will…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Billy was a champion soccer star, playing for Chelsea in the 1930s. But that was before war broke out... This tale is told through the voice of an 80 year-old man, who looks back on his life as Chelsea's champion striker until the outbreak of war in 1939 and on through his subsequent life.

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: When Mr Gruber shows Paddington an outdoor painting exhibition he is inspired to take up a new hobby... He collects all his paints and brushes from his room and goes out into the garden to work on his masterpieces. Soon Paddington has enough pictures to open his own exhibition outside No. 32 Windsor Gardens. Paddington becomes rather discouraged when no one stops to buy one. But there is one…