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Stephen King: Misery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her — with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain…

Sir Ranulph Fiennes: Killer Elite

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The deaths of four British soldiers, two of them ex SAS, appear at first to be accidental. In fact, they have been targeted by a group of hired assassins, known as the Clinic. This group of contract killers is systematically tracking down elite servicemen and killing them one by one... Desperate to stop the murders, a group of four men, the Feather Men, are recruited to hunt down the Clinic and…

Stephen King: It

Скачать книгу (размер 7 093 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1392) Аннотация: To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw — and felt — what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up,…

John Connolly: Hell's Bells: Samuel Johnson Vs the Devil

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Samuel Johnson — with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd — has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down. When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two policemen. Can this eccentric gang defeat the…

Stephen King: Hearts in Atlantis

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: 'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war — and the protests against it — had flooded America's living rooms for a decade.Hearts…

Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: 'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.' Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it's just the bugs, midges and…

Stephen King: Gerald's Game

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt. He wasn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear…

Stephen King: From a Buick 8

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like... There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years — terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system.Young Ned Wilcox has started…

Stephen King: Firestarter

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'You're a firestarter honey... just one big zippo lighter'A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister…

Guy Saville: The Afrika Reich

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1952. It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Gleaming autobahns bisect the jungle, jet fighters patrol the skies. The brutal presence of the SS is visible everywhere. Now, however, the demonic plans of Walter Hochburg — architect of…

Andy Riley: Dawn of the Bunny Suicides

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: From the author of the cult bestsellers THE BOOK OF BUNNY SUICIDES and RETURN OF THE BUNNY SUICIDES comes another unmissable collection of rabbit-related self destruction... The bunnies are back — and there's only one thing on their minds. In this new collection, follow the continuing adventures of the fluffy little rabbits who just don't want to live any more...

Henry Hitchings: The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values — to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving…

Erin Kelly: The Poison Tree

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something terrible is about to happen, and someone's going to end up dead. Already drawing comparisons to Barbara…

Jodi Picoult: Sing You Home

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then — to Zoe's surprise — blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to…

Lorna Byrne: Stairways to Heaven

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledge that God and the angels were giving her. When Lorna's husband died, her world fell apart. In Stairways to Heaven she tells the story of how she pulled her life back together and how she, an…

John Vaillant: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently…

Andrew Williams: To Kill a Tsar

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a pretty dark haired young woman in a heavy coat walk purposefully away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries and this is just one of many assassination attempts on the unpopular Tsar…

Stephen King: The Dead Zone

Скачать книгу (размер 3 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 596) Аннотация: The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask... Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil…

Stephen King: Christine

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called Christine.Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.There was still power in her — a frightening power that leaked like sump oil,…

Stephen King: Carrie

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie — the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.But…