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Скачать книгу (размер 3 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 632) Аннотация: On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state—and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A breathtaking journey of twists and turns from New York to London, from Bucharest and on to Tokyo ends up in a sleepy English village where the mystery surrounding Van Gogh's last painting will finally be resolved.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 329) Аннотация: «When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman «informer» who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her — a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: «angerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money, and two murders equal one reckless week inNew York… In «Lovers & Players», the Diamond family rules. Red Diamond is an abusive and much-loathed billionaire. His three sons, Max, Chris, and Jett, are summoned to New York for a family meeting which rocks their world. Diahann, a beautiful black ex-singer, works as Red’s housekeeper—a job…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In their runaway bestsellerGettysburg, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen answered the Civil War’s ultimate hypothetical question: What if Lee’s army had won the victory within its grasp at Gettysburg in 1863? Now, through the same extraordinary research and brilliant character studies, we take the next step of a provocative journey: The Army of Northern Virginia is poised to invade Washington,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Elizabeth Darcy and her beloved husband Fitzwilliam are taking on the responsibility of finding a suitable suitor for Elizabeth's younger sister Kitty, thereby assuring her a proper place in society. The angels smile on the young and a perfect match is found, and wedding plans are soon under way. Suddenly a change in personality occurs in Kitty's soon to be model husband-a change so striking as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 695) Аннотация: In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper — in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman — into an uncharted…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 614 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 710) Аннотация: It was called The Devils's Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels. Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil's Own mine as his ticket to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Nick Conover is the CEO of a major corporation, a local boy made good, and once the most admired man in a company town. But that was before the layoffs. When a faceless stalker menaces his family, Nick, a single father of two since the recent death of his wife, finds that the gated community they live in is no protection at all. He decides to take action, a tragedy ensues– and immediately his…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing of the past. In «Bait and Switch», Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 860) Аннотация: The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy. The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, when Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity’s only hope. But Rand dares not…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «Kanon's «New York Times» bestseller is now the basis for Warner Bros. Picture's latest film, starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire, scheduled for release in November. American reporter Jake Geismar is sent to Berlin to cover the final Allied summit meeting of World War II and becomes tangled up in a murder mystery.»

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: The third book in the bestselling Bear series, now in board book format Thirty-five years after their first groundbreaking collaboration, the creators of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See and Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear reunited to address the important topic of animal conservation. A Bald Eagle soars, a Spider Monkey swings, a Macaroni Penguin struts, and a Red Wolf sneaks…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet Mouse airbrushes the A, buttons the B, carves the C . Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet that surpasses even the wildest artistic imagination.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger-until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Following their internationally bestselling novelsDune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson forge a final tumultuous finish to their prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune. It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper’s, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans — Bella and Roman and their son, Mark —…