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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife'. Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on his travels were some of the first widely shared descriptions of the world's most extraordinary animals. Moving from the West Coast of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby — author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree — had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: As one of the youngest ever winners of the Grand National, Nick 'Foxy' Foxton's career as a world class jockey is on perfect track until a near fatal accident cuts his dream brutally short. But when he returns to Aintree as a spectator years later, nothing can prepare him for what unfolds. Minutes before the biggest event on the racing calendar, Nick's affable American colleague Herb Kovak is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways. However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Jojo Harvey is a dead ringer for Jessica Rabbit and the most ferocious literary agent in town. A former NYPD cop, she now lives in London making million-dollar book deals while trying to make partner at her firm... all the while sleeping with the boss man. Lily Wright is an author who believes in karma, and is waiting for the sky to fall after stealing her former best friend's man. Though her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend — sun — worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome... This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. These funny, perceptive and touching…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 442) Аннотация: What if being Royal was a crime? The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate.Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning... unless his wife Camilla can be Queen in a newly restored monarchy. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill and Margaret…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 563) Аннотация: One of Keyes' bestsellers, featuring the single career young women living in Dublin.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand'. Gerald Durrell and his wife are the proud owners of a small zoo on the island of Jersey. But there's one thing that's better than a small zoo — a bigger one! So Durrell…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In his younger days, Simon Bolivar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. But lonely, embittered and sickly at the age of forty-six, his power has dwindled, coups abound and it's time for The Liberator to send himself into the exile of retirement. Wending his way down the Magdalena River towards the Caribbean with his faithful servant, Jose…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salome, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction, my every desire... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. This second edition is updated throughout, with a new chapter on the recent role of Putin and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Our journey began in fire... Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness — beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily...

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Young, poor Sara Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco, her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned, left penniless and in debt to the authorities, she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper…