Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it’s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «One of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia, «One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» is both a graphic picture of World War II work camp life and a testimony to the human spirit.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found....a killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities...a desperate race to find litarary gold, and just to stay alive....
Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: Tracy Chevalier, author of the Girl With a Pearl Earring, returns with a look at poet, artist, and printer William Blake who works in obscurity as England is rocked by the effects of the French Revolution.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy — an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity... In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom—ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone... Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing. Already they are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of «Blood Brothers» and «The Hollow» — the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces — and hearts — to battle the ultimate evil.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family's home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she's Savannah's top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-and when to jump in and take action. It's satisfying work-and sometimes those skills come in handy at home dealing with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «The Blood books center around three main characters: Vicki Nelson, a homicide cop turned private detective, her former partner Mike Celluci, who is still on the force, and vampire Henry Fitzroy, who is the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and makes his living as a writer of bodice rippers. Not only are the three of them caught in a love triangle, but they are, time and again, involved in mysteries…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Oscar is a sweet but overweight sci-fi obsessed introvert who — from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister — dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R.Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku — a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from New Jersey to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. It dramatises brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 1995, Scotland — The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic — insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Drawing on a huge range of sources — letters, memoirs, conversations — Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections «On the Yankee Station» (1981) and «The Destiny of Nathalie X» (1995). Described as «the finest storyteller of his generation», Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. In a brilliant array of styles and narratives we move from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. He succeeds, but not quite in the way his employer intended. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets, from Miss Merle…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here –…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Imagine, if you will, New York City, 1899... Society's elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the glittering parties, the most handsome beaus, the most beautiful debutantes... the rich girl, the humble boy, the forbidden love, the hushed whispers, the stolen glances, the whispers, the scandal, the mystery, the revenge... You are cordially invited to step into The Luxe, where the secrets are dark and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: «When the sheepish Wuhses are taken advantage of by the overbearing Pervects, Skeeve teams up with Zol Icty — self-help expert and bestselling author of «Imps Are from Imper», «Deveels Are from Deva» — on a mythion in personal empowerment.»