Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «A woman's relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror, in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from «New York Times»-bestselling author Koontz. This newly repackaged edition features a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: After three years of exile from humanity’s war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth’s allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as the Marshal to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Skilled and unknown, Jack Reacher is the perfect man to assassinate the vice president of the United States — in theory. Hired by the VP's Secret Service security detail, it's Reacher's job to find holes in the system before a group of assassins do. Now repackaged with an electrifying new cover.
Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: WORLD WITHOUT END is the №1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the international bestseller THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge. Ken Follett is the author of sixteen novels, most recently the instant New York Times bestsellers HORNET FLIGHT, and CODE TO ZERO.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own — yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Music, murder...and Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. In fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. Jessie Coulson's introduction examines the personal and financial dramas that influenced Dostoyevsky.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated. A group of students…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top — the holy men…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Assassin, art-restorer and spy, Gabriel Allon, is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers there is a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationshipsawith her elderly husband, with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire — among…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 839 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 754) Аннотация: A spy, a killer, an imposter, and three extraordinary heroes are featured in one unique novel. In The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters...three most-unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process': Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Lucy stole her friend Rose's 'happily ever after' because she wanted Rose's husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie — best friend to both Lucy and Rose — is stuck in the middle. She's got Lucy's worries about being wife, mother and career bitch in one ear and Rose's struggle at being a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to the expanding world of the 'literary comic book'. Written by comic industry insider Danny Fingeroth, it includes the mediums' history, from sequential art in Egyptian tombs, through the superhero boom of the 1940s to the birth of the graphic novel movement and the latest online offerings. All you need to know about the best and rest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless member of the extended royal family. When an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's estate for himself, winds up dead, Victoria's most important job is to clear her family name.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «The Queen of Paranormal Romance («USA Today») continues her breathtaking GhostWalkers series. Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets former Navy SEAL and GhostWalker Jess Calhoun. The riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.»