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Oswald James: The Book of Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector McLean series. Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a…

Fox Savanna: The Dirty Girls Book Club

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Loved Bared to You by Sylvia Day and Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James? Then erotic romance The Dirty Girls Book Club by Savanna Fox is definitely the next thing to put on your reading list! Georgia Malone joined a book club to expand her literary horizons. But when they swap serious classics for steamy fiction, she discovers just how much fun reading can be... When Georgia is widowed at the age…

Bub Lil: Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Adorable photos and witty captions of the cutest cat in the world (Good Morning America) Lil Bub is a star. The adorable perma-kitten might look a little different than other felines, but her tiny size, toothless mouth, and extra toes have made her the darling of cat lovers around the world. Aided by her human, this celebri-cat is finally satisfying her demanding public with a book. Showcasing…

Fletcher Jessica: Domestic Malice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the latest novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must tread lightly when investigating a homegrown homicide... Jessica has always been civic-minded, so when the director of the Cabot Cove Women's Shelter asks her to join the board of directors, she readily accepts, even though the shelter has been in the crosshairs of an unreasonable councilman who'd like to see it…

Clancy Tom: Patriot Games

Скачать книгу (размер 4 007 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 787) Аннотация: «From Tom Clancy, the #1 «New York Times» bestselling author of the Jack Ryan novels — including his latest blockbusters «Command Authority «and «Threat Vector» — comes a gripping story of the Ryan family under fire. In an explosive wave of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA is hunting one man for his act of salvation in an attempted assassination. And now Jack Ryan must pay with his…

Niall Ferguson: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Niall Ferguson recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire, showing on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th century spearheaded real globalization with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

Niall Ferguson: The Pity of War

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: More than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice of 11 November 1918, the time is right for a radical reassessment of the Great War. In this book aimed at appeal to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.

E. M. Forster: A Room with a View

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you...' Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney…

Tom Clancy: Dead or Alive

Скачать книгу (размер 3 716 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 730) Аннотация: For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their…

Wilkie Collins: Moonstone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.

Raymond Chandler: The Lady in the Lake

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing — on account of the…

Sally Bedell Smith: Elizabeth the Queen: The Woman Behind the Throne

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmatic and admired women in the world. With exclusive access to the Queen's personal letters, close friends and associates, this intimate biography is a treasure trove of fresh…

Hodgkinson Amanda: 22 Britannia Road

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In war we sometimes lose ourselves... It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors.…

Carroll Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The young Alice follows a hasty hare underground-to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures in all of literature. In this arresting parody of the fears, anxieties, and complexities of growing up, readers enter the world of make-believe, where the impossible becomes possible and the heights of adventure are unlimited.

Dahl Roald: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 559 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 307) Аннотация: «Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's «The Ghost of a Hand», Edith Wharton's «Afterward», Cynthia Asquith's «The Corner Shop» and Mary Treadgold's «The Telephone».»

Valois Rob: Clone Wars: The Secret Villain

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: There's a new bad guy in the galaxy — Savage Opress. Count Dooku's secret apprentice has become one of the breakout stars of The Clone Wars animated series and now features in his own easy-to-read title.

Bronte Charlotte: Jane Eyre

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself'. Rejected by her guardians and offered cold charity at an orphanage, Jane Eyre has come to rely on her own intelligence and strength of character to guide her through life. But when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, working for the gruff Mr. Rochester, she finds a man who may be her equal —…

Keyes Marian: Saved by Cake

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes. Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it — she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. And so she…

Brook Meljean: The Iron Duke

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power — and fear — of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. Mina can't afford his interest, however.…

MacLean Charles: The Watcher

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'There was no warning of any kind...' Friday rush-hour. Martin Gregory, laden with packages, just manages to catch the 4.48 train. Tomorrow is his wife's birthday — he has a surprise in store — and he plans to devote the weekend to her and their beloved dogs. But Saturday morning, Martin rises early and does something so horrific, so inexplicable and so out of character, and his only option is to…