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Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies... Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead aren't going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Now in paperback — the anticipated return of Meredith Gentry in this third installment of Hamilton's «New York Times» bestselling series that brings the dark, erotic reign of the immortal fey to a startling new depth.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both a blessing and a curse, is the ability to see a person's probable future. Stella foresees a gruesome murder, and tells her charming, feckless father about it, but it is too late — the murder has already been committed and suspicion falls on him. Her mother Jenny, on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 249) Аннотация: Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times, different ears — including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 465) Аннотация: Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he`s moved from place to...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Gulag — a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners — was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar, and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, she's ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends... it's all fallen into place. In theory, at least. There's one part of Cassie's life, however, which is anything but organised, and that's her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild and sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Little does the town of Charles Valley, Georgia, know that beneath the irreproachable facades of its three most famous doyennes lies an explosive decades-old secret that is about to be revealed.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Diary takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.

Скачать книгу (размер 34 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 8) Аннотация: All aboard! This Seussian, train-shaped board book with big, bold flaps lets babies and toddlers engage in a rollicking game of Lift the Flap. Sturdy board pages and an accordion binding lets the fun unfold and makes the perfect nursery room decoration.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone and do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on... You choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt's wonderfully detailed illustrations, Pippa Goodhart looks at a whole range of scenarios where choosing is made fun!

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this, so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically lyrical style. This is an enthralling and revealing account of the habits and idiosyncrasies of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest — and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our…