Скачать книгу (размер 2 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 421) Аннотация: Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mom is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that most of her legal knowledge comes from the Sopranos — only to still end up as juror №11 in a landmark case against a notorious mob boss. A really good edge of your seat thriller in the court room and outside of it. The judge is terrified of the defendant…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: In 1922, Vladimir Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 «undesirable» intellectuals — mostly philosophers, academics, scientists, and journalists — to be deported from the new Soviet State. «We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all» he wrote to Stalin, whose job it was to oversee the deportation. Two ships sailed from Petrograd that autumn, taking Old Russia's eminent men and their…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: First published in 1997, «The Mother-Daughter Book Club» is Shireen Dodson's story of the monthly reading club she started and the group of mothers and their daughters whose relationships were strengthened and changed by it. Her book also offered a practical step-by-step guide with stories, anecdotes, and reading lists, intended to inspire parents to start reading clubs of their own, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: WELCOME to the big top and get ready to experience a spectacular show, hosted by our mouse emcee Will Ellie the elephant be able to jump from a very tall ladder into a tiny glass of water? The suspense mounts as Ellie climbs up, gets nervous, can't look down and then jumps...right into the glass of water. Through the clever use of gatefold flaps, the reader will learn that what seemed big (Ellie)…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation — Mike Engleby. «My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university.» With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite his obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 283 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 449) Аннотация: An illuminating account of the birth and rise of the global political and economic system that, sustained first by Britain and now by America, created the modern world. Walter Russell Mead, one of our most distinguished foreign policy experts, makes clear that the key to the predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. Mead…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. When an important, politically sensitive painting is kidnapped in Rome, Flavia di Stefano, acting head of the Italian Art Theft Squad, is told to get it back at all costs — without causing any embarrassment to the country and without paying the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 425) Аннотация: The ideas in his book will help you see the world in a new way. Mark Penn has a keen mind and a fascinating sense of what makes America tick, and you see it on every page of Microtrends. In 1982, readers discovered Megatrends. In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one of the most respected and sought-after analysts in the world articulates a new way of understanding…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 631 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 321) Аннотация: Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustive treatise on criminology, the Inferno), is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Imagine a sparkling quilt of snow or a frosted window pane, listen out for carol singers or the sound of Santa's sleigh, and follow a star to find a baby in a stable. Here is a festive collection of poetry for children, with poems from Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Berlie Doherty, A.A. Milne, and many more. Beautifully illustrated by Mark Marshall, Joanne Partis and Melanie Williamson, these…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, Suite Francaise would be published for the first time, and hailed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. Membership of the prestigious Titian Committee is normally considered a high honour. Normally, that is, until two of its members end up dead and someone seems to be taking the idea of backstabbing a little too far. Flavia de…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In his first novel since The Light of Day, the Booker Prize-winning author gives us a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds. On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store. Her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A riviting portrait of the long-neglected and yet one of the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: In «Depths» Mankell confirms his status as a writer deserving acclaim beyond the crime genre. By delving deep into the male psyche, he has produced a novel at once tense and compelling, but also powerful, moving, and ultimately tragic.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover but nearly fifty years have passed since a book has been dedicated solely to their lifelong love. Soon after Elizabeth became queen she scandalized the royal court with her passionate obsession with the married Robert…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Buried beneath the crumbling gray walls of England's majestic castles lie some of the most colourful stories in history — tales of triumph and disaster, courage and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal, ingenuity — and stupidity. Enemies at the Gates takes an entertaining look at English castles under siege, from the tunnels and trebuchets of the early Middle Ages to the Civil War when many…