Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilege as official building contractors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; they loyally served generations of kings and princes in the Saudi royal family — until one of their number changed history. Steve Coll is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, and author of the best-seller GHOST WARS.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: The first complete book by Tolkien in three decades, this book, edited by Tolkien's son Christopher, reunites fans of «The Hobbit» and «The Lord of the Rings» with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves. This paperback edition includes eight color paintings by Alan Lee and a black-and-white map.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 681 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 723) Аннотация: The post-war worlds longest-serving and most storied head of state presents a compelling chronicle of his life. Drawing on more than 100 hours of interviews and including never-before-seen photographs, this work is the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: These are the complete wartime correspondence between the leaders of the Allied Forces. Released with the cooperation of the Russian government, these revealing and often starkly frank communiques between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin add to our understanding of the course of World War II an indispensable horde of information. Through them, the reader is afforded a wonderfully intimate insight…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: Murder doesn't get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England's most well-known pubs. What's even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death — at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It's only the beginning of a case littered with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives know about the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 151 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 423) Аннотация: This year's collection promises to deliver the same stellar caliber of mystery stories that readers have come to expect from this series. Contributors include James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Munro.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'. Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives, returns for more crime solving adventure in this hilarious third novel from the Mobile Library series. Israel has been invited to attend the Mobile Meet in London, the annual mobile library convention, with his irascible companion Ted Carson. Back in the UK, Israel is reunited with his family, and there is much eating of paprika…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: In a deserted artist's studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly colored canvas depicting a violent tableau of beauty and depravity... In David Hewson's bold new novel of suspense, this grisly discovery sends Detective Nic Costa on a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets. H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Thank you for the music... It's 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, the generous and determined widow, La, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart. She recruits Felix, a refugee from Poland, to play the flute, and a touching friendship emerges. When the war is over and the orchestra disbands, La…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards the train at Klin, where it has been delayed by snowdrifts on the line. He leaves a knife bearing the initials «CG» (Combat Group) thrust up to…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 007 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 787) Аннотация: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's eagerly awaited second volume of a landmark new history of the U.S. presents the story of America from a compelling and delightfully fresh new perspective.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Donald Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down and has the last laugh in What's So Funny?, his latest comic caper novel. His perennially depressed master thief, John Dortmunder, finds himself involved an impossible crime, one he doesn't want and doesn't believe in and which he'd rather avoid if possible... but a little blackmail goes a long way. All it takes is a few…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 058 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 797) Аннотация: Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, the close international relationship was forged only recently, preceded by several centuries of hostility and conflict that began soon after the first English colony was established on the newly discovered continent. Burk, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Have the drive, but need the know how to start and run a business? This book is for you! Named a Top 10 Career Book of 2005 by Joyce Lain Kennedy, syndicated careers columnist. If your pastime and passion has started bringing in money, you may be wondering, Am I in business — and if so, how do I run it?. Feeling nervous? Don't! Thousands of people who knew absolutely nothing about business are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The famous inventor of Gonzo journalism portrayed as never before, both his charisma and his adventurous work. Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing campaign coverage in Rolling Stone, When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: From a master military historian comes a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the last year of the Pacific war — an illumination addition to the annals of World War II. of photos