Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past and present. Buckingham Palace is effectively an independent kingdom with its own rules and customs, now explained by Brian Hoey. Hundreds of anecdotes reveal the conditions in which the staff live and work and also their relationship with the Royals they serve. It looks…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Agatha Christie`s world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A unique offering from the Queen of Crime. This Agatha Christie Signature Edition features the hero the world-famous author was most fond of — Mr Harley Quin, the enigmatic friend and counterpart of the rational Mr Satterthwaite. So far, it had been a typical New Years Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite — a keen observer of human nature — sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A new Signature Edition of the Agatha Christie thriller, rejacketed in the stylish new series livery. When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Another title in the new and stylish Agatha Christie Signature Editions series. The Argyle family is far from pleased to discover one of its number has been post-humously pardoned for murder — if Jacko Argyle didnt kill his mother, who did? The front door of the family home was locked... Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A new Signature Edition of the Agatha Christie thriller, rejacketed in the stylish new series livery. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon — a British agent named…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Originally published in 1969 and now repackaged, this razor-sharp and unpredictable novel revolves around a bored young couple looking for thrills in bleak northern Michigan. Their scheme to grab a $50,000 payroll takes an evil twist and ultimately leads to a senseless death.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Including more than 2500 logos selected from thousands of submissions, this volume is a useful reference source for designers to find a huge variety of styles and techniques for logo creation.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories — including her very first — which show the Queen of Crime in the making... A macabre recurring dream... revenge against a blackmailer... jealousy, infidelity and a tortured conscience... a stolen gemstone... the haunting attraction of an ancient relic... a race against time... a tragic love triangle... a body in a box... an unexpected visitor from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly... Twelve tantalizing cases! the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man's sudden personality change; a retired inspector's hunt for a murderess; a young woman's impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Within each of us is a warrior of light. Each of us is capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get us down and of holding onto hope even in the face of weariness and depression. Values like love for all things, discipline, friendship and learning to listen to our own hearts are the arms with which this warrior confronts the battles we face in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque – one of the world’s greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a Amazonian adventure story that will appeal to all ages. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold has the chance to take the trip of a lifetime. With his mother in hospital, too ill to look after him, Alex is sent out to his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A collection of macabre mysteries, including the superlative story Witness for the Prosecution… Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation… A dog-shaped gunpowder mark; an omen from ‘the other side’; a haunted house; a chilling seance; a case of split personalities; a recurring nightmare; an eerie wireless message; an elderly lady’s hold over a young man; a disembodied cry…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen… Sir Stafford Nye’s journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt – a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths are to cross again and again – and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer remember — or even believe in — life beyond the Store walls. Until the day a small band of nomes arrives at the Store from the Outside. Led by a young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The hero of «Cat Chaser», George Moran, isn't looking for trouble but finds it anyway when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing mob-connected Dominican cop — vicious, macho and ready to follow George to the ends of the earth, which in this case means Miami.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope. For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars, it is not grim entertainment that draws him here, but a mission to prove the guilt or innocence of a condemned prisoner — a duty that leads Sandman from the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Anne Sayer learned long ago that fairy tales don't come true. Connor Emory was the «prince» of a rich and powerful family and she was the «hired help», and for one glorious Maine summer, it was heaven. But evil stepmothers do exist, so Anne's «happily-ever-after» — wasn't. Dashing, charismatic, and successful, Connor never understood what happened all those years ago, but he's sure now it was for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton—the town's pediatrician and medical examiner—finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider…