Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin — the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside. In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year! 'Reginald Hill is on stunning form the climax is devastating' Marcel Berlins, The Times When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure who the culprit is. After all, he's got to believe what he sees with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead — this is not a World War One battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre. Peter Pascoe attends his grandmother's funeral, and scattering her ashes leads him too into…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'Luminously written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop. But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: The author of the bestselling Amelia Peabody novels returns with the long-awaited final installment in her beloved series featuring art historian Vicky Bliss back in print for the first time in more than a decade. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 997 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 981) Аннотация: For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change and Erasmas will become a major player in a drama that will determine…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 327) Аннотация: For 17-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, who guards the Samhain Gate that connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Kelley's eyes soon are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.
Скачать книгу (размер 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 117) Аннотация: Newbery Medalist Gaiman and illustrator Helquist team up for a new fantasy novella in which a young boy must free Asgard — the city of the gods — from the evil Frost Giants.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their popular fiction, «New York Times» — bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake — plus YA author Melissa Marr with her first adult work — unleash their full arsenal of dark talents.
Скачать книгу (размер 315 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 63) Аннотация: A funny and informative look at the nation's presidents, this revised editionincludes brand-new information about the 2009 president-elect.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city's most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air — fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Thirty-four-year-old Sandy Shortt has made it her life's ambition to search for all the missing things in life. It started with the disappearance of her class mate Jenny-May, back when they were both ten. Since then it has become an obsession — from the single sock that comes out of the dryer, missing its mate, to the people who leave for work one morning never to return to their loved ones.&…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: It seems excessive... but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Saul " Slash" Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father, an album cover artist, and a black American mother of Nigerian descent, who created David Bowie's look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he and his mother moved to LA. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station one morning, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. Days later, with many bodies still unidentifiable, Karen resigns herself to the awful truth: her husband of eighteen years is dead. On that same day, a suspicious hit-and-run accident leaves a young man dead in Karen's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: They call him the Devil, the most notorious laird in all of Scotland. But Cullen, the new Larid of Donnachaidh, pays them no heed. He cares only about the survival of his clan, and for that, he needs a wife. He wants someone stout to bear him sons. He wants a pliable woman who wouldn't question his dictates. He wants a passionate woman to warm his bed... one out of three isn't bad. Evelinde has…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 839 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 558) Аннотация: From the co-creator of the bestselling Animorphs comes a gripping new series in which everyone disappears in an flash on the day they turn 15. It's a terrifying new world, and time is running out.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A sequel to her beloved bestselling book, «Paula», Isabel Allende's new memoir is the inspirational story of a remarkable woman-mother, step-mother, grandmother, wife and lover, fiercely loyal friend, and dedicated writer-and of the unusual extended family Allende creates after the tragic loss of her daughter Paula.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 315) Аннотация: The long-awaited paperback edition of FREAKONOMICS, with a new preface, additional material, and an exclusive Q &A with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.»9780061956270 KurztextIn the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Nancy's class is going on a trip to the museum, and Nancy wants to be extra fancy for the occasion. After a bumpy bus ride, she doesn't feel very well. Luckily for Nancy, her teacher, Ms. Glass, has a few fancy tricks of her own. Nothing can keep Nancy from making this trip magnifique! (That's a fancy French word for great!)