Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared — right now his life is spinning out of control, and it is all his dad's fault. If his rotter of an estranged father hadn't dropped dead at a karaoke night, Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Patriots' Club has existed for two hundred years. A secret organization controlled by the country's most influential citizens. In that time it has exercised an iron grip on the country's direction. But all that is about to change. Thomas Bolden is an all-American success story. He has overcome his past to carve out a brilliant career on Wall Street. Bolden is a man who has it all. Until, in…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections, and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Bitter, resentful, and increasingly unstable, Jackie watches her life crumble while her little sister Maggie's star…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When FBI agent John O’Hara first meets Nora Sinclair, she seems perfect. She has the career. The charisma. The tantalising sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package – Nora doesn’t attract men, she enthrals them. She’s worked hard for this life and she will never give it up. But why is the FBI so interested in Miss Sinclair? Mysterious things keep happening to the men in her life. And when Agent…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Jane Austen's witty, perceptive and romantic novels have delighted readers for two hundred years. With clear sight, common sense and good judgment, she observed the hits and near-misses of her heroes and heroines in love. Relationships certainly haven't got any easier since then and Lauren Henderson believes that we might just have lost touch with the fundamental rules. «Jane Austen's Guide to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The perfect job. Working for an easy-going boss at his luxurious mansion by the sun-kissed beach, watching beautiful women walk by. The perfect girl. Tess – gorgeous, funny, apparently very rich and crazy for him. The perfect score. Five million up for grabs. And to get his share, all he needs to do is trigger three house alarms to throw the cops off the scent of the real robbery. Could things…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: Max Ride and her five friends grew up in a science lab/prision called the School. They were created as an experiement. An experiment where they ended up only 98 percent human. These children are special and when they find themselves on the run in an adventure beyond even their wildest dreams.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Bailiff Simon Puttock's servant, Hugh, has been granted leave to look after his wife, Constance and help raise her child. One day, she is attacked and raped by a gang of men at her home. Hugh is struck down before she is killed and the house set on fire. All believe that Hugh died inside. However, things are not so simple, and Simon vows revenge.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy a farmhouse in the south of France, she reluctantly agrees. But, France is not the idyll he promised, and when she discovers the true reason he spends half his time in London, the foundations on which she's built her life start to crumble.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In Duluth, Minnesota, a young woman, Rachel Stoner, has gone missing. Cop Jonathan Stride, a sharply focused detective despite the stresses of his troubled personal life, is quick to suspect her stepfather of murder. And yet, he has his doubts. Even for a man accustomed to power, the accused seems remarkably convinced he'll go free. Could he be telling the truth? While Stride endeavours to make…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life. Many years later, Mathilde looks back and chronicles her turbulent life. With her sharp, suspicious intellect ready to distinguish…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Forty years ago, Exeter Cathedral close was the scene of a vicious ambush. Afterwards, the bodies left lying in their blood bore witness to the conflicts tearing at heart of the Cathedral itself. Today, in 1323, more deaths have occurred. Is the first an accident? The second is surely not.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat and a stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from evil. These tales and many more await in Gaiman's storybook.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Hillary Clinton's memoir focuses on her eight years at the White House — what she lived through, how she felt about her experiences then and now, why she made the choices she did — in short, a very personal book. She talks about all the political events and highlights and about Bill Clinton's impeachment. She feels it is time to put the record straight on many issues on which she has not been…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Hooliganism may often be deemed the English disease, yet increasingly some of the most violent supporters come not from the UK but from the continent. The banner Welcome to Hell that was waved at Manchester United fans when they visited Galatasaray a few yeas ago became horribly true when two Leeds supporters were murdered by Turkish fans in 2000. But this was only one example of the increasing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Amara, Princess of Egypt, the once-beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward museum. Dead these 4000 years, now she's just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is she? When Barney the nightwatchman discovers that the mummy's coffin has been broken open, it seems grave-robbers are at work. It's a pity Barney and the guards can't tell the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Jack Welch is perhaps the greatest corporate leader of the 20th century. When he first became CEO of General Electric in 1981 the company was worth $12 billion. Twenty years later it is worth a total of $280 billion. But Welch was more than just the leader of the most successful business in the world. He revolutionised GE's entire corporate culture with his distinctive, highly personal management…