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Jasper Fforde: The Last Dragonslayer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza…

David Nicholls: One Day

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'I can imagine you at forty', she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now'. He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then'. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty…

Erin Kelly: The Poison Tree

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a strait-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something terrible is about to happen, and someone's going to end up dead. Already drawing comparisons to Barbara…

Jodi Picoult: Sing You Home

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then — to Zoe's surprise — blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to…

Lorna Byrne: Stairways to Heaven

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledge that God and the angels were giving her. When Lorna's husband died, her world fell apart. In Stairways to Heaven she tells the story of how she pulled her life back together and how she, an…

John Vaillant: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently…

John Le Carre: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Film Tie in

Скачать книгу (размер 2 248 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 442) Аннотация: It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? The man he knew as Control is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement — especially when a pretty, would-be defector surfaces with a shocking accusation: a Soviet mole has penetrated the highest level of British Intelligence. Relying only on his wits and a…

Andrew Williams: To Kill a Tsar

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: April 2nd 1879. St Petersburg. A shot rings out in Palace Square. The Tsar is unhurt, but badly shaken. Cossack guards tackle the would-be assassin to the ground. And in the melee no one notices a pretty dark haired young woman in a heavy coat walk purposefully away from the scene. Russia is alive with revolutionaries and this is just one of many assassination attempts on the unpopular Tsar…

Stephen King: The Dead Zone

Скачать книгу (размер 3 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 596) Аннотация: The two things that conjured up that horrible night, were his run of luck at the Wheel of Fortune, and the mask... Meet Johnny Smith. A young man whose streak of luck ends dramatically in a major car crash. Followed by blackness. A long, long time in cold limbo.When he wakes up life has been turned upside down. His fiancee has met someone else. And Johnny is cursed with the power to perceive evil…

Stephen King: The Dark Half

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be... The sparrows are flying again. The idea — unbidden, inexplicable — haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind.Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing…

Stephen King: Cujo

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine... He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop... Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a…

Stephen King: Christine

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called Christine.Christine was eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.There was still power in her — a frightening power that leaked like sump oil,…

Stephen King: Carrie

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie — the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.But…

Melvyn Bragg: The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature. It has been the…

Stephen King: Bag of Bones

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn to his summer home, the beautiful lakeside retreat called Sara Laughs.Here Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his deceased son's daughter and is twisting the fabric of the community to this…

James May: James May's Man Lab

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: For at least two decades now modern man has been on the brink of a crisis. Persuaded by both the post-feminist political landscape and his representation in the popular media to remodel himself as an endearingly hopeless halfwit, he now exists only as an object of pity. James and his happy band of brothers (plus a few women, but we try to edit them out) are engaged on a quest to lead maledom to a…

Stephen King: Pet Sematary

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed.Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients,…

Grisham John: Theodore Boone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Half the man, twice the lawyer. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk — and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom. But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than he expected. Because he knows so much —…

King Stephen: Dreamcatcher

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented…

French Tana: Faithful Place

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family.…