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Monroe Aly: Washington Shadow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington to beg for a loan. Under cover of the backup team, agent Peter Cotton is sent to investigate the break-up of America's wartime intelligence agency. Cotton finds himself caught up in a world of shadows involving an extraordinarily attractive girl from the US State Department, a Soviet ex-tank…

Colin Beatrice: The Songwriter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: New York, 1916. Monroe Simonov, a song-plugger from Brooklyn, is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy, a fashion model in a department store, has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return to the Midwest. Anna Denisova, a glamorous political exile, gives lectures and writes letters while she waits for the Russian…

O'Dell Tawni: Fragile Beasts

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Growing up in hard-scrabble coal country with a drunk father and a runaway mother hasn't been easy for teen brothers Kyle and Klint. And when their dad smashes his truck and dies after a few too many beers, the boys are shocked that their often-absent mother plans to take them back to her new home out West. After all, their mom hasn't cared for Kyle and Klint for years. She still doesn't. Their…

Mangan Lucy: The Reluctant Bride

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle... The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry and a way to bring Great-Auntie Betty down from Dundee for the sixpence she is willing to spend — isn't it meant to be HER special…

Blyth Catherine: The Art of Marriage

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Joining your life with another person's, until death do you part, is perhaps the biggest decision you can take. But once the vows have been sworn, the cake has been cut, and the honeymoon is over, what are the secrets of a lasting marriage? The Art of Marriage explains why marriage matters. This timeless institution still casts its spell, not thanks to the sentimental grip of tradition, but…

Robertson Wendy: The Woman Who Drew Buildings

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A powerful portrayal of the unbreakable bond between a mother and her son. As Adam Matheve walks towards his mother's house, to see her for the first time in two years, he has just one hope — to forge the bond with her for which he's always yearned. Enigmatic Marie Matheve has spent her life indulging her passion for drawing buildings. Now, after a dangerous fall, she lies unconscious, her life…

Williams Adam: The Book of the Alchemist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Andalucia, 1938 — towards the end of the Spanish Civil War a group of Republican soldiers kidnap Professor Pinzon and his grandson and hold them hostage in St Jaime's Cathedral together with a group of townspeople. Searching the Cathedral, they discover a crypt leading into a secret space, a medieval mosque directly underneath them, undisturbed for hundreds of years. The mosque holds a book,…

Hilton Matt: Slash and Burn

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Joe Hunter is enjoying some much needed r&r when a young woman approaches him to help find her missing sister. Kate Piers knows about Joe from her dead brother Jake, Hunter's former comrade in arms, and for that reason alone he feels obliged to help. The fact that Kate is very attractive doesn't hurt. Together they go to Imogen's Kentucky home where they are immediately attacked by a bunch of…

Cyphers Eric: Sex and the City 2

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Hot on the heels of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda's hugely successful big-screen debut comes the follow-up that everybody's been waiting for. SEX AND THE CITY 2. SEX AND THE CITY 2: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION BOOK will be the ultimate keepsake for fans of the fabulous four. Packed with juicy behind-the-scenes details as well as interviews with the stars, producers, and other cast and crew…

Conway Simon: A Loyal Spy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face down in a pool of black water in the Khyber Pass. For many years, Jonah had been under the impression that he'd killed him there. Jonah: an undercover operative for one of Britain's most secret agencies Nor: the agent he befriended, recruited, then left for dead Miranda: the woman he thought he loved enough to give up everything for How far…

Cole Martina: The Family

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The dangerously thrilling and highly addictive new novel from the phenomenal No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole, the author who dares to tell it like it really is, is a guaranteed shocking, compelling and completely unputdownable read.

Picoult Jodi: House Rules

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger's. He is locked in his own world — aware of the world outside, and wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else, but doesn't know how. When his tutor is found dead, all the hallmark behaviours of Jacob's syndrome — not…

Dukan Pierre: The Dukan Diet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: France's best selling diet book ever which has sold over 1 million copies since it was published in 2003. Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a qualified medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, it is an easy to follow protein-rich diet which delivers fantastic results in the short term and then shows you how to maintain your ideal weight for life. The Dukan Diet…

Dukan Pierre: The Dukan Diet Recipe Book

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Dukan Diet is based on a unique four-step programme. Two steps to lose weight and two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Recipe Book will help you to stick to the diet by offering over 350 recipes suitable for the all-important weight loss stages. With meal ideas for the protein-only Attack stage and then lots more recipes to keep you on track during the Cruising stage when you can…

McKinley Tamara: Legacy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: Is her love worth more than gold? Following in the pioneering footsteps of the women who have gone before her, Ruby and her new husband James brave a long and treacherous journey to start their new life together. However, they soon discover that there are many more dangers than just those that meet the eye. When James is tempted away by the gold rush, Ruby must join forces with the Aborigine girl…

Makine Andrei: Human Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Elias Almeida, professional revolutionary, has seen mankind at its pitiless worst. Witness as a child to the death of both his parents in uprisings in Angola and the Congo, and later as a Soviet agent at the heart of African politics, he has observed murder, rape, pillage and starvation in the name of ideology, and suffered imprisonment and torture. Yet he continues to believe in a better world…

Heller Mandasue: Two-faced

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Mia and Michelle couldn't look more alike — or act more differently. Mia's always been the glamorous one, the one everyone wants to get close to. And now she's a model, on the edge of fame. But Mia can't resist the illegal thrills that come with fame. When disaster strikes, her mousy look-alike sister has to pretend to be Mia. Michelle saves her career, and turns out to have star quality too.…

Taher Bahaa: Sunset Oasis

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Mahmoud Abd El Zahir is sent to govern the remote Egyptian oasis of Siwa in the late 1890s, he knows the danger he faces — two of his predecessors were murdered. But having been accused of disloyalty to the current regime and its British overlords, he has little choice. Rather than stay behind in Cairo, his Irish wife Catherine insists on going too, hoping to reinvigorate their relationship.…

Connolly John: The Reapers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists on a map. A town ruled by a man with very personal reasons for wanting Louis's…

Ross Stewart: Popular Culture

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Britain since 1948 explores the developments in the home, technology, work, culture and population over the last 6 decades. Starting off with life in post war Britain when rationing was still in force, through the developments of the washing machine and the television, to the latest advances of space. Panels encourage further investigation and a timeline to the chart the developments in…