Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Calico Joe tells the story of Paul Tracey, a 13-year-old boy from a dysfunctional family, caught in a conflict of loyalties when his troubled baseball-playing father comes face to face with the greatest young player of his age, Joe Castle, and the terrible consequences that follow. Decades later, with his father dying, Paul decides that the tragedy of his youth must be reconciled and attempts to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's 'sea dragon',…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen knew more about marriage than anyone else. Never mind that she never got married herself. It's in the midst of the recession when Kate, a freelance journalist and self-professed Jane Austen addict, finds herself single, unemployed and soon-to-be homeless (not to mention about to turn 40). In desperation she accepts a writing assignment to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: PI Felix Strange is working his last case. The woman he loves has been taken by Fisher Partners — America's for-profit secret police — and, though he suspects he won't find her, he's going to do the next best thing: kill everyone involved. As he works his way down the list, Strange is offered a secret deal, which could lead him straight to Iris. Across the American South, the militant Sons of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From a №1 New York Times bestselling author comes an edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller, in which New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya investigate the murder of a young nun and uncover a serial killer as devious and depraved as they come.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the Family — pushy mother, long suffering father and sensitive daughter to the nervous adult learner, the yard know it all and dressage diva it pays to know and understand your owner. Only this way can true one maintain a well trained and maintained human. This guide includes all a horse will ever need to know about its owner, it can also be invaluable to any human who is unsure which…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Arthur is only a squire, but he longs to be a knight like his older brother, Kay. When Kay's sword goes missing, Arthur must get him a new one quickly. But the special sword that Arthur finds will change his own life for ever!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From London... Alice Roberts is having a rubbish summer. She's terrified of her boss, her career is stalling, and she's just been dumped — by text message. But things are about to change... to Italy When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it's not all yachts, nightclubs…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Inner city murder crosses two continents. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn. As they delve deeper…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Who would you run to if your life fell apart? Meredith had a perfect life. Until her husband was arrested for defrauding everyone they knew out of millions. Hounded by the press, shunned by society, there's only one person she can turn to: her teenage best friend Connie, who she hasn't spoken to in years. But as they retreat to Connie's holiday home on glamorous Nantucket Island, it seems that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1947 — England is haggard by the scarcities of war and the blight of a harsh winter. In this cold, corrupt and bankrupt world, Peter Cotton, a Colonial Intelligence officer, continues his adventurous series as Harold Watkins (homosexual previously convicted for 'gross indecency') is found dead in his hotel room, suspected of committing suicide by means of a poisoned apple. Cotton's quest for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Travel blogger Krista is (reluctantly) swapping sunshine for snow, and leaving her tepid relationship behind her. Landing amidst the icy peaks of Quebec where the Winter Carnival is in full swing, Krista has to admit that waking up in the incredible Hotel du Glace, gazing into the eyes of Gilles (a man more delicious than Maple Syrup Pie) has a certain appeal... During ten sub-zero days —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Set in the Renaissance and the present day, The Glassblower of Murano is an unforgettable novel located in the most beautiful city on earth. Venice, 1861. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Florence looks like gold and smells like sulphur... In the colourful world of fifteenth-century Italy, Luciana Vetra is young and beautiful, a part-time model and full-time whore. When she is asked to pose as the goddess Flora for Sandro Botticelli's painting La Primavera, she is willing to oblige — until the artist abruptly sends her away without payment. Affronted, she steals an unfinished…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you when you have it. And when you don't. I'm pushing aside the memory of my nightmare, pushing aside thoughts of Alex, pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school, push, push, push, like Raven taught me to do. The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Cri de coeur When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn't realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village grocery. Parisian-exile Fabian's welcome goes from bad to worse as his attempts to drag the shop into the modern age are met with a resounding non by the residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees. He is on the verge of admitting defeat when…