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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Will Holly find love in the city where dreams are made? Fielding calls from disgruntled customers on a crispbread telesales careline isn't exactly where Holly Collins saw herself in life. Living in a shoebox flat and working in a windowless building on an outer London industrial estate were never quite what she'd had in mind. So when Holly is picked from obscurity to take part in Street Scout, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: Amelia Harris gave up on her dreams of being a Hollywood scriptwriter when she married handsome, ambitious filmmaker Dean — who has just upped and left her for a younger model. From LA to Santa Barbara to London, Amelia goes on a journey with a suitcase full of her grandmother's vintage dresses in one hand and her broken heart in the other, determined to find out the secrets of her grandmother's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: John Grisham delivers high intensity legal drama for a new generation of readers in the fourth novel in his bestselling Theodore Boone series. Though he's only thirteen, Theodore Boone has spent more time in the courtroom than almost anywhere else, and there's always a new adventure waiting. After having been falsely accused of vandalism and theft, Theo is happy to finally be out of the hot seat,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linkoping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and paralysed by the heat. However, when a teenage girl is discovered naked and bleeding in the local park, it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague affecting the town.Then a second girl is found dead.Alarmed…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly, Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen. Mama, your little girl is all grown up, and still playing our best game. I am a spy... Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, this perfect reading-group novel follows a slave who is freed by her mistress'…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 406) Аннотация: THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN is the first in a new set of fantasy-fuelled thrillers from the author George R. R. Martin cites as one of the major inspirations behind Game of Thrones: Tad Williams, international bestselling author of The Dragonbone Chair. BOBBY DOLLAR ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE ANGEL. Sure, he takes the occasional trip to Heaven, but his job as an advocate — arguing the fate of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: You can't put a price on love — so they say... When a medical condition threatens to tear apart Lanie Talbot's family, she makes the ultimate sacrifice. With no time and no other option, Lanie puts herself up for sale at an underground, high-end establishment where women are auctioned off to influential, wealthy men with more money than sense. Enter Noah Crawford: millionaire business mogul and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Manhattan lawyer Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish — to find the hometown boy she once loved and give him her last letter. Beacon, Maine, home to blueberry fields and eccentric locals, is the last place she wants to go so close to her upcoming wedding. Hoping to be in and out in 24 hours, Ellen ends up the talk of the town when a tumble into the ocean introduces her…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Once an acclaimed child star of vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed for adoring crowds before a move to Hollywood thrust her sister, Blanche, into the spotlight. As Blanche's film career took off, a resentful Jane watched from the shadows as her own career faded into obscurity — until a tragic accident changed everything. Now, years later, the two sisters live in a decaying mansion, isolated…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The sequel to the bestselling A STREET CAT NAMED BOB continues the remarkable adventures of James and Bob showing — through new stories — how Bob's extraordinary street wisdom has shown James the meaning of friendship, loyalty, trust — and happiness.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: There are so many things in life you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelt U? Why isn't WHY spelt Y? And why can just opening your mouth get you into some very BIG trouble? Clarice Bean is in non-stop trouble these days — almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest boy in school. Clarice just wants to star in the school play and impress Mrs Wilberton in the spelling bee, but…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob have been on a remarkable journey together. In the years since their story ended in BOB: NO ORDINARY CAT James, with Bob's help, has begun to find his way in the world. Along with the adventures and the fun there have been tough times too, but through moments of real danger and sometimes illness Bob has always been there as James' protector and guardian…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome. We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. This is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen, and Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring Gloucester. Its walls are weak, its garrison under strength, and its governor — Sir Edward Massie — suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King. Stryker and his men are with the army as it converges on…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Low Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. Good only for depravity and death. And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all. As a younger man, Warden carried out more than his fair share of terrible deeds, and never as many as when he worked for the Black House. But Warden's growing older, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, The Constant Gardener is a profoundly moving story of a man ennobled by his wife's tragic murder, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism. Le Carre's record-breaking 500,000 copy international bestseller now comes to the big screen. Directed by critically acclaimed Fernando Meirelles (City of God), with an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Nightfall, 6 June 1944 — D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. «D-Day to Berlin» is the remarkable story of the Allied struggle for survival — the battle from the beaches of Normandy to the heart of Hitler's Reich and ultimate…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Kate fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. Following an erratic education in England, America, Ireland and France, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge. ''Watching the English . . . will make you laugh out loud («Oh God. I do that!») and cringe simultaneously («Oh God. I do…