Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: In the city of Imardin, where those who wield magic wield power, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magician's Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot that may destroy the entire world... Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect. But she cannot forget what she witnessed in the High Lord's underground room — or his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you. There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck — one thing that had somehow withstood the tremendous pull of that passage — one thing that never had a price put to it. I…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »The Dream of Scipio», Iain Pears' first mainstream novel since «An Instance of the Fingerpost», is a work of astonishing ambition that appeals equally to the head and heart. It is set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation — the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The City of London in the 1990s is a dark, adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession, where sex is just another commodity and keeping one's integrity is a daily struggle. Gavin Blake is riding high. He's up to his neck in money, sex and sleaze, but he's young, and handsome and he's making a lot of money. Carta Graham wants nothing more than to forget her life as a high-flying lawyer, so…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honour of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn... Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are taking over the world, that governments' ability to tax, spend and regulate is under threat from global competition, that globalisation harms the poor and that democracy is at risk. Not so. This tightly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Rescuing Han Solo from the clutches of the bounty hunter Jaba the Hutt, Luke and his companions race to join the massing rebel forces preparing to attack the Empire's new and deadly Death Star. Solo and Leia lead a strike team to the forest moon of Endor and win the aid of the tribal Ewoks in their attempts to shut off the force-field that protects the Empire's vast space station. But Han's band…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The exploits and excesses of three pill-popping showbiz heroines: Anne, the smalltown girl supposedly modelled on Grace Kelly, who captivates a millionaire but falls for an English cad; Jennifer, the beautiful Marilyn Monroe clone who possesses everything — except immortality; and Neely, the ruthless Judy Garlandesque understudy-turned-superstar. As friends — and enemies — they learn the hard way…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is now firmly established as a classic of the genre and a world-wide bestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenth volume... Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against the Dark One in a struggle that has drawn an entire world into its vortex — claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike. He has cleansed the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Highly original `detective` stories with unique setting and characters.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In this third volume of highly original `detective` stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St. Columb to be ripe for any folly, anything to alter the tedium of her days. But there is another Dona who longs for a life of honest love — even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees London for remote Navron, finding there a hunted pirate.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Before the legend …Before the icon …There was the teenager Clark Kent — a Freshman doing all the usual High School stuff — wrestling with classwork, hanging with his mates, and trying to get a dream date with the drop-dead-gorgeous Lana Lang. Oh, and attempting to master his developing superpowers well enough to save Smallville from a succession of freakish events and deadly mutants!
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Before the legend …Before the icon …There was a teenager called Clark Kent… Clark and his classmates have a new substitute teacher — the gorgeous Ms Lilia Sanchez. Pretty soon Clark has a serious crush on her, and he’s not the only one. Lex Luthor has feelings for Ms Sanchez too, and they might just tear the two friends apart. Especially when Clark begins to suspect that Ms Sanchez might be able…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career's worth of favours, Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a…