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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Contains mouth-watering recipes! Issy Randall, proud owner of the Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn't be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline aren't quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she's long since tossed them out the window. Besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying her. Sarah has never forgiven Hugh for the duel…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: The Beatles are the cultural phenomeon of our time, arguably — unarguably? — of all time. In addition to their outstanding and clearly timeless music, their influence still pulses around the world in unaccountable aspects of everyday life. FAB has one aim: to be the all-tile standard word on the Beatles. Comprehensive, objective, unexpurgated and the product of definitively deep-level research,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: My name is Piper Hadley and I went missing on the last Saturday of the summer holidays three years ago. When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Now Tash, reaching breaking point at the abuse their captor has inflicted on them, has escaped, promising to come back for Piper. Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and his stalwart…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ella and Micha have been through tragedy, heartbreak, and love. When they are with each other, anything seems possible. But now they are thousands of miles apart... Ella continues going to school and tries to deal with her past, desperate for Micha to be by her side, but she refuses to let her problems get in the way of his dreams. Micha spends his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is... well, perhaps a bit more challenging — particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Ninety-one year old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his beloved, and long-dead, wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together — how they met, the dark days of WWII and its effect on their families. A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko's life is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: It's one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption and insurgency and the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists. When FBI agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield are assigned to overseas posts in Sana's, Yemen's capital city, they are tasked with hunting down the high-ranking Al Qaeda operative responsible for the USS Cole…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world's first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world and embarks on a journey with two unlikely partners: a teenage girl who is about to give up on life and a wealthy, ageing businessman who…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses — all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if we cancelled everyone's debt? How do you create a job? Will the BRIC…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There's an epidemic sweeping the nation Symptoms include: Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss'; Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake; An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorology. Doctors have also reported several cases of unnecessary apologising, an obsessive interest in correct queuing etiquette and dramatic sighing in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson she can't believe her luck. But Kirsty's delight turns to terror when she finds the beautiful Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatmate accused of her murder. Kirsty refuses to accept that he is guilty and, inspired by family friend Detective Superintendent Lorimer, sets out…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1827 During a research trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides the spark for his evolutionary theory. 2013 Almost two hundred years later, and hundreds of miles away in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Army engineer Tyler Locke is called in to help, and his expertise saves the day. But Tyler doesn't know he's about…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Throughout history, fashion models have occupied a curious position: while their faces were instantly familiar, virtually nothing else was known about them. But their impression upon Vogue's readership has always been considerable — they reflect and represent the ever-changing ideal of beauty. It was models such as Barbara Goalen and Fiona-Campbell Walter in Britain and Lisa Fonssagrives and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins — Paris, London, Berlin — and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods — the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: May 1194. Finally released from captivity, Richard the Lionheart is in Normandy engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of his continental patrimony. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare — siege, savagery and scorched earth — the Lionheart is gradually pushing back the forces of King Philip of France. By his side in this epic struggle are Robert, Earl of Locksley, better known as…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts to recover, until she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field, oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It is 1941. There may be a 'war of chaos' in the skies over London, but 'the perpetual war against the underworld of crime' must nevertheless continue on the streets below. At 12 o'clock on a Spring day in a London Coroner's Court, famed forensic pathologist Dr Keith Simpson asks young journalist Molly Lefebure if she might like to become his secretary. Recalling the 'horror of secretarial work…