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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A child falls into the river. A stranger jumps in to rescue him. And four lives are changed for ever... On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on the river watch in shock as a small boy falls into the Seine and disappears below the surface. As his mother stands frozen, a stranger takes a breath and leaps... From the internationally bestselling author of Since I Don't Have You comes a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ruby Jones just needed to relax and take a holiday. She made a bad decision when she headed for Goa... Famed for beaches and full moon parties, Goa is also home to one of the most famous Christian shrines in Asia — St. Francis Xavier, his body still miraculously intact after five hundred years. But when the head of the saint is stolen, Ruby discovers there's a lot more going missing in Goa than…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. In the summer of 1914, the Empress Alexandra, a magnificent ocean liner, suffers a mysterious explosion on its voyage from London to New York City. On board are Henry Winter, a rich banker, and his young new wife, Grace. Somehow, Henry manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone. Alex Broccoli is ten years old, likes onions on toast, and can balance on the back legs of his chair for fourteen minutes. His best friend is a 9000-year-old demon called Ruen. When his depressive mother attempts suicide yet again, Alex meets child psychiatrist Anya. Still bearing the scars of her own daughter's battle with…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The year is 2041, and Shaun Mason is having a bad day. Everyone he knows is dead or in hiding. The world is doing its best to end itself for the second time. The Centre for Disease Control is out to get him. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it in, he must face mad scientists, zombie bears and rogue government agencies before the conspiracy that killed Georgia manages to kill…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Who do you trust when you can no longer trust your own mind? A state school girl at a prestigious music school, Emma is determined to excel. Then the impossibly chic twins, confident Sophie and quieter Matilde, come crashing into her life. Surrounding her with champagne and parties, they demand Emma's full attention. Struggling to balance it all, the girls are plunged into insomnia and bitter…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: You've finished Fifty Shades... Now treat yourself to Silken Bonds this Christmas. Christmas is never a good time to break up with someone but Tamzin has had enough of Tim; he isn't man enough for her. Bored and frustrated, Tamzin agrees to attend a Christmas party hosted by a colleague, unaware of how out of hand things will get. Tamzin discovers startling things about her desires — and she…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Asta Looney (yes, she's heard all the jokes) is a prodigal daughter, returning to the small Irish town she ran fled as a teenager. Sent home by her boss to research a magazine story, Asta brings Kitty, the daughter she's raising single handedly, to meet her large and noisy family for the first time. Ireland has a few surprises up its sleeve for Asta. Her relatives want answers about why she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Within the pages of very rare books, some centuries old, lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes — and sometimes has taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumours swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of The New Yorker. At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkably smart,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell — the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 1688. Beth Ambrose has lead a sheltered life within the walls of Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, a troubled resident at Merryfields, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice. But as political tensions…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability,…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls. Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions — more or less — while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The fascinating, intimately told story of the wild and romantic life of Pannonica Rothschild, the author's great aunt, which moves from London to Africa during World War II and finally to the postwar jazz world of New York City.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner suffers a mysterious explosion en route to New York City, Henry Winter manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for his new wife Grace. But the survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity and could…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The doughnut is a thing of beauty. A circle of fried doughy perfection. A source of comfort in trying times, perhaps. For Theo Bernstein, however, it is far, far more. Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work has lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Life simply couldn't be better for Erin Bentley. At twenty-seven, she is engaged to the simply divine Jay Keskar — and every minute of her day currently revolves around planning the wedding of her dreams. Until, that is, Jay's parents announce that they want to discuss things — and this is when Erin's wedding heaven turns into her wedding hell... Tavish and Deena are Indian and have very firm…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its protected space, she's never though to dream of what lay beyond its doors. Until she's banished for a crime she didn't commit and thrown out into what her people call The Death Shop. Perry and his tribe have always struggled to survive in The Death Shop of the outside. Though their lives are simple…