Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain. He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishing holiday in the Highlands. Only, unknown to her, Douglas is actually flying off to Moscow…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Ender Wiggin is Battle School's latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one. A vast alien force is headed for Earth, its mission: the annihilation of all human life. Ender could be our only hope. But first he must survive the most brutal military training program in the galaxy... With its explosive storyline, pump-action excitement and hugely engaging…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Dr Johnson, having completed his life's major work (the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life, torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend. Her daughter, Queeney, narrates.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: A year after the events narrated in the bestselling THE ALIENIST, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted but no ransom note is received and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: An Englishman in New York — by a man who survived to tell the tale.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: Nan is captivated by the music hall phenomenon that is Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they start an all-singing and dancing double act. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Twelve years back, the sleepy town of Smallville was hit by a freak meteor shower. It left the survivors with scars and secrets. And it signalled the arrival of an alien child. He will become the most famed superhero of all time, but right now the teenaged Clark Kent has big problems just mastering his growing powers. Look out for more great Smallville titles: 1. Arrival by Mike Teitelbaum (Nov…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder. The police aren't making much progress in their hunt…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Arthur C. Clarke has been the presiding genius of science fiction for almost fifty years. His works include the ground-breaking and profound Childhood's End, Rendezvous With Rama and Expedition To Earth. Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A Space Odyssey tackles the enduring theme…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 773 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 545) Аннотация: 'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist not averse to breaking the law for a good story, has been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is enjoying accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. He finds that contacts and a way with words are no defence against those he helped put away.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement — V-Day — to stop violence against women. Witty and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 548 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 697) Аннотация: Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar, but his purpose remains shrouded in secrecy. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile, now a prisoner of Sevanna's sept. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed army of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife with bandits and…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 349 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 854) Аннотация: April 1986: American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad — Arabic for 'lion ' — loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion and the Great Leader — Gadhafi. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Twelve years later,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 242 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 637) Аннотация: The upmarket and salubrious area of Long Island is the stamping ground for a dying breed of America's super-rich. It is also the residence of John Sutter, lawyer — very top-drawer, old money, right clubs — and his sensual wife, Susan. Their lives are about to be turned dramatically upside down by their new 'next-door' neighbour — a certain Mr Frank Bellarosa, top Mafia don and master manipulator.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General 'Fighting Joe' Campbell, when her body was found — naked and bound — on the firing range of Fort Hadley. This political powder keg of a case goes directly to elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill — and explodes. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill…