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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Time travel doesn't work. You can't go backward or forward; you're stuck at «now». What you can do is travel sideways, to the same «now» in another timeline where history turned out differently. So far, only our home timeline has figured out how to do that. We use it to conduct discreet trading operations in less advanced timelines, selling goods just a little bit better than the locals can make.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against “failed states” around the globe. In this much-anticipated follow-up to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, showing how the United States itself shares features with other failed states — suffering from a severe “democratic deficit”, eschewing domestic and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The first book in a RhotS new series introduces Cate Madigan, a young part-time college student who works nights as a bartender in Boston's South End. When Cate comes home to a ransacked apartment, she asks former cop Kellen McBride for help.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert’s classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert’s final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that's wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway. But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That’s because Khadija is really Annette Klein…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. For sixty years, their experiences were suppressed, replaced by patriotic propaganda. We know how the soldiers died, but…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Laika was the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. This is her journey. Nick Abadzis masterfully blends fiction and fact in the intertwined stories of three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, once a political prisoner, now a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program, and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: Sasha Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Sasha’s brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter — of lions, and of men. As the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Sasha, a man in tune with his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Surprise Golem has just lost her brand-new baby. The Stork assigned to deliver her eagerly awaited Bundle of Joy has inexplicably refused to surrender it, flying off instead through a hole in the fabric of reality. Now, to track down her offspring, Surprise must lead an ill-assorted assemblage of confederates on a desperate quest through dozens of different Xanths. But sinister, unseen forces are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espionage, deception, and murder…and develop an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Queda. Meanwhile, the leaders of the G-8…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: SHE is a director of dog food commercials who's just been recruited to finish a four-day movie shoot. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the make-up artist is suicidal, and the stunt director just happens to be her ex-husband. That, and the temperamental lead actor has just acquired as an advisor a Green Beret who has the aggravating habit of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: In interviews with more than 25 public personalities, including Bono, Hugh Hefner, and Anne Rice, Falsani offer a fresh, occasionally controversial, and always illuminating look at the beliefs that have shaped their lives.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When a right-wing radio show host is arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a deadly series of events. Leading the investigation is Gregor Demarkian, a retired FBI agent hired to stop a killer from striking again.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 385) Аннотация: John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: All the teenage girls from a small mountain village must attend the academy to learn how to become a princess. Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 937 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 381) Аннотация: Hugo Award winner Vinge pens a sci-fi thriller set in San Diego, California, in the year 2025. As world-famous poet Robert Gu regains his faculties from Alzheimer's through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed — and so has his place in it.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 367) Аннотация: Humor, surprises, and domestic irony await Roman sleuth Falco as he attempts to solve the disappearance of two newlyweds on their honeymoon trip to Ancient Greece.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: Marcus Didius Falco, Ancient Romes favorite son and palace spy, has just been left in the dust by the beautiful, highborn Helena Justina. When the Emperor Vespasian calls upon him to investigate an act of treason, Falco soon uncovers a dangerous conspiracy--one in which Helena may be involved.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 385 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 469) Аннотация: Braverman Shaw — Bravo to his friends — always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies does Bravo discover that his father belonged to a hidden sect that has guarded a lost Testament that could shake Christianity to its foundations.