Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: On a grimy sidewalk in a defeated neighborhood, an old man is beaten to death. When a cop investigates, he finds two killers and a startling legacy of honor... In a prestigious London art gallery an impoverished actor is swindled out of a fortune-until an eccentric appraiser hatches a delicious scheme for revenge... On an airplane high over war-torn Afghanistan, a passenger sends a note to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today, it has a visitor — the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside. Among the President's helicopter crew,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 268) Аннотация: It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye — to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history”, Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man’s changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity’s utopians and dictators who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: For thirty years, Robert Ludlum's novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, his books have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers and are widely acknowledged as classics in the field. Now, after the bestselling Covert-One novels «The Hades Factor» and «The Cassandra…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dear Reader, Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they've taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross-eyed…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed. Lin's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In the year, 354 A.D., Julian, a sheltered scholar and pacifist lives in peace-until a summons from Emperor Constantine the Great changes the young man's life forever. Dispatched to Gaul to help reclaim a beaten Roman territory from German barbarians, Julian displays a surprising and brutal genius for survival against impossible odds. Emerging as an unlikely hero and adored by a legion of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A Sequel to The New York Times Bestselling «Enders's Shadow». Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics — the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Beautiful women bent on hijacking a 747 begin a tense tale of intrigue, betrayal and violent action, from the bestselling author Wilbur Smith.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy's greatest interstellar thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems-and stealing the hearts of thousands of readers. Now three of the Rat's greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In «A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born», we…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: In the tenth book of the «Wheel of Time» from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: In the sequel to The Ring of Five Dragons, Riane, the prophesied redeemer Dar Sala-at, and V'ornn Annon Ashera, now united as a single being thanks to a magical spell, take on a new challenge as they discover that the spell has opened up the Abyss, freeing daemons imprisoned there.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A proven bestseller time and time again, «Robert Frost's Poems» contains all of Robert Frost's best-known poems-and dozens more-in a portable anthology. Here are «Birches», «Mending Wall», «Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening», «Two Tramps at Mudtime», «Choose Something Like a Star», and «The Gift Outright», which Frost read at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. An essential addition to every…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From The Road Not Taken to Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living, and he is the only writer…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Some kittens march to the beat of a different drummer. Mama Cat has three kittens, Fluffy, Skinny, and Boris. Where Mama Cat leads, Fluffy and Skinny follow. But what about Boris — will he ever stop napping and join the fun? Young children will love Mama Cat and her three kittens. They'll also enjoy looking for three other creatures hidden in every scene. But they'll have to count carefully —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In a sprawling mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonide lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. His cunning widow, 50 years his junior, is set to inherit a sizable fortune, and is rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor living on the estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward casts his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan look for a pattern in the disappearances of teenage girls across the country. Authorities are convinced the girls are runaways. Hill and Jordan have spent years exploring the psyches of madmen — but they know sane men kill, too. When one of Hill's students is murdered, it's the first move in a sick and violent game for three players.