Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended as the epitome of literary chic, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. It is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husband; a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Floyd Jones is sullen, ungainly and quite possibly mad, but he really can see exactly one year into the future. And this talent means that in a very short time he rises from being a disgruntled carnival fortune-teller to convulse an entire planet. For Jones becomes a demagogue, whipping up the ideal-starved population into a frenzy against the threat of the 'drifters' , enormous single-cell…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 1901. Denton, a writer with a reputation for involving himself in murder cases, is used to getting unconventional mail. But one particular letter gets his attention: a note from a young woman, Mary, saying she's in terrible danger and needs his help. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. Presumably whatever Mary was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job — even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was — and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes — only to realise that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital — the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: From the team that brought you the bestselling SECRETS OF THE CODE and SECRETS OF ANGELS AND DEMONS comes the first literary companion to Dan Brown's latest blockbuster. SECRETS OF THE LOST SYMBOL builds upon the expertise and wisdom of Nobel prize-winning scientists, historians, technologists and conspiracy theorists to help readers fully understand the mysteries behind THE LOST SYMBOL.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that more than one blood-type has been discovered at the scene — and the other blood can only be attributed to her daughter. But she died 10 years before. As…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best — but she doesn't know if she's good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear — failure is not an option ...even if the task she's been set is impossible. Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 456 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1071) Аннотация: The year is 1777. The place, North Carolina. And as the American rebellion grows in intensity, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire need to decide which side their family is going to be on. The choice should be an easy one, given that Claire was born in the twentieth century and has already seen the future — in history books. But things are never simple where the Frasers are concerned, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: A history of the Second World War that covers all the war fronts, the fighting on land, at sea and in the air, the activities of resistance and partisan groups, espionage, secret intelligence, strategy and tactics, war leaders, generals, admirals and air marshals, individual acts of heroism on all the war fronts and behind the lines, the fate of prisoners of war, the bombing of cities, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.… When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Heartbreak, danger, passion and glamour: all in a day's work... The LaFata family have it all — obscene wealth, talent, good fortune and beautiful genes. Or at least they used to...until the head of the family, Giancarlo 'Fatty' La Fata, vanishes over the side of his yacht one dark night in Monaco. His widow (and fourth wife) Jade, his son, Carlo Jr, and daughters, Francesca and Angelica, are…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still fighting the cold war.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast — recently returned to New York — and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour — a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. Shunning the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret cook up trouble making Glop!
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry is determined to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret, by whatever means necessary...
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry needs money — and fast! But just how is he going to do it? CD includes a dramatised version and read along version.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry has got nits — again! But as an impending visit from Nitty Nora the Nit Nurse looms, Henry's determined he won't be the only one...