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Nicky Pellegrino: The Italian Wedding

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded and sad? And could the man she's always held a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As Pieta stitches and…

Andrew Pepper: Kill-devil and Water

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a father, is in debtors' prison, having lost his home and reached the edge of bankruptcy. Fitzroy Tilling, now head of the new Metropolitan…

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: Following a failed marriage to a 'large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba', Humbert Humbert decides to move to America to work as a tutor. Much to his dismay, his plans change and he moves into a boarding house in Ramsdale, New Hampshire. But his disappointment quickly fades after he realises he lives next door to the 'light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my…

Veronica Henry: Marriage and Other Games

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When girl-about-town Charlotte discovers her husband has been arrested for fraud, she flees to the wilds of Exmoor to nurse her broken heart. But she's not the only one with a life in turmoil. Sebastian — bad boy of the British art scene — is determined to drink the local pub dry while his wife lives it up in London. Fitch married the high-spirited Hayley hoping for wedded bliss, but is…

Kate Harrison: Old School Ties

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Your school days are supposed to be the best days of your life — and Tracey Mortimer has no argument with that. Sixteen years ago she was the most popular girl in school, ruled her own gang, and dated the cutest boy in her year. Now it's all rather different: she's 33, stuck in a dull marriage that's only tolerable because her husband is rarely at home. And although she dearly loves her two…

Terry Pratchett: Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition Calendar 2010

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: The Annual Discworld Calendar is an inspired collection of paintings by award-winning illustrators who give us their own unique interpretations of Terry Pratchett's phenomal Discworld. Each full-page illustration also appears on the back; there are biographies of the artists as well as the author on the inside front page. The calendar dates are exhaustively researched and include major real-time…

Lisa Hilton: Queens Consort: The Autobiography

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power — the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror's queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England's queens fashioned the nature of monarchy and influenced the direction of the…

Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose in 2131? Who is inside it? And why?

Josie Rusher: Robert Pattinson Annual: Beyond Twilight: 2010

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: He's talented, he's sexy, and he's here to stay! Robert Pattinson is officially the world's hottest young actor. In this book we take you closer than ever before to the star of Twilight and New Moon... Packed with up-to-date news, the hottest gossip from the set of New Moon, the very latest gorgeous photos, facts and quizzes, the ROBERT PATTINSON ANNUAL 2010 is the perfect Christmas gift for fans…

Tim Fountain: Rude Britannia: One Man's Journey Around the Highways and Bi-ways of British Sex

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Tim Fountain knows more about sex than most people. His show, Sex Addict, was the target of widespread and vociferous critical media attention and led him to be labelled a pervert and a freak by much of the mainstream press. This, understandably, raised a few questions in his mind. Was his sex life really so different to the rest of Britain? Or was he just being rather more vocal about what he…

Sean Connery: Being a Scot

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round included Fettes College, where Ian Fleming had sent his fictional James Bond after he was expelled from Eton. BEING A SCOT is a vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements, which is…

Alex Scarrow: A Thousand Suns

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's early April of 1945. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the high command have one more throw of the dice to make... An audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the oncoming apocalypse. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured US bomber…

Charlaine Harris: A True Blood Omnibus

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Sookie Stackhouse works as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's, a little bar in Bon Temps, a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends — mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door — well, unless…

C.C. Humphreys: Vlad: The Last Confession

Скачать книгу (размер 2 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 446) Аннотация: DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever…

Mick Wall: When Giants Walked the Earth

Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer and former confidant of both Page and Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess — and eventually…

Katie Agnew: Wives V: Girlfriends

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: We've all got a story to tell... Jasmine's is the story of rags to riches — the glamour model turned footballer's fiancee has got everything she ever dreamed of — but will her past return to haunt her? Lila's story is a Hollywood romance-turned-nightmare. The actress who got out of the UK and married the biggest Hollywood star realises she might have sold her soul to get her man. Maxine is the…

Christian Cameron: Tyrant: Storm of Arrows

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Kineas, the Athenian cavalry commander, has come a long way since being dismissed from the army of Alexander and vengefully exiled by his own city. Together, his mercenary force and their Scythian allies have defeated a mighty Macedonian army at the Ford of the River God, and his adopted city of Olbia is now free once more. But his destiny will not allow him to enjoy the fruits of victory for…

Wendy Moore: Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

Скачать книгу (размер 2 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 520) Аннотация: WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But…

James Rollins: The Last Oracle

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: What if you could bio-engineer the next great world prophet, to scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Mohammed, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? A think tank of world scientists formed during the Cold War has discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents — mathematical…

Robert Ludlum: Robert Ludlum's the Second Bourne Trilogy

Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: THE BOURNE LEGACY: After the events of THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, David Webb is now living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But from the other side of the world someone is planning to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered. It seems that David Webb must once…