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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously — some would say notoriously — spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death Row. His clients include many detainees in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and he established the London-based charity Reprieve, developed to defending human rights in 1999. His book is quite simply, devastating, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Stalin remains one of the creators of our world — like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illegitimate? Did he owe…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Richard Hammond is one of our most in-demand and best-loved television presenters. In September 2006, he suffered a serious brain injury following a high-speed car crash. «On the Edge» is his compelling account of life before and after the accident and an honest description of his recovery, full of drama and incident. An adrenalin junkie long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself — Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: This volume contains “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” (filmed as “Bladerunner”), “Martian Time Slip”, “Ubik”, “The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch” and “A Scanner Darkly”. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dick's unique imagination. In Dick's writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the world's order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life — a satisfying career, her own flat and a new boyfriend who respects her need for her own space. But then her only sister is killed in a car crash and Harriet is forced to give up her well ordered life and to help look after her orphaned niece and nephew. Moving back to her childhood home in Maple Drive, and sacrificing so much, doesn't come easy and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate a decapitation, he can not resist the chance to resuscitate the old skills he learned on the streets. But with the industrial world comes a new and faceless enemy: men who have…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favourite board game, comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip, vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter nicks his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party — and gets it by taking over as Head Teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's been many years since fourteen-year-old Freya's life was ruled by an obsession with angels — an obsession which destroyed her family. She has a burgeoning social life at school, and feels adjusted in the world. But then the angels return, and Freya discovers that she herself is a guardian angel. What makes matters worse is the arrival of the strange new girl, Stephanie, who craves for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The final part in the story that started with «Gifts», and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers. They play a part in «Voices» too, the sequel to «Gifts», in which Memer, a girl who has grown up in a captured city, is part of the people's fight for freedom. And now, in «Powers», we have the conclusion to Ursula Le Guin's…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT Lead investigator on a murder case that saw the arrest of the son of a wealthy and powerful man, Harry Bosch now finds himself in the midst of a high stakes trial where his every method is questioned. Meanwhile, criminal profiler Terry McCaleb is called to a murder scene where the killer has left a message that seems to implicate Bosch. The pair, first at odds, must now…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER: Dexter Morgan can't stand the sight of blood. Which makes his job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD a little tricky. But it means that he's very tidy when it comes to his hobby: murder. After all, even though Dexter only ever kills bad people, he doesn't want to draw attention to it. But now there's another killer out there who's being a whole lot less…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage and the constant attentions of her interfering sister Hilary. Most of all it means Alex, Ivy Cottage's drop-dead gorgeous-tenant, with whom…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock Holmes — one of literature's most enduring characters. Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Romantic, energetic, idealistic and upstanding, he could also be selfish and fool-hardy. Lycett assembles the many threads of Conan Doyle's life, including the lasting…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: It's a dreadful shock for Horrid Henry when Perfect Peter is born, and despite his best — or worst — efforts, he can't manage to get rid of him. As Peter gets bigger, Henry gets crosser. But the day comes when Henry inadvertently finds himself saving Peter from a fierce dog and discovers that it's rather nice to be a hero. Setting the scene for the Horrid Henry storybooks, this is a very simple…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The hill below the fortress of Taurovinda, stronghold of Urtha, High King of the Cornovidi, is coming alive: the Otherworldly realm of the Shadows of Heroes are claiming the land as their own. But this time their actions are driven by a force that is darker and older than even the oldest among the ghosts. Who or what is raising the Dead? Merlin, a temporary resident in the fortress, must answer…