Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This summer, 2010, Veronica Henry will bring us THE BEACH HUT. A wonderful novel of linked short stories, each focussing on a gaily painted row of beach huts on the picturesque Woolacoombe beach in Devon. Just as each beach hut has a girl's name painted above the door, each has its own individual story. Ronnie has spent many summers eavesdropping on what goes on in them. Various comings and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but its going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and theres only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. Its past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Four new stories: Horrid Henry's Invasion — Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter keep invading each other's rooms. Moody Margaret's Sleepover — Moody Margaret invites all the members of the Secret Club for a sleepover, with catastrophic results. Horrid Henry's Autobiography — Miss Battle-Axe's class all have to write their autobiographies, the best to be published in the local paper. Horrid Henry Rocks…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Mercenaries are a wonderful thing: they fight as you tell them, whom you tell them, and when you tell them, for nothing more precious or complicated than money. And Monzcarro Mercatto, and her brother (and lover) Benna Mercatto, are the two most successful, most popular, and most wealthy mercenaries in Styria... but wealthy, popular mercenaries are not such a good thing. In fact they're a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain.…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Millions of years ago, the northern tip of Scotland was a separate island, until it crashed into the mainland. The prehistoric sea monsters rushed to escape... all except for Nessie! Ever since, people have claimed to see her as vehemently as others have denied her existence. And there have been some crazed and cunning plans to trap this elusive creature. What are the facts and what is only…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Your brother murdered your family. Your evidence put him away. But what if he didn`t do it? The thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of SHARP OBJECTS.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) 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 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Alex Taylor is a lucky man. He has a large house in the London suburbs, a well-paid job and a beautiful wife. On the surface everything is rosy. Or is it? He is bored by his job, has a love/hate marriage, and drinks more than he should. But then his world changes when he's told he's been left something in an ex-girlfriend's will — a daughter, Caitlin. A daughter he never knew he had and who has…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This is the stunning new novel from the author of The Shadow Of The Wind. In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man — David Martin — makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: Nobody likes The Complaints — they're the cops who investigate other cops. Complaints and Conduct Department, to give them their full title, but known colloquially as 'the Dark Side', or simply 'The Complaints'. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour and unwell. He also has a father in a care home and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: A new Sookie Stackhouse book is always a treat! Sookie is a sexy, sassy cocktail waitress who works at Merlotte's Bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's just a regular gal, with all the normal hopes and fears, about dating, boys and life in general — oh, and she's telepathic. And her boyfriends have included Vampire Bill, her first love and the were-tiger Quinn. And Bon Temps is a pretty normal rural…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal — the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 456 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1071) Аннотация: In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son, William, arrives in North Carolina, a young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI — a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a deeply censored dossier to the White House. THE LOST SPY at last reveals the truth: Oggins was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But its not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazis and the Japanese. In the neutral buffer zone that divides the two superpowers lives the man in…