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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the over-the-top and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast's brides and grooms to be. They rub along well but are as different as chalk and cheese. Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family. Julie is impossibly glamorous, and doesn't remotely believe in love or marriage. When…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists — all of whom have much to gain from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Gideon is more than a hit man. In a world of money, violence, women, and love on the run, he's the master of the game. Now Gideon's got the job of a lifetime. The prize is the woman he desires and a cool million. The problem is it's just the kind of hit that can make him more enemies. Like the two beautiful strangers on Gideon's tail. Are they there to protect him or bring him down? There's one…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: O.S.S. Agent Dick Canidy returns on another desperate mission behind enemy lines. The O.S.S. has dispatched Dick Canidyaleading a team of operatives with questionable loyaltiesaon a mission to convince the Axis powers that the D-Day invasion will not take place on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It is 1936. America has just elected Berzelius Windrip to the presidency-and his fascist policies turn the U.S. into a totalitarian state.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: As the popularity of Elizabeth Kostovaas bestselling The Historian proves, thereas always an audience bloodthirsty for quality, page-turning horror. Now, in a marvelously horrifying turn, John Marksaa former 60 Minutes producerasinks his satirical teeth into twenty-first — century media. In Fangland, Evangeline Harker is an employee of the legendary TV news magazine The Hour, Sent on assignment…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: «The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower», and «The Town-Ho's Story.»

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Now in mass market paperback-Tad Williams' triumphant return to high fantasy!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code — he needs no one, trusts no one — until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past Rain kills to order and leaves no trace, but the death at his hand of an old man has unforeseen complications — and soon Rain is trying to protect not just his carefully preserved anonymity but his own life and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands...After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crimes, the nearer Kit gets…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In the conclusion of the Tir Alainn Trilogy, the uneasy alliance between Fae and humans may not be enough to defeat the Inquisitors-leaving them no choice but to seek out the witches of the House of Gaian. But can they be trusted?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this Higgins adventure classic, an Allied spy operation is suddenly jeopardized just as it's about to discover Rommel's plans for defeating the D-Day invasion.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Police Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. She also recognized the victim...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty-helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget the past and start anew. But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a coat of paint. And when she senses that one of her clients may be hiding a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Kate never intended the get-over guy to fall in love with her... No, Keith was just the lovely fella who was definitely not her type, but would help her feel good about herself while she got over one of the World's Biggest Bastards. However, after the initial shock of hearing herself agree to marry him, Kate reckons that for once she is doing the right thing. A future with a wonderful man who is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is a landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's objective, nonmoralizing approach made it highly controversial, and only a heavily edited version could be…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: A swashbuckling novel by the author of The Three Musketeers Set in the same period as his best-known novel, Alexandre Dumas’s “forgotten masterpiece” (Le Monde) features two steely and preternaturally modern heroines fighting on opposite sides of the wars that ravaged seventeenth-century France. An unabashed page-turner, humorous, dramatic, and crackling with panache, this new English…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Three revelatory novellas by a twentieth-century master The works collected here explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The Woman Who Rode Away follows one woman’s religious quest in Mexico. St. Mawr displays Lawrence’s mastery of satire in a scathing depiction of London’s fashionable horse-riding scene. In The Princess, a detached woman…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A new edition of the “greatest novel of Scotland” The Romantic notion of the divided self is nowhere more powerfully conceived than in James Hogg’s masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double, it precedes Dostoyevsky’s great dramas of sin, self-accusation, and damnation by half a century.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition…