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Geoffrey Blainey: A Very Short History of the World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: »A Very Short History of the World» is the story of the world's people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together again in recent centuries. Blainey recreates human experience in its astoundingly varied forms, describing human…

Charlaine Harris: Definitely Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. After all, technically speaking, Hadley was already dead. And now, as unexpected heir to Hadley’s estate, Sookie discovers the inheritance definitely comes with a risk. Someone…

Robert Asprin: Class Dis-Mythed

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A brand new MYTH-filled with reading, writing, and arithMYTHtic. The «legendary» magician Skeeve tries to live up to his reputation by training young spellcasters in the tricks of the trade-with less than magical results.

O. Henry: 41 Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Readers the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century. Widely known as a master of irony, O. Henry also displays here dazzling wordplay and a wry combination of pathos and humor.

Laurell K. Hamilton: Danse Macabre (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 14)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, werewolf, or something else entirely, it's clear that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby.

The Rough Guide Map Rome

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The essential companion to this amazing city. The Rough Guide Map pinpoints the best the city has to offer, from the well-known sites of The Colosseum and The Pantheon to the bars and cafés dotted around Piazza Navona. The best shopping streets, pedestrian zones and major buildings are all edged in different colours to make them easier to find. The useful ''Time Map'' charts the opening days…

Cleland John: Fanny Hill

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern «erotic novel» in English. The book follows the life of Frances Hill who begins as a poor country girl of 15 who is forced by poverty to leave her village home and go to town. There, she is tricked into working in a brothel, but escapes with Charles with whom she has fallen in love. After several…

Patricia D.Cornwell: At Risk

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: «Any crime, any time.» In particular, she's been looking for a way to…

Beatrix Potter: Bathtime Fun! With Peter Rabbit

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Even the most hesitant toddlers will look forward to bath time with this new Peter Rabbit bath book. Featuring full-color illustrations of Peter Rabbit and his friends doing all their favorite things, children can read and play with the book in and out of the bathtub. Every page includes original Beatrix Potter illustrations in an eye-catching new style alongside simple text.

Patricia Briggs: Blood Bound

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.

Mari Mancusi: Girls That Growl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Third in Mancusi's hip, sassy vampire series, featuring the heroine of Stake That! She's a vampire. She's also a vampire slayer. (It's a long story.) And now Rayne McDonald, Goth girl, has to carry out her most deviant mission yet: trying out for the cheerleading squad. Rayne already has enough on her plate: her twin keeps whining about whether or not to go all the way; her mom's boyfriend is…

Jim Butcher: Proven Guilty

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Dresden as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in Chicago. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in the Windy City, but it's all in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob.

Katie MacAlister: The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: On a trip to England, physicist Portia Harding is stalked by a heart-stoppingly handsome maniac.Theondre North is a nephilim-the son of a fallen angel-who needs Portia's help to change his fate. Problem is, Portia's down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms-and gets Theo turned into a vampire. But at least he has Portia to satisfy his newfound hungers-and…

Rachel Caine: The Dead Girls' Dance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Rachel Caine: Midnight Alley

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

Clive Cussler: Polar Shift: A Kurt Austin Adventure

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Polar Shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its weakest, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter... Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to…

Christina Dodd: Scent of Darkness

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Ann Smith loves her handsome, dynamic boss, Jasha Wilder, but her daring plan to seduce him goes awry when she encounters a powerful wolf who-before her horrified eyes-changes into the man she adores. She soon discovers she can't escape her destiny, for she is the woman fated to break the curse that binds his soul.

Amanda Quick: Second Sight

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Financially straitened and on the path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist. And the alchemist's descendant-her employer, Gabriel Jones-has…

Christina Dodd: Touch of Darkness

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder holds the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of prey-a gift that's caused death and destruction. At last he's offered the chance to redeem himself. Only one woman stands in his way-a beautiful writer determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Assassins, it's been rumored, who have powers no human should ever possess...