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Keyes Marian: The Mystery of Mercy Close

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Meet Helen — youngest of the Walsh sisters and a law unto herself. She's easily bored, has an inability to filter her thoughts and was fired from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helen's had no choice but to take on the search for AWOL boyband has-been Wayne Diffney — The Wacky One. It's not all bad this game of…

Ramsay Caro: The Blood of Crows

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: DI Colin Anderson is having a bad week. His conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe — putting Fairbairn back on Glasgow's streets and leaving Anderson under investigation. Then one night, a young girl is tied to the river bank and left for the tide. Anderson gets there, but she dies in his arms.

Starmer Aaron: Insight Guides: New York City Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: City Guide New York is a comprehensive guidebook to one of North America's most exciting destinations. Full-color photography combines with the lively text to help you discover the real Big Apple. Forget all the crowds at the regular sights and explore New York like a New Yorker, in the delis, local bars, and small theaters that give this city its energy. With more than 48.7 million visitors in…

Carson Rachel: Silent Spring

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Carson's book has changed the world. (The Times). Impassioned, poetic and brilliantly written, Silent Spring is now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. In it, Rachel Carson exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread and indiscriminate use of pesticides. She described the nests full of eggs that would never hatch, the rivers bloated with…

Zuiker Anthony E.: Dark Revelations

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The killer calls himself Labyrinth. The riddles, puzzles, and wordplay with which he announces his new targets have caused a worldwide media sensation. The case has already claimed a number of high profile individuals as its victims — not to mention several government agencies, which have tried and failed to stop a growing global panic.

Rosen Michael: Fantastic Mr Dahl

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? This title provides answers to these questions. It includes stories and anecdotes from Roald Dahl's school days and family life.

Middleton Pippa: Celebrate

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Celebrate by Pippa Middleton is a fully illustrated and beautifully designed book packed with recipes, crafts and inspirational ideas. Beginning with autumn and ending with summer, Celebrate is a one-stop guide to entertaining throughout the British year. It contains a myriad of personal tips, favourite recipes and useful decorating ideas. Practical but full of fun, it guides readers through the…

Francis Dick: Reflex

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Longtime jockey Philip Nore suspects that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder — and unravels some nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder.

Francis Dick: Shattered

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape — a videotape that just might destroy his own life.

Green J.: Looking for Alaska

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: John Green attended a boarding school not unlike Alaska’s Culver Creek. After graduating from college in 2000, he worked as a chaplain at a children’s hospital. John’s experiences with patients and their families during intense crises solidified his desire to write for teens about the challenge of confronting loss. John works for Booklist and is also a commentator for National Public Radio’s…

Meyer Marissa: The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A forbidden romance. A deadly plague. Earth's fate hinges on one girl... CINDER, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing, is also a cyborg. She's reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's sudden illness. But when her life becomes entwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the centre of a violent struggle between the desires of an evil queen — and a dangerous…

Cornwell Patricia: The Bone Bed

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much…

Andersen Hans Christian: Andersen's Fairy Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts — the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to…

le Carre John: A Delicate Truth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend.

Day Sylvia: Entwined with You

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The third book in the «New York Times» — bestselling Crossfire Trilogy following «Bared to You» and «Reflected in You.» Day has written more than a dozen novels across multiple subgenres and has won the «Romantic Times» Reviewers Choice Award and the National Readers Choice Award twice.

Coe Jonathan: Expo 58

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 — the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at…

Sun-Mi Hwang: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The 2-million-copy bestselling modern fable from Korea that is winning hearts around the world This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild — and to hatch an egg of her…

Gerhardsen Carin: The Gingerbread House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ingrid Olsson returns home from a Stockholm hospital to discover a man in her kitchen. She's never seen the intruder before. But he's no threat — he's dead. Criminal Investigator Conny Sjoberg takes the call, abandoning his wife Asa and their five children for the night. His team identify the body as that of a middle-aged family man.

Goodwin Doris Kearns: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin — the new biography of Teddy Roosevelt from the bestselling author of Team of Rivals, the inspiration for Spielberg's Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the acclaimed multi-million copy bestseller Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, now turns to the birth of America's Progressive Era — that heady, optimistic time when the 20th…

Clancy Tom: Threat Vector

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: The spies are being spied on in Tom Clancy's Threat Vector, the latest gripping addition to the Jack Ryan Jr series. When Jack Ryan Jr, on a highly secret, off-the-books Campus mission in Turkey, discovers that his team's every move is monitored, he knows that US intelligence has been fatally compromised. Back in the States, President Ryan watches in horror as China's weakened leader bends to a…