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Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Dirk Pitt is in the Middle East doing routine survey work when a spot of lucks leads him to an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, Pitt interrupts a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. Suddenly he's at the centre of a race to acquire a series of ancient and legendary artifacts. Meanwhile, a series of mosques across Turkey and Egypt are blown up,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This is the latest Kay Scarpetta novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. In this fast-paced story, we travel back to the beginning of Scarpettas professional career when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than twenty years later, her secret military ties have brought her back to Dover Air Force Base, and she is confronted with a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Are you searching for your next challenge? Are you tempted to go to business school? Before you do, save your money and read «The Personal MBA». Getting an MBA takes two years of your life. And most of it is spent on PowerPoint presentations and outdated financial models, rather than learning what it takes to run a real business. «The Personal MBA» distils the most valuable lessons of the finest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza in the context of Israel's long-standing war against the Palestinians. «Gaza in Crisis» is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home, to his mother — a racehorse trainer and the 'First Lady' of racing — Tom discovers the training business is on the edge, and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly, battlefield where his…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again. Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemies on the move. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts of those who lived…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: The dog from Goodnight Dog is back, and he keeps drawing shapes in the wrong places, like triangle wheels on a truck. Will he ever get it right?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Childers' lone masterpiece, The Riddle of the Sands, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognizable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s — an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement-left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Mackie…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: »Moonfleet» (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? And how can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune's treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Not suitable for children under 1 year 6 months of age This bedtime themed gift box contains two exciting storybooks featuring Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and their friends, and a lovely songs and rhymes book with all the character rhymes from the ever popular CBeebies TV show. There are also stickers to decorate your books and a beautiful night-time wall frieze, featuring the words of…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits...An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House....A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when, she falls in love with a German spy... And two…

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Don Keough a former top executive at Coca-Cola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company? Has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixty-year career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Drucker. Now this elder statesman…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: In the latest in the New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas tracks down those who break the law-including the ones sworn to uphold it.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father and trips to the zoo and the pantomime. But when Father is mysteriously taken away one night, everything changes. What has happened to Father, and will he come back?