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Allen Carr: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking – for good. ‘If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.’ That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as the world's leading and most successful quit smoking expert, Allen was right to boast! Reading this book is all you need to give up smoking. You can even smoke while you read. There…

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children’s health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions that make us poorer, less healthy and less happy. And, as Thaler and Sunstein show,…

Ian Kershaw: Luck of Devil: The Story of Operation Valkyrie

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' — Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a group of senior officers to redeem Germany's…

Barbara Vine: Asta's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing…

Barbara Vine: A Fatal Inversion

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there, what they are doing or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms.In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery. Which woman? Whose child?

Marian Keyes: This Charming Man

Скачать книгу (размер 4 507 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 885) Аннотация: ‘Everybody remembers where they were the day the heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married’. But for four women in particular, the big news about the charismatic politician is momentous… Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy’s marrying because she’s his girlfriend, yet she definitely isn’t the bride-to-be… Journalist Grace wants the inside story on the de Courcy…

Barbara Vine: The Birthday Present

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The latest Vine novel, published by Viking in August, is called The Birthday Present, and I believe it is destined to take its place beside the very best of her novels. It has a sensational plot: a right-wing government minister is conducting an illicit sado-masochistic affair with a young married woman. As a surprise birthday present, he arranges for her to be 'kidnapped' off the street, and…

Clive Cussler: Plague Ship

Скачать книгу (размер 3 298 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 648) Аннотация: For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency…

John Updike: The Widows of Eastwick

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées — Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie — have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask…

Adele Parks: Tell Me Something

Скачать книгу (размер 2 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 474) Аннотация: Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled — an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she's bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London for Italy and the family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help her relax and…

Sue Townsend: The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from…

Daniel Silva: Moscow Rules

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. Not to the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a modern Moscow awash with oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of rich Stalinists plotting to challenge an old enemy: the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel, whose global empire is built on a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an…

Barbara Vine: The Minotaur

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is…

Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away…

Charlie Higson: Young Bond: By Royal Command

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school — and his country. Life for James Bond will never be the same again.

Anna Godbersen: Rumours: A Luxe Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: December 1899 – New York City Manhattan has bid farewell to its brightest star, the dazzling Miss Holland. Yet the rumours about her untimely demise continue. Meanwhile, her sister, the irrepressible Diana, has been seen in the company of not one, but three eligble bachelors. Might there be a fourth? In High Society reputation is everything. The Holland family simply can't afford to be the…

Anna Godbersen: Envy: A Luxe Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Two months have passed since the dramatic homecoming of Elizabeth Holland — Manhattan society eagerly awaits her return. But Elizabeth won't rejoin her sister Diana's side. The whispers are beginning — is all as it seems behind closed doors? Uptown, Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the city's most celebrated couple. But despite the glittering diamond she wears, the newlyweds share little more…

Sholem Aleichem: Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and «Tevye the Dairyman» is a heartwarming and poignant account of life in turn-of-the-century Russia. Through the workaday world of a rural dairyman, his grit, wit, and heart, his daughters' courtships and marriages, and the eventual menace of the pogroms, Sholem Aleichem reveals the fabric of a now-vanished world. Motl…

Robert Asprin: Myth-Chief

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Skeeve the Magnificent, magician to kings and King of Magicians, Businessman and Problem-Solver Extraordinaire, has come out of retirement. And he’s set up shop in the Bazaar, right on the home turf of his old company, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Too bad his former co-worker, Aahz the Pervect, is not exactly thrilled with the competition. Looks like a little wager is in order.

Charlaine Harris: From Dead to Worse

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend, Quinn, has gone missing. It’s clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And…