Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: You start to die the moment you are born. Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming's second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When dream husband Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system — one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the yellow journalist, Clint Smoker; the high priest of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Summer 1970 — a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing — twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel — is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Angel's glamour days are behind her, she's happily married to Cal and hoping to have another baby. But, as ever, drama is just around the corner, when Angel meets her half sister Tiffany for the first time...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: Five Men. One Robbery. A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin. Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes — 500,000. If he doesn't get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere, he is offered a lifeline. A hit on al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to steal $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise... and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Can you forgive the past? It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. In his most personal novel to date, Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable tale of self-discovery. Much like the shepherd boy Santiago in his bestselling novel The Alchemist, Paulo has recently been brought low by a grave crisis of faith. Seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he sets off on a trip via the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to meet…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The past will always find you. A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a chilling similarity to a woman found dead almsot 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in, and a past that could hold the clue to the killings...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm — sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world — and they always uncover the truth. When his former lover is found murdered in Jack's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University — where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs — most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous. The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey isn't a book…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the 'Flock' — Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel — are just like ordinary kids — only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time — like when Angel, the youngest member of the…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Private, the world's most powerful investigation firm, has branches around the world. Each is staffed with brilliant agents and has the kind of forensic tools that police investigators dream of. One of Private Berlin's most respected agents has disappeared. The Private team traces Chris Schneider's footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance. They were the last people to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Take one aspiring cook, one judge, and a spoonful of romance... When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition she's thrilled. It's a chance to cook her way to fame and fortune and the little delicatessen she's set her heart on. The first task has hardly begun when she finds herself with rather too much on her plate. Not only has she got to contend with the fiercely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: I never thought I could care so passionately for a zombie... the most unexpected romantic lead I've ever encountered. A mesmerising evolution of a classic contemporary myth. 'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 476) Аннотация: Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of London, including its stunning sights, historic neighborhoods, and latest restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and clubs. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it's your first trip or your fifth.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 492 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 490) Аннотация: Brillat — Savarin's unique, exuberant collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. First published in France in 1825, this remarkable book reflected a new era in French cuisine: the advent of the restaurant, which gave the bourgeoisie the opportunity to select their dishes with precision and anticipation. Yet the author also gives his…