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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Since the times of Ivan the Terrible, generations of Russian leaders have turned the Kremlin into a fortress within a fortress, stocking its labyrinthine underground with secret vaults, elegant chambers, and priceless treasures. Now a master thief has the ultimate motivation to stage an assault on the Kremlin’s inner sanctum. Two lives depend on it. Thousands of years of religious faith hinge on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With an introduction by J.M. Coetzee. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of things’.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he’s still loyal – or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence known only to a few senior CIA officials. But now he's coming home — and no one, including his CIA minder Jennifer Exley, knows what to expect. He is a man alone, used by two…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: At fifteen, Terry Flynn had the face of an angel and the body of a perfect athlete... Set in a small boarding school on the eve of America's entry into World War Two, «A Good School» tells the story of William Grove, the nervous teenager trying to fit in; the betrayed alcoholic, Jack Draper; and Edith Stone, the teacher's daughter, who falls in love with the most popular boy in school. Instantly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s «Selected Poems» adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone, and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In her delightful #1 «New York Times» bestseller, Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of how to, like the French, enjoy food and stay slim and healthy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: »Rant» is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic «Fight Club» and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest «Haunted». It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster Rant Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The third and final novel in Birminghams World War II alternate history trilogy. Its like a Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together. — «TIME» magazine.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: “Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it”. – Darth Bane, Dark Lord of the Sith On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel, a cortosis miner, vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There, Dessel’s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Bringing fresh wonders and dangers to light in the skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd, who demonstrated his writing talents in the bestselling novels Dragon’s Kin and Dragonsblood, return with their second collaboration: a thrilling adventure of discovery and fate. Pellar is an orphan taken in by Masterharper Zist. Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, then so can you — no matter what your present circumstances. Here is how I did it and what I learned along the way'. So writes Felix Dennis, who believes that almost anyone of reasonable intelligence can become rich, given sufficient motivation and application. «How To Get Rich» is a distillation of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death – a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone – Mac journeys to Ireland in search of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel’s not buying it. They’re selling it–and Arkady–to the highest bidder. As the auction heats up, the Artificial Life Emancipation Front sends in Major Catherine Li. Drummed out of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Koontzs beloved hero leaves the small desert town of Pico Mundo for the solitude and peace of an isolated monastery as he tries to find a way to live fully again. But Odd Thomas has a knack for finding trouble and must confront an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, in this third «New York Times» bestseller featuring this beloved hero.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: The fourth title in a series of Salvatore's classic dark elf tales continues the classic tale of the signature character Drizzt Do'Urden. Reissue.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 916 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 377) Аннотация: The fifth book in Salvatore's classic dark elf tales continues the saga of Drizzt' Do'Urden. Although this was the second title actually published about Drizzt, it has now been placed in its proper chronological order as fifth in the series.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: America’s engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant only in the last century. Today, the Bush Doctrine aims to free the Arab peoples from political oppression and create a democratic Iraq.…