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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on the ultimate journey around Scotland. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and majestic history. To uncover the spellbinding tales that lie hidden within Scotland's wild and romantic shores, to experience what inspired the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don't wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. (There was the time this spring when Carmen wore them to her mom's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Friday August 15th, 1997 — The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients three and a half million dollars. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities — love and rebellion.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This national bestseller and award-winning book is now available in paperback. A gripping narrative that spans five decades, «The Looming Tower» explains in unprecedented detail the rise of al-Qaeda and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on 9/11.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother's effects she realises that the past she has always been so sure of has been built on a tissue of lies. Devastated, she runs away to London, and loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity, temptation and danger, especially to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 680) Аннотация: When you're sixteen, pregnant and alone, sixties London is anything but swinging... Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, Doctor Who has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books — over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries — the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor's new…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced by two American airmen, they pool their wits and resources and set off to make a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the seedy backstreets of London's Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then — on her fifteenth birthday — she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: This «New York Times» bestseller begins as the ultimate voyage of discovery, which becomes dark chapter of Jedi history — the thrilling story of a legendary, and doomed, Jedi mission prior to the Clone Wars. Includes a bonus short story, RMist Encounter.

Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: When a spunky mouse invites a passing bird to see whats inside a People House, chaos ensues while beginning readers learn the names of 65 common household items in this super simple, delightfully silly introduction to objects around the house.