Скачать книгу (размер 3 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 661) Аннотация: In this dazzling work of biography, cultural history, and musical insight, Gould explores the 1960s in England and America through the prism of the Beatles.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 722) Аннотация: In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Ocean's Eleven, and entirely enthralling... An orphan's life is harsh-and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night — or this man — is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed — a realm where vampires…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his world — a shifting, shadowed…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now the reputation he has built taking Everest to the top has been noticed beyond the boardrooms of high finance-by powerful people with potentially devastating agendas. Christian's own…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: I'm Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares — and I dare you to read a more brilliant story than this! I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story, of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie; no designer clothes, when I really need them; a pokey flat, and a horrible new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Sephy is a Cross — a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought — a colourless member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, highlighted by violent terrorist activity by Noughts, a romance builds between them — a romance that is to lead both of them into danger.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals. Writing with warmth, wit and great…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: A collection of the classic Russian folk and fairy tales. Nearly 200 characteristic and colourful traditional folk and fairy tales, full of action, magical and human, are brought together in the only comprehensive edition available in English.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye. When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong...the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka...the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)... Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal — handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised — has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. When sloaney rich-girl Sophie, falls for him, he grabs the chance to escape his past and pursue the woman of his dreams, the voluptuous sophisticate Sarupa, who happens to be engaged to Sophie's cousin.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Engineers of the Soul is the riveting story of how authors were forced to write in service of the Soviet Union's Communist ideology. Stalin first used the expression 'engineers of the soul' to refer to Soviet writers in 1932. It would become a well-known phrase and a feared concept. Together with the actual engineers, these engineers of the soul were supposed to contribute to the definitive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of «Between Husbands and Friends» and «An Act of Love» comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty «coming of age» novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. Meet Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets — all…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The epic Eberron trilogy The Lost Mark continues! The dark and mysterious world of Eberron continues to expand through RPG products and novels. This is the sixth novel set in the Eberron world. Matt Forbeck has written and designed games for more than 14 years, for which he has garnered several awards. His most recent title for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. was Marked for Death, the kickoff novel…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Byzantium Endures, one of the first of the Pyat series of novels, Introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations — Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg,…