Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will — that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Don't Touch That Wand! Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield has just graduated from magic academy. He dreams of becoming a master wizard. Instead he's sent to Japan to teach English... at an all-girls high school! All the students are delighted with their cute new teacher — except for Asuna, who resents Negi for replacing the teacher she secretly has a crush on. Although he is forbidden to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Iris Murdoch's first novel is a gem — solid and sparkling. Set in a part of London, where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a drifting, clever, likeable young man who makes a living out of translation work and sponging on his friends. Meeting again, after some years, an old flame, Anna, he is led into…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Sometimes hopes and dreams don't go according to plan — sometimes, real life gets in the way. On a mild May evening, a group of friends on the verge of graduating speculate on what the future holds. Will Leah be a chef? Robin an accountant? And Olivia the one who holds it all together? The one thing they know is that they'll always be friends — no matter what — but they make a pact to meet up in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Eric Flint’s acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without. In the War of 1812, U.S. troops are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Gotham’s never been so scorching, the Joker’s never been more despicable, and Batman’s never been in such grave danger. With more than thirty fires raging out of control across the city, Gotham is indeed a hell on earth. But torching the population is small potatoes for the arsonist extraordinaire known as Enfer. The pyromaniac’s mad masterpiece is Arkham Asylum, blazing like a Roman candle and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia. Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families — Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret –…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she’s a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady paycheck to support a compulsive cosmetics habit, Lil starts Dead End Dating (DED), a Manhattan-based matchmaking service that helps smart, sophisticated singles like herself find…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova — denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference” — is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762-96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Revised! This pocket-sized Russian-English dictionary now includes up-to-date vocabulary. Updated and rewritten for the first time since 1962, Random House's Webster's Pocket Russian Dictionary now includes new, up-to-date words in both languages. The text is based on the completely new and up-to-date midsize Random House Russian-English English-Russian Dictionary, first published in 1998. Over…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture — and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur's plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn't a crime... until Hickory Casear Grindon, the soon-to-be-beefsteak bull, is found pawing the remains of a family scion. Wolfe is sure the idea that Caesar is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sent to Hell for typical teenage misdemeanours, Conor is surprised to find that it’s not all pitchforks and leaping flames. But an eternity in a fusty cave full of philosophy books and obscure classical music is actually worse. Then Conor realizes that his personal version of Hell might be someone else’s idea of Heaven – and vice versa. He sets out on a filthy, funny and forbidden journey to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: »Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other...» He met Candy amid a lush Sydney summer. Gorgeous, sexy, free-spirited Candy. They fell in love fast, lots of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are fighting... alongside the Confederacy. Outraged when the U.S. Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels – and suddenly it’s a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North’s blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: In “Grace & Power: The Private World Of The Kennedy White House”, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates, including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on letters and personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paints a richly detailed…