Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian's singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees. Now, Ana and Christian have it all — love,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Upon its initial publication, Tom Rachmans first novel was greeted with the kind of wall-to-wall acclaim usually reserved for an acknowledged master. Critics, booksellers, and readers everywhere fell in love with Rachmans cast of characters, an adrift crew of journalists, editors, and reporters at an English-language newspaper in Rome.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: “Larson is a marvelous writer... superb at creating characters with a few short strokes”. New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 753 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 345) Аннотация: One lie sends a family into turmoil in a heart-rending new novel from a worldwide bestselling author, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult When Deborah Monroe's car hits and kills a man on a deserted road on a dark and rainy night, questions of who is to blame muddy the already complicated life of a woman who is newly divorced and struggling with emotions that are rampant in a house with two…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 951 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 580) Аннотация: A riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rules of Deception that confirms Christopher Reich as the master of the espionage thriller. Months after foiling an attack on a commercial jetliner, Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom is working under an assumed name in a remote corner of Africa while his wife, Emma, desperate to escape the wrath of Division, the secret American…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky — and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. But when a tortured young woman becomes a patient in her ER, Sara finds herself thrust into a desperate police investigation, coming face-to-face with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something's amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. The hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York doesn't care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet; nor does he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world: I…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Man in Full, both huge bestsellers America's 'peerless observer [and] fearless satirist' takes on the university — from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating — plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University — the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires…
Скачать книгу (размер 723 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 143) Аннотация: Tells the story of a high school history class experiment that frighteningly demonstrated the power of fascism.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand. This book is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies, dress codes, eating habits, pay, humour, changing architecture and the unique culture of the Square Mile which brings us up to the modern age.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Most histories of London either pay only cursory attention to the suburbs or ignore them altogether. By looking at the whole of the greater London area from Roman times to the present, however, Dr Nick Barratt not only shows how areas as far apart as Hendon and Streatham, Ealing and Leytonstone developed over hundreds of years but also demonstrates the crucial role they played in the creation of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Englishman Paul West may have been living in Paris for some years now, but he is still managing to annoy the French. He is also still struggling to find the answers to some important questions: How can he prevent his ruthless business partner turning his English tea-rooms into an American diner? When should he step-in and stop his best-friend reading his excruciating poems to a room packed full…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Since its creation in 1993, The Onion A.V. Club has run an extraordinary array of interviews with venerable directors, creators, writers, actors, and musicians who articulately and often controversially expound upon their unique careers. Having its content paired with The Onion's humor allows the A.V. Club to focus its attention away from boring starlets and flashes in the pan. Instead, they…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home — and himself in it — may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: The greatest, wildest author of his generation. (Guardian). We could tell you the year is 1944, that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests. But that doesn't really begin to cover it. Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish,…