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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the Doctor arrives in the 19th-century village of Klimtenburg, he discovers the residents suffering from some kind of plague — a 'wasting disease'. The victims face a horrible death — but what's worse, the dead seem to be leaving their graves. The Plague Warriors have returned. The Doctor is confident he knows what's really happening; he understands where the dead go, and he's sure the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Arriving on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of the Boer War, the Sixth Doctor is soon involved in the adventures of struggling politician and war correspondent Winston Churchill. Of course, he knows Churchill is destined for great things, but unseen forces seem to be interfering with Winston's historic career. The Doctor suspects the hidden hand of the Players, mysterious beings who regard…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his deceased father in the mists along Totter's Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her late grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane. Then the faces begin to talk, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: 'My new Fire-Ice will solve all the problems of the planet'. The world is on the brink of crisis. As fuel runs short, society begins to break down. One man seems to have the answer. But is it too good to be true? The Doctor arrives at an old oil refinery near the South Pole, concerned by claims about this new form of energy. He soon discovers something huge and terrifying is stalking the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death. They are the empire's most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war devastating the galaxy. But is the same force that killed them still lurking in the dark? And what are its plans for the people of Earth? An adventure featuring the First…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise... and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) 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 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This title is an epic story of life, love and survival at all odds and one of the most-talked and anticipated books of the year. In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules.…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller. Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl. She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can't speak English. She is clearly running away from someone. Do you stop to help her? Even if it means putting your friends'…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked and distressed, Tempe must use all her skills and inner strength to focus on the facts. But when the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were once set on conquest and stardom, now spending month after month serving in the vegetarian kitchen of a bizarrely severe Buddhist retreat? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When Mischa Kennon meets sexy Alpha-male Connor Galloway at the wedding of her bestfriend, she find the green-eyed Irishman hard to resist. But while she's happy to surrender to a brief affair with him, Mischa realises Connor could easily master her heart as well as her body. If she gives in to desire, will it be too much to handle, or will it open her to a kind of love she never thought possible?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings, the others find that he is a strange man, seemingly ill at ease with human beings.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was music that truly captured his heart — and he never looked back. This title tells his story.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Charlotte Nicholls has made a new life for herself and little Chloe. They have left everything behind, determined to forget a past which has cast a shadow over both their lives. Charlotte would do anything for Chloe. But just when she feels they might have a chance of happiness at last, Charlotte is forced to confront the consequences of the heart-breaking decision she took only a few months…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Having grown up on the quiet island of Guernsey, Betty Dean can't wait to start her new life in London. On a mission to find Clara Pickle — the mysterious beneficiary in her grandmother's will — she arrives in grungy, 1990s Soho, ready for whatever life has to throw at her. Or so she thinks... In 1920s bohemian London, Arlette — Betty's grandmother — is starting her new life in a time of post-war…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Think of the fortune waiting for you. July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: For thirty-six years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Ernest Hemingway's literary apprenticeship was served in journalism, a career that he pursued for over four decades. From his early work as a correspondent for the Toronto Star in Europe during the 1920s, through his inimitable articles for Esquire and his first-hand reports of the Spanish Civil War, to the mellow, ironic chronicle of his last African adventures, few correspondents have produced…