Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The British Secret Service has many enemies. Whether it's a sniper in East Berlin, a Russian agent secretly bidding for a Faberge egg, or a retired major in Jamaica with a treacherous secret, it is down to James Bond to neutralize the threat. In these stories the dirty world of international espionage tests Bond's skills to the extreme.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the terrorist organization SPECTRE, is holed up in his Alpine base, conducting research into a terrifying biological weapon. 007's mission is to gain access to Blofeld's icy retreat and gather information vital to guaranteeing world safety. A new alliance with the troubled daughter of the head of the French mafia offers 007 the chance to bring down his nemesis once…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war — five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Vivienne Michel is a troubled young woman on the run. Fleeing England she comes to a deserted motel in the Adirondack Mountains where she thinks she has finally escaped her past. Sluggsy and Horror are ruthless mobsters on a mission of their own. Holding a terrified Viv hostage in the motel, they plot death and destruction. Bond has just one night to take on the gangsters. But with two hardened…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Spectre — the international terrorist organization led by Blofeld — is holding the world to ransom with two stolen nuclear weapons. Operation Thunderball is launched to stop them, and — in a race against time — Bond travels to the Bahamas to uncover the stolen bombs before Spectre can put its deadly plan into action. With less than a week to find the weapons Bond must enter a world of fine yachts…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The Castle of Death is a Japanese poisoned garden on a rocky island in desolate waters, curated by a criminal mastermind. The task: James Bond needs to infiltrate and destroy the castle in exchange for top-secret intelligence, and to save his job. Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife by Ernst Stavro Blofield so M gives him one last chance with this impossible mission. Bond must learn the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 760) Аннотация: Covering Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver, this Fodor's Gold Guide to the Pacific Northwest offers vibrant graphic tools that make planning a trip easy. The full-color guide provides comprehensive planning information on sights, dining, and lodging.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Lydia Chin is called in on what appears to be a simple case. Jeff Dunbar, art world insider, wants her to track down a rumour. Contemporary Chinese painting is sizzling hot on the art scene and no one is hotter than Chau Chun, known as the Ghost Hero. A talented and celebrated ink painter, Chau's highly-prized work mixes classical forms and modern political commentary. The rumour of new paintings…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In these 17 essays (plus a short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross — currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and the other has a hand made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: The wedding is a ritual that — in the last 20 years — has taken on a life of its own to become a main area of focus for stylists, event planners and designers alike. Vogue Weddings presents an unprecedented range of high-end wedding dresses and some of the most exotic and glamorous wedding destinations in the world. With careful and skilled editing from Vogue's European Editor, Hamish Bowles, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City — and to get revenge on Michael Bennett. Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire — to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Haruki Murakami is an international phenomenon. When Books One and Two of his latest masterpiece, 1Q84, were published in Japan, a million copies were sold in one month, and the critical acclaim that ensued was reported all over the globe. Readers were transfixed by the mesmerising story of Aomame and Tengo and the strange parallel universe they inhabit. Then, one year later, to the surprise and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'The first shot had been fired. There would be others. And whose finger was on the trigger? Who had got him so accurately in their sights?' Crab Key island is desolate and remote. So why is Dr No defending it so ruthlessly? Only Bond can uncover the truth, in Fleming's sixth 007 adventure.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Midsummer approaches, and Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life, hopeful that his wayward daughter and his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes, and a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the presents are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The murder has been solved. But has justice been done? Harry Hole is back in Oslo. He's been away for some time, but his ghosts have a way of catching up with him. The case that brings him back is already closed. There is no room for doubt: the young junkie was shot dead by a fellow addict. The police don't want him back... Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his…