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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Despite their initial hesitation, living with Anne has softened the flock, so Max is keenly aware that it's time to leave. With Thanksgiving so near, though, all of them want to stay, at least until they've had their first ever Thanksgiving turkey! But danger is on the horizon as Jeb's plan advances, and while the flock's new school seems normal and safe, secrets are hidden beneath its…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die — only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. «The Dead Republic» opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel summons up for us the world of fifteenth-century Rome: of Michelangelo and Raphael, of the Holy Inquisition and of Leo X, second son of a Medici, holding forth on the papal throne... a city of domes and rooftop gardens and rising towers. And into this time, into this century, Toby O'Dare, former government assassin is summoned, by the angel Malchiah, to solve a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Through most of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson — the second of the three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society. In «Boardwalk…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands best left undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken, doors best left closed, names best forgotten. You have been warned.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Violence is escalating, and spilling on to the streets of Montreal. A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class. The body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away. Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan has to pick up the pieces: she knows she shouldn't let emotion get in the way, but when nine-year-old Emily's body is wheeled into…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Another day. Another death. Death du Jour. My God, how many such days would there be?' On a bitterly cold March night in Montreal, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan is exhuming the remains of a nun proposed for sainthood in the grounds of an old church. Just hours later, Tempe is called to the scene of a horrific arson. A young family has perished, and there seems to be no witness,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. 'Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologic expertise.' Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent disappearances in the city. Despite the deep cynicism of Detective Claudel who heads the investigation,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Terraphiles are a group obsessed with Earth's past and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events. The Doctor and Amy join them on a trip to Miggea, a star on the very edge of reality, and venue for a competition to win the fabled Arrow of Law. But the Terraphiles' grasp of Earth history and customs is dubious to say the least, and just getting to Miggea is going to prove tricky. For…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site... Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperence Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her is a sad and sickening one, and her investigation seems to be throwing up more questions than answers. But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous questions, her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr. Temperance Brennan excavates the remains of a two-year-old child from a site that is said to contain the bodies of twenty-three women and children. Shaken by the discovery, Tempe tries to harden herself against the horrors that she finds. And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City... When a skeleton is found in a septic tank at the back of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. From the hairdessing salon where an old man measures out his life in haircuts, to the concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign against those who cough in concerts; from the woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband as a substitute for sex, to the woman 'incarcerated' in an old people's home beginning a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge — these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin to Dordogne. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, the cruel confidence trick or the cold shock of coincidence, Frederick Forsyth is never less than compulsive, the detail always authentic. Ten stories with the master's touch, this is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The hit BBC series «Sherlock» offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this new edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of short stories, «Sherlock» co-creator Mark Gatiss explains how these gripping tales inspired and influenced the new series. «Sherlock: The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague, blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: A series of seemingly unconnected murders In Africa, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered — the death of the nameless woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled when a retired car dealer is found impaled and the body of a missing florist is discovered strangled. With only a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 070 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 211) Аннотация: Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana's remote and striking Okavango Delta. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi head to a safari camp to carry out a delicate mission…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 616) Аннотация: From the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history and achievements of these islands, their inhabitants and their origins, through the stories of some 3000+ men and women who have shaped not just our history but the modern world. The story is interspersed with countless inventions, deeds of daring do and wickednesses,…