Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant thyme. From medieval times to today, stories have been told and apparitions seen — ghosts who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This is an immortal love story. Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything for them? When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews, Maine, he's expecting just another evening of minor injuries and domestic disputes. But instead, Lanore McIlvrae walks into his life — and changes it forever. For Lanny is a woman with a past... Lanny McIlvrae is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The year is 1895, Jeff. Salah Rajani, a troubled Muslim boy living in a dilapidated mansion surrounded by orange groves, suffers from peculiar visions about a disaster which is set to befall his people. His life is changed by the arrival of a handsome young man, a dynamic Jewish settler, new to the city, by the name of Isaac Luminsky. Luminsky covets both the fertile lands of the Rajani estate…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. Her story starts years after the Ranger disaster, but she is compelled to travel back to the 'February' that persists in her mind, and to that moment in 1982…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views. Whenever Oskar comes to visit from his prestigious research post in Geneva, there is tension in the air, and it doesn't help their friendship that he feels Sebastian has not lived up to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Some crimes strike too close to home... Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD. They're holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what's going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets... With…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga is first abandoned by her would-be rescuers in Rangoon. Later, as a teenager, she finds herself chasing the dream of a new life in Thailand — where further betrayals and violations await. Yet it…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is the tale of three women — one witch, one mermaid and one missing — and how Ruby was caught up in between. The Black Country town of Cradle Cross — home to buttonmakers, canal folk, and more than its share of widows — is bounded by canals, grief and superstition. Caught within this web is motherless thirteen-year-old Ruby, who dreams of escaping the soot and smoke of her home-town for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Maya Lowe is one of the world's biggest movie stars. Steve Watkins is her life-long friend. Both swear their relationship hasn't changed since they shared a school desk as London teenagers. But can a friendship like theirs really survive a fame as great as Maya's? Can a man like Steve, working away for a Heathrow logistics company, seriously remain part of her life? He certainly thinks so. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Singapore — a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this in between island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howard seethes at the indignities heaped on his fellow Eurasians by the colonial British; Raj,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Deepdene has been swept by what seems to be a vicious tropical disease. Luckily Eve and Jess are both healthy so they're taking their chance to enjoy the unseasonal heat wave. But then teenagers start to disappear. The spread of the disease worsens and the town is placed under lockdown. A demon is among them. It could be anybody. And now there's nowhere to go... The third title in this successful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is 1982 and Thatcher is in Downing Street, Human League is in the charts and Dallas is on the telly. But the girls of Albacore Street are too busy to notice. For Stella, Bridget, Vinnie, Maxine and Nell, life revolves around demos, parties and no-strings sex. Against a background of Greenham Common and the Miner's Strike, however, they are about to learn that life is not quite as simple as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O.A.S. to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest plot involves a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: 'The whites want war and we will give it to them' — Sitting Bull. This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible odds or of insane arrogance receiving its rightful comeuppance, Custer's Last Stand continues to captivate the imagination. Nathaniel Philbrick brilliantly reconstructs the build-up to the Battle of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From steam engines and suspension bridges to canals, factories and pubs, the Industrial Revolution transformed the society of the late 18th century and changed the material landscape of Britain. Yet how many of us know why our local pub looks the way it does or why our local railway station might be designed like a cathedral? This book reveals how, by 'reading' artefacts, sites or townscapes, we…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Time Out's resident team helps you get the best out of the City on the Bay, giving you the inside track on local culture plus hundreds of independent venue reviews. As well as covering visitor essentials. Time Out San Francisco explores the city's diverse neighborhoods and highlights its independent and creative spirit with a tour of its thriving gay, art, food, shopping and cultural venues.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Willow and Holly are identical twins. They are everything to each other. Holly calls Willow her rock, her soul mate, her other half. And Willow feels the same about Holly. They are alike in every respect except one — Willow is afraid on the inside. And all because of a secret — one that binds the sisters closely together and yet has meant their adult lives have taken two very different paths.…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return. When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in charge of the investigation. He is troubled by the apparent suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the…