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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is a sparkling and sexy tale of glamour modelling, romance and the treacherous promises of fame. When Angel is discovered by a model agent, her life changes for ever. Young, beautiful and sexy, she seems destined for a successful career in modelling and, very quickly, the glitzy world of celebrity, fame and riches becomes her new home. But then she meets Mickey, the lead singer of a boy…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Ten years ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era — and established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. Now the master is back with a coast-to-coast portrait of America on the cusp of the millennium. Bold, caustic and hilarious, A Man in Full spares no one as Wolfe dissects the insatiable greed, vanity and hunger for bearings that…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: It's the literary equivalent of buried treasure--seven rarely seen stories by Dr. Seuss! Originally published in magazines between 1948 and 1959, they include The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Zinniga-Zanniga, about a rabbit who is saved from a bear via a single eyelash; Gustav the Goldfish, an early, rhyming version of the Beginner Book A Fish out of Water; Tadd and Todd, a tale passed down on a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Tying in to a brand-new Dark Horse comic series of the same name, «Knight Errant» is a stand-alone tale of a lone Jedi Knight fighting the evil Sith in the dark ages of the Old Republic.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: While you wait for the next exciting installment in the Alex Cross series, I, Alex Cross (published November 2009 by Century), get your hands on a new book written by Alex Cross himself! Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife and father, who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid and thankless work…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved. Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy. When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb, it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good. Somebody who will stop at nothing to…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called…
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