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Скачать книгу (размер 1 437 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 283) Аннотация: With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It's a distinction he's long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. The Futurist is the first in-depth look at every aspect of this…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Ein verwunschener Garten, eine adlige Familie, ein dunkles Geheimnis. Als die junge Australierin Cassandra von ihrer Großmutter ein kleines Cottage an der Küste Cornwalls erbt, ahnt sie nichts von dem unheilvollen Versprechen, das zwei Freundinnen ein Jahrhundert zuvor an jenem Ort einlösten. Auf den Spuren der Vergangenheit entdeckt Cassandra ein Geheimnis, das seinen Anfang in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: An der Schwelle zwischen Leben und Tod findet Logan Thibault einen Glücksbringer: die Fotografie einer lächelnden, schönen Frau. Obwohl er sie noch nie zuvor gesehen hat, glaubt Thibault, dass sie den Schlüssel zu seinem Schicksal in Händen hält. Er sucht die geheimnisvolle Frau auf — und sein Leben nimmt eine so wunderbare wie dramatische Wendung.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Romantisch und gefühlvoll: Der dritte Roman des Jahreszeitenzyklus von Nora Roberts. Gemeinsam mit ihren drei besten Freundinnen betreibt die hübsche Konditorin Laurel die erfolgreiche Hochzeitsagentur Vows. Tag für Tag hilft sie glücklichen Paaren, ihre Liebe mit einem rauschenden Fest zu krönen, in Laurels eigenem Privatleben sieht es aber alles andere als rosig aus.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 926 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 575) Аннотация: The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Lisbeth Salander — the heart of Larsson's two previous novels — is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she's well enough, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence, and to identify the corrupt politicians who…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: Isabels son, Charlie, is now of an ageeighteen monthsto have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabels surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Relentless. In the Colorado mountains something miraculous comes into the life of Grady Adams, a strong, gentle man whose past experiences have alienated him from the modern world and driven him to live in the wilds. When he sees it, he knows that one of Nature's great mysteries has been revealed to him. He takes his friend…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over — and then beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who'd do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 334) Аннотация: New York, Summer, Very near future, Economic collapse, tanks in the streets, riots in Central Park, defeat in Venezuela, books are quaint artefacts, what's left of the indebted United States is about to be parcelled out to the rising nations of Finance-London and China-Worldwide, and what's left of interpersonal relations can be summarized by a couple of flashing statistics on attractiveness and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County — to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto — pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises — a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, «Noah's Compass» chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic «The Accidental Tourist» (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Dieser außergewöhnliche All-Age-Krimi hat die Herzen von Lesern, Buchhändlern und Kritikern aus aller Welt im Sturm erobert! Die junge Flavia de Luce staunt nicht schlecht, als sie im ersten Morgenlicht das Opfer eines Giftmordes in ihrem Gurkenbeet entdeckt! Da jeder ihren Vater, den sanftmütigen Colonel de Luce, für den Mörder zu halten scheint, nimmt die naseweise…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Ein bezauberndes, witziges Lesevergnügen für alle, die sich so alt fühlen, wie sie sind. Herbst des Lebens? Generation Silber? Unsinn! Marie Sharp wird demnächst sechzig und damit schlicht alt. Ein Grund zum Feiern, wie sie findet. Schon wegen all der Dinge, die sie jetzt nicht mehr tun muss, wie etwa Volkshochschulkurse besuchen. Nichts hasst Marie so sehr wie umtriebige…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wie weiterleben, wenn man von einem Moment auf den anderen aus der Lebensbahn geworfen wird, wenn der Tod plötzlich nahe rückt? Christoph Schlingensiefs bewegendes Protokoll einer Selbstbefragung ist ein Geschenk an uns alle, an Kranke wie Gesunde, denen allzu oft die Worte fehlen, wenn Krankheit und Tod in das Leben einbrechen. Eine Kur der Worte gegen das Verstummen — und nicht…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Aleksandr Orlov has in the last year become one of the most loved figures in British culture and his catchphrase — Simples! — can be heard from the playground to the office. Written in his inimitable voice (as dictated to his sidekick Sergei), his autobiography will offer the same humour as his TV ads, giving us the full story of his ancestor's Journey of Courageousness from the Kalahari to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: After a lifetime's struggle with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, in 1840 the nature poet John Clare is incarcerated. The asylum, in London's Epping Forest, is run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. At the same time, the young Alfred Tennyson, moves nearby and became entangled in the life of the asylum. This historically accurate, intensely lyrical novel, describes the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language — but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena's home is no longer the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg — an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius — were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Get your teeth into The Vampire Diaries — the phenomenal television show which has a fanghold on TVs around the world. Based on the hit book series by L.J. Smith, the show sees two smouldering vampire brothers, Paul Wesley (Everwood) and Ian Somerhalder (Lost), at war with each other over the soul of high school girl Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Generation). Quench your thirst for blood with…