Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: “[An] elegantly spun yarn... Akunin’s wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted.” –The Providence Journal It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin stumbles upon his most confounding case. Its difficulties are only compounded by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of the Alice books–with those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell 'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A wonderful and terrifying series about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts and boggarts. But now they have unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral, lurks the Spook's nemesis — the Bane. A creature he has never been able to defeat. As Thomas and his master prepare for the battle of their lives it becomes clear that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As danger increases in the County, Tom is sent far north by his master to be trained by Bill Arkwright, another Spook. Arkwright lives in a haunted mill on the edge of a treacherous marsh and his training methods prove to be harsh and sometimes cruel. But he has toughened up many previous apprentices and now he must do the same for Tom and prepare him for the gravest dangers of his life. But when…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This collection of stories is told from different points of view. So why doesn't the Spook trust girls who wear pointy shoes? Could it be because in his youth he fell in love with a young witch who then betrayed him and broke his heart and he was forced to leave her drugged and imprisoned in his winter house? Why did Grimalkin become the Assassin for the Malkin Witch clan? Is it because the Devil…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: “The Sith always betray one another... I’m sure you’ll learn that soon enough.” The overthrow of the Republic is complete. Absolute power now rests in the iron fist of Darth Sidious–the cunning Sith Lord better known as Emperor Palpatine. But more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance in the galaxy must still be defeated and missing Jedi accounted for... and dealt with. These crucial tasks…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Millions of readers have come to adore New York Times best-selling author Sophie Kinsella's irrepressible heroine. Meet Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic — a young woman with a big heart, big dreams... and just one little weakness. Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When 'Virtual Assistant' Jenny Porter's boyfriend accuses her of being impulsive, soft-hearted and unbusinesslike, dashing off to Scotland to sort out a failing mill for one of her clients may not be the best way of proving him wrong. And promising to help run a mobile burger bar before she's even found her feet doesn't help matters. When she finds herself determined to save the mill — whatever…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 229) Аннотация: In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heart-breaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experience and chronicles the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Merlin is poisoned by the sorceress Nimueh and Arthur seeks the only antidote that can save him — but the prince is walking into a trap.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A mysterious new knight arrives in Camelot for the sword tournament. His fighting skills are impressive but Merlin suspects that dark magic is involved. With Prince Arthur next in line to fight, time is running out for Merlin to prove that evil is afoot...
Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: Now in a new edition, «Transmetropolitan» chronicles the exploits of 21st-century outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, who returns to The City after five years of self-imposed exile.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Young Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, his new Padawan Asohka, and his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. But Count Dooku and the Separatists also want to rescue the baby Hutt — because whoever succeeds in returning Jabba's son to him will gain the support of the Hutts in the war between the Republic and the Separatists.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware. A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A…
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Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: »Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns… Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to…