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Danielle Steel: Dating Game

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: One of America's most cherished novelists takes readers on the roller-coaster ride of dating the second time around. Poignant and wickedly funny, «Dating Game» is about tackling life and love with both courage and laughter — told as only Steel can tell it.

Kelley Armstrong: Dime Store Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From Canada's new queen of suspense comes the latest in her Women of the Otherworld series — a mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Kelley Armstrong: Industrial Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Wiccan heroine Paige Winterbourne returns in this sequel to «Dime Store Magic.» After her mother's murder, Paige breaks away from her coven and tries to start a new one. But someone soon begins murdering the teenage offspring of some of the underworld's most powerful families.

Jonathan Stroud: Amulet Of Samarkand

Скачать книгу (размер 2 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 491) Аннотация: When the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus is summoned by Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, he expects to have to do nothing more taxing than a little levitation or a few simple illusions. But Nathaniel is a precocious talent and has something rather more dangerous in mind: revenge. Against his will, Bartimaeus is packed off to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a…

Robin McKinley: Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from an elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise.

John Grisham: Bleachers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Neely was once star quarterback for Messina High School's football team but his playing days ended with an injury. For 15 years he's been trying to forget his past as sporting hero but hasn't been able to move on. That is until the man who moulded him, Coach Eddie Rake is dying and Neely returns to Messina.

Graham Greene: The End of the Affair

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

Terry Pratchett: Only You Can Save Mankind

Скачать книгу (размер 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 179) Аннотация: As the mighty alien fleet from the very latest computer game thunders across the computer screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons-But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it?

Victor Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A high government official is shot on the street, and the hunt for the ki ller begins. The search leads all over the world, netting a series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence — at least of this crime. But «The Case of Comrade Tulayev, the best novel about the Stalinist purges, is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside» For Whom the Bell Tolls.

James Goldman: The Lion in Winter: A Play

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: It is Christmas of 1183, and Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine are, for once, together in the drafty castle at Chinon. For all their regal status, they are much like any long-estranged but inseparably married couple: Henry flaunts his new mistress; Eleanor plots against him with their sons. They will do anything they can to hurt each other and they love each other to distraction.

Christopher Stasheff: The Oathbound Wizard

Скачать книгу (размер 2 069 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 407) Аннотация: Matt Mandrell, unsuspecting graduate student, never imagined his research would lead him to a strange scrap of parchment that would change his life forever... Crossing the void of time and space, Matt is whisked away to an enchanted world where speaking in rhymes works the most dazzling magic. There he wins not only fame and power as the Lord High Wizard, but the heart of the beautiful Queen…

Ron Chernow: Titan: The Life of John D: Rockefeller, Sr

Скачать книгу (размер 3 941 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 774) Аннотация: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty — is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul «etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace... as detailed, balanced, and…

Philip Pullman: Clockwork

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the master storyteller comes a tale of gothic mystery as elegantly crafted as the most intricate clockwork. A tormented apprentice clock-maker — and a deadly knight in armour. A mechanical prince — and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil — Compelling characters and superbly constructed narrative create a story that is funny, frightening, exciting, and clever. A gem.

Philip Pullman: The Firework-maker's Daughter

Скачать книгу (размер 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 119) Аннотация: More than anything else in the world, Lila wants to be a Firework-Maker. But every Firework-Maker must make a perilous journey to face the terrifying Fire-Fiend! Can Lila possibly survive? Especially when she doesn't know she needs special protection to survive his flames... The exciting and heart-warming story of Lila's journey to face the fearful fire demon fizzes with fun and drama.

Terry Pratchett: Johnny and the Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies... Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead aren't going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was…

John Grisham: The Last Juror

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college drop-out, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome…

Laurell K. Hamilton: Seduced by Moonlight

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Now in paperback — the anticipated return of Meredith Gentry in this third installment of Hamilton's «New York Times» bestselling series that brings the dark, erotic reign of the immortal fey to a startling new depth.

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: To properly celebrate the momentous occasion, this edition features 42 new pages from the Douglas Adams archive, an introduction by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame, photographs, drawings, meaningful artifacts, and more.

Colleen McCullough: The Grass Crown

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival — first against her neighbouring…

Colleen McCullough: Fortune's Favourites

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: »Fortune's Favourites» witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic Rulers of Rome — Sulla, returning from exile, and the 22-year-old Pompey, who designates himself Magnus «The Great». And in the background is the young soldier, Caesar, who begins to show the expert qualities that will one day culminate in him becoming the unparalleled leader of ancient Rome. And at the heart of this…