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Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: »NEW YORK TIMES «BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he's shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who's saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: «Bring me the artifact she's asked you to keep safe.»…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO In this thrilling sequel to «A Game of Thrones, «George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. «A Clash of Kings «transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. A comet the color of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden, 10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology bus as dispatches from the world's collective memory. Topics like politics, economics, celebrities, and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: An F-18 Navy fighter careens out of the blue sky above the Mojave desert. A TV cameraman who grew up in a small town just miles away can see what is going to happen next. Frantically, Wes Stewart races to the downed jet and tries to save the pilot's life. When the plane explodes, Wes escapes without harm — and plunges into a murderous conspiracy. It's been fifteen years since Wes has been back to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident — in a Mercedes no less — Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she's about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Geoff Dyer, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain', takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Magnificently unpredictable and hilarious (and, surely, one of the most unusual books ever written about cinema), Zona takes the reader on an enthralling, thought-provoking journey. The ostensible subject of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness — rats and eels, monsters and ghosts. From the…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Set before and during the Great War, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amien in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experience of the war…
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