Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin's treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir — all for the right to claim the…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: A novel that tells the story of New York city — from the epic, empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps, from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived at breakneck speed.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Even the most devoted Anglophile will learn something new from these four hundred fun and wide-ranging trivia questions about London's history, monuments, architecture, famous residents, place-names, notable events, and more. A delightful way to explore the city on foot or via armchair, this fun book is a perfect stocking stuffer, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Tiffany Aching, the young witch from The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith is back in a new adventure featuring Discworld characters both familiar to fans (such as Tiffany, the Wee Free Men, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) and new (meet Wee Mad Arthur, the Nac Mac Feegle on the City Watch whose only previous appearance was a brief cameo in Feet of Clay and city witch Mrs. Proust —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A wonderful new novel from the Carnegie Medal winner. A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel. Up on the chalk downs known as The Wold, witches are banned — ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk is no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching — a wise shepherd — might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley's eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings — on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties — to throw a brilliant new light on people and events we thought we knew well. Although the notion of fighting for one's faith fell into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die... Wise, witty and wonderful, A Hat Full of Sky is Terry Pratchett's second novel about Tiffany and the Wee Free Men — the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever. They'll…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ellie Woods spends her days immersed in the escapist pages of the romantic novels she lovingly edits. But her reality is somewhat less rose-tinted. Once upon a time, Ellie had her 'happily ever after' moment when she married her beloved Nick, but fifteen years later her husband's tragic death leaves her alone with their soon-to-become-a-teenager son, faced with a mountain of debt, and on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family... This is a brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. «Barbarians at the Gate» recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair, and transports back to the Wall…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel — at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In his first collection of short stories, John Grisham takes readers back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, «A Time to Kill.» Available in a tall Premium Edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and humour he talks about the movies, about his relationships — on and off the screen — with other…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: As the Eleventh Doctor and Amy embark on all-new adventures in time and space, «The TARDIS Handbook» gives you the inside scoop on 900 years of travel aboard the Doctor's famous time machine. Everything you need to know about the TARDIS is here — where it came from, where it's been, how it works, and how it has changed since we first encountered it in a London junkyard in 1963. Including photos,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age — an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant — Howard Hughes' right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd — employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 099 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 609) Аннотация: »Una obra maestra.» — «The New Yorker» Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, dos quijotes modernos, salen tras las huellas de Cesarea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida en Mexico en los anos posteriores a la revolucion. Esa busqueda — el viaje y sus consecuencias — se prolonga durante veinte anos, bifurcandose a traves de numerosos personajes y continentes, Con escenarios como Mexico,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Number 1 «New York Times «bestselling author John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.» «This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inez's youngest son, Raymond-on death…