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Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fucking embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you've produced. Choose life.

Stuart Neville: The Twelve

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Sooner or later, everybody pays — and the dead will set the price... Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night he drowns their screams in drink, on the point of losing his mind. Then one of the ghosts offers Fegan a solution: kill those who engineered their deaths. From the greedy politicians to the corrupt…

Christopher Potter: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: »You Are Here» is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it. It is the story of how something evolved from nothing, and how something became everything. It is the story of science: the greatest story ever told. Here, for the first time in a single span, is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy super-clusters, and from slime to Homosapiens. The universe was once a…

Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Part noir, part psychedelic romp — private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L A fog. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren`t there...

Peter Beaumont: The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: War has changed. In the past, states clashed and battles were fought between armies. Superpowers are pitted against warlords. The author takes readers into the guts of modern conflict. He visits the bombed and abandoned home of Mullah Omar and discovers a deserted Al Qaeda camp where he finds documents describing a plan to attack London.

Ruth Rendell: Shake Hands For Ever

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Angela Hathall is found strangled in her bed but shockingly the death of this meek and solitary woman sparks little emotion from her husband. Called in to investigate, Wexford's curiosity only deepens when he discovers that the Hathall household has been meticulously cleaned but for a single distinctive palm print.

Anne Rice: The Vampire Armand

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The leader of the vampire coven, the Theatre des Vampires in Paris was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality.

Jennifer Crusie: The Cinderella Deal

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: An unlikely duo teams up in a charade of love, never expecting that they'll find happily-ever-after, in this Loveswept debut by award-winning Jennifer Crusie, who has earned high praise for her fast-paced and hilarious Harlequin romances.

Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Скачать книгу (размер 3 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 742) Аннотация: Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing expose on social injustice, «The Girl Who Played with Fire» is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine «Millennium» has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters…

Dave Roman: The Last Airbender: Prequel Zuko's Story

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Prince Zuko is banished from the Fire Nation by his own father, Fire Lord Ozai. Horribly scarred and stripped of everything he holds dear, Zuko wanders the earth for almost three years in search of his only chance at redemption: the Avatar, a mystical being who once kept the four nations in balance.

Danielle Steel: One Day at a Time

Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling «New York Times» bestseller — a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive, love, laugh, and learn to take life one day at a time.

Justin Richards: Doctor Who: Code of the Krillitanes

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: 'I blame those new Brainy Crisps. Since he started eating them, he's been too clever by half'. Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why?

Lauren Kate: Fallen

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross... only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall...

Douglas Coupland: Generation A

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the author of JPod and Generation X, the bestselling generational classic, comes a dazzling new work that reimagines the very act of reading and storytelling in a crazed digital world.

Terry Pratchett: I Shall Wear Midnight

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A man with no eyes. Two tunnels in his head... It's not easy being a witch, and it's not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching — teen witch — is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea.

Matthew Pearl: The Last Dickens

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel, Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sands, to await its arrival.

Edward Rutherfurd: London

Скачать книгу (размер 6 634 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1302) Аннотация: Here is Edward Rutherfurds classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant citys long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the…

Douglas Coupland: Player One

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally…

Tony Judt: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. This work tells of Europe's recovery from the devastation and of the decline and fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of the EC and EU.

Ministry of Top Gear: Top Gear: The Alternative Highway Code

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Shows you how to bring the ambitious but rubbish philosophies of the world's most popular TV programme to your driving, containing advice on general motoring, as well as specific tips on how to deal with common eventualities like a rapidly sinking amphibious camper van, or a caravan airship that's just crashed into a small bush.