Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 588) Аннотация: Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she ticks off every bulletpoint on his list. So begins…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Charlotte is hovering between life and death, but it's taken a coma for her to realize she's made a complete mess of her short time on earth. Not to mention the five precious dating years she's just wasted on the cheating, faithless James Kane. But after a quick peek at the afterlife, she decides it's not all it's cracked up to be either. So, when she is offered the chance to go back to earth,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 395 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 667) Аннотация: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowers and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywood's top producers. They're not your typical family, by any means... Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for 10 years; Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: For two years Osric has lived a simple life, though he is feared and shunned for his mysterious past and blood-red eye. When raiders from across the sea ransack his village, Osric finds himself taken prisoner by their chief, Sigurd the Lucky. Immersed in the Norsemen's world and driven by their lust for adventure, Osric proves a natural warrior and forges a deep bond with Sigurd, who renames him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee forded the River Niemen and crossed the Rubicon — its invasion of Russia had begun. Charged with delaying the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow, a group of Russian officers summon the help of the oprichniki, a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe. As rumours of a plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 436 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 479) Аннотация: Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie — in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl — has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork — not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good wedding. Except, possibly, the bride and groom, who spend the day in such an overexcited frenzy that they can't remember it. And the bridesmaids, who are forced to wear ill-fitting peach taffeta so as not to outshine the bride. And the best man, who has to make a terrifying speech in front of a room of drunken people he's never met…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The victim has been bound and tortured, the body decomposed beyond recognition... A second body is found. A nightmare is about to begin... A serial killer is at work and the death toll is rising... A brutal abduction — a helpless victim is taken... In America to escape London and the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter needs to know whether he is still up to the job of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Fame is in the air! Personal shopper Annie Valentine has her own fashion show, on TV! But with success comes pressure: is she at risk of being replaced? To guarantee one unforgettable episode, Annie whisks the crew off to Paris for a glamorous catwalk show. Will she impress Europe's Most Stylish?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover u and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her. Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with u motherhood. Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes u…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. And the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Charles Darwin's masterpiece, «On the Origin of Species», shook society to its core on publication in 1859. This title takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This is a hymn to what makes England, especially the English countryside, so special, in a collection of passionate, eclectic and thought-provoking pieces. It includes Bill Bryson on seaside piers, Michael Palin on crags, Eric Clapton on Newlands Corner, Bryan Ferry on Penshaw Monument, Sebastian Faulks on pub signs, Kate Adie on deer parks, Kevin Spacey on canal boats, Gavin Pretor-Pinney on…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 410 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 670) Аннотация: Six years in the writing, «The Lost Symbol» is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, «Angels & Demons» and «The Da Vinci Code». Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate, she quickly falls for his kind and caring nature. But when further threats are made on her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Fiona, the only surviving member of Lord Holder Bemin's family, impresses a queen dragon, she doesn't begin to realize the perils and privileges that come with her new role. As she grows into a young woman and her dragon reaches her full growth, she faces the possibility of losing her dragon to the sickness that has claimed so many others.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNT-DOWN OF YOUR LIFE. HOUR # SIXTY-ONE — Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat. HOUR # THIRTY-ONE — A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave…