Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war. Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill, then shot through the head. And Nick Stone — ex-SAS, tough, resourceful,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What is fashion? Who decides what's in and what's out? Is the catwalk really catty? And what's so super about supermodels? Based entirely on true but anonymous stories, Material Girl covers six months in a designer's life and gives you exclusive access to a world where women get paid thousands for getting dressed in the morning and where the wrong shirt length can cost you your career. Tracking…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman («His Dark Materials»), Jamila Gavin («Coram Boy») and Michael Morpurgo («War Horse»), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband and two children. Around her people…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Seven Troop is Andy McNab's account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men — from the day, freshly-badged as a member of the SAS Regiment, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers was a promising student at Julliard — ambitious, charming and hugely talented — until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia. When Lopez finds him, Ayers is homeless and paranoid, but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Marshwood. A tumbledown nineteenth century house, clinging to a windswept hill in Dorset — once grand and beautiful, now falling to pieces. It has been home to Bella Langton for years and she cannot bear to part with it. The only person able to rescue Marshwood is Bella's granddaughter, Isla. In a desperate attempt to convey how important the house is, Bella begins to tell Isla about her early…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human, half faerie, she's caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life, but the lives of those she desires and holds dear. Her very existence and her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her ability to produce an heir — and now, after many failed attempts, the services of her royal guards have found her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Friday nights. Eleanor had started them, scooping up Paula and Lindsay, both single mothers who looked as though they needed some adult company, and welcoming them to her untidy, comfortable Fulham house where she had lived alone for fifty years. Soon they were joined by others — Blaise, smart, single and successful, her business partner Karen, the breadwinner for a chaotic young family in which…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money — a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York, and has asked her to go with him.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: 2012. The date is set. Time is running out. The ancient Mayans predicted the End of Days with uncanny precision. But they also provided the key to staving off apocalypse: a flawless sapphire of incomparable beauty carved into the perfect likeness of a human skull. For more than four centuries, the skull, and its legacy of dark intrigue and murder, have been hidden, protected by a code few can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: I took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set it on the stainless steel table. 'Tell me who you are...' As a favour to a colleague, Dr David Hunter is on the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. He's familiar with death in all its guises but is shocked by what he finds: a body, incinerated but for the feet and a single hand. It appears to be a textbook case of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores' — From, The Fifth Elephant. 'Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened' — From, Moving Pictures. The Discworld is filled with a vast and diverse population — from witches to vampires and from the fiendish to the foolish, it is a world in which magical books can devour the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The dramatic and definitive account of the sinking of the Belgrano which was one of the most iconic moments of the Falklands war. Rossiter gives us a dramatic retelling of the events that foreshadowed and followed on from this flash point of modern war.
Скачать книгу (размер 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 159) Аннотация: From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels — they are also long — comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, «The Imaginary Girlfriend» is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played a mentor role in John Irving's development as a novelist, a wrestler and a wrestling coach.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. With a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends, she knows she should be counting her lucky stars. But as her thirties tick by at an alarming pace, Amelia is getting anxious about the one thing missing in her otherwise successful life—a husband! If it's not too much to ask the universe, Amelia…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it'. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: This is the first book of «The Belgariad» series. Long ago the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, the men would be safe.