Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The phone call came on a hot July day—a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call—from Tanya's agent—was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time. Now in his first collection of essays and other pieces — on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific Stephen Hawking is revelaed varioulsy as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and — as always — the rigourous and imaginative thinker.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are two of science fiction's favorite authors. Together, they have created the world of Acorna, the unicorn girl. Now, Acorna's children start to have their own adventures. First Warning: Acorna's daughter, Khorii, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own. A simple journey to visit her relatives turns into a race against time…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: Although she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever feel truly at home.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr. Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid the devastating secrets of an ancient brotherhood awaiting a new messiah, Tom Carter must search for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When two hopelessly mismatched people share a love for art, a passion for each other and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible... or is it? Sasha is a traditionalist — now widowed, she knows she was married to the most wonderful man in the world. Liam is an artist, half-in and half-out of a marriage that his own impossibly impulsive behaviour has helped tear apart. But while Sasha has…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In ancient Rome, parents used to silence misbehaving children with the utterance Hannibal ad portas (Hannibal is at the door). Such was the fear and awe that Hannibal Barca instilled... Told in arcing, epic technicolour, this is the story of one of the ancient world's most remarkable figures and the long, bloody conflict between the two superpowers of the times — the Second Punic War (218-202BC)…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 543) Аннотация: An epic story begins with a young man's avowal: Tell him that one day I shall cut his vile heart out. The speaker is Bane the Bastard, a Wolfshead living outside the law. Born of treachery, his name a curse, he grew up among the warriors of the Rigante. They valued his skills in war, but they feared the violence in his heart.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth. Irene Beltran, a reporter, comes from a wealthy background; Francisco Leal, a young photographer secretly engaged in undermining the military dictatorship, is strongly…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again — if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen — a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: The Englishman — Paul West is in deep financial merde and has taken on a decidedly dodgy job touring America in a Mini. The Frenchwoman — Alexa, his très Parisienne girlfriend, claims to despise everything American, but ends up getting a little too friendly with the locals for Paul's liking. The American — Jake is a poet whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: What happens to us when we die? Oblivion. Or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves. But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong. His search for the truth uncovers a terrifying religious conspiracy to stage the most ambitious…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 540) Аннотация: It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafialike criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now, he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 722 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 339) Аннотация: Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents. Now that they are both settled, with partners and children of their own, they are still close. Good friends. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't — brother and sister, that is. Each of them had been adopted when their loving parents, Lynne and Ralph, found that they couldn't have children of their own. And Nathalie…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Robert wants to be a star in the movies. He has invented a system with his computer that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Ernest Fudgepacker of Fudgepacker's Emporium?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. When it hears of a spacecraft that crashed into the Pacific 4000 years ago, it sends a team of paranormal investigators to recover it. Danbury Collins is on the team, but he isn't keen-what if a mad alien thaws out?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: In this third book of The Malloreon, the company now knows that Garion's baby son has been kidnapped by Zandramas and is to be used in a ritual which will make the Dark Destiny supreme. The group, however, has been detained by Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea, and taken to Mal Zeth.
Скачать книгу (размер 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 177) Аннотация: Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie — where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the Fey kingdom. And though her quest to produce an heir may be full of sensual pleasures, it is also fraught with peril: the shadows of…