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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Gabriel Blackstone has an unusual talent. A computer hacker by trade, he is also able to enter the minds of others. But he uses his gift only reluctantly — until he is contacted by an ex-lover who begs him to find her step-son, last seen months earlier in the company of two sisters. And so Gabriel visits Monk House, a place where time seems to stand still, and where the rooms are dominated by the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? And how does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere else? This work takes you behind the scenes at a five-star tropical island resort.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Throughout 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old Arthur. And the cats have found that sharing a life with Aileen can be a painful business. She hardly trips over them, but they are always in danger of being mistaken for a cardigan, or locked away in the cellar.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Deric's gentle tales of life in Huddersfield with his wife Aileen and their menagerie of playful cats have won him thousands of loyal fans. And after a few years break Deric returns with the latest, and eagerly awaited, instalment of his memoirs. Deric is getting on a bit now and so are his cats. Life chez-Longden has adjusted to a slower pace, but everyday is still full of opportunities for the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Gillon — red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable — comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Finding refuge in a quiet rural backwater, Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer... It isn't just that she was a friend that disturbs him. Once he'd been a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the many faces of death, before tragedy made him abandon this previous life. Now, the police want…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: Britain's number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education. Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock — especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. As passions flare and the conflict escalates, the whole community takes sides. Can the solemnity of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: At the age of thirty-four, Polly Evans finally fulfilled a childhood dream — to learn how to ride a horse. But rather than do so conveniently close to home, she decided to travel to Argentina and saddle up among the gauchos. This work features the story of Polly`s journey from timorous equestrian novice to wildly whooping cowgirl.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who?…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the story Running out of Dog which was featured in The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. It also includes the full text of the acclaimed play Coronado. Infused with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Ben Elton is about to put the “real” back into Reality TV in his biting satire of one of today’ s most popular cultural phenomena — the TV talent show. 95,000 hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that’ s Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. Colin always wins, because Colin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgment on the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The truth can kill you...Reuben Maitland runs the UK's most elite crime squad, working only on the highest-profile cases, tracking down the country's most vicious criminals. At the cutting edge — controversial, ruthless, effective — the squad have always made enemies. But now they're in danger. A killer is using their own techniques against them. The hunters have become the hunted. Reuben must…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include «Heroes and Hidden Voices», have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In «Freedom Next Time», he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 'I was down to my last chip, but it never occurred to me not to put it on the line, bet it, and roll the dice one more time ...' For Clifford Irving it was to be boom or bust. He chose to go for broke and pulled the most sensational hoax involving Howard Hughes, a prestigious New York publishing house and over a million dollars. It made global newspaper headlines and was heralded as the biggest…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Isn't it always the way? You wait ages for one purple flour-filled condom and then three come along at once. Of course the correct procedure for a chemical attack in the House of Commons would have been for MPs to remain in the chamber and remove all items of clothing. I'm not sure which is the more horrific vision; anthrax all over London or Nicholas Soames slipping out of his Y-fronts while…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Bestselling author, Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Is Emilia, the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William — a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, she pushes him — accidentally — into the pond in…