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Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Shanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gun-runners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters, where heroin is available on room service and everything is for sale. Exotic, sexually liberated and pulsing with life, it is a place and time where anything seems possible. For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape. Seconded…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 359) Аннотация: Just as bogus doctors are occasionally discovered in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a bogus celebrity; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad, shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of «Popcorn» and «Inconceivable», a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame. One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: »This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair». Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for «The Guardian» and «The Independent», which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of mankind, is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves, stunning landscapes, and a vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he is…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host and the Bridgeburners each now outlawed by the Empress alongside their enemies of old…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake — but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie — and lets memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise’s nephew – a profiteering…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 571) Аннотация: Jack Reacher is adrift in the heat of a Texan summer, hoping to hitch a ride. Carmen is the beautiful, young, rich woman who picks him up. Carmen and her little girl are in trouble. At Carmen's ranch in Echo County, the group encounter hostility, Can Reacher rescue this lady in distress.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 586) Аннотация: A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit of the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past. But now comes a fresh and terrible catastrophe — a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is very much alive.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide the key to an old mystery. As the unusual properties of the strange brew take effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet. There, a ghost from the past waits to…

Скачать книгу (размер 886 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 175) Аннотация: Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld's most famous witches, here passes on some of her huge collection of tasty and interesting recipes, since everyone else is doing it. In addition to such dishes as Nobby's Mum's Distressed Pudding, Mrs Ogg imparts her thoughts on such matters as life, death and courtship. A Discworld spin-off.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 524) Аннотация: Capturing the beauty and pain of two extraordinary love affairs separated by a gulf of 2000 years, this book explores true emotion, loss, and the healing power of forgiveness.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Vienna, 1910 and a young girl's body has been discovered. She was strangled. The Chief Inspector uses the latest scientific techniques in his attempt to catch the killer. While his wife, a woman steeped in the Gypsy lore of her native Hungary, relies on intuition, instinct and superstition.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 622) Аннотация: When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati — an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Catholicism — the race is on to prevent a tragedy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life — he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Try me...Test me...Taste me. When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock — especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 367) Аннотация: Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In 18 years of marriage, they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a happy home on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. For Jack a five-minute errand ends in tragedy, and suddenly Liz is alone with an unbearable loss.