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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Bubbly, rich, delicate and delightful, the champagne of the famous House of Peine is everything that Clementine Peine is not. She lost her sparkle, along with the love of her life many years before, and now she's lost her miserable papa too. Still, at least now the precious House is hers. Or is it? First her wicked sister Mathilde returns, determined to poison the future the same way she poisoned…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail) turns her sharp wit on to her own life. * Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from *If the shoe doesn’t fit in the shoe store, it’s never going to fit *When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Does that boy like me? Why are my sisters so mean? Does anyone think I'm pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against the brutal raids and purges of Stalin's terror appear alongside the more typical adolescent worries about girlfriends, boys, parties…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Madonna is the biggest female pop star in the world yet there is no serious biography of her, and no biography at all by a woman. Existing books are either gossipy style manuals or rehashes of press cuttings and they all end in 2001 with Madonna’s marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yet her story hardly ends there, as evinced by her two record breaking world tours since then... Lucy O'Brien’s extensive and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: It’s an offer you can’t refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork’s Royal Mint and the bank next door? It’s a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There’s something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 600 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 315) Аннотация: Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death’s apprentice…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo doesn’t know where he is or how Eleni died. He blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something which will change his life forever. 1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Seven thousand kilometres over the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 — she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department — and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??! She can't believe…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Winter, 1917: In St Petersburg, snow is falling and Russia is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just 18. In the evenings when her banker father is doing deals and her mother is partying…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: The men on board Her Britannic Majesty’s Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In Rachel Covington's view, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have children and those who don't. Neither side can understand the other and each believe that they have the best deal. Rachel herself is sexy, selfish, single and smug. She's very happy with her fabulous, flirty life full of parties, clothes and hairdos. Then one day she meets Nick Maxwell and sets in motion a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: any of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler. But here at last is a chance to have a good laugh and learn all that stuff you feel you really ought to know by now...In this Horrible History for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of Arthur Bryant and John May that is, for the eccentric detectives who run London’s strangest crime division are stranded on a desolate snowbound road somewhere in the West Country on their way to a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 798 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 550) Аннотация: St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one last, desperate round of hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, Chief Investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Banished to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: It is 1969 and in the small English town of Kingshaven, eight year old Julia Allsop wants to be a princess. But a fairytale wedding doesn’t necessarily mean happily ever after, and Julia discovers that life is more complicated than dreams of romance… On the other side of town, nineteen-year old feminist Iris Quinn hopes to find independence and a successful career in London, but a passionate,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 579 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 507) Аннотация: At St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally — reluctantly — contemplating retirement. But beneath the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople. Henry, King of England, is displeased. The Jews provide a large part of his revenue and therefore the real killer must be found, and quickly. A renowned…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: It’s cold, it’s December – and ex-cop Dennis Milne is intent on revenge. His best friend has been brutally executed, and Milne wants to know who did it – and why. But London is a dangerous place, especially for a man on his own. And although his former colleagues don’t know Milne’s back in town, it soon becomes clear there are people who do. And that they’ll stop at nothing to get him out of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, «A Brief History of Time», has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda's strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so…