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.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) 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. New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 443) Аннотация: William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it’ s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’ s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’ s life – people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the Malazan Empire teeters on the brink of anarchy. In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik gathers an army around her in preparation for the long-prophesied uprising named the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in its size and savagery, it will embroil in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known: a maelstrom of fanaticism…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman, and Jack is the head of her network and an adviser to the President on media issues. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the locked doors of their lush Georgetown home, a very different story emerges. For as Maddy’s career soars, a bitter edge of control and jealousy has crept…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Everyday magic, he called it. The transformation of base matter into the stuff of dreams. Layman’s alchemy.Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscapes of his childhood, more enticing than the present, and to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide both the key to an old mystery and a doorway into another…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 502) Аннотация: Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 499) 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 1 625 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 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It has always been John Omally’s secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something. Talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into ‘The Industry’. A band called Gandhi’s Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein. It should…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A story of courage and loss, of the power of the family and the strength of the human soul. Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. But one Christmas morning, in the midst of joy and children's laughter, tragedy strikes — and Liz is left alone,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: Further episodes in the life of Deric Longden and the Longden household. At least two new characters join the feline cast led by the ever-popular Thermal. The thread running through the book is the interesting experience of watching Lost for Words turn into a television drama, but attached to the thread are the usual wonderful collection of Longden observations of life at home and (not too far)…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions. Determined to keep out of trouble, he conceals his identity. But when Costello is found dead Reacher has two questions: who was Costello's employer, and why is she determined to find him.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 345 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 461) Аннотация: Two men, one an ex-IRA man and the other a reluctant British Lieutenant, become pawns in a deadly political game of cat-and-mouse.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 885 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 567) Аннотация: In Riley, Catherine Cookson explores the relationship between a young man and an older woman. Riley, who left school with scant education, is invited to work with a theatre and it is here that he meets the leading lady, Nyrene Forbes-Mason.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: From her perch at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old Gabriella watches the guests arrive at her parents lavish Manhattan home. The click, click, click of her mother`s high heels strikes terror into her heart. Her word is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal and pain, and she knows that there is no safe place for her to hide.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything — Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg...and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent. They've got style…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and with an addiction to ether. Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especially…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: On a Chicago street in bright sunshine, Jack Reacher, is strolling nowhere and sees an attractive young woman, struggling on crutches. Naturally, he stops to offer her a steadying arm. And then he turns around to see a handgun aimed straight at his stomach. Locked in a dark, stifling van racing across America, chained to the woman, Reacher needs to know why he's there. The kidnappers are saying…