Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women — a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux on an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday she'll finish writing her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart — literally, in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind... and is breaching the everyday world. A chilling prophecy from the Oracle.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri IV becomes the catalyst for massive upheaval in France. A new appointment is made, and Juliette's new life begins to unravel. For the new Abbess is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house. Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house — glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Swiss-born Hugues Martin has worked for the world's most prestigious hotels, so when he purchases a small, run-down place in New York, everyone thinks he must be crazy! He alone sees it for the rough diamond it is, transforming it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learnt through his hotelier training in Europe. The Hotel…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed our ability to do so is what separates we humans from the rest of the animal world. The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool set him on a relentless path toward greater control and power over his environment. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results in line with their original good intention? How many…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist and uninspired by dating naive and needy guys her own age, Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips, fine dining, first-class travel and fascinating, powerful men. Helen's soul-searching dating…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: »From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Danielle Steel weaves a powerfully compelling story that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be--and how the bonds of family hold us together.» FAMILY TIES Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect with a limitless future--until a single phone call changed the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: The chilling sequel to the Napoleonic historical vampire novel, Twelve. In the summer of 1812, before the Oprichniki came to the help of Mother Russia in her fight against Napoleon, one of their number overheard a conversation between his master, Zmyeevich, and another of their number. He learns of a feud, an unholy grievance between Zmyeevich and the Romanov dynasty that began a century earlier…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently broken heart. But Homer was no ordinary cat. He was a three week old, abandoned, eyeless kitten and Gwen was unable to resist his charm. It was love at first sight. Homer, tagged as an 'underachiever' from day one, quickly proved his doubters wrong revealing himself…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: There's a fine line between saving lives — and taking them. Nursing is everything to Ruth. Having lost her beloved grandmother to cancer, it breaks her heart to see a terminally ill patient suffering in the same way. So when the old lady begs Ruth to end her life, Ruth knows it is the kindest thing to do. But what she doesn't realize is that someone in the hospital has been watching her. Someone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Lulu wakes up one morning and realises that she's in crisis, she knows she must rethink her life completely. She just needs more time — time to relax, time to have fun with her friends and, most importantly, time to find the perfect man who's eluded her for far too long. So she packs in her job as a therapist, ditches the swanky apartment, waves goodbye to her soft-top car and embraces a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Flying Lancaster bombers on raids into Germany was one of the most dangerous missions of the war. Casualties in Bomber Command were shockingly high, there was statistically only a 17 per cent chance of a bomber crew surviving a full tour of operations. Night after night Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey King and the crew of C Charlie risked their lives. Together they faced incredible dangers, near…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This title offers an epic Romeo and Juliet for the 21st century. In a bustling London cafe, Anil, now a famous architect, sits waiting for Lina. It is years since he last laid eyes on her, the love of his life. Lina is running for the train — punctuality has never been her strength. After all this time she cannot be late to meet Anil. Together, they think back to tragedies both personal and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In the small inlaid wooden box, Matt's mother had kept all his childhood memories. Amongst them are many photos of Matt as a child, growing up. But something about the photos has always puzzled Matt — was that really him? Why did he not remember those clothes? The toys? And where, in the photos, was his sister Imogen? He has a strange unresolved feeling that there is something missing in his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: If you had three wishes, what would you wish for? Having spent two years alone in France, doing his best to survive in a foreign land, and failing miserably to woo a dishy French copine, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: manly powertools; a cat, chickens and sheep; earthy neighbours; an aircraft and a grand piano. Yet he is still alone and — in a moment of rare self-knowledge —…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 1980s Romania: As the sun sets on the magical shore of the Black Sea and casts its last rays across the water, all Nora Teodoru can think about is pursuing her dream of becoming an accomplished artist — and of her love for Gigi, her childhood boyfriend from the Turkish part of town. But storm clouds are gathering as life under Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu becomes increasingly unbearable. His secret…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his engine for the BBC series Made in Britain. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, his intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements of the craftsmen, engineers, inventors and industrial workers whose endeavour made engines like Fred's possible. It was a journey that took him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. Model dependent realism, the multi…