Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity... If that's the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!' So speaks Christopher Moore, one of America's funniest and bestselling authors, regarded as highly as classic satirists such as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'The door closed with a sickening thud of finality, shutting my friends out and leaving me alone with my enemy, a fallen angel, and the monstrous bird creature his ancient lust had created. Then I did something I'd only done twice before in my entire life. I fainted.' It's all happening, though Zoey Redbird wishes it wasn't. She has her friends back, which is great. But a dark angel has taken…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: »I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn't tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing... «Zoey's best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead — in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She's struggling to retain her humanity and Zoey doesn't have a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The next roller-coaster installment in the adventures of Zoey Redbird at the House of Night school for vampyres.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Four Blondes charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can't get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist's floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband's career fails to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The past is always with us, but sometimes we fail to recognise it for what it is.' These were Jair Ohmsford's final thoughts as he walked away from the carnage at Dun Fee Aran, having destroyed at last the book of dark magic known as the Ildatch. Following this great event, told in The Wishsong of Shannara, Jair discovers that he can draw on a form of magic that allows him to transform into other…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Based on fact, this is the story of William Marshal, the greatest knight of the Middle Ages, unsurpassed in the tourneys, adeptly manoeuvring through the colourful, dangerous world of Angevin politics to become one of the most powerful magnates of the realm and eventually regent of England. From minor beginnings and a narrow escape from death in childhood, William Marshal steadily rises through…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: I propose to watch animals and write about them. I will visit places where animals are studied (university departments and field studies here and abroad) and spend time with the researchers and the animals. I will also watch in an unofficial way — birds outside my study window, ants on the patio, zoos, safari parks, my cats... I will use these travels and observations to encounter not only the…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1152) Аннотация: Abbreviations, Agriculture, Architecture, Areas of Outstanding Beauty, Art, Astrology and Astronomy — and that's just the letter 'A'! The A TO Z OF THE BRITISH ISLES will follow the successful format of the previous titles in the series by treating the main topic areas in alphabetical order. Importantly, the book will cover all five countries in the British Isles, including Ireland, which is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star. Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring and at times disturbing her. In this unique book, Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero worship, reviewing through…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: With his big seller AVALANCHE, Jack Drummond reinvented the disaster genre for the 21st century. With DIVE he returns with a thrilling new adventure, sure to satisfy his growing number of fans and new readers alike.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sisters-in-law Kate, Helen and Miranda all have one thing in common? They're hiding something. It's not easy being part of the high-achieving Fox family: the expectations and demands of their husbands and children; the jealousies and rivalries; and the endless Sunday lunches where somehow everything feels like a competition. So when mysterious Sasha enters their lives, bloodied from the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, theirs is a seductive childhood laced with African paganism, mangled Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm. Their world extends as far as the big fence, erected to keep out the 'Terrs' whom their…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men arrested. It proves to be a great success, but several hours later and when her husband is under lock and key, Lola is truly dead and by someone's hand. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's a case of espionage, skulduggery and much unpleasantness. And it's also Gerald's first official governmental assignment. Deep in training, he's totally unaware that Princess Melissande has opened her own witching locum agency a one-stop-shop where magical problems are solved, for a price. Then she's offered a job that puts her on a collision course with Gerald and the future looks…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: There's a beautiful poor maiden, an irate, miserly father (in-law), two unlovely sisters (in-law), and a not-so-charming prince who makes our heroine a suggestion that's really not quite proper. In this charming, satirical Cinderella-story, first published in 1938, Gibbons uses all her characteristic wit to poke fun at society.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jo and Gemma are friends who meet for coffee every Saturday to gossip and discuss the state of the world. At one such meeting, Gemma mentions killing her boss and Jo goes along with the joke. But Jo is not amused when she finds a real body on the beach at Selsey soon afterwards — an unidentified nearly-naked woman, who has been drowned. It take DCI Hen Mallin and her team some time to discover…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Baird College's Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of students heading home for Thanksgiving break and Robin Stone, who won't be going home, swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. As a massive storm approaches, four other lonely students reveal themselves to Robin: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative…