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Скачать книгу (размер 2 222 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 437) Аннотация: This thriller with a scientific background comes from the author of «Jurassic Park» and «Disclosure». Издание полностью на английском языке.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 641 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 323) Аннотация: In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the currency is not money but life. A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading:…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in a story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: While much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here — now — walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens — a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black. James Edwards is a tenacious,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Recounts the life of the Czar who brought Russia into the modern age, examines his accomplishments, and attempts to portray his complex personality.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A legal thriller from the author of THE PELICAN BRIEF, THE CLIENT and THE FIRM, about what goes on behind the scenes when a jury retires to deliberate and decide whether the accused is innocent or guilty.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the author of “The Last Tsar”, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Triana, a beautiful young woman who dreams of becoming a great musician, falls prey to the demonic Stefan, the tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who seduces and manipulates her, drawing her into the dark side of her own nature and then into the cruel past.

Скачать книгу (размер 7 057 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1385) Аннотация: From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the «Free People of Color», descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the 15th-century Flemish painting, two noblemen are playing chess. Yet, two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: This novel tells the story of the last great Mafia family, and its head, Don Domenico, describing his attempt to leave the world of crime and consolidate the family's power in Las Vegas and Hollywood.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is now six years since the disaster at Jurassic Park; six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end — the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumours that something survived.

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In «Invisible Cities» Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like «Invisible Cities», perfectly irrelevant’.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Hailed as the «king of sleaze», tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at “The Source”, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels «Lolita», «Pale Fire», and «Ada, or Ardor», and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales — eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time — display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination. They range from sprightly fables to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his «handlers» don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 542 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1088) Аннотация: The magnificent saga continues.... It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past — or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend — a tale of tragic passion that ended with her…