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Merlin: Sword and Sorcery

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When Merlin and Morgana join forces to save a child the king has commanded to death, they soon discover that going against King Uther could prove fatal. Meanwhile, a mysterious black knight arrives to challenge the Knights of Camelot to mortal combat. Old secrets, long hidden, are stirring and the king is afraid for his only son. The black knight seems invincible and Merlin senses that only magic…

Clemence Jacquinet: Moscow: MapGuide

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: No more struggling against the wind to fold back the extra large city map you picked up at the tourist office. The unique Everyman MapGuide series cleverly combines maps and text in an easy-to-use format, listing the best sights, restaurants and shops alongside fold-out maps of exceptional clarity. Each guide divides the city into sections and devotes two double pages to each of them. Sections…

Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age — so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then they come true.

John Harwood: The Seance

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there...' London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance Langton takes her to a seance. Perhaps they will find comfort from beyond the…

Julian Barnes: Talking it Over

Скачать книгу (размер 1 386 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 273) Аннотация: Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite — a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married, but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the…

Graham Greene: The third man The Fallen Idol

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This text contains two of Graham Greene's novels. The Third Man is a recreation of post-war Vienna in which Rollo Martins visits his friend and hero, Harry Lime, to find Harry has died in suspicious circumstances. The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in adult games.

Danny Wallace: Yes Man

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Having been dumped by his girlfriend, Danny really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead, he was avoiding people. Texting them instead of calling them. Calling them instead of meeting them. This is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting.

Christopher Cooper: The Krillitane Storm

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the TARDIS materialises in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil's Huntsman.

Chris Anderson: Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? This book shows that the future of business does not lie in hits — the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve — but in what used to be regarded as misses — the endlessly long tail of that same curve.

Various: »Merlin» Annual 2010

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This official annual is 64 pages of pure Merlin fun! This book is packed with character profiles, stories (including one completely original story with graphic artwork!), activities, and fun features. Filled with characters and adventures from the series, this will keep any budding Magician busy!

A. A. Milne: The Red House Mystery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Far from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red House, the setting for A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. And when the local police prove baffled, it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself 'Sherlock Holmes' and, together with his friend and…

Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: This is where it all begins for Dexter Morgan, the darkly funny character who is the inspiration for the hit Showtime series. Dexter is a forensics blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department, who is also a serial killer with a golden rule: he only kills bad people.

Sharon Kay Penman: The Devil's Brood

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman's trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine offers a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.

Vasily Grossman: Everything Flows

Скачать книгу (размер 1 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 253) Аннотация: »Everything Flows» is the last novel by Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, «Life and Fate.»

Stieg Larsson: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Скачать книгу (размер 3 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 644) Аннотация: An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel. Harriet Vanger, scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families, disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires…

Danielle Steel: A Good Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 1 916 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 377) Аннотация: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel-a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman's unbreakable spirit... Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steel's new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a…

David Loyn: Butcher and Bolt

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for more than 200 years. Foreign invaders have continually fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain. A century ago, the common sneer about how British soldiers treated Afghan tribesmen was that they would 'butcher' them, then 'bolt'. This book recounts this violent history.

Jacqueline Rayner: Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Every time the lights go out, someone dies... The Tardis lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up unexplained deaths. Teaming up with a young swimmer called Emma, the Doctor begins to investigate — but he doesn't expect to find a…

Simon Schama: History of Britain 1: Edge of World? 3000 BC-AD 1603

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie — in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain — one country or many? This book delivers these themes.

Philip Roth: Indignation

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?