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Patterson James: Private Vegas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Jack Morgan, head of Private Investigations, the global PI agency of the rich and famous, is being pushed to the limit. His car has been firebombed, his ex is dating someone else, and his twin brother is still out to destroy him. But Private doesn't rest, and nor do its clients: not the LAPD who need Private's help catching two scumbags with diplomatic immunity, and not the client who has just…

Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Soon to be a Syfy miniseries event Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only as a science fiction classic but as a literary thriller of the highest order. Space ships have suddenly…

Games Alex: Balderdash and Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Balderdash & Piffle: One Sandwich Short of a Dog's Dinner is a thrilling ride through the provocative, bewildering and often downright bizarre world of language and etymology. From the brash jargon of celebrity magazines to the delicacies and feints of the euphemism, author and word-sleuth Alex Games has uncovered the remarkable stories that lie behind some of our best-loved words and…

Price Katie: Make My Wish Come True

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Take one showbiz reporter; one sexy TV chef; one creepy ex-boyfriend plenty of sex and scandal and you have all the ingredients to Make My Wish Come True from the bestselling Katie Price. Storm always wanted to be a celebrity reporter. But when she lands the job of her dreams, it costs her, her best friend. However, apart from her creepy ex-boyfriend, Storm loves the job. Until she's asked to go…

Child Lee: Personal

Скачать книгу (размер 2 334 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 459) Аннотация: Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the…

Weir Andy: The Martian

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a habitat designed to last 31 days. If the oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm screwed.

Gabaldon Diana: The Outlandish Companion: Volume 1

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels. In this beautifully illustrated compendium, Diana Gabaldon opens a door through the standing stones and offers a guided tour of what lies within. It includes: full synopses of Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager and Drums of Autumn; a complete listing of the characters (fictional and historical)…

McEwan Ian: On Chesil Beach

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come...

Roberts Gareth: The English Way of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Doctor, Romana and K-9 are hoping for a holiday in London in the sweltering summer of 1930. But the TARDIS is warning of time pollution. And that's not the only problem. What connects the isolated Sussex resort of Nutchurch with the secret society run by the eccentric Percy Closed? Why has millionaire Hepworth Stackhouse dismissed his staff and hired assassin Julia Orlostro? And what is the…

Murdoch Iris: The Sea, the Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Time, like the sea, unties all knots. This title comes with an introduction by John Burnside. When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further…

Gatiss Mark: The Roundheads

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With the Civil War won, the Parliamentarians are struggling to hang on to power. But plans are being made to rescue the defeated King Charles from his prison... With Ben press-ganged and put on board a mysterious ship bound for Amsterdam, Polly becomes an unwitting accomplice in the plot to rescue the King. The Doctor can't help because he and Jamie have been arrested and sent to the Tower of…

Lyons Steve: Witch Hunters

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With the Doctor wanting to repair the TARDIS in peace and quiet, Barbara, Ian and Susan decide to get some experience of living in the nearby village of Salem. But the Doctor knows about the horrors destined to engulf the village and determines that they should leave. His friends are not impressed. His granddaughter Susan has her own ideas, and is desperate to return, whatever the cost. But…

Welsh Irvine: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client — though she seems more interested in the trainer's…

Cleese John: So, Anyway:

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter's Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six…

Tolstoy Leo: War and Peace

Скачать книгу (размер 5 134 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1008) Аннотация: This is the official tie-in edition to the BBC adaptation of War and Peace with an exclusive introduction written by Andrew Davies. Tolstoy's beguiling masterpiece entwines love, death and determinism with Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on those swept up by the terror it brings. The lives of Pierre, Prince Andrei and Natasha are changed forever as conflict rages throughout the early…

Faulkner William: The Sound and the Fury

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There was another yellow butterfly, like one of the sunflecks had come loose. This title comes with an introduction by Richard Huges. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, The Sound and the Fury explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. At its heart this is a novel about lovelessness —…

Flynn Katie: When Christmas Bells Ring

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The new Christmas bestseller from Katie Flynn; the UK's bestselling saga author Liverpool 1938. It's Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous twin daughters April and May have no idea of the cataclysmic events which will soon overtake them. When war is declared, April and May are evacuated to the countryside and Rosheen joins the WAAF where she befriends…

Emma Chichester Clark: I Love You, Blue Kangaroo!

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Blue Kangaroo has always been Lily's favourite toy, but then Wild Brown Bear comes along, and then Yellow Cotton Rabbit, and then the Furry Puppies, and then more and more new toys, until Blue Kangaroo feels there just isn't room for him any more... But Lily soon misses him, and it turns out none of the other toys mean anything like as much to her as her first and favourite Blue Kangaroo.

McKee David: Elmer's Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: It's two days before the annual visit of Papa Red and the young elephants are very excited. They choose a tree to decorate and prepare the presents for Papa Red to collect during the night to take to those who need them. But this year Elmer has a special treat in store for the young elephants, if they can keep quiet and out of sight...

Wilson Jacqueline: Happy Holidays

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: How are you going to spend your summer holiday? Will you be going on a sunny beach holiday, meeting your friends at the park, or relaxing in the garden with an ice cream? Jacqueline Wilson's Happy Holidays is the perfect read for any fan. It's packed with brilliant short stories, puzzles, facts and activities all about summer holidays, and includes a very special brand-new story from Jacqueline.…