Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which…
Скачать книгу (размер 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 117) Аннотация: You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... Julian Barnes' new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Castle Extremis — whoever holds it can control the provinces either side that have been at war for centuries. Now the castle is about to play host to the signing of a peace treaty. But as the Doctor and Martha find out, not everyone wants the war to end. Who is the strange little girl who haunts the castle? What is the secret of the book the Doctor finds, its pages made from thin, brittle glass?…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop, and feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle of friends. But revolution is in the air and, as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated. Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage — a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church. But it comes as a profound shock to everyone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite — and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into the case, trying to figure out who this deranged killer is. At the…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Mizutani is a self-absorbed overachiever, concerned only with maintaining the highest grades in school. Haru is an impulsive short tempered brute, who scares everyone with his explosive bursts of violence. Haru gets suspended on the first day of school when he encounters some bullies harassing a student and dispatches the bullies with some rather bloody violence. Mizutani is tasked with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide. Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton — the woman he loves — to find out. He's gone undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at risk. And he knows Sara will never forgive him if she discovers the truth. But when a young patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: How well can you ever really know someone? As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed. Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept tightly under wraps. But Ben is a political journalist, and can feel that something isn't…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class — 5,000 points! Running in the hallway — 10,000…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement — just a straight wedding march to the altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. But not everyone…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Award-winning and fan favorite comics creator Jeff Lemire spins the tale of two star-crossed loved through space in time in TRILLIUM! It's the year 3797, and botanist Nika Temsmith is researching a strange species on a remote science station near the outermost rim of colonized space. It's the year 1921, and renowned English explorer William Pike leads an expedition into the dense jungles of Peru…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Belize might just have the greatest variety of flora and fauna of any country of its size in the world. Offshore the Belize Barrier Reef, a great wall of coral, stretches the entire 200-mile-length of the coast. And archaeologists have identified more than 600 significant Mayan sites in Belize. Fodor's guide gives you all the information you need to plan the perfect trip, whether you want a scuba…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Three years ago the body of France's foremost wine critic was found strung up like a scarecrow in a Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For ex-pat Scot and forensic forager Enzo Macleod, the answer to this unsolved murder lies in cracking the critic's secretly coded reviews — which on publication could make or break a vineyard's…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Celebrate Christmas with Angelina! In this original 8x8 featuring the Classic Angelina Ballerina artwork, Angelina learns the true meaning of Christmas.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: 'Seek and ye shall find.' With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city of…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «Before he met Lisa, Corduroy was just a little bear in the toy department of a big store, waiting for somebody to take him home. It s almost Christmas and Corduroy wishes he could be a child s holiday gift but he s a plain bear, and nobody seems to notice him. He sets out across the store to ask Santa Claus for help, but he can t visit without wearing a special outfit! After stopping to try on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simon finds a job in a grain wharf. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a twenty-first-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty's Dragon, readers have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire.…