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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Gripping, enthralling — a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' s j watson, bestselling author of before i go to sleep rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'jess and jason', she calls them. Their life — as…

Скачать книгу (размер 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 158) Аннотация: As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When Vavara, a young Polish orphan, arrives at the glittering, dangerous court of the Empress Elizabeth in St Petersburg, she is schooled in skills ranging from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent — and listen. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as a prospective bride for the Empress's heir. Set to spy on her, Vavara soon becomes her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there’s never enough time. But the construction of the world’s…