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Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper and spy. Subjected to the random rules and arbitrary violence of his Korean overlords, Jun Do's life is filled with absurd eventualities — wrestling with sharks, engaging with torturers, and finally, becoming the imposter of the Beloved Leader himself, Kim Jong Il. How far…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching. (Claire…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant cosmologists of our time, and author of the 10 million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time, one of the iconic books of its generation. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of his own life in his own words, in a book expanded from a lecture of the same name. When you are faced with an early death, writes Stephen Hawking, it makes you realize…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs — except, of course, for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead. Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When Swiss-born Hugues Martin sees a small, run-down hotel in New York for the rough diamond it is, he transforms it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learned through his hotelier training in Europe.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Somalia — a lawless, violent land, ignored by the West, ripped apart by civil war and famine, fought over by drug-fuelled, gun-crazy clan fighters. They want the world to sit up and take notice. They have a new and terrifying weapon — pirates. And now, the pirates have in their possession the young son of a Russian oligarch, snatched from a luxury yacht in the Seychelles. His father wants him…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schooled by the Chancellor himself in skills from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent — and listen. Soon, she is Elizabeth's 'tongue' — her secret eyes and ears. Then Sophie, a vulnerable young princess, arrives from Prussia as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What makes a house... a home? For Francesca Thayer, everything seems to be falling to pieces. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery, she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, and so is forced to do something she never imagined she would: she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: 'As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me...' Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love — all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Evensong is a school for orphaned children who've been traumatized by violent crime. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles have connections with two of its students, but they discover that even a school protected by locked gates and acres of forest cannot shut out a gathering threat. As Jane and Maura struggle to interpret the clues, the resourceful students of Evensong are also investigating...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Time to blow out the candles, say goodbye to the past, and make a wish for the future... For April Wyatt, turning thirty is not what she had expected. She's single, with no interest in changing that in the foreseeable future. Her popular, successful restaurant in downtown New York — where she is chef and owner — consumes every ounce of her passion, attention and energy. Ready or not, though,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: History always comes down to the details. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. On the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War, Conor O'Clery has built his compelling and brilliantly constructed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back — and earthquakes occurred each time it flipped its tail. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with patients.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The new Discworld novel from the master features the popular Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch. According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Hope Delafield hasn't always had an easy life. She has red hair and a temper to match, as her mother is constantly reminding her. She can't wear heels, is terrified of heights and being a primary school teacher isn't exactly the job she dreamed of doing, especially when her class are stuck on the two times table. At least Hope has Jack, and Jack is the God of boyfriends. He's sweet, kind, funny,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy — or is he a soldier?Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine — and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Paris — one of the most visited cities in the world. But do you know... Which is the most romantic spot to say 'je't'aime'? And the sexiest? Where to see fantastic art, away from all the crowds? Why Parisian men feel compelled to pee in the street? How to choose a hotel room where you might actually get a good night's sleep? Stephen Clarke goes behind the scenes to reveal everything Parisians…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Although Lorana cured the dragons' sickness so many died from the disease that there are no longer enough dragons to fight the deadly Thread, and more dragons and their riders die each Threadfall. With their numbers dwindling, Lorana made the decision to fly forward in time in a desperate bid to bring dragons from the future to fight Thread. She knew that jumping so far in time would result in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a…