Moore Maggie: Thor's Hammer
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Thor's hammer goes missing, Thor will stop at nothing to get it back!
Sarah Addison Allen: The Sugar Queen
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Twenty-seven-year-old Josey is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season; she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle; and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each…
Moorat A.E.: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: 'There were many staff at Kensington, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt Demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.' London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry.…
Henry Hitchings: Who's Afraid of Jane Austen? How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Ever wondered how some people seem to have an opinion on every book ever published? Nowadays, there are so many books: how can anyone be well read anymore? Well, help is at hand. Let Henry Hitchings educate you in the invaluable skill of literary bluffing in this survivor`s guide to talking about books you haven`t read. With tips on how to bluff with confidence using quotable insights and…
King Stephen: Goes to the Movies
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: For the first time in one volume, each with a fascinating introduction, come the stories of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis (Low Men in Yellow Coats), 1408, The Mangler and Children of the Corn. These five classic tales were turned into successful international films starring some of the world's most famous actors from Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in The Shawshank…
Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die…
Grime Yvette: A Plus! GCSE French
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: The Student Book is divided into 15 units or Themen. The aim is to study Themen 1-9 in year 10 and Themen 10-15 in year 11. Each Thema covers a key topic area, which is further divided into sharply focused sub-units. The topic areas correspond closely to those offered by the three main awarding bodies.
Hustvedt Siri: The Sorrows of an American
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced…
Robards Karen: Guilty
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: One cold November night when Kate White was fifteen years old, her friends held up a store. One of them killed an off-duty cop. They got away with it. Thirteen years later, Kate has built a new life for herself. Now a single mother with a nine-year-old son, she is a prosecutor in the Philadelphia district attorney's office. Until the nightmare morning when violence explodes in her courtroom — and…
Cottam F.G.: Dark Echo
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his father. But his lover Suzanne is uneasy and begins exploring the yacht's past. What she finds is terrifying. Dark Echo isn't just unlucky, it's evil. It was built for Harry Spalding, a soldier and sorcerer who committed suicide yet still casts his…
Jackson Lisa: Lost Souls
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The girls who disappeared were all 'lost souls'... The police think they're runaways, but Kristi Bentz — who has survived a serial killer twice — senses there's something that links them, something terrifying. She enrolls at her old college in New Orleans, following the steps of the troubled, vulnerable girls. All Saints University has changed. Among the edgy new courses and plays, there are…
Corbin Julie: Tell Me No Secrets
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: They say that everybody has a secret. Mine lies underground. Her name was Rose and she was nine years old when she died... Grace lives in a quiet, Scottish fishing village — the perfect place for bringing up her twin girls with her loving husband Paul. Life is good. Until a phone call from her old best-friend, a woman Grace hasn't seen since her teens — and for good reason — threatens to destroy…
Connolly John: The Gates
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron…
Scott Kirsty: Fortune House
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Four generations of the Haldanes are gathering for a family celebration. It ought to be the perfect reunion, but behind the doors of Fortune House, their beloved family home, life is not as idyllic as it seems. Caroline and David's marriage, scarred by a tragic loss many years before, is back in the spotlight as David's retirement is thrust upon them. Meanwhile, their three daughters, Fiona,…
Losier Michael J.: The Law of Connection
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Have you every felt like partners or colleagues constantly misunderstand what you are saying to them? Do you and your partner go round in circles? This book shows you how to break the cycle and really connect with everyone in your life — at work, at home and with friends. You will learn how to enhance your communication style to really get what you want out of your relationships, so you can move…
Penenberg Adam L.: Viral Loop
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Here's how it works: you read a book you enjoy and you tell a friend. That friend tells another friend, the next friend tells the next, and so on and so forth, until the book becomes that year's word-of-mouth bestseller. That first recommendation gives birth to many. Simple. The concept of pass-it-on is not so new and not so revolutionary — think Tupperware parties — that is, until…
Chris Cleave: Incendiary
Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never break, and it means you're stronger than the things they do to you. I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the…
Picoult Jodi: Songs of the Humpback Whale
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New England apple orchard…
Picoult Jodi: My Sister's Keeper (film tie-in)
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald's daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything — whatever it takes — to save her child.
Picoult Jodi: Perfect Match
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: As an assistant district attorney, Nina Frost prosecutes the sort of crimes that tear families apart. But when Nina and her husband discover that their five-year-old son Nathaniel has been sexually abused, it is her own family that is devastated. The world Nina inhabits now seems different from the one she lived in yesterday; the lines between family and professional life are erased; and answers…