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Furth Robin: Stephen King's the Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the spaghetti westerns of that time, the Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books make up this bestselling fantasy series. THE DARK TOWER: THE COMPLETE CONCORDANCE is the definitive encyclopaedic reference book that will make navigating through the series…

Deaver Jeffery: The Coffin Dancer

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Coffin Dancer, America's most wanted hit man, is back. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses taken care of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up his entire plane. Enter quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme, who can find forensic evidence to hang a man in the smallest debris, and his assistant Amelia Sachs. Their job is to keep the remaining two…

Leveen Lois: The Secrets of Mary Bowser

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly, Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen. Mama, your little girl is all grown up, and still playing our best game. I am a spy... Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, this perfect reading-group novel follows a slave who is freed by her mistress'…

Stirling Jessica: The Last Voyage

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: At first handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish does not appear to be an ideal catch for Julie. But when a whirlwind seduction leads to love and marriage and Clive's ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is more than happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the mother of his children. Anna's suitor, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoor's…

Grisham John: Theodore Boone: The Accused

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only…

Walker Fiona: Tongue in Cheek

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: From the very first day that they move to the Oddlode Valley, it's inevitable that young teacher Mo Stillitoe, recently separated socialite Diana Lampeter and cool, retired dressage diva Anke Brakespear will find their lives entangled. Despite their differing generations and backgrounds, the women are on a relocation collision course. As inept removal men deliver furniture — and even horses — to…

Widdowson John: Map Skills for Common Entrance Geography + Key Stage 3

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Prepare pupils for success in the ISEB Common Entrance Geography examination with this concise but authoritative Map Skills course. Endorsed by ISEB, this resource covers all essential skills required in using Ordnance Survey maps. It also provides teaching and practice in the use and interpretation of aerial photos alongside Ordnance Survey maps. — Provides a short introductory course covering…

Clark Marcia: Guilt by Association

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A Deputy DA specialising in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realises she might not know those around her as well as she thinks. The police want to write off Jake's death as a straightforward murder/suicide.…

Kellerman Jonathan: The Golem of Hollywood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A unique blend of crime thriller, paranormal love story and horror saga, which only No. 1 bestselling author and master of criminal psychology Jonathan Kellerman could create. The in world of superheroes and monstrosities, the Golem towers. The Golem to accrue the greatest mystique is the terrifying colossus said to have been fashioned by the 16th century Czech Rabbi Judah Loew. What if this…

Gaiman Neil: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before published American Gods story, BLACK DOG. In this new volume, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath.…

Doherty Nicola: The Out of Office Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From London... Alice Roberts is having a rubbish summer. She's terrified of her boss, her career is stalling, and she's just been dumped — by text message. But things are about to change... to Italy When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it's not all yachts, nightclubs…

Schlender Brent: Becoming Steve Jobs: How a Reckless Upstart Became a Visionary Leader

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: STEVE JOBS: THE WILDERNESS YEARS will be the first comprehensive look at Jobs' years following his dismissal from Apple. During this time a combination of exile, failure and family saw him mature from the childish genius who left in disgrace in the mid-80s, to the man who returned just over a decade later to create a world changing, visionary company. Based on recently rediscovered, personal…

Holmes Andrew: All Fur Coat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she`s in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again.

Paretsky Sara: Breakdown

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: the grandfather of one,…

Ferguson Alex: Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Over the past four years, Alex Ferguson has been reflecting on and jotting down the highlights of his extraordinary career, and here he reveals his amazing story as it unfolded, from his very early days in the tough shipyard areas of Govan. Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the…

Fox Kate: Watching English

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Kate fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. Following an erratic education in England, America, Ireland and France, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge. ''Watching the English . . . will make you laugh out loud («Oh God. I do that!») and cringe simultaneously («Oh God. I do…

Deaver Jeffery: The Kill Room

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. Robert Velasquez, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, who received a tip-off that Velasquez was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence…

Sue Monk Kidd: The Invention of Wings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and…

King Stephen: 11: 22. 63

Скачать книгу (размер 3 767 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 740) Аннотация: A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a WHAT IF? novel like no one's ever read before — a one thousand page tour de force.

Davis Lindsey: Enemies at Home

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome. We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the…