Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Modern classics in this genre are rare, and instant ones even rarer; The Loney, however, looks as though it may be both' Sunday Telegraph If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney — that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, the new novel by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon A Man Called Ove will charm and delight anyone who has ever had a grandmother. Everyone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house. Everyone remembers the stories their grandmother told them. But does everyone remember their grandmother flirting with policemen? Driving…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Grievously wounded private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Broken, but undeterred, private detective Charlie Parker faces the darkest of dark forces in a case with its roots in the second world war, and a concentration camp unlike any other... Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. 'the only fault I can find with this book is that I've already finished it' — Jodi Picoult 'truly enthralling' Scotsman After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1944, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: He was supposed to be having fun with his friends, not playing detective and stalking a serial killer. Theodore Boone — teenage lawyer and courtroom hero — is on a class trip seeing the sights of the capital city. But he hadn't counted on seeing the most wanted man in the history of his home town, Strattenberg. Suddenly Theo is caught in the hunt for an accused murderer, alongside the FBI. Theo…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Daily Telegraph, Huffington Post & Business Insider Top Business Book to Read 'Every year, 2 million people apply for a job at Google — so what's the secret?' Guardian A compelling manifesto with the potential to change how we work and live, Work Rules! offers both a philosophy of the new world of work and a blueprint for attracting the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Wake up, genius. So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The best thriller writer alive — Ken Follett I'm not a typical lawyer. I don't maintain a pretty office filled with mahogany and leather. I don't belong to a big firm, prestigious or otherwise. I don't do good works through the bar association. I'm a lone gunman, a rogue who fights bad systems and hates injustice... Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A STREET CAT NAMED BOB and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB, touched millions around the world. In this new story from their journey together, James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: There is nothing more soothing than to caress a cat. Let yourself be lulled by colouring in this purring cat and find your inner calm. According to Leonardo Di Vinci, even 'the smallest feline is a masterpiece'. With coloured pencils or felt-tip pens, colour in this collection of 100 feline-inspired designs showing the cat in all its forms, both mysterious and friendly. Relax and rediscover the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: From My Legendary Girlfriend to Turning Forty, Mike Gayle's bestselling novels have taken his millions of readers through many key times for the modern man — friendship, courtship, stag weekends, marriage, work, holidays, significant birthdays — but SEEING OTHER PEOPLE is perhaps his most heart-warming, heart-stopping, heartbreaking novel yet. Father of two Joe Clarke, is about seventy-eight per…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.' 'Douglas, who in their right mind would look forward to that?' Douglas Petersen understands his wife's need to 'rediscover herself' now that their son is leaving home. He just thought they'd be doing their rediscovering together. So when Connie announces that she will be leaving, too, he resolves to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York — one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the prospect of escape...…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring Bill Hodges, a retired cop who is tormented by 'the Mercedes massacre', a case he never solved. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of that notorious crime, has sent Hodges a taunting letter. Now he's preparing to kill again. Each starts to close in on the other in a mega-stakes race against time.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Would you trust a complete stranger? After Chloe and her daughter Freya are rescued from disaster by a man who seems too good to be true, Chloe decides she must find him again to thank him. But instead of meeting her knight in shining armour, she encounters a woman called Nadine Caspian who warns her to stay well away from him. He is dangerous, Nadine claims, and a compulsive liar. Alarmed, Chloe…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him — until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code. Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother ...but her attempts at granting wishes never…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is 2008, late capitalism is in crisis, and the great and the good are gathered at an Islington house party. Hosting proceedings are waspish Sherard Howe, scion of a publishing dynasty and owner of a left-wing magazine, and his wife, Daphne Depree, whose feminist work The Third Sex is seen — to her increasing discomfort — as an intellectual cornerstone of the Blair era. The guests include…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: As the oldest vampires in the world, Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson are less than thrilled that they must share New Orleans with the werewolves. Klaus decides to build an army to take them out once and for all. He's turning vampires left and right, with Rebekah by his side. The new vampires are killing any werewolf they can get their hands on, but as Klaus's army becomes more powerful, he…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Kipper has made a new year resolution not to throw snowballs at Tiger. He manages to keep to this for a whole month, but in February it snows! Kipper and Tiger have fun every month as the photos that Kipper takes show. And at the end of the year, Kipper finds out that Tiger hasn't forgotten the snowball in February! Mick Inkpen is the libraries' ninth most borrowed author. The charmingly comical…