Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Forced from her father's humble Norfolk vicarage, Ellen Gowan finds herself in an unforgiving London. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin, the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she and her daughter will survive, Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The fourth of Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society the Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Wizzle is once again causing havoc at the royal castle, but this time Prince Peter is making things far worse! Following on from the successful fiction series, this book banded play continues the adventures of Wizzle and the royal family. Written for Turquoise Band 7 of the Start Reading programme.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Finn attempts to make his fortune once again but as usual things do not go to plan! Following on from the successful fiction series, this book banded play continues the adventures of Finn. Written for Gold Band 9 of the Start Reading programme.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Meet Ella Canfield, highly qualified evolutionary biologist. Attractive, if a little serious-looking in those heavy glasses — but then she's about to put her career on the line. Dr Canfield is seeking funding for a highly unorthodox research project. She wants to prove that an extinct animal still roams in one of Australia's most popular national parks. Meet Daniel Metcalf, good-looking,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: As a team leader, do you believe you can make a real difference to the performance of your team? If you do, Make Your Team Work will help you do just that. This book is a practical and commonsense guide to successful team working. It focuses on the skills that team leaders AND teams need to develop to work together effectively unlike most books about team work, which focus on team building events…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Stefan and Damon Salvatore are now vampires, and must deal with the consequences of their fate. They escape their small hometown of Fell's Church, which is overrun with vampire hunters, and travel to New Orleans. While Stefan revels in his powers, Damon continues to mourn the loss of Katherine, the beautiful vampire that turned them both. But New Orleans offers temptations and dangers. Stefan…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An irresistibly warm and poignant love story from the sensational bestselling author Linda Green Mel Taylor found her Mr Right at age thirteen. Twenty years on they remain blissfully in love. Everything is perfect — she has the man she loves, a gorgeous daughter, a great job and a dream home. But Mel's happiness is overshadowed by a niggling feeling that it's all been a bit too easy. Despite her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her — with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A dark, juicy, deliciously unsettling, read-it-in-one-sitting psychological drama. Rose has it all — the gorgeous children, the husband, the beautiful home. But then her best friend Polly comes to stay. Very soon, Rose's cosy world starts to fall apart at the seams — her baby falls dangerously ill, her husband is distracted — is Polly behind it all? It appears that once you invite Polly into your…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The deaths of four British soldiers, two of them ex SAS, appear at first to be accidental. In fact, they have been targeted by a group of hired assassins, known as the Clinic. This group of contract killers is systematically tracking down elite servicemen and killing them one by one... Desperate to stop the murders, a group of four men, the Feather Men, are recruited to hunt down the Clinic and…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 093 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1392) Аннотация: To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw — and felt — what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Samuel Johnson — with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd — has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down. When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two policemen. Can this eccentric gang defeat the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: 'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war — and the protests against it — had flooded America's living rooms for a decade.Hearts…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: 'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.' Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it's just the bugs, midges and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt. He wasn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like... There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years — terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system.Young Ned Wilcox has started…