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Liebenberg Lauren: The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nyree and Cia live on a remote farm in the east of what was Rhodesia in the late 1970s. Beneath the dripping vines of the Vumba rainforest, and under the tutelage of their heretical grandfather, theirs is a seductive childhood laced with African paganism, mangled Catholicism and the lore of the Brothers Grimm. Their world extends as far as the big fence, erected to keep out the 'Terrs' whom their…

Bushnell C.: Lipstick Jungle

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block, Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production and Nico is the editor of BONFIRE magazine. The trouble is, from where Victory, Nico and Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way.…

Fairstein Linda A.: The Deadhouse

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her she agrees to play her part in the sting which would see both men arrested. It proves to be a great success, but several hours later and when her husband is under lock and key, Lola is truly dead and by someone's hand. The…

Mills K.E.: Witches Incorporated

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It's a case of espionage, skulduggery and much unpleasantness. And it's also Gerald's first official governmental assignment. Deep in training, he's totally unaware that Princess Melissande has opened her own witching locum agency a one-stop-shop where magical problems are solved, for a price. Then she's offered a job that puts her on a collision course with Gerald and the future looks…

Lisi Harrison: Dial L for Loser

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Meet The Clique, the five girls who rule Octavian Country Day School... When movie director Rupert Mann invites the girls to audition for his new teen blockbuster, Clique captain Massie packs her straight-leg velvet Sevens and heads off to L.A. on an ah-mazing private jet with all the girls except Kristen, who is grounded. But when they arrive, everyone starts treating Claire like she's the star.…

Lisi Harrison: Bratfest at Tiffany's

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Watch out, boys... Here comes The Clique! The Briarwood boys have invaded the school and are taking over everything. So Clique captain Massie lays down the New Pretty Committee law: anyone caught with a crush on a boy will be thrown out of the gang for ever. But will she be able to stick to her own rules? For Alicia, the boy-fast is a total disaster. She just can't keep away from irresistible…

Lovesey Peter: The Headhunters

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jo and Gemma are friends who meet for coffee every Saturday to gossip and discuss the state of the world. At one such meeting, Gemma mentions killing her boss and Jo goes along with the joke. But Jo is not amused when she finds a real body on the beach at Selsey soon afterwards — an unidentified nearly-naked woman, who has been drowned. It take DCI Hen Mallin and her team some time to discover…

Lisi Harrison: The Pretty Committee Strikes Back

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Meet Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen and Claire — five girls who make up the Clique at Briarwood High School. The only thing harder than getting in is staying in... A tragic haircut leaves Kristen looking manlier than a New York Jets linebacker. Will she be condemned to a season of trying to find cute hats when, as everyone knows, hats are so over? Meanwhile, Claire's got everything she wants —…

Woodworth Stephen: In Golden Blood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Natalie Lindstrom is one of a select few souls born with violet-coloured eyes — and the ability to channel the dead. But Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organisation that has used her as a crime-solving tool — and who now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist…

Brooks Terry: The Elves of Cintra

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Fifty years from now, our world looks very different. Governments have fallen. Thousands live in fortified strongholds; others roam the landscape as either predator or prey. Standing against the forces that have tipped the balance from good to evil are a very few heroes, men and women imbued with powerful magic and sworn to a high destiny. Logan Tom is one of those heroes. He's on a desperate…

Catherine Hardwicke: Twilight: Director's Notebook

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This intimate full-colour 'notebook', designed to replicate the one director Catherine Hardwicke kept on and off the set, takes you through the creative process that went into making Stephenie Meyer's breathtaking novel come alive on screen — from casting to costumes, stunts to story boards. With never-before-seen notes, sketches, and photographs taken directly from the visionary director's…

Sokoloff Alexandra: The Harrowing

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Baird College's Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of students heading home for Thanksgiving break and Robin Stone, who won't be going home, swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. As a massive storm approaches, four other lonely students reveal themselves to Robin: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative…

Ellis Kate: A Perfect Death

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a French woman who burned to death there in the thirteenth century. And when he discovers that records of a previous excavation on the site have vanished, and that two archaeologists involved in that dig died in tragic circumstances, Wesley…

Steel Danielle: Family Album

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting two years earlier. Unable to forget the connection they shared and helpless to resist it, romance quickly sparks. But for Faye, daring and passionate, the life she's heading for with Ward is a threat to her ambition. How can she decide between Hollywood and motherhood? Is it right to choose…

Barnes Zoe: Return to Sender

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The double christening of her sisters' two kids gets Holly Bennett thinking. She would seriously love to have a baby one day, but for the first time in ages being adopted has become a stumbling block for her. Does she want to start a family of her own when she doesn't even know who she really is or where she's come from? With an on-off boyfriend who she's swiftly falling out of lust with, Holly…

Grant Linda: Still Here

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life she suddenly finds herself erotically attracted to a stranger. Joseph is an American architect who has come to the city to build a hotel. Refusing to accept that his wife has left him or the trauma of a war he once fought in, the…

Tzouliadis Tim: The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality, and honest labour. What in fact awaited them, however, was the most…

P. C. Cast: Untamed (House of Night)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: A week ago Zoey had a group of special friends, three boyfriends and a (kinda) clear conscience. Now she has none of the above. Luckily ice-queen Aphrodite is showing signs of melting and ex-roomie Stevie Rae isn't as dead as she'd thought. Though Stevie's now hanging out in tunnels with freaks — gross. If she can get them to listen, Zoey will need all her friends as events take a frightening…

Nicholas Evans: The Brave

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the…

Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel…