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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents. At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «A new series of supernatural thrillers with a characteristic British flavour, from the acclaimed writer of «Lucifer» and «Hellblazer».»

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Trudi Canavan, author of the bestselling Black Magician trilogy, embarks up on a wonderful new fantasy series set in a classical world of magic, heroes, gods and forbidden love.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Jenny Humphrey arrived at elite Waverly Academy with dreams of turning herself into the sophisticated, awe-inspiring Jenny she's always wanted to be. And it's finally, finally happening! She's even rooming with the two most popular girls in school, Callie Vernon and Brett Messerschmidt, and bunking in the notorious Tinsley Carmichael's old bed. Coolness is rubbing off on her, even while she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Jenny Humphrey arrived at Waverly Academy, the student body immediately started buzzing about her and her body. She quickly caught the eye of three of the hottest guys on campus, kissed two of them, and made one her boyfriend: the adorable Easy Walsh. Too bad Easy just happened to belong to somebody else — Jenny's roommate, Callie Vernon. It didn't take long for powerful Tinsley Carmichael…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Vincent Ruiz (a supporting character in Robotham's debut, Suspect) is hauled out of the Thames with a bullet wound in his leg and no memory of a shooting, let alone how he wound up in the water in Robotham's fine, moody second thriller. Keebal, a nasty cop from internal affairs, hounds Ruiz from the start, and everyone seems to know something Ruiz doesn't. When psychologist Joe O'Loughlin (the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was to be rock stars. Fifteen years later, their mid-thirties are bearing down fast, and just like everybody else, they're having to accept the less glamorous hands reality has dealt them. Nervous new father Ray takes refuge from his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating. Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way that none of them at first…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establishment, but the company now paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team. Paul thought he was getting the hang of it (particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague Sophie), but death is never far away when you work at J.W. Wells. Unlike the stapler —…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Adopted as a baby, Vicky McCarthy's curiosity about where she came from has finally got the better of her: she wants to trace her birth mother. If that doesn't cause friction enough, there's a new face to contend with at work: Ed O'Neill, whom Vicky is convinced is being groomed for her job as manager of Dublin toyshop Toys Galore. Sal, Vicky's go- getting best friend, thinks Ed is gorgeous, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In Victorian London at the height of the industrial revolution, Horatio Lyle is a former Special Constable with a passion for science and invention. He's also an occasional, but reluctant, sleuth. The truth is that he'd rather be in his lab tinkering with dangerous chemicals and odd machinery than running around the cobbled streets of London trying to track down stolen goods. But when Her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Justin Westwood, the detective hero of APHRODITE, is mourning the death of his boss, victim of a terrorist bombing in a local restaurant, when he's called to investigate an air accident: a small plane has crashed on take-off from Hampton Airport. The pilot is dead, but when Justin discovers the body has no ID, the cockpit has been wiped clean of prints and the Federal Air Authority has deleted…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher — until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Livia Pertini is 79 and struggling to interest her granddaughter Rosa in the age-old recipes of her home, Fiscino, a tiny hamlet on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. These recipes reveal the unimaginable hardships of the Second World War — mouse stew, dandelion frittatas — but also tell the story of a young, vivacious Livia. Naive and already war-weary, James Gouding takes up a British Field Security…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Mycroft Holmes, charged with ensuring the personal safety of Queen Victoria, calls on his brother for help when a number of attempts have been made on her life and when two unexplained deaths occur amongst the staff at her Scottish residencies. Accompanied by Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes goes north by train, examining the few facts Mycroft has been able to cryptically supply. To Watson's bafflement…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. From forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Eighteen-year-old Toni and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted for the murder of her younger sister. Seventeen years later she returns home, ready to move on with her life, but she can't. Ryan is convinced he can uncover the truth; her mother still doesn't believe Toni is innocent; and the former high school girls who made Toni's life miserable may have darker secrets than anyone can…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Scarlett O'Brien, utterly addicted to romantic films, has found her leading man. She's convinced Sean is Mr Right, but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn't quite like the movies. With Sean constantly away on business, Scarlett and her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York for the holiday of a lifetime. From one famous landmark to the next, Scarlett and Oscar make many new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A breathtaking new vision of a legendary tale. Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But in a twist to the fairytale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed becomes her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.