Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Sonea knows the other novices in the Magicians' Guild all come from powerful families, but she also knows she can turn to Rothen and Dannyl for help when she needs it. That is, until someone starts spreading malicious rumours about her — and Akkarin, the High Lord, steps in. Prompted by the Guild Ambassador, Lord Dannyl leaves for the Elyne court. His first order from Administrator Lorlen is to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: In the city of Imardin, where those who wield magic wield power, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magician's Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot that may destroy the entire world... Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect. But she cannot forget what she witnessed in the High Lord's underground room — or his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York. With her taste for luxury and power, Mary Anne,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time spent living with the family of thirteen in their four-roomed home. Bookseller Sultan Khan defied the authorities for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: 'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy'... Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It began with two bodies. Different locations, same cause of death. Vicki Nelson, P.I., knew right off that it wouldn`t be a straightforward case. The silver bullets found at the scene were a pretty big clue. Vicki is on the trail of an assassin hell-bent on wiping out Canada's last remaining werewolf clan.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: It began with a dazzling vision of the sun. And for Henry Fitzroy, that was the worst vision of all. Sunlight never features high on a vampire`s list of daydreams. But for Vicki Nelson, P.I., one hallucinatory vampire hardly warrants a drop-everything-case, even if they were sometimes lovers. Or so she thought at the time.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The first volume in a trilogy of magic, intrigue and breathtaking epic adventure.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This illustrated volume celebrates London's history and present, providing a record of its architecture. The text highlights the spirit of each area through its history and the essence of life there today. It includes quotations from chroniclers such as Pepys, Wordsworth and Dickens.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it'. Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable — streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explosive. But amongst the ruins Berliners survive, including some he knew and, miraculously, his lost love, Lena. But in the way she would not leave with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating origins. It began life as the unfinished last novel of Sir Arthur Quiller — Couch, the celebrated 'Q', and was passed by his daughter to Daphne du Maurier whose storytelling skills were perfectly suited to the task of completing the old master's tale. The result is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca. Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a family riven by war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: By chance, two men — one English, the other French — meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking — until at last John, the Englishman, falls into a drunken stupour. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, his French companion has stolen his identity and disappeared. So John steps into the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When Janey Wilcox makes it big as a Victoria's Secret model, she finally gets the celebrity status she has always craved. Suddenly the car of her dreams is hers, and even better, so is that house in New York's exclusive Hamptons. No longer will she have to choose her boyfriends according to who has a house she can summer in. At the most exclusive of Hampton parties, Janey finds herself mingling…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «The Dream of Scipio», Iain Pears' first mainstream novel since «An Instance of the Fingerpost», is a work of astonishing ambition that appeals equally to the head and heart. It is set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation — the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth, and the Second World War in the twentieth — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir Henry Champernoune, he witnesses…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Before the legend …Before the icon …There was a teenager called Clark Kent… Clark and his classmates have a new substitute teacher — the gorgeous Ms Lilia Sanchez. Pretty soon Clark has a serious crush on her, and he’s not the only one. Lex Luthor has feelings for Ms Sanchez too, and they might just tear the two friends apart. Especially when Clark begins to suspect that Ms Sanchez might be able…