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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Maintaining the froideur that has won her little public support, First Lady Elizabeth Tyler MacMann needs to find the hottest lawyer in town to defend her in the biggest murder trial in America's history. And that means taking on the services of the fiance she dumped at law school in order to marry the then distinguished war hero who eventually becomes President. Serially divorced, Boyce Baylor…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... Working as a lady’s companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until it dissolved itself, and writer of countless volumes of history. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: A year after the events narrated in the bestselling THE ALIENIST, the cast of characters from that novel are again brought together to investigate a crime committed in the heady days of New York in the 1890s, but this time narrated by the orphan Stevie Taggert. A young child, the daughter of Spanish diplomats, disappears. It seems she has been abducted but no ransom note is received and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Dr Johnson, having completed his life's major work (the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life, torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend. Her daughter, Queeney, narrates.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 865 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 563) Аннотация: After twenty-five years of working in the shadowy world of espionage Keith Landry is on his way home. Driving along the highway, humming a few bars of 'Homeward Bound', the twenty-five years' service he has given the US government are fast becoming a distant memory. He is safe. He is alone. And life has never felt sweeter as the signs for hometown Spencerville come into view. Keith Landry has…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 773 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 545) Аннотация: 'Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General 'Fighting Joe' Campbell, when her body was found — naked and bound — on the firing range of Fort Hadley. This political powder keg of a case goes directly to elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill — and explodes. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Eventually, I found out that the word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what's a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Anna packs her bags one day without telling anyone where and why she is going — just that she'll be back soon. Her thoughts, as she boards a plane, is that this journey will give her time to think about her life — as a woman hitting forty, a journalist and a single mother. She has no premonition that she will become a statistic in a missing person file. Left at home is Anna's beloved six year old…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The bestselling author of THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, DEAD BY SUNSET and BITTER HARVEST, Ann Rule is an acknowledged expert on violent crimes. In this fifth volume of fascinating true cases, she explores the circumstances that has driven ordinary people to cross society's boundaries and commit the desperate act of murder. In THE END OF THE DREAM, Ann Rule chillingly profiles the workings of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 594) Аннотация: As D. M. Thomas states in his masterly biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 'He helped to bring down the greatest tyranny the world has seen, besides educating the West as to its full horror. No other writer in our century has had such an influence on our history.' The author of The First Circle, Cancer Ward and The Gulag Archipelago can truly be said to have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: An assignment brings Vincent — permanent student and budding young writer — into the world of Sebastian Wells and the Prometheus League. Under the guise of a Victorian gaming society it operates extremist and covert activities. Threatening exposure, Vincent is thrown into a game of life or death.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Mightiest of ocean liners, the Titanic lies two-and-a-half miles down in the North Atlantic. And in her hold — perhaps the only amount anywhere of an incredibly rare substance that could make the free world invulnerable to foreign attack forever! The Americans want it. So do the Russians. And the sea never gives up its secrets without a struggle. Which makes the task facing ace maritime…
Скачать книгу (размер 753 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 149) Аннотация: A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in FREE LOVE are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, love in unexpected places. Ali Smith examine show things come…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Over half a century after her movie debut at the age of ten, Elizabeth Taylor is the only star from Hollywood's Golden Age who continues to hit the headlines. After nine marriages, numerous affairs, 30 operations, two Academy Awards and frequent sojourns in drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinics, she has now reinvented herself as businesswoman, AIDS campaigner and diamond collector, while…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 455) Аннотация: A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four — yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic litt commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find…