Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she begins to realise that going home means entering not only another place but another time. As the wild island exerts its elemental hold and she is submerged in the language of the wilderness, she sees…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Contrary to popular belief, some people have had enough of silly love songs. Especially ones that are so overwrought, inept, or narcissistic that they actually do the opposite of their intent: they creep you out. In Touch Me, I'm Sick, Tom Reynolds, the author of the best-selling book on depressing songs, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, analyses 52 love songs that for various reasons have gone off…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: The first instalment of a fast-paced fantasy duology, brimming with action and adventure.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word» Carl Hiaasen.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «From the internationally bestselling author of «The Birth Of Venus», comes a breathtaking historical novel about love, beauty, the politics of sex and the power of loyalty set in Venice, one of the world`s most spectacular cities, featuring a fabulous cou.»
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Every new project (or career or relationship) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point — really hard, really not fun. At this point you might be in a Dip, which will get better if you keep pushing, or a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better no matter how hard you try. The hard part is knowing the difference and acting on it. According to marketing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Infamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact. Wandering in the mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed. He embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have foreseen; chosen to enjoy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: Beauty has learned her lessons well. There are no pleasures that she hasn't given, no delights she hasn’t known — but there can be no freedom for her. It means she must deny her body the joy it expects, the excitement it so desperately craves. Now as our story nears its end, Beauty meets the Prince of her dreams — the one man whose touch can release the torrential passions locked within her. And,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to bring back to court a guilty man — Graham Riley — whom she had successfully defended some ten years before. As part of an elaborate contingency plan, Elizabeth leaves the unsuspecting Father Anselm with a key to a safety deposit box, to be opened in the event of her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Now that she is finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to Mma Ramotswe's door seem, if anything, to have multiplied, and no sooner has she settled her traditionally built person into the married state than she finds…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will — an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour's drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners — three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), sharing the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: ‘Sometimes when he didn’t know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain’s core... And he would turn to find her watching him, a look in his eyes of haunted grief, a doomed look. She understood the implicit message, or thought she did; he must go, back to the Church and his duties. Never again with the same spirit, perhaps, but more able…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: Blinded Psychologist Alan Gregory has a new patient: Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents. She tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered one of her friends. Blandly recounting a history of dangerous sexual encounters, Gibbs stuns Alan with another revelation: she thinks there are other victims... and that her husband will kill again.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The third novel in Alexander McCall Smith's irresistibly charming series about the residents of 44 Scotland Street.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Madeleine, the driven, ageing filmmaker whose mission is to complete a Bergmanesque magnum opus before she dies Frank, a young man of innocence and determination whose…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Adam Miller had a long war, and when the US Army let him go he made his way to Venice where his mother was trying to recreate her pre-war life. Exhausted both in body and spirit the pace of the ancient city began to heal him, and when he met Claudia, an Italian Jewess, he was ripe for seduction. Claudia's war had been worse, and after Mussolini's downfall she was quickly betrayed to the SS. While…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. ‘Shoot’, I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. ‘No!’ Edward roared… Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm — and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company…