Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell — the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 1688. Beth Ambrose has lead a sheltered life within the walls of Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, a troubled resident at Merryfields, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice. But as political tensions…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past — to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 'The iron of the bridge felt hot under my hand. The sun had been upon it all day. Gripping hard with my hands I lifted myself on to the bar and gazed down steadily on the water passing under... I thought of places I would never see, and women I should never love. A white sea breaking on a beach, the slow rustle of a shivering tree, the hot scent of grass... I breathed deeply and I felt as though…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It was a night that would be long remembered. The Florence police would come to call it a night of horror, the start of a new nightmare... After enduring years at the mercy of an infamous serial killer, the people of Florence rejoice at news of his death — until a senator is found brutally murdered. To Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara the case is very much alive. But, with a powerful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. Determined to leave her Manhattan past behind her, Jenny sets off to Waverly with big plans of reinventing herself. She'll be a goddess-she's a sophisticated city…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. Apprentice mechanic Charlie seems to be avoiding…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After experiencing a precognitive dream that shatters her engagement and changes her life forever, young California psychology professor Laurel MacDonald decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the long-buried files form the world-famous Rhine parapsychology experiments, which attempted to prove if ESP really exists. Along…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: Alexandria, Egypt, 1977. During a clandestine dive to an old shipwreck, archaeologist Isabella Warnock unearths an artefact unlike anything she has ever seen: an astrarium, a powerful ancient device rumoured to have shaped the destinies of pharaos and kings since the beginning of time. But her discovery comes at a terrible price, and it falls to her husband Oliver to keep the priceless object…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California — the only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and the novel details her quest to find out the truth about her disappearance — a quest which soon becomes an investigation of the disturbing origins of America Pacifica itself, and its sinister and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 — on trumped-up charges of adultery — the portrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies. Joanna Denny's compelling new biography of Anne presents a radically different picture of her — a highly literate, accomplished and intellectual…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Petite Chinese-Canadian accountant Ava Lee is not quite what she seems. Ava is a specialist at recovering stolen money — through any means necessary. With razor-sharp intelligence and unorthodox rules of engagement, Ava works for a Hong Kong-based 'Uncle'. She's also the person the impossibly wealthy turn to when their money goes missing. Employed to track down $5 million for a family friend,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A child falls into the river. A stranger jumps in to rescue him. And four lives are changed for ever... On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on the river watch in shock as a small boy falls into the Seine and disappears below the surface. As his mother stands frozen, a stranger takes a breath and leaps... From the internationally bestselling author of Since I Don't Have You comes a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ruby Jones just needed to relax and take a holiday. She made a bad decision when she headed for Goa... Famed for beaches and full moon parties, Goa is also home to one of the most famous Christian shrines in Asia — St. Francis Xavier, his body still miraculously intact after five hundred years. But when the head of the saint is stolen, Ruby discovers there's a lot more going missing in Goa than…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone. Alex Broccoli is ten years old, likes onions on toast, and can balance on the back legs of his chair for fourteen minutes. His best friend is a 9000-year-old demon called Ruen. When his depressive mother attempts suicide yet again, Alex meets child psychiatrist Anya. Still bearing the scars of her own daughter's battle with…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Five years after the horrific crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now-closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of mechanical failure is wrong. The FBI don't take kindly to the case being looked into again and, as John Corey's instincts and investigations clearly show anomalies, he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Joe Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence lawyer. Sam Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective. Both bear the burden of the unsolved murder of their sister fifteen years earlier. And both have a stake in a new series of murders that has shaken their city to its core. Ronnie Bagley is locked up and facing trial for the murder of his girlfriend and baby and there's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Who do you trust when you can no longer trust your own mind? A state school girl at a prestigious music school, Emma is determined to excel. Then the impossibly chic twins, confident Sophie and quieter Matilde, come crashing into her life. Surrounding her with champagne and parties, they demand Emma's full attention. Struggling to balance it all, the girls are plunged into insomnia and bitter…