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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: My love story may not be the sort you read about in books or see in films... Love stories have glorious highs and ghastly lows. But when it comes to my own life, I'd have to say, you can keep your fabulous highs and I'll happily steer clear of the terrible lows. After a rocky start in life, Jenny Taylor, 27, star receptionist at the local doctors surgery, has things all worked out thanks to a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records — recently declared a national treasure — are now being translated.…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Enjoy walking along the vast avenues, breathing in the unique atmosphere of Brooklyn and admiring the Statue of Liberty. Discover this city in perpetual motion, its energy and elegance. Get rid of your stress and decorate the city of dreams in a thousand colours. You will discover your inner artist and, after a few pencil strokes, forget your everyday worries.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Joseph O’Loughlin appears to have the perfect life — a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit and haunted by…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «In «Scar Tissue» Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. and plunged…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He's up to his neck in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Half dragon, half woman, can she save her friend's soul — without losing her heart? Mercy Wilson is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, but she's also more — and less — than human. Half woman, half air dragon, she's a draman — unable to shift shape but still able to unleash fiery energy. Now something will put her powers to the test. Mercy's friend Rainey has enlisted her help to solve her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to turn against their city. When the life of his beloved daughter Natasha is threatened and his old friend Anton saves a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: David Bowie — famously described as rock's greatest chameleon — has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war, bombed out Brixton to a troubled later childhood in Bromley, to the decadent glamour of Ziggy Stardust to his controversial Berlin period, Bowie's life has been filled with drama. One of our most fascinating stars, his story has never been satisfactorily told until…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Kate may have defeated her boyfriend's nemesis, showing off her sword skills in the process, but Vincent is sure that she will be at risk as long as they stay together. What's more, it's becoming clear that their relationship might prevent him from fulfilling his true purpose: saving the lives of others. They might have the romance of the century, but will that be enough?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Ever been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know — the sort they’d be insane to be offering to someone like you. The kind where you snap their arm off to accept, then wonder why all your long-serving colleagues look secretly relieved, as if they’re off some strange and unpleasant hook … It’s the kind of trick that deeply sinister companies like J.W. Wells & Co. pull all the…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum-security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as Australia's most wanted man. Hiding in Bombay, he established a medical clinic for…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Thomas Pavittes incredible 1,000 Dot-to-Dot books brought a fresh spirit to a classic pastime, and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. With Querkles: Masterpieces, Thomas has created an even more original and amazing concept that is sure to delight artistic minds of any ages. At first glance the Querkles are nothing but a seemingly random arrangement of numbered overlapping…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Thomas Pavittes amazing 1,000 Dot-to-Dot books brought a fresh spirit to a classic pastime, and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. Now he unveils an even more original and amazing concept: Querkles: The Puzzling Colouring Book. At first glance the Querkles are nothing but a seemingly random arrangement of indecipherable overlapping circles but cunningly hidden within each one is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure for every mood.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: You've finished Fifty Shades... Now treat yourself to Silken Bonds this Christmas. Christmas is never a good time to break up with someone but Tamzin has had enough of Tim; he isn't man enough for her. Bored and frustrated, Tamzin agrees to attend a Christmas party hosted by a colleague, unaware of how out of hand things will get. Tamzin discovers startling things about her desires — and she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Betsy Taylor has problems that only a vampire queen/suburban wife could possibly understand... such as fifty thousand angry werewolves. That's what Betsy is facing when she takes her werewolf friend Antonia's body to Cape Cod, where the Pack resides at Wyndham Mansion. Because Antonia died in her service, Betsy is alive and well — and wracked with guilt. She has no idea if the Wyndham werewolves…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: What would have happened had Britain not entered the First World War but stood aside as a neutral non-belligerent? What might the result have been had Britain concluded a separate peace with Nazi Germany in 1940 or 1941? How would the British have behaved had they lost the Battle of Britain and been conquered and occupied by the armed forces of Hitler's Third Reich? Altered Pasts is a fascinating…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could disappear. The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew and…