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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of scout camp and a penknife look set to be…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 533 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 498) Аннотация: A cluster of suicides among the elderly. Such things are not unknown to the police and the deaths are quickly dismissed by the police as routine. Only one man is convinced that something more sinister is taking place. However, no one listens to Tom Thorne anymore. Having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new colleagues, Thorne's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When the elderly Madame Preau returns to her own house after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighbourhood has changed. A new family has moved in next door and, from her window, she watches their three children playing in the garden after school. Two of the children seem perfectly healthy, but Madame Preau is struck by the third child, who seems…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men's footsteps, accompanied only by two friends. Off piste and with no support team, the three men strike for Everest's peak and the most vicious climate on earth. As the winds rise…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A brand new novel — and a stunning new heroine — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and letting a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house far away. The events that followed changed her life for ever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma — and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation — Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Throughout history, fashion models have occupied a curious position: while their faces were instantly familiar, virtually nothing else was known about them. But their impression upon Vogue's readership has always been considerable — they reflect and represent the ever-changing ideal of beauty. It was models such as Barbara Goalen and Fiona-Campbell Walter in Britain and Lisa Fonssagrives and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occurring around the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, not least with the construction of her new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status — and fluent French — will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The unforgettable silhouette of Eilean Donan Castle at the confluence of three sea lochs in the Highlands, seen against the majestic backdrop of the mountains of Kintail, is an iconic image of Scotland and of Scottish history that adorns calendars, shortbread tins and whisky bottles worldwide. Not many people realise that the castle was only built in 1932. Along with Lutyens's slightly better…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumoured to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword — even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters... ZOMBIES! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind. Callie has grown up keeping her feelings locked away from the outside world, and as her painful past threatens to consume her life, most days it's a struggle just to breathe. For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence has been the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling and desolate, Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything, she jumps at the chance to look after her friend's guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. But there is a storm heading for Adrienne, in more ways than she can imagine. Stranded and isolated…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 206 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 630) Аннотация: Provides an extraordinary account of Steve Jobs' professional and personal life, drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews conducted with Walter Isaacson, as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple, and its leading competitors... 'a fitting legacy to a flawed genius'. From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: It's one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world: Yemen. A Middle Eastern hotbed of corruption and insurgency and the perfect training ground for Islamic terrorists. When FBI agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield are assigned to overseas posts in Sana's, Yemen's capital city, they are tasked with hunting down the high-ranking Al Qaeda operative responsible for the USS Cole…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: How far would you follow him before you accept it's over? Eleanor Blake, distraught after breaking up with her fiance Will, decides to do what most would scarcely dare: secretly follow him to the island hideaway where he's on holiday with the woman who took her place. But on the shimmering, sun-drenched Sicilian island of Panarea, distractions come in many forms — including her fellow hotel guest…