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Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: KALEIDOSCOPE: No one could have imagined that Sam Walker's fairytale love with his French bride would end in tragedy... Nine-year-old Hilary, the eldest of the Walker children, clung desperately to her two younger sisters, Alexandra and baby Megan. However, they too would be wrenched from her tender arms. Hilary swears that she will one day track down the man who destroyed her family, and find…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress. Mary hungers greedily for fine clothes and ribbons, as people of her class do for food and warmth. It's a hunger that lures her into prostitution at the age of thirteen. Mary is thrown out by her distraught mother when she gets pregnant and almost dies on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: How do you make conversation with a sperm donor? How do you say someone's novel is drivel? Would you give a screaming baby brandy? In what words would you tell your girlfriend to pluck a hair on her chin? Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: If you don't care about her, who will? Hope Randall leads a quiet life, but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep, bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had, he's going to change her world for ever. Connie's in deep trouble and the mysterious Flint needs Hope's help in finding her. Returning to London, Hope is forced to confront old demons — and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: As well as its advantages, there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh, where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city, and anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian McKinlay — wife of a trustee of an illustrious school — is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sixteen-year-old Lia Milthorpe must journey to the uncharted isle of Altus to continue her search for the missing pages of the Book of Chaos — the pages that could tell her how to end the prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other. But the journey will test more than just her courage, it will also test her loyalty to her beloved boyfriend, James. Meanwhile, twin sister…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A romantic drama about a woman who must learn to trust again in order to love again, by the bestselling author of The Notebook and The Last Song.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used — sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently — to stake out our common ground, to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Now that Lia has found the missing pages of the Librum Maleficii et Disordinae, or the Book of Chaos, the end of the Prophecy is in sight. While Lia tries to save James from Alice's sinister grasp, she unlocks the prophecy's final mystery and a caveat that may put an end to any hope of ending the prophecy; to close the Gate to the Beast forever, Lia must convene in an ancient ritualistic ceremony…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college — a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn't know who sent the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces and the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 628) Аннотация: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. It begins in the realm…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in an intense love affair and in Sheila's troubled life. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A boy lies in a coma in Utah, brought home from Israel after a near-death motorcycle accident. A child who escaped certain death in Poland in 1941 swims with manatees in Florida many years later on holiday with her dying partner. An obsessive FBI agent spends twenty years tracking a legendary Sixties-era radical. A veterinarian from Massachusetts attempts to simplify her life by going to live on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Still reeling from the betrayal of those closest to her and the revelation that her college boyfriend Jared may still be alive, Jordan Weiss resigns her State Department post and sets out from London to find him. She travels to Jared's last known address in the opulent French Riviera city of Monaco. There, she meets Nicole, a mysterious woman connected to Jared, who refuses to disclose his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Jane is found, near death, in a rosebush — a victim of hit and run. But as she's convalescing she realizes that her friends' stories and her memories of what happened that night aren't adding up. And now only thing she does know is that one of her friends isn't so friendly. One of them tried to kill her.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Laura Munson's essay was first published, the New York Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feature on their website. Readers sent it to their friends and therapists gave it to their clients. What did Munson write that caused such a fervour? Laura detailed what happened when her husband of more than twenty years told her he wasn't sure he loved her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.