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Bennett Catherine: Mrs Cameron's Diary

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Dave's mobile went — poor Cleggsy, wanting to know what the Queen was like. «Incredibly nervous», Dave said. «But Sam soon put her at her ease.» We have heard, it seems, every opinion on the rise of the coalition save one: that of the new Prime Minister's wife, Samantha. Star journalist Catherine Bennett has stepped in to give us a glimpse of Sam Cam's first year in Downing Street. What to do…

Koch R.: The Star Principle: How it can make you rich

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Richard Koch has made over £100 million from spotting 'Star' businesses. In his new book, he shares the secrets of his success — and shows how you too can identify and enrich yourself from 'Stars'. Star businesses are ventures operating in a high-growth sector — and are the leaders in their niche of the market. Stars are rare. But with the help of this book and a little patience, you can…

Du Maurier Daphne: The Doll: Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «I want to know if men realise when they are insane. Sometimes I think that my brain cannot hold together, it is filled with too much horror — too much despair... I cannot sleep, I cannot close my eyes without seeing his damned face. If only it had been a dream». In «The Doll», a waterlogged notebook is washed ashore. Its pages tell a dark story of obsession and jealousy. But the fate of its…

Doctorow E.: Homer and Langley

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the war with his lungs seared by gas, and when both of their parents die, they seem perilously ill-equipped to deal with the new era. As romantic Homer and…

Stone Nick: Voodoo Eyes

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Ex-cop Max Mingus is bitter and broke, reduced to working seedy divorces, a middle-aged private eye haunted by his past as an enforcer in the Miami PD's notoriously corrupt Task Force. When Max's old boss Eldon Burns is brutally murdered, there are many who feel he had it coming. But Max discovers evidence pointing to a former female Black Power activist, with a powerful revenge motive, living in…

Meyer Stephenie: Breaking Dawn

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the…

Frank Coles: How to Drive a Tank

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Call yourself a man? You do? Do you even know what a real man is? Are you a six-foot-one Adonis who wears all the latest fashions, moisturises regularly, visits spas for pleasure and never does anything wrong? Or do you drink twenty pints every Friday night, guzzle a kebab on the way home and then fart yourself to sleep? It's time to stop being the man everyone expects you to be and be the one…

Robotham Michael: The Drowning Man and Bombproof

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: THE DROWNING MAN: Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him. The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. And though…

Padel Ruth: Where the Serpent Lives

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Why is Rosamund so paralyzed by Tyler and his secrets? The whole world was once in love with her. Now, married to the dangerously charismatic Tyler, estranged from her conservationist father, despairing of her teenage son's silences, she feels completely alone. Revisiting the almost forgotten world of her Indian childhood may help, but can her family survive the changes she must make to save…

Melikan Rose: The Mistaken Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Autumn, 1797. With Napoleon's forces sweeping through Europe, a young English woman travels to Paris, risking her life on a secret mission that just might end the war for good... Mary Finch is no stranger to adventure, but even she hesitates before accepting her new assignment, travelling as the wife of an American artist into the very heart of enemy territory. The plan is so secret she can't…

Renouf Tom: Black Watch: Liberating Europe and Catching Himmler — My Extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict — against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still treasures — the Gestapo commander's watch. Seriously wounded and later decorated with a Military Medal for gallantry, Tom Renouf witnessed the…

Phelan James: Quarantine: Alone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Jesse has survived the chasers. He's survived the roving bands of humans. And he might even have started to make some new friends. But the quarantine period is up. The army is coming in. And Jesse's about to learn that the real test of survival has only just begun.

Browne S.G.: Fated

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Over the past few thousand years, Fabio has come to hate his job. As Fate, he's in charge of assigning the fortunes and misfortunes that befall most of the human race — the 83 per cent who keep screwing things up. And with the steady rise in population since the first Neanderthal set himself on fire, he can't exactly take a vacation. Frustrated with his endless parade of drug addicts and career…

Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the…

Blakley-Cartwright Sarah: Red Riding Hood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry. Their town has been terrorized by a wolf that appears only at the full moon and when Valerie's sister is brutally murdered the message is clear: she's next.

Cornwell Patricia: Red Mist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out — she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings,…

Kostova Elizabeth: The Swan Thieves

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life? Solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the…

Meyer Stephenie: Eclipse

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Bella? Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine — like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of…

Moore Christopher: Fool

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters — selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic but hot Regan, and sweet, loyal Cordelia — were mere girls. So he can see trouble brewing when Lear demands that his kids swear their undying love and devotion before a collection of assembled guests. Of course Goneril and Regan are only too happy…

Sparks Nicholas: Dear John

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Is duty enough reason to live a lie? When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart. What neither realises is that the events of 9/11 will change everything. John is prompted to re-enlist…