Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper’s, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans — Bella and Roman and their son, Mark —…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Following their internationally bestselling novelsDune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson forge a final tumultuous finish to their prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune. It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: «Expect the unexpected... A wrongly convicted murderer exacts a flawless plan of revenge... Headlights in a rear-view mirror tail a female traveler on a lonely stretch of road... A serial bride secures her future by marrying only the wealthiest of men... An escaped Iraqi with a price on his head pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... A brush with death proves the biggest break of an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger-until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the «one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century» (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrère follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: «With «Wizard's First Rule» and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 401) Аннотация: Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of American commandos killing everyone in sight. Carmellini escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor-a stunningly attractive translator, who then steals…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «On Wednesday, Quinn McKenzie changes her life. On Thursday, she tries to get somebody to notice. On Thursday night, somebody does. Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a «beige» life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: «The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson'sDune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade. More than two decades have passed since the events…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Meet Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero ofEnder's Game — winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel — and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. «The Polish Boy» is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget. Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more to be the first female president. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world-and to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength and the will to realize his destiny... Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow... Ray Gould was born to the back streets but raised with pride — a quality matched by a sharp…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: «Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as «The Honest Trader». But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California-but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell. For we now have the technology to move between timelines, and to exploit…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With nothing left to lose, an unlikely group of four men attempt an audacious sting operation that will take them from the hallowed halls of Oxford University to the boisterous casinos of Monte Carlo all in the name of revenge, in this spellbinding classic.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack. Reprint.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It's a city like any other, a city that gives…