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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Maggie is married with two grown children. Her twenty-five year-old marriage to Phil has lost its sparkle. Carol is widowed. She understands life is short so she lives it to the full. But is her new romance all that it seems? The two women meet in the beauty salon having their nails painted. Choosing the same colour to please their men leads them to discover the truth! When Maggie and Carol…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres gather around the sickbed of an artist named Alik. Nina, his wife, is desperate for Alik to be baptised; Irina, his ex-lover, a circus acrobat turned lawyer, quietly pays the bills; elderly Maria dispenses magical herbs; and Maika, Irina's fifteen-year-old daughter, prepares to lose the only man to…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Winner of the 2014 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel. The unsettling, unique and utterly compelling new novel from the bestselling author of LOST GIRLS. Professor David Ullman is a world authority on demonic literature. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon' he accepts, taking his daughter, Tess, with him. But in Venice, things take a sinister,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The motivations behind today's most successful leaders and entrepreneurs come to a simple yet decisive explanation: there are people who give, people who take, people who match, and people who fake. Our world is filled with these givers, takers, matchers and fakers. Amazingly, those who succeed (not only personally but for their clients and companies) don't take or match. They give. (Although…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The first part of Gollancz's definitive collection of Moorcock's short fiction, this selection features some of his finest work. From the Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarious to the Cairene Purse, the stories here are incredibly varied in their style, execution and subject matter.
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Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The Michael Moorcock collection continues with this trilogy of novels featuring some of his greatest characters, and the terror of the Second Ether. Across the centuries of the human experience and the unimaginable reaches of the Second Ether, Rose Von Bek and Jack Karaquazian travel. They live by a strict moral code, gambling their sanity or their lives on the turn of a card or the roll of a…
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