Simon Francesca: Horrid Henry's Holiday (+ Audio CD)
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry is up to high jinks, causing chaos on his family holiday.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry is up to high jinks, causing chaos on his family holiday.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry receives a most unwelcome present...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings in Fitzrovia, the coroner rules her death as suicide, but DI Ted Stratton of the CID is not convinced. Despite opposition from his superiors, he starts asking questions, and it becomes clear that Morgan's fatal fall from a high window may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: That Sunday feeling... The weekend's over, there's nothing on TV except for the Antiques Roadshow. The only thing you can do is face the fact that the working week is just around the corner. And for Matt Bletch, the working week is not a prospect to be relished. He's moved to middle of nowhere and taken a job at the only school that would have him. Surrounded by social misfits, clowns and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg — and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways — Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But a brutal murder in the next cabin spells the end of her sleuthing retirement, and the start of an investigation that will take her to the Holy Land and far beyond. Pelagia's journey…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: John Tanner is looking forward to a weekend party with his closest friends, the Ostermans, the Tremaynes and the Cardones. But then the CIA tell him that they are all suspected Soviet agents: fanatical, traitorous killers working for a massive Communist conspiracy. Tanner cannot know who are his friends and who are his deadly enemies.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: It is a matter of historical record that during the latter part of World War II, England's top-secret Ministry of Serendipity enlisted the services of arch-magician Aleister Crowley to create a Homunculus. Why? Well that's a long story, spanning almost seven decades as it follows the life and career of Tyler, rock star, private eye — and notable for the fact that he almost saved Mankind. The cast…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction's most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Tom's life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say so. His best friend — and best man — Neil has moved away to California to teach neurology. He has one successful book — on human psychology — but he now wiles away the time teaching bored grad students. But that all changes when Neil comes back into his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: For university professor David Webb — forever caught between two identities — life can never be ordinary. Lately he seems to have found some well-earned normality. But David is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his former life — as Jason Bourne. Soon he finds himself embroiled in a Central Intelligence operation to hunt down a terrorist organisation planning a major attack, and is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There's only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with — at least voluntarily — and that's Bill. But recently he's been a little distant — in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where to find him, and next thing Sookie knows she's off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead. It's a dangerous little haunt where the elusive vampire…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: AYMATE OF THE DAY Jack Ryan has a man's fists, a boy's mind, and the cunning of an ex-con. Nancy Hayes has a woman's sleek moves and the instincts of a shark. Now, in a Michigan resort town, a rich man wants Jack gone and Nancy for himself. For Ryan the choice is clear: Nancy's promises of pleasure, her crazy, thrill-seeking schemes of breaking into homes, shooting guns, and maybe stealing a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire — and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself — she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie's gift: she can read minds. That's not exactly every…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed'. Following the route taken by Phileas…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: When the Soviet Union collapsed, the world was left wondering about its destiny. Russia is still an enormous power with a population exceeding 140 million, immense military resources and giant energy reserves — in short, a vast land full of promise and opportunity. Russia has the potential to be a force of stability or a force of turmoil, but when it comes to global affairs, can she be persuaded…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts — for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 4 The Romans capture Cacofonix as a gift for Caesar who plans to throw him to the lions. To get into the Circus Maximus and rescue their bard, Asterix and Obelix have to become gladiators.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body — not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: On a hot summer afternoon in Washington DC 1972, three white teenagers, stoned and fearless, drive a stolen car into a rough, black neighbourhood. Taunting local black kids through the car window, they speed off to what they think is safety. They find themselves trapped in a dead-end street whilst an angry mob gathers. In the ensuing chaos, two of the white boys manage to escape, but Billy — the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: 'It was not the question of an isolated assassination, but rather of beginning a complete overthrow of the regime' July 20 1944. A fearless group of German officers attempted to act against the horrors of Nazism and put an end to the war by killing Adolf Hitler. But Operation Valkyrie failed, and one by one the plotters were found out, tortured and executed. Philipp von Boeselager — who supplied…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the 80 years of political experimentation in Russia and Eastern Europe, known as Communism. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist…