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Barclay Linwood: No Safe House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: What would you do to protect your daughter ...? From the million-copy bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYE. Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal which nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to…

Horowitz Anthony: Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: James Bond is back w here he belongs. Anthony Horow itz's new novel is a thrilling tour de force, sure to delight fans of the original 007 novels and new readers alike. It also features previously unseen material w ritten by Bond's creator, Ian Fleming. The story begins in the lethal w orld of Grand Prix and an attempt by the Russians to sabotage a race at Nurburgring, the most dangerous track in…

Mayhew James: Katie's London Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Discover the magic of London at Christmas time with classic picture book character, Katie. When Katie and Jack are woken up late on Christmas Eve by a loud sneeze, little do they realise that they are about to embark on the most amazing evening! Soon they are flying high across London, over snow-dusted landmarks, through the star-scattered sky with the one and only Father Christmas, in his…

Philip K. Dick: Nick and the Glimmung

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Nick and his family are forced to leave Earth in order for him to keep his cat, Horace — because all pets are now banned, as they use up badly-needed resources. They settle on Plowman's Planet, where they discover a variety of strange and wonderful alien life-forms. But not all of these weird lifeforms are benevolent — and the family is involved in a series of increasingly dangerous mishaps. Can…

Blake Fanny: Red for Revenge

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…

Ulitskaya Ludmila: The Funeral Party

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…

Pratchett Terry: Eric

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain.…

Pyper Andrew: The Demonologist

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,…

Grant Adam: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

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…

Simon Francesca: Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Animals

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: How far away can you hear a lion roar? How do dolphins breathe underwater? Is it really true that elephants never forget? Bursting with weird facts and freaky trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything a Horrid Henry fan has ever wanted to know about animals. Gross out your parents, scare your little brother and amaze your friends with your new knowledge.

Moorcock Michael: My Experiences in the Third World War and Other Stories

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.

Henry Veronica: Love on the Rocks

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Lisa and her boyfriend George take on the run-down Rocks Hotel, they are determined to throw everything they have into making it THE chic maritime retreat. But renovating a hotel is about a lot more than stripping the wooden floors and supplying Indian cotton sheets. And the locals aren't exactly welcoming to the newcomers, either... especially Bruno, the tall, dark and decidedly surly owner…

Rollins James: Subterranean

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders — and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist Ashley Carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they are not the first to venture here — and those they follow did not return. There are mysteries here…

Mosse Kate: The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A wonderfully atmospheric collection of short stories, rooted deep in the landscape and inspired by traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by ghosts and spirits seeking revenge; by grief-struck women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny — all rooted deep in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany and the Languedoc.…

Mccaughrean Geraldine: Britannia: Great Stories from British History

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names live again in these 101 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. Spanning nearly three thousand years, and including stories as up-to-date as Live Aid, the Braer Oil Tanker disaster and the Hadron Collider, each story includes a note on what really happened.

Connelly Michael: Blood Work

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: In Blood Work, Michael Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn’t looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria’s death, her story…

Moorcock Michael: The War Amongst the Angels

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…

Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Steve Berry decided to do something a little bit different to raise funds for Alzheimer's Research UK. A life-long DOCTOR WHO fan, he began to interview celebrities, writers, actors and people who had worked on DOCTOR WHO, asking for their earliest memories of the show that sent us cowering behind the sofa. Now he presents the fruits of his four years of labour — a beautiful, touching book…

Joanne M. Harris: The Gospel of Loki

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods — retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall of Asgard itself. Using her life-long passion for…

Lindsay Jeff: Dexter's Final Cut

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst named Dexter Morgan. Mega-star Robert Chase is famous for losing himself in his characters. When he and a group of actors descend on the Miami Police Department for 'research', Chase becomes fixated on…