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Pinborough Sarah: Poison

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: POISON is a beautifully illustrated re-telling of the Snow White story which takes all the elements of the classic fairytale that we love (the handsome prince, the jealous queen, the beautiful girl and, of course, the poisoning) and puts a modern spin on the characters, their motives and their desires. It's fun, contemporary, sexy, and perfect for fans of ONCE UPON A TIME, GRIMM, SNOW WHITE AND…

Jodi Ellen Malpas: One Night: Denied

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The latest addictive installment of the year's hottest trilogy from international bestseller, Jodi Ellen Malpas. Jodi took the nation by storm with Jesse and Ava in her This Man novels. Christian Grey has just found a new wave of admirers in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Could there be a man to match these men? Meet Livy and her mysterious 'M'. Aloof, addictive and intriguing — ever since he…

James Lee Burke: Light of the World

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When Detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a convicted serial killer called Asa Surette, he does all he can to dissuade her. Dave has always encouraged her ambitions as a writer, but as a father he doesn't want her to be exposed to a man so nakedly evil. And his fears seem well founded when Alafair is visibly shocked by the encounter. Two years later,…

Beevor Antony: The Second World War

Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a…

Setterfield Diane: Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman…

Khoury Raymond: Rasputin's Shadow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men — a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar — hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A…

Coben Harlan: Long Lost

Скачать книгу (размер 1 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 370) Аннотация: A phone call from a long-lost lover would turn anyone's world upside down. She's in serious trouble and you're the only one who can help. Terese Collins vanished without a trace from Myron Bolitar's life a few years ago, so her cry for help catches him off guard. She's in Paris, and has lost everything: her marriage, her child and now she's the prime suspect in her ex-husband's murder case. Myron…

Coben Harlan: Play Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Ex fashion model and successful business woman Laura Ayars' perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon, her sports superstar husband goes for a swim — and never returns. But what has happened to David — can he really be dead? Whilst struggling to cope with her almost overwhelming grief, Laura is plagued by questions and doubts. Was it an…

Smith Dan: Red Winter

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and empty. The men have been massacred in the forest. The women and children have disappeared. In this remote, rural Russian community the folk tales mothers tell their children by candlelight…

Pratchett Terry: Small Gods

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: Hey, you! For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...

Pratchett Terry: Sourcery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a source of magic... a Sourcerer. Sourcery sees the return of Rincewind and the Luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest — and funniest — challenge yet.

Martin George R.R.: Tuf Voyaging

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship, pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside for now — just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in space is in good hands, hands which now control…

Ironmonger J.W.: The Coincidence Authority

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Thomas Post is an expert on coincidences. He's an authority. People come to see him, to ask him if he can explain strange events that have befallen them, and he can always explain these things away. We poor humans, he would say, have a tendency to make patterns out of random shapes, or to construct meaning from the random behaviour of the universe. But one day Thomas gets a visit from Azalea…

Priest Christopher: Indoctrinaire

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Deep in the Advanced Technique Concentration, Wentik created a mind-altering drug. Suddenly he is transported to the jungles of Brazil in the 22nd century and a world devastated by nuclear war and poison gas. Only South America survived but even here 'The Disturbances' create havoc. Can Wentik find a way back? For himself? And all of humanity?

Higgins Peter: Wolfhound Century

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands around it, slowly — inexorably — killing everything it touches. Alone in the wilderness, it reaches out…

Holdstock Robert: Mythago Wood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable... and stronger than time itself. Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the…

Rothfuss Patrick: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: A companion novella to Patrick Rothfuss' bestselling Kingkiller Chronicle novels, The Slow Regard of Silent Things shares an enchanting new perspective on the Four Corners realm. Renowned as a bastion of knowledge, the University draws the brightest minds to unravel the mysteries of enlightened sciences, such as artificing and alchemy. Yet deep below its bustling halls lies a complex web of…

Bardugo Leigh: Shadow and Bone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom's magical elite — the Grisha. Could she be the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the Shadow Fold and setting Ravka free? The…

Connelly Michael: The Gods of Guilt

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Mickey Haller gets the text, 'Call me ASAP — 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows…

Pratchett Terry: The Colour of Magic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...