Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «#1 «New York Times» bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces you to the Montgomery brothers — Beckett, Ryder, and Owen — as they bring an intimate bed-and-breakfast to life in their hometown. Owen is the organizer of the Montgomery clan, running the family's construction business with an iron fist — and an even less flexible spreadsheet. And though his brothers bust on his compulsive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that redefined the spy novel for young readers — Alex Rider! Alex Rider's life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger. Every story has a beginning. For teen secret agent Alex Rider, that beginning occurred prior to his first case for MI6, known by the code name Stormbreaker. By the time Stormbreaker forever changed Alex's life,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: A moving portrait of Esther Earl, the young woman whose friendship and life with cancer were an inspiration to many, including author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars). Told through Esther's own journals, letters, and fiction, supplemented with essays from her family and friends.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: As Henry Kissinger observes in this magisterial book, there has never been a true world order. For most of history, civilizations have defined their own concepts of order, each one envisioning its distinct principles as universally relevant. Now, as international affairs take place on a global basis, these historic concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Nobel Prize winner and author of «One Hundred Years of Solitude» and «Love in the Time of Cholera», Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in «Of Love and Other Demons» — a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December'. When…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: April, 1890. London wakes to the shocking news of a mass prison escape. Walter Day and the Scotland Yard Murder Squad now face a desperate race against time: if they don't re capture the four convicted murderers before night settles, they'll vanish into the dark alleys of London's criminal underworld for ever.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Is It Really Too Much To Ask? is the fifth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. Well, someone's got to do it: in a world which simply will not see reason, Jeremy sets off on another quest to beat a path of sense through all the silliness and idiocy. And there's no knowing what might catch Jeremy's eye along the way. It could be: the merits of Stonehenge as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dead Men's Bones is the fourth novel in James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh and is already a Sunday Times Top Five best-seller. A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife... Morag Weatherly and her two young daughters have been shot by husband Andrew, an influential politician, before he turned the gun on himself. But what would cause a rich,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet system: in Among Friends, a doting mother commits an atrocious act against her beloved son in an attempt to secure his future; The Time: Night examines the suicide of the great Russian poetess Anna Andreevna with heartbreaking clarity; while in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations. Then, when an…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, is that our institutions — the intricate frameworks within…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is the incredible debut novel from YouTube phenomenon Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not... But until that day, I'm going to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in real life. Penny has a secret. Under the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Cress is the third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, following Cinder and Scarlet. Incarcerated in a satellite, an expert hacker and out to save the world — Cress isn't your usual damsel in distress. Cress grew-up as a prisoner. With only net screens for company she's forced to do the bidding of the evil Queen Levana. Now that means tracking down Cinder and her handsome accomplice…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of their teachers, and celebrity aviators thrilling spectators…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Portly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a stolen Goya, the disappearance of which is causing a diplomatic ruction between Spain and its allies. Not that that matters to Charlie... until compromising pictures of some British diplomats also come into his possession and start to muddy the waters. All he's trying to do is make a dishonest living, but various…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors — Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few — and critics — James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt met in Casablanca to review the Allies' war aims. To achieve unconditional surrender they had to overcome some formidable hurdles, from winning air command to 'hopping' across the Pacific islands. Eighteen months later, they had done what seemed impossible. Here Paul Kennedy reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen — like…