Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks...until something went terribly wrong. And after twelve minutes of chaos and violence, eighty people lay dead. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is trying to sort out the inexplicable events. Surviving witnesses talk about seeing things — monsters and swarms of bees. They describe sudden,…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Adorable photos and witty captions of the cutest cat in the world (Good Morning America) Lil Bub is a star. The adorable perma-kitten might look a little different than other felines, but her tiny size, toothless mouth, and extra toes have made her the darling of cat lovers around the world. Aided by her human, this celebri-cat is finally satisfying her demanding public with a book. Showcasing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father, so resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament and prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him — for he always helps Amir. But this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir feels jealous of his natural courage and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 875 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 369) Аннотация: A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay When sheltered American good girl Allyson LuLu Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there's an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Big trouble is brewing for Theodore Boone. While all of Streenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector McLean series. Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancee. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto, long established as the most thorough and reliable guide to the city and its surroundings, has been completely redesigned and updated for this ninth edition. Unrivaled in its coverage of the Doge's Palace, the Basilica di San Marco and all the other major sights, the Rough Guide also reveals the treasures to be found in the districts that lie off the usual…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 355) Аннотация: Gideon Cross. Tan guapo e impecable en el exterior, como traumatizado y atormentado en el interior. Fue una brillante y ardiente llama que me abrumó más que el más oscuro de los placeres. No podía mantenerme alejada. No quería hacerlo. Él era me adicción... mi único deseo... era mío. Mi pasado era tan violento como el suyo y yo estaba igual de…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the endangered native creatures of California's Channel Islands from invasive species such as rats and feral pigs. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a local businessman who is fiercely opposed to the killing of any animals whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert Alma's plans. As their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «The «New York Times» — bestselling author of «Girl with a Pearl Earring» makes her first fictional foray into the American past in «The Last Runaway», bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions, and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters is the second exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling Percy Jackson series — now with a brand new cover look. Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Even a simple game of dodgeball becomes a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives — the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses and wily financiers — and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer,…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: «John Green — The Collection includes five novels from the critically acclaimed, best-selling master of modern storytelling, brought together for the first time. Includes The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (co-written with David Levithan). «You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more». (Markus Zusak, author of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 620) Аннотация: At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the latest novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must tread lightly when investigating a homegrown homicide... Jessica has always been civic-minded, so when the director of the Cabot Cove Women's Shelter asks her to join the board of directors, she readily accepts, even though the shelter has been in the crosshairs of an unreasonable councilman who'd like to see it…