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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is the declassified CIA story that inspired the new film from Ben Affleck and George Clooney. Tehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American embassy and held sixty Americans captive for a gruelling 444 days. But until now the CIA has never revealed the twist to the Iran Hostage Crisis: six Americans escaped. The escape plot was run by Antonio Mendez, head of the CIA's…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When make-believe Princess Jessica throws a royal ball, she delivers invitations to her loyal subjects, picks out her best ball gown, and even loses her slipper. If only her sister wasn't such a royal pain! Jessie becomes a princess complete with a ball gown, a crown, royal jewels, and loyal subjects to come to the royal ball.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to my mind'. Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo — a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. The number one New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Bread, cash, dosh, dough, and loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain's war effort to the…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement... The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!' With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin — the new guest at The Coach and Horses — is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle. In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before ...Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband but a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats. In the hands of Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy the novelist, poet,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: The number-one New York Times -bestselling author delves into the world of elite firefighters who thrive on danger and adrenaline-men and women who wouldn't know how to live life if it wasn't on the edge. There's little as thrilling as firefighting-at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are in Rowan's blood: her father is a legend. She's been fighting fires since her eighteenth…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this journal; an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake — and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality. Just what made Germany keep on fighting? Kershaw's gripping, revelatory…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In the summer of 1978 the Krasnansky family — bickering, tired and confused — arrive in Rome. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees they await passage to a new home in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Buy now with one-click. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. Yet Amazon's success is largely down to CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, a man described as both a 'happy-go-lucky mogul' and a 'notorious micromanager'. His high energy, passionate approach to retailing has driven Amazon to the top. Jeff Bezos is smart.…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the old energies on which our civilization has been built, the new energies that are competing to replace them, and the battle over climate change. Epic in scope and never…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed If I Stay Picking up several years after the dramatic conclusion of If I Stay, Where She Went continues the story of Adam and Mia, from Adam's point of view. Ever since Mia's decision to stay — but not with him — Adam's career has been on a wonderful trajectory. His album, borne from the anguish and pain of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: SKYE and SUMMER TANBERRY are identical twins, and Skye loves her sister Summer more than anyone else in the world. They do everything together, but lately Skye's been feeling like second-best ? It's the story of her life. And when her friend Alfie confesses he's fallen not for her, but for Summer, it hurts. Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? Will…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus…