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Sandford John: Chosen Prey

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A killer has some serious cleaning up to do to keep from getting caught — and Davenport's detection skills make him number one on his hit list.

Pelevin Victor: Homo Zapiens

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively Russian twists on Western-style ads. But his success leads him into a surreal world of spin doctors, gangsters, drug…

Hornby Nick: About A Boy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When you're 36, going on 18, life is about being hip, being cool, and embracing all that Mothercare has to offer... Nick Hornby's best-selling novel is now a phenomenally successful film starring Hugh Grant, from the makers of Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Starring: Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones's Diary); Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding); Rachel Weisz (The Mummy…

Lawrence D.H.: The Virgin and the Gipsy

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «The Virgin and the Gipsy» affirms the powers of instinct and intuition in their struggle against the constraints of civilisation and anticipates «Lady Chatterley's Lover» in its theme. Lawrence tells the reverent tale of a young girl's emotional awakening in the elemental presence of a gypsy. This title was first published in 1930.»

Stephen King: The Dead Zone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In his unequalled career, Stephen King has forged a place in publishing history as the most popular and recognized author of all time. Now, Signet is proud to reissue his most startling psychological thriller! After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered — both blessed... and cursed — with precognative visions of the future. Driven by…

W. Somerset Maugham: Maugham: Collected Short Stories v: 3

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Maugham learned his craft from Maupassant, and these stories, featuring his alter-ego Ashenden, display the unique and remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.

Nora Roberts: Midnight Bayou

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Haunted by ghostly visions from a century past, Declan Fitzgerald is drawn to his beautiful neighbor, Angelina. But as the passion between them grows, their future together depends on uncovering a secret from the past as dark and deep as the bayou.

Barker Pat: Border Crossing

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget. For Tom already knows Danny Miller — when Danny was ten Tom helped imprison him for the killing of an old woman. Now out of prison with a new identity, Danny has some questions — questions he thinks only Tom can answer. Reluctantly,…

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are…

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design techniques. The colors and details of the watercolors in the volumes are…

Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.

Lesley Pearse: Father Unknown

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family…

Crace Jim: The Devil's Larder

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: THE DEVIL'S LARDER is a cumulative novel in sixty-four parts, all on the subject of food. Crace's readers might learn that little is to be trusted about food from these hilarious, delightful and subversive ingredients, but they will encounter a startling and touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with lashings of passion and recipes come spiced with unexpected…

Robert Asprin: Myth Directions/Hit or Myth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers, and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's most delightful myth adventures.

Robert Asprin: Myth-ion Improbable

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back — and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania — where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.

Ali Smith: Hotel World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This story brings alive five characters, one of whom is dead, during one night in a hotel. The author traces their intersecting lives, examining the themes of time, chance, money and death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Tycoon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Caught up in his own cynicism and vulnerability, Monroe Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. This is Fitzgerald's last novel, left unfinished. It bids farewll to the American dream, with a hero who doesn't believe in morality and fails to see love.

Ken Follett: The Modigliani Scandal

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...»

Follett Ken: Jack Daws

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Jackdaws is one of the most stirring, successful, and popular thrillers of Ken Follett's career-a patriotic adventure that has won the hearts of readers and critics alike. But perhaps People magazine said it best: Returning to the World War II setting of his bestselling thrillers Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca, Follett once again strikes Nazi pay dirt.

Wing Natasha: Night Before the Night Before Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: It's December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.