Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy's greatest hero, Jack Ryan. There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The clue to the mystery lies with a most unexpected source: President Jack Ryan. Tom Clancy's Command Authority is a brand new full-throttle all-action adventure for 2013. It follows Threat Vector and Locked On…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by U.S. business interests against working…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on — in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study — part travelogue, part political analysis — of a nation in crisis. In the 1960s, two things happened in Russia. Not the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev, though that may have been part of it, nor the invasion of Czechoslovakia, though that may have been part of it too. What happened is that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The first young adult book by a #1 New York Times bestselling author! Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear whispers — the thoughts of others — Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «The inside story of the world's most powerful central bankers — and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen. Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful people in the world. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, accessible introduction to his distinctively optimistic brand of anarchism. Refuting the notion…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s... From the first page was absorbed... Suzanne Rindell's story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own. Confessions are Rose Baker's job. A typist for the New York…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste — two women with seemingly perfect lives... and their own secrets behind…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women — one famous and one forgotten — and their remarkable chance encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting migrant laborers in search of work. Few personal details are exchanged and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, I'm taking the Heffleys out of their home environment and sending them out on the road, says Jeff Kinney. Writing about an epic family road trip has really got my creative juices flowing, and I think this could be the funniest book yet.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Let David Lynn Golemon thrill you with Primeval from the magnificent Event Group series. A race to find the treasure of the last czar has uncovered an ancient evil. When Czar Nicholas II was executed with his family it brought Russia's Romanov dynasty to an end. But some believed that the Czar's children, Alexei and Anastasia, survived the slaughter and escaped with the royal treasury. One…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Juliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chances. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Fall From Grace is the best-selling thriller by Tim Weaver — featuring missing persons investigator David Raker, a man with a gift for finding the lost and bringing them home, alive or dead. No Goodbye. When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie leave London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then their new life is shattered. Leonard heads outside…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club captures a fateful moment in British…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.One eternal optimist... Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. But no one told her it's okay to ask for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: «The Fall of Five is the heartstopping fourth installment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore. I thought things would change when I found the others. We would stop running. We would fight the Mogadorians. And we would win. But I was wrong. Even though we have come together, we barely escaped from them with our lives. And now we're in hiding, figuring out our next move. The six of us…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved...Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.' In his first non-fiction work since «Fever Pitch», Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life — or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 583) Аннотация: Following the international No 1 bestsellers Mercy and Disgrace, Guilt is the fourth heart-stopping Department Q novel from Jussi Adler-Olsen, and a gripping treat for all fans of the Scandinavian crime thriller.1987. Nete Rosen thought she'd put her traumatic youth behind her. Her caring foster parents and loving husband helped her start again. However, when a man from her past reappears one…