Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A LONG WAY DOWN is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking — from writer and cooking star Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: «Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This Official Doctor Who Guide is essential reading for all wannabe Time Lords. Written as a gift from the Eleventh Doctor to the newly-regenerated Twelfth, it contains everything you need to know to be just like him. So if you've ever wondered if you'd make the grade in the Time Lord Academy, or how to fly the Tardis, or the correct way to dip your fish finger in custard, then this is the book…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher — no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Set against the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is the next book in the brilliant and bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid is on its way! Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It is also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie releasing in the UK on August 3rd.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. He writes so well and sympathetically, and chooses his detail so deftly, that if there is one new history of the war that you might actually enjoy from the very large centennial selection this is very likely it. (The Times). We may…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Catherine Alliott brings us the fabulously funny and wonderfully heart-warming My Husband Next Door. For better or worse... Ella was nineteen and madly in love when she married dashing young artist Sebastian Montclair. But that was a long time ago. Now Ella and the kids live in a ramshackle farmhouse while Sebastian and his paintings inhabit the outhouse next door — a family separated in every…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she finds herself in an enchanted world, filled with creatures like the Mad Hatter, the disappearing Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Alice quickly finds out that nothing is as it seems in the wild world of Wonderland...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's novel of sex, power, capitalism and deception. It is shortlisted for The Prix Renaudot, The Prix Goncourt and The Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Academie Francaise. David Kolski is in charge of the construction of a huge Paris tower block, and the pressure is crushing him. But then he meets Victoria — a high-powered and ruthless executive by day and insatiable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: A beautifully drawn study of what is at risk when you lose control of your own life. Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving — this impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer. Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they're…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too. Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Separation, Dinah Jefferies' stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continents. A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken... Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney and Adrian now struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to each other. But first, they have to survive. For Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves. Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The New York Times bestseller! Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 329) Аннотация: The extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the grand master of adventure. In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax — but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 386 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 273) Аннотация: Expo 58 — Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novelLondon, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo…