Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «Redemption is the phenomenal third instalment in Jussi Adler-Olsen's internationally bestselling department Q series, which follows the Sunday Times smash hit Mercy and its sequel Disgrace. The prefect treat for all fans of the classic Scandinavian crime thriller in the vein of The Killing and Borgen! 'For those suffering withdrawals from The Killing' The Times Two boys, brothers, wake tied and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: It is 1867 and winter in Ryazan, a city on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia. Konstantin is ten years old. His days are full of dreams of flight — to Moscow, even to the silent stars. But then, one day, he catches cold in the freezing woods near his home and his own world becomes silent. Left deaf by scarlet fever, his outlook is desperate. Only his fascination with a newly mechanised…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: The much-anticipated third book in the blockbuster Lorien Legacies series.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 1880, South Africa. Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men — one driven by ambition, the other by ideals.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same. 'To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change' — Sir Alex Ferguson. The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day in our jobs and in our personal lives. Those who can handle change are the most fulfilled. Those who fear…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: From the acclaimed author of The Rainbow Stories comes this fever dream of a novel about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, who devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and majestic street whore — a woman who may or may not really exist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Beginning in the pioneering Victorian age, the author charts the evolution of architecture, branding, typeface, map design, interior and textile styles, posters, signage and graphic design and how these came together to shape the Underground's identity, and the character of London itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be forever. Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection. Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. At sixteen, she's not quite a child, but not quite grown up: a dangerous age.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «In The Night Manager, John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers. «Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English.» (Guardian). «A marvellously observed relentless tale.» (Observer). At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, 1984, now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom, and one of the most widely-read books in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Instructs readers to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nabokov's masterly Collected Poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. 'The University Poem', one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Alex Grecian's The Black Country sees the Scotland Yard Murder Squad return in a gruesome historical thriller. When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village — and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest — the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her life — for, as an amateur astronomer, she secretly hopes to discover a comet and win the King of Denmark's prize for doing so.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets... There is a girl. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes. There is a curse. On the Sixteenth Moon , the Sixteenth Year, the book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it. In the end, there is a grave. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The 6 million copy global bestselling Crossfire series from Sylvia Day continues in Entwined with You as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires... From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside — so much like my own. I…