Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Written in her husband's hand, it says: to be opened only in the event of my death. Curious, she opens it — and time stops. John-Paul's letter confesses to a terrible mistake which, if revealed, would wreck their family as well as the lives of others.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a glittering, romantic holiday haven. Three of today's bestselling YA authors whip up a recipe for holiday romance, in this trio of hilarious interconnected tales of love.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colour. Evident too in its…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork — with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion — filtered in to the world's consciousness. This title features ninety black-and-white images of his classic artwork and Polaroid images.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing — along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secrets and the delicate…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, movie-making, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium. Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there... It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement. (Giles Foden, Guardian ). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, Lila Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its allusions. She explores his Russian childhood, his European sojourns, the landscapes of 'his' America, hallucinates an interview and seeks the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico — and possibly beyond. In The Devil's Elixir, Sean and Tess find themselves in a race — against the clock, against drug kingpins, and even against the DEA.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready for his return. A place…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Author of the classic Skellig, David Almond has written his first adult novel. Like Emma Donoghue's bestselling Room, it's the story of a boy who's been incarcerated and comes out to find his way in the world.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 431) Аннотация: Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. The girls include daughters of some of Chicago's most powerful families: The grandfather of one,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain'... The crew of the whaling ship the Pequod is bound by its Captain Ahab to a single, bloody goal: the killing of the whale Moby-Dick, the giant albino that has taken his leg and on which he has sworn vengeance. Driven, perhaps doomed, by his dangerous…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea Dogs' Home; reveals why St Moritz may be…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland's inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island is enshrouded in legend. Fishermen tell tales of seductive witches who steal men's hearts. But the mystery of the island is a matter of life and death for a community of women who once spilled noble blood to secure their freedom.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: 1845. New York City forms its first police force. The Great Potato Famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever. Timothy Wilde is a reluctant, newly minted officer of the New York City Police Department. One night while making his rounds, he runs into a little girl — covered, head to toe, in blood. She claims she knows where dozens of bodies are buried.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In 1926, de Saint-Exupery began flying for the pioneering airline Latecoere — later known as Aeropostale — opening up the first mail routes across the Sahara and the Andes. Wind, Sand and Stars is drawn from this experience. Interweaving encounters with nomadic Arabs and other adventures into a richly textured autobiographical narrative which includes the extraordinary story of his crash in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo... any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo, after years spent gathering…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «From the author of The Last Magazine, a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of our military commanders, their high-stake maneuvers, and the politcal firestorm that shook the United States. In the shadow of the hunt for Bin Laden and the United States' involvement in the Middle East, General Stanley McChrystal, the commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living…