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Rachel Caine: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants him to cut a demo and play some gigs — which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell...

Denise Swanson: Murder of a Wedding Belle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: School psychologist Skye Denison reluctantly agrees to act as maid of honor in her California cousin's over-the-top wedding — and is also expected to assist the control-freak wedding planner. But when she discovers the planner dead, Skye is suddenly working double-duty.

O'Flynn Catherine: The News Where You are

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Set in Birmingham, The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit and run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and, the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank…

Pearse L.: Secrets

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Set in the 1930s, the classic novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl's struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Twelve-year-old Adele Talbot's unhappy mother Rose succumbs to madness after a family tragedy and Adele is placed in a bleak children's home. But when her trust is betrayed she runs away — hoping to find her grandmother in Sussex. By the time…

Foer Jonathan Safran: Everything Is Illuminated

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a ‘blind’ old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy…

Karen Chance: Death's Mistress

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Dorina Basarab is a dhampir — half-human, half-vampire — and the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable rage on demons and vampires that deserve killing. After the fortunate demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory is back home in Brooklyn, hoping that life will calm down for a while. But then two visitors arrive: her friend Claire, asking for Dory's help in…

Paul Johnson: Churchill

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Chinese edition of the bestseller Churchill, a biography of the political figure whose work impacted the entire world. Paul Johnson is a consummate biographer who doesn't hide the fact that he likes Churchill, but the biography is first rate, scholarly as well as entertaining. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love

Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: The #1 New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture, staring Academy Award winners Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, and Golden Globe winner James Franco.

Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth

Скачать книгу (размер 5 129 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1007) Аннотация: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett comes this spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of the lives entwined in the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known — and a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.

Lawrence Rachel: Insight Guides: Paris City Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This brand new edition provides a comprehensive and highly visual introduction to Paris; over 600 superb photographs capture the history, local people and variety of everyday life in France's vibrant capital city. The 'Places' section provides a detailed, district-by-district exploration of all the places to visit and principal sites along the way are clearly cross-referenced by number to the…

Kathryn Stockett: The Help: A novel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has…

Dick Francis: Even Money

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «The «New York Times» — bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel. On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder.»

Butcher Jim: Mean Streets

Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: «View our feature on Mean Streets. An anthology of solid and suspenseful novellas from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green National bestselling authors Kat Richardson Thomas E. Sniegoski Here are four novellas featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler... paranormal private investigators who walk the streets…

Dahl Roald: The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

Скачать книгу (размер 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 118) Аннотация: «Secrets and surprises from Roald Dahl! Feast your eyes on a secret! Between these covers is a long-lost chapter — and the original ending — from «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory» and other delicious never-before-seen tidbits from Mr. Wonka's factory. Then slip into some tasty tales from Roald Dahl's life to discover more about the world's No. 1 storyteller. No Roald Dahl collection is complete…

Sue Grafton: U Is for Undertow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory — of something that may never have happened. (Grafton's) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date.

Clive Cussler: Wrecker

Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) Аннотация: In this sequel to The Chase, Detective Isaac Bell returns to try and stop the mysterious saboteur of the Southern Pacific railroad known as The WRECKER. Who is he? What does he want? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, The WRECKER knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, The WRECKER is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed…

Burrough: Public Enemies: The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned…

Katie Macalister: Love in the Time of Dragons

Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom — except she's just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they're dragons — and that she's one too...

Jonathan Kellerman: Rage

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 'On a slow chilly Sunday in January, shortly after the Lakers overcame a sixteen point halftime deficit and beat New Jersey, I got a call from a murderer'. Eight years ago, psychologist Alex Delaware evaluated two teenage boys charged with the shocking murder of young Kristal Malley. Now one of the killers is out of prison — and wants to meet up with Alex. But by the time the pair do come face to…