Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A beautiful woman scarred by a hateful past. A compassionate cop haunted by a childhood by poverty. Violence brought them together and an unspeakable abomination may tear them apart.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl — tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne. When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: 'Yes, I loved her, it's the name I gave, still give alas, to what I was doing then. I had nothing to go by, having never loved before, but of course had heard of the thing, at home, in school, in brothel and at church, and read romances, in prose and verse, under the guidance of my tutor, in six or seven languages, both dead and living, in which it was handled at length'.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one? The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Government for military training. In its thousand-year-old history, it had been famous for one thing — never having recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise in the empty village, its spotless history is literally blown apart. For the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West. As Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care — particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries to make sense of what, if anything, he has done to help these injured men, Prior and Owen await the final battles in a war that has decimated a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house — home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook, whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, the judge's beloved dog. Around the house swirls mountain mist — but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: There are things you should know about blackmail... At 38, Simone has responsibilities: she's a district judge with two small boys, and a husband on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. When she receives a letter post-marked New York she has no idea that opening it will threaten all she has worked for and call into question her judgement. For the photographs contained in the letter remind her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Childers' lone masterpiece, The Riddle of the Sands, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization, richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s — an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Evil comes with many different faces. A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly. M R James' chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Recently named the world's chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire — the sizzling-hot Mircea — are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own. The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire. The Codex's location has been lost in the present…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The world's best-selling pocket guides have been fully revised and updated, featuring stunning new cover designs and freshly revised page layouts. Clear colour-coded sections enable you to locate the information you need easily and include places to go, history of the area and interesting facts, and things to do, including shopping, sports, children's activities, entertainment, nightlife and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The plot twists ingeniously... chilling.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Walter the Farting Dog is now a hero of the high seas! Everybody is having a great time on a cruise . . . until a terrible odor permeates the ship. All signs point to Walter, and so he is first banished down below, with the stinky cheeses, and then into a lifeboat to float behind the ocean liner. Then catastrophe strikes! How long will the great cruise ship and its frightened passengers be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In this title, the world's strangest questions answered: What happened to the Mary Celeste? Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the Louvre) Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will the real Paul McCartney please stand up? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? What was Agatha Christie's own mystery? Why does it rain frogs? Does Bigfoot exist? How did D. B Cooper get away with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Someone is collecting animated treasures and keeping them from their heroic destinies. Reunited with the lovely Trollop Tananda, Aahz the Pervect must help out a sword called Ersatz, and embark on a quest that just may restore his lost magical powers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse must now not only deal with a possible new man in her life—the oh-so-handsome shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with a long-planned vampire summit. With her power base weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans, the local vampire queen is vulnerable to those hungry for a takeover. Soon, Sookie must decide what…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no-one is to be trusted especially beautiful woman. When a pack of gorgeous woman knock on his door, Garrett knows it’s too good to be true. The leader of the group is Alyx Weider, the daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father and friends are opening a new theater in TunFaire and the lovely ladies are there to persuade…