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Higgins Jack: Bad Company

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Jack Higgins's previous novels Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner put British intelligence agent Sean Dillon through «a lot of thrills [and] wild action» (Los Angeles Times). Now a new enemy has emerged with a dark secret from World War II--and a score to settle with agent Dillon.»

Sara Paretsky: Bleeding Kansas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of FIRE SALE and KILLING ORDERS.

Griffin W.E.B.: The Hunters

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The new Presidential Agent novel-now in paperback. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Those responsible have left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent and follow it wherever it takes him-even if it's not…

Dumas Alexandre: The Women's War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: A swashbuckling novel by the author of The Three Musketeers Set in the same period as his best-known novel, Alexandre Dumas’s “forgotten masterpiece” (Le Monde) features two steely and preternaturally modern heroines fighting on opposite sides of the wars that ravaged seventeenth-century France. An unabashed page-turner, humorous, dramatic, and crackling with panache, this new English…

Carle Eric: Do You Want to Be My Friend

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: From horse to crocodile to giraffe, no one wants to be the little mouse's friend, until he meets up with a friendly, familiar face — and not a moment too soon! Full color.

Nabokov: Laughter in the Dark

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Albinus — rich, married middle-aged and respectable — is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces himself he is irresistible to her, but Margot has other plans. She wants to be a film star, and when Albinus introduces her to the American movie producer Axel Rex, she sees her chance — and plotting,…

Updike: Roger's Version

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl.

Burgess Melvin: Bloodtide

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Set in the future as two rival gangs, the Volsons and the Connors, struggle to control London. The city is almost cut off from the rest of the country and surrounded by the Halfman Lands — a desolate area populated by creatures, Halfmen, the results of genetic experiments to create living killing machines. Val Volson dreams of uniting the two factions by giving his 14-year-old daughter, Signy, as…

Clive Cussler: Skeleton Coast

Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre — who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy…

Ian Kershaw: Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. It dramatises brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in…

Jane Green: Second Chance

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A group of friends that hasnt seen one another in years is reunited through tragedy. Working through their grief together, they find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen, in this story of friendship, family, and life coming full circle.

Dean R. Koontz: Shadowfires

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «A woman's relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror, in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from «New York Times»-bestselling author Koontz. This newly repackaged edition features a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.»

Orlando Figes: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Drawing on a huge range of sources — letters, memoirs, conversations — Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn…

Nabokov: Real life of Sebastian Knight

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian's erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever.…

William Boyd: Fascination

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections «On the Yankee Station» (1981) and «The Destiny of Nathalie X» (1995). Described as «the finest storyteller of his generation», Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. In a brilliant array of styles and narratives we move from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in…

Burgess Melvin: Lady

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: A sexually active, rebellious teenager is transformed into a confused and frightened dog by a tramp with magical powers. Sandra has a lot of growing up to do quickly if she is to survive as a scrounging stray in a rough dogs' world. She experiences all the physical aspects of being a dog, including running with a pack and going on heat. She must decide whether she wants to recover her humanity,…

Adele Parks: Young Wives' Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Lucy stole her friend Rose's 'happily ever after' because she wanted Rose's husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie — best friend to both Lucy and Rose — is stuck in the middle. She's got Lucy's worries about being wife, mother and career bitch in one ear and Rose's struggle at being a…

Clark Clare: The Nature of Monsters

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. There she takes up a position in the house of an apothecary, Grayson Black, whom she trusts to salvage what…

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.…

Krauss Nicole: Man Walks into a Room

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to take him home, she finds a man who remembers nothing, not even his own name. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, but his memories beyond the age of twelve are permanently lost. Here is the story of a strikingly intelligent, sensitive man…