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Daily: This Calder Range

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Chase Benteen Calder was bound to wrest a fortune from Montana land, where the whisper of riches swept across a sea of buffalo grass. With Lorna at his side, a woman who took the tough ways of the land as her destiny, he would breathe life into his dream. Through the treacherous Texas prairie, the perils of Indian country, and a bustling Dodge City, they forged their way to Montana. With Calder…

Hogg James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A new edition of the “greatest novel of Scotland” The Romantic notion of the divided self is nowhere more powerfully conceived than in James Hogg’s masterpiece, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double, it precedes Dostoyevsky’s great dramas of sin, self-accusation, and damnation by half a century.

Higgins: Without Mercy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 291) Аннотация: The new bestseller from the original thrill-seeker — Jack Higgins. In Higgins' acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive — but only one of them does. As Detective…

Krentz: All Night Long

Скачать книгу (размер 1 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 359) Аннотация: Krentz's latest fast-paced, well-plotted romantic thriller takes place in the tiny Napa Valley village of Dunster-perhaps named after the Amanda Quick heroine Emma Dunster. A mysterious e-mail from a childhood friend, Pamela Webb, draws big-city reporter Irene Stenson home, but when Irene arrives, Pamela is dead, apparently of a drug overdose. Handsome but damaged ex-Marine Luke Danner, who owns…

Forster E. M.: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy. When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia marries Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior, her snobbish former in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval. But their expedition…

Erin McCarthy: Fallen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered — and all evidence points to him — a foggy Gabriel cannot be sure he didn’t do it. His penance: to be forever denied love. Then in modern-day New Orleans he meets forensic scientist Sara Michaels...

E. E. Knight: Valentine's Resolve

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: After three years of exile from humanity’s war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth’s allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as the Marshal to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of…

Christine Feehan: Predatory Game

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «The Queen of Paranormal Romance («USA Today») continues her breathtaking GhostWalkers series. Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets former Navy SEAL and GhostWalker Jess Calhoun. The riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.»

Gogol N.: Dead Souls

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque…

Simenon Georges: Maigret and the Idle Burglar

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Set against a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit Paris, Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a quiet crook of the old school, for whom he cannot help feeling affection and respect. In Maigret's careful recreation of the life of this gentle and eccentric burglar, Simenon beautifully depicts Maigret's insight, compassion, and melancholic nostalgia.

Lee Child: Without Fail

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Skilled and unknown, Jack Reacher is the perfect man to assassinate the vice president of the United States — in theory. Hired by the VP's Secret Service security detail, it's Reacher's job to find holes in the system before a group of assassins do. Now repackaged with an electrifying new cover.

Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Eugene Onegin» is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it contains a large cast of characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly…

Nora Roberts: Three in Death (J: D. Robb)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «Includes these three favorites: «Interlude In Death», «Midnight In Death», «Haunted In Death». Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in three stories featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas.»

Ken Follett: World Without End

Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: WORLD WITHOUT END is the №1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the international bestseller THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge. Ken Follett is the author of sixteen novels, most recently the instant New York Times bestsellers HORNET FLIGHT, and CODE TO ZERO.

Gandt Robert: Black Star

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When the plane carrying the President of Taiwan explodes during their watch, Brick Maxwell and his squadron of Roadrunners are forced to trust a mysterious defector whose true loyalties are unknown as they set out to hijack the Black Star, a high-tech killing machine.

Nora Roberts: Creation in Death (J: D. Robb)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «The 25th «In Death» novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author.»

Jonathan Coe: The Accidental Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own — yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of…

Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins.

Gary Shteyngart: Russian Debutante's Handbook

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava—the Eastern European Paris of the '90s—whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat…

Dennis O'Neil: The Dark Knight (movie tie-in)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger. Allied with both the police department and the district attorney’s office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City. But one man dares to mock Batman’s mission. A man with a twisted sense of humor. A man whose grotesque smile is reflected on the calling card he…