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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From the author of the national bestseller The Kitchen Boy comes a gripping historical novel about imperial Russia’s most notorious figure. Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Clarkson on Cars is a revamped, rejuvenated and expanded edition of Clarkson's classic collection of car journalism. Clarkson rewrote the rule book for motor journalism and here's how. Opinionated, original and laugh-out-loud funny, this is Clarkson at his best.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: It was a job Miami private investigator Max Mingus found hard to refuse: $10 million to locate billionaire’s son Charlie Carver – missing now for over three years. Young Charlie disappeared on the island of Haiti, where over the decades scores of children have vanished. In a country dominated by voodoo, rumours abound of black magic and a mythical figure called ‘Mr Clarinet’, who for years has…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that's fast becoming his trademark, Westerfield's new novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror — the vampire.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horseracing, but with the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds, and the prowess of a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, he has brought home several wins. But his winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers trouble in his own stables — trouble that could bring about his own termination…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Charles Todd — a renowned painter of horses — is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald’s house for a weekend visit to find his cousin’s young wife dead on the floor — and Donald the police’s prime suspect. Determined to prove Donald’s innocence, Todd trails a set of clues from England to Australia to New Zealand, only to realize that someone is trailing him. Someone with every intention…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: TIME AND CHANCE, the second part of the trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, opens during the glory years of their reign. While Henry redefined the role of medieval kingship, Eleanor gave birth to their children, founding a dynasty that would endure for 300 years. But even in these happy times, shadows were lurking. Battles on two borders. The disastrous appointment of Thomas Becket…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. Unfortunately, that’s just the beginning — and now Jonah must figure out the high-stakes…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies is Lola’s absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it’s not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies. That is, until Charlie finds Chimps and Chimpanzees and then Lola has a new best book ever!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective — across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 427 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 281) Аннотация: Phule takes off after his mysteriously errant butler, just as General Blitzkrieg decides to make a surprise visit to Zenobia. And the only thing Blitz would like better than catching Phule off guard is to catch Phule AWOL.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George Ill's England. A beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey, and the dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man — Sebastian St. Cyr.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: George Mikes has been studying the British for a long time; here in one book are his three major works, in which he unstintingly offers the fruits of forty years of field research to all aspirant Brits. Having himself been born abroad, Mr. Mikes is in the ideal position to counsel others in the same unhappy state — and even Brits born and bred may pick up a few unexpected tips from his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: «What makes his work great is that it can be felt and understood...by anybody» said Leo Tolstoy of Chekhov's plays, which express life through subtle construction, everyday dialogue, and an electrically charged atmosphere.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of bolts, cogs and bearings that ring his bell. He's scoured the length and breadth of the land, plunged into oceans and taken to the skies in search of those rare machines with that elusive certain something. Along the way he's discovered — 'the safest place to be in the event of nuclear…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Working as a secret agent for Britain's most exclusive agency, 15-year-old Alex Rider is now about to face something more dangerous that he can imagine: a man who has lost everything he cared for and who has a nuclear weapon.