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O'Neill Heather: The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she's the child star daughter of Quebec's most famous musician. At sixteen, she's a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At nineteen, she's the Beauty Queen of Boulevard Saint-Laurent. At twenty, she's back in night school. And falling for an ex-convict. And it's all being filmed by a documentary…

Larsson Stieg: The Girl Who Played with Fire

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society — but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, Millennium magazine's legendary star reporter, does not believe the police. Using all…

May Peter: Freeze Frame

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Ile de Groix, France. A Frozen Island. This tiny isle off the coast of Brittany is the scene of a murder left shrouded in mystery and grief. A Frozen Crime. Adam Killian's study has been left intact since his death — the perfect state for Enzo Macleod's forensic investigation. A Frozen Heart. Killian's widow is still hoping; the first suspect is still hiding; and the treacherous island itself…

May Peter: Blowback

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A silenced man. Footprints in the snow lead to the murder scene of Marc Fraysse, France's most celebrated chef — brutally shot before he could make the revelation of his career. A determined man. Seven years on and the mystery still raw, Enzo Macleod, forensic investigator, forays into the heated world of haute cuisine to uncover bitter feuds and a burning secret. A hunted man. Enzo recruits his…

Wood Tat: World History in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carter so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions — and many more — in 200 simple and accessible essays. From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, and from the wisdom of Aristotle to the Civil Rights movement, this book distils the major events…

Kehlmann Daniel: F: A Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity. Eric is a financier — now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss.

Lagercrantz David: The Girl in the Spider's Web

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time. Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story — and it is a terrifying one. More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's…

Vermes Timur: Look Who's Back

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed — no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler…

Crofton Ian: History Without the Boring Bits

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell, stories which can bring the past vividly and excitingly to life. Imagine a book…

Spilsbury Julian: Great Military Disasters: From Bannockburn to Stalingrad

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crecy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one…

Larsson Stieg: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Salander is plotting her revenge — against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the…

Vinogradova Lyuba: Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female…

Lewis Damien: Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing…

Ignatius David: The Director

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A MAN WITH SOMETHING TO CHANGE. Graham Weber, the new Director of the CIA, is tasked with revolutionising an agency in crisis. Never intimidated by a challenge, Weber intends to do just that. A HACKER WITH SOMETHING TO EXPOSE. Weber's task greatens when a young computer genius approaches the CIA with proof their systems have been compromised. There is a breach. There is a mole. A WOMAN WITH…

Connor Alex: The Caravaggio Conspiracy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found in a London art gallery — stripped naked, necks bound with wire and legs obscenely contorted. They are twin brothers — successful art dealers — their brutal murder…

May Peter: Blacklight Blue

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Enzo Macleod is facing a death sentence. Having been diagnosed with a terminal illness, time is running out to solve the most confounding of unsolved murders in France. But as he begins investigating the death of a rent-boy in a Parisian apartment, he suddenly finds himself under arrest. Someone is threatening to destroy his character. Someone is trying to frame him for murder. If he can use his…

Taylor Andrew: Books That Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History

Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's discussing the incandescent effect of The Qu'ran, the enduring influence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, of the way in which Uncle…

May Peter: Entry Island

Скачать книгу (размер 2 717 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 534) Аннотация: IF YOU FLEE FATE...When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU...But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he…

Makine Andrei: Brief Loves That Live Forever

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him — a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair…

Divry Sophie: The Library of Unrequited Love

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the Dewey Decimal System and the sinister expansionist conspiracies of the books themselves, two things shine through: her unrequited…