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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The hit BBC series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this TV tie-in edition to the classic novel, Sherlock and Dr Watson receive a visit from Mary Morsten, who offers up a particularly cryptic puzzle for them to solve. Her father went missing six years…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: On Day One he takes his first victim. On Day Five he's coming back for her son... At the end of a family holiday, Emily Parker makes a last minute trip to the supermarket...and doesn't return. Finding her car abandoned in the car park, her husband makes a desperate plea to the local authorities — but his only help comes from retired FBI profiler, John Geary. Geary is struck by similarities with a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the far future, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it's a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back. And the Doctor wants to help — until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: THE CHOSEN ONES are about to start their second year in senior high school. The whole summer break they have held their breaths waiting for the demons' next move. But the threat shows up from another direction, somewhere they could never have foreseen. It becomes more and more obvious that something is very, very wrong in Engelsfors. The past is woven together with the present. The living meet…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killingof the Minister of War is an act of violence with chillingrepercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as awhole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is madeup of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a manon the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossinghim and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda — whistling a seductive tune he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 247) Аннотация: For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. Late motherhood is not the only challenge facing Isabel. Even as she…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sometimes, letting someone into your heart is the bravest risk to take. Claire Nixon is a twenty-year-old college dropout with a secret she'll never tell. Then she meets sexy Adam Parker. Claire knows the flirting is harmless, but guys like Adam mean trouble. Then a seemingly innocent comment spurs a bet between them: if Adam can get Claire to reveal the secret that made her leave her college and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 988 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 391) Аннотация: Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match-and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations-in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more... Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A family Christmas in Cornwall for the newly single? Thea's parents have split up but still seem to be together. Both her younger sister and her brother are Smug Marrieds. But Thea is newly single and very much wishes she wasn't. When her mother and father plan a great family Christmas in a big house by the sea, the idea is to make it all great fun and tremendously civilised — not remotely…

Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in The Bear Came Over the Mountain — the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: «The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The authors present provocative new perspectives on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.