Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A history lesson they'll never forget... and neither will you. Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until Chris, her colleague — and until recently, her fiance — is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. The slaughterhouse is filled with…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Based on 15 years of original research, Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant's body, buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor's vast…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Inspired by the master of literature, this is a humorous retelling of George Lucas' epic «Star Wars». The text is accompanied by fantastic Elizabethan woodcut illustrations of Chewbacca, C-3PO and other classic characters. Students, scholars and general readers will appreciate the humour and impressive attention to detail. Who knew iambic pentameter could be so funny?»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in which eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprepared for what she is to find there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe — and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French. But recently things have been going tres wrong: He's stuck in an apartment so small that he has to cut his baguettes in two to fit them in the kitchen. His research into authentic French cuisine is about to cause a national strike — and it could be all his fault. His Parisian business partner is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Hyperville is 2013's top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex — a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can go shopping, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, WinterZone, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting — and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can. He's not supposed to get too involved. When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2014 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The polar ice caps are melting. In a desperate attempt at preservation, the governments of the world have removed vast sections of the Arctic and Antarctic and set them inside huge domes across the world. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. But they soon discover that it's not only…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The history of the silo is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them.' In a remote clinic in 18th-century Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother. She tells of pale English aristocrats and mysterious Russian nobles. She tells of intrigues and secrets, and strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. And she tells about the enigmatic Mrs Pond, who arrives with her husband and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn't a story. And the army is ready to attack.' New York — one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth... But what's going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as the Doctor and Amy meet a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: India in 1947 is a country in the grip of chaos — a country torn apart by internal strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping with their lives, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men', who roam the streets at night and steal people away. These creatures, it is said, are as white as salt and have…