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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: During the week, interior designers select fabulous fabrics, furniture, paint, lighting, and accessories for clients' homes. On the weekends, they can devote themselves to beautifying their own. Materials and finishes that later appear in commissioned work often appear here first, as designers use the rooms and walls of their primary and secondary residences like a blank canvas for perfecting…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: During the current recession it seems our traditional stiff upper lip can only last so long before those other world-beating British skills come to the fore — quiet grumbling and resigned cynicism. Sod Calm and Get Angry is for anyone who has finally had enough of bankers and politicians and bosses telling them to keep sodding calm and to carry bloody on. Sod Calm and Get Angry is both a rallying…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Lisbeth Salander — the heart of Larsson's two previous novels — is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she's well enough, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence, and to identify the corrupt politicians who…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his neighbors and their precocious young daughter, Sal, he discovers the community has fresh wounds of its own.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores the pre-history of the Titanic. He examines the aspirations of the owners, the realities of construction and the anticipation of the first sea-tests, revealing that the seeds of disaster were sown by the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In this page-turning sequel to Stalking Susan, TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case. When Riley Spartz sees a want ad reading Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn, her news instincts tell her that the backstory might make an intriguing television sweeps piece. The groom, Mark, last seen at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define the Slow Food movement and pays tribute to the region’s kaleidoscope of vibrant characters, whose shared culture revolves around the everyday pleasure of growing, preparing, and eating food. With an anecdotal charm reminiscent of Peter Mayle’s A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: Isabels son, Charlie, is now of an ageeighteen monthsto have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabels surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in — and beneath — fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world. Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venice's past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 394) Аннотация: Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. When asked to write an exposé about her notorious father, Sophie quits and goes to work at a small newspaper, covering local personalities such as William Harrington, the 5K runner whose trademark is red socks. Those socks—with Sophie’s business card tucked…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A wonderful new novel from the Carnegie Medal winner. A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel. Up on the chalk downs known as The Wold, witches are banned — ever since the Baron's son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk is no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching — a wise shepherd — might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: On the run, in each other's arms, with one last chance to survive A rugged Navy SEAL, Zane Scott was part of a failed mission to rescue Dr. Olivia Strohm from abduction by the terrorist group Dead Man's Hand — and her anguished screams have haunted him ever since. So when he gets word that the beautiful physician has escaped from her captors in Africa, he's got personal reasons to storm the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The five, irreverent, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. Diaboliad is a wonderful introduction to literature's most…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The second immortal volume in this dark and fantastic series, Fangs is a scintillating and sinister collection of vampire stories and part of the now legendary Vampire Archives. Including Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Many Many More... Featuring: — bloody fangs; — dark and foreboding crypts; — mysterious nighttime apparitions; — languid ladies;

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville, Grandville Mon Amour pits Detective Inspector Archie LeBrockof Scotland Yard against an old adversary and ruthless urban guerrilla, Edward 'Mad Dog' Mastock.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Did you know that the way you eat your food will be sending subliminal messages out about your sexual habits? Or that the way you swing, rock or slump in your office chair, or decorate your desk, could be helping your boss decide about that promotion or pay rise? We're all aware of the subtle messages of design and marketing but what about the signals you send out about yourself and your…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «In this classic novel, «New York Times» bestselling author Iris Johansen spins a marvelous love story about a world-class figure skater, her distant, demanding mentor, and the high-stakes competition that could bring them together at last — or put all their dreams on ice. WHITE SATIN On the smooth, silvery surface of the ice skating rink, Dany Alexander cuts a figure of strength and fire, beauty…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 533 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 498) Аннотация: One man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard's own immortal list of a man's seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare's life and connects…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: From the prestigious dormitories of Westfield and Oxford's austere college halls, to the irresistible socialite scene of present-day London, everywhere Allegra McCorquodale goes, scandal follows her. And in Allegra's shadow are her closest friends since school, the Midnight Girls. Romily de Lisle: super rich, brilliant and bored. She's as blessed as Allegra when it comes to looks, but she's a…