Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age — the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria — as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of New York what it is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 1500 BC — King Actaeus and his subjects live in mortal fear of the awesome gods who have come to visit their kingdom in ancient Greece. Except the Doctor, visiting with university student June, knows they're not gods at all. They're aliens. For the aliens, it's the perfect holiday — they get to tour the sights of a primitive planet and even take part in local customs. Like gladiatorial games, or…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Mia Lockhart has a secret. Her mother was a keeper, as was her grandmother — women who were warriors, healers and protectors. And when a mysterious man enters her life, she puts this to the test. Adrian Ashton is a brilliant scientist — and a killer. With the aid of an ancient Chinese text, he has mastered the art of capturing the chi of his opponents — the vital energy that flows through their…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Three beloved Christmas Little Golden Books are gathered together in this charming mini-treasury: The Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Story, and The Animals' Christmas Eve. Perfect for gift-giving, and at the value Golden Books is known for!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Chelsea Flower Show — hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem. As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Why is shopkeeper Mr. Pemberton acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all. «The Last Don» is Mario Puzo at his finest — a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzios, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. Domenico Clericuzio is a wise and ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be married within the year? Her flatmates panic! Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the small matter of not even having a boyfriend. But then Lucy meets gorgeous, unreliable Gus.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for «The Guardian beginning», ‘It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment’. And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, 'In the Palce of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta'. All are collected…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of 20 July, images of her father in the Third Reich People's Court appeared on the screen — and she realises she never knew him. In My Father's Country, Bruhns tells of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 'It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks'. The long-haired poet — 'Mad Shelley' — and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In her second novel, Nicola Monaghan moves her focus from a Nottingham council estate to the City of London. It's the late '90s and party-girl Frankie Cavanagh has just started working as a trader, experiencing life on the trading floor in all its sweaty, adrenalin-fueled madness, for the first time. She is determined to fit in with the boys — she works hard, plays hard and gives as good as she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Cologne police know a woman is going to die. They know the day it will happen. And they're powerless to stop it. They call on an outside expert: Jan Fabel, head of Hamburg's Murder Squad and Germany's leading authority on serial killers. Fabel is on the point of leaving the police for good, but Carnival in Cologne is a time when the world goes crazy, and he is drawn into the hunt for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. Then his darkly enthralling The Word and the Void trilogy revealed new depths and vistas to his mastery of epic fantasy. Armageddon's Children and The Elves of Cintra took Brooks's remarkable mythos to a breathtaking new level by delving deep into the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 345 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 461) Аннотация: With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he's been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «Just this once... Please let me get away with it just this once... Tobey wants a better life — for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything... 'Packs a punch'…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he’s good-looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career, and possibly his entire life. One night that secret catches up with him in the form of some bad men in a dark alley – they have a deeply compromising video…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Master thriller writer and worldwide Number 1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of America's Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge. A mercy mission that is hilariously sidetracked by human weakness; a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea; a small…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he has shot the wrong man, Harry Hole's troubles have…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Keep Calm and Carry On» was a WWII government poster discovered in a dusty box nine years ago. Though it never saw the light of day in 1939 (it was only supposed to go up if Britain was invaded), it has suddenly struck a chord in our current difficult times, now we are in need of a stiff upper lip and optimistic energy once again. Gordon Brown has one up in 10 Downing Street and James May wears…