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Скачать книгу (размер 2 533 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 498) Аннотация: Galen Beckett weaves a dazzling spell of adventure and suspense in an evocative world of high magick and genteel society-a world where one young woman discovers that her modest life is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined. Of the three Lockwell sisters-romantic Lily, prophetic Rose, and studious, book-loving Ivy-it's Ivy, the eldest, who's held the family together after their father's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 161 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 229) Аннотация: In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heart-breaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experience and chronicles the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Choice ratings you can trust. Exceptional restaurants, hotels, and sights selected to help you make the best choices. Easy planning. Each neighborhood's distinctive attractions are conveniently paired with nearby restaurants. Expert writing, gorgeous graphics. Unique photo-features impart the city's culture, covering Paris's quintessential museum, the Louvre; the best ways to explore the Seine,…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: «Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you're at the helm, Fodor's offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It's like having a friend in France! • Updated annually, Fodor's France 2009 provides the most accurate…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died — a postcard that announced their date of…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Missing a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes. All information to M. and Mme Bruder, 41 Boulevard Ornano, Paris. The author chanced upon this notice in a December 1941 issue of Paris Soir. The girl has vanished from the convent school which had taken her in during the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: New from the best selling author of Generation X. Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people around the world — in the US, Canada, France, New Zealand and Sri Lanka — are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's Generation X. It…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' — often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the Literary Messenger he was influential among critics and writers of the American South. His versatile writings — including, for example, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Itas Christmastime, and Max and Ruby are decorating the tree. Max wants to help by hanging his toys on the branches, but Ruby says they donat belong. For every ornament that Ruby hangs, Max hangs a toy. Then Ruby realizes she forgot to add the tree topper! Will one of Maxas toys be just what she needs?

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Darkness falls… despair abounds… evil reigns… Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so — a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages... First…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Present-day Russia is the setting for this stunning new novel from Robert Harris, author of the bestsellers Fatherland and Enigma, Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives. One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: «The final installment of the Zuckerman series, from Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Roth. Alone in New England, Nathan Zukerman had been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, and no women. Now, back in New York City, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: Introducing Riley Spartz, a spunky, clever, and endearing investigative reporter on the trail of a serial killer targeting women named Susan, murdering one on the same day each year. Riley Spartz, TV news reporter for Channel 3 in Minneapolis, is recovering from a heartbreaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap. Both cold…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of Loose and Easy comes a new novel set in the underground world of the Special Defense Forces — where sin and danger collide as the world's hottest secret agents compete for the prize everyone lusts after.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An unforgettable novel about making bad choices for the right reasons and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Becky Brandon is pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed — especially since shopping cures morning sickness. But when the celebrity must-have obstetrician turns out to be her husband's glamorous ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble.