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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives — the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace, women still spurn him and his arch enemy is now his supervisor. But then he arrives at work one morning…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «The Communist's Daughter» is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. Murakami, acclaimed master of the surreal,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Two cases have pushed Detective Lindsay Boxer to the limit. The hunt for a deranged murderer with a taste for fire, and a devastating new lead in the high profile disappearance of the governor’s son combine in an electrifying series of stunning twists and emotional surprises. With the help of her friends and fellow members of the Women's Murder Club — Yuki, an attorney feeling the strain of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project — a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When it comes to sisterly rivalry, the MacLeod family has a long history and with the social event of the year looming, there are bound to be some fireworks. Natalie wants the perfect wedding. Milly longs to be able to fit into something other than her maternity trousers. Avril secretly dreams of settling down with an unmarried man. And Hazel, the baby of the family, just wishes she was taken…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Nero Wolfe refuses to accept a case concerning a girl accused of stealing diamonds, until he learns she claims to be his daughter.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Too short to be a model, too unartistically inclined to be a designer, Valerie Wagner has finally found her niche in the fashion world she loves as the publicist for Glass Slipper, Inc., and the mastermind behind the launch of their brand-new glossy magazine. She's signed up the perfect cover model — Prince Charming, an advice columnist who's won the hearts of millions of women with his acerbic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Upon an immense stretch of flat ground at the mouth of a river bathed in sunlight rises Hyperpolis. It stands there, surrounded by its four asphalt car-parks, to condemn us — a huge enveloping supermarket. Each of us will see ourselves reflected in the characters who move mindlessly about Hyperpolis, but The Giants is a call to rebellion. This bold and inventive novel is the work of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: War — in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clezio's creation. Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects — advertisements, cars,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book — it once belonged to William Shakespeare…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 416 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 279) Аннотация: The first official novel set in the world of NBC's hit television series Heroes tells the untold story of the popular character Hiro, and his struggle to save Charlie, the girl he loves, from a dire fate.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of four teachers at an elite academy for young ladies. As headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, Claudia Martin long ago resigned herself to a life without love. Until Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, arrives unannounced and tempts her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From his favourite chair on the terrace above the ninth hole, The Oldest Member tells a series of hilarious golfing stories. From Evangeline, Bradbury Fisher's fifth wife and a notorious 'golfing giggler', to poor Rollo Podmarsh whose game was so unquestionably inept that 'he began to lose his appetite and would moan feebly at the sight of a poached egg', the game of golf, its players and their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Take a rollercoaster ride through the vastness of space and, in the midst of an exciting adventure, discover the mysteries of physics, science and the universe with George, his new friends next door – the scientist Eric and his daughter, Annie – and a super-intelligent computer called Cosmos, which can take them to the edge of a black hole and back again. Or can it? And who else would like to get…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know comes essential reading for everyone who must make decisions that affect the long-term health and prosperity of a business.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: «Mikael Blomkvist recherchiert in einem besonders brisanten. Fall von Mädchenhandel, die Hintermänner bekleiden höchste Regierungsämter. Als sein Informant tot aufgefunden wird, fällt der Verdacht auf Blomkvists Partnerin Lisbeth Salander. Eine mörderische Hetzjagd beginnt. Der neue große Roman des preisgekrönten Bestsellerautors Stieg Larsson.Ein…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Jason and his sister have just moved to Malibu — to a town full of beautiful rich kids whose lives revolve around money, fashion, cars and parties. But these teens hide a dark — and dangerous secret... Bloodlust Jason gets swept along by the excitement of his new crowd and is flattered to be included — and also very flattered by the apparent interest of the stunning Sienna. But when he finds out…